We thought we’d take a break from linking up Onionbagblog, and instead sample a scallion of a different persuasion. Olly’s Onions serves up small helpings of news in a satirical sauce. A bit like The Onion, then. (What is this connection between bulbous edibles and …
Are the Greenpeace campaigners still aloft their erection near the Commons? Anyone got any pics? Once in position the activists unfurled a 50ft banner suggesting PM Tony Blair “loved” weapons of mass destruction. We’re not sure it is love as far as Tony is concerned. …
Once it was a name that evoked magic, dreams and destiny. In recent years it’s taken on connotations of folly, nightmare and derision, but now it looks finally as if Wembley might be ready to resume its place at the very top of the pantheon …
Londonist loves a good protest; they’re excellent for the constitution. Nothing like a nice amble all the way from Speaker’s Corner to Trafalgar Square with 60,000 (or 2,000, or 100,000, depending on who you listen to) of your fellow Londoners, while carrying an “amusingly” modified …
We have a couple of favourite online empires; Gothamist of course, who keep the virtual roof over our heads, but there’s also Shiny Media who somehow manage to keep a large extended family of blogs running in a very professional manner without ever relying on …
Things have moved on since 1977 when Spielberg got the world in a tiz over close encounters of the third kind. These days we can go all the way up to five: First kind: A sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects Second kind: …
We’ve always been slightly amused by the word ‘oyster’. Following the pattern of trickster and punster, it should refer to one who delights in shouting ‘Oy!’. Which is exactly what we say to Transport for London. Today, the BBC revealed that 18,000 people per day …
This week – Leo dodges bullets in Sierra Leone to find a pink diamond (Blood Diamond) and Peter O’Toole flirts with someone 50 years his junior (Venus). First up Blood Diamond. To begin, you must read the most authoritative review of all – our own. …
Once your work gets picked as a Photo of the Day we like to keep an eye on you. Sometimes this means averting our eyes from drunken snapshots of you at an office party, but normally it means you treat us to great photo after …
Watch Giddy Stratospheres: here Screw the Arctic Monkeys – those of us unblinded by intense hype have been well aware that the best band to come out of Sheffield after 1978 is the dazzlingly glamourous Long Blondes. Taking much inspiration from Pulp themselves, the LBs …
Do you know your Sexual Orientation Regulations? Sounds like they should involve a spinning bottle and a Twister mat, but it turns out they simply ensure that gay people get the same rights as everyone else. Opposition to them was quashed despite yesterday’s protest: New …
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