Londonist is slightly ‘emotional’ after attempting to obtain a refund or ticket extension for the period of Bob Crow’s September ego-led strike action. London Underground are not paying out refunds for the September strike period even though they have happily taken scads of cash on …
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. …
Leonardo DiCaprio was yesterday nominated for an Oscar for his role as Danny Archer in Blood Diamond, while his co-star, Djimon Hounsou, is up for a Best Supporting Oscar. The film directed by Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, The Siege) is first and foremost an …
The nominations for the Oscars (or the 79th annual Academy Awards if you’re bing picky) have been announced: Best Picture: The Departed Babel Letters From Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond) …
Everyone’s favourite means of getting from Cockfosters to Heathrow reached its centenary today. The Piccadilly Line celebrated 100 years of operation in an all-expenses spared orgy of hedonism: LU managing director Tim O’Toole was at Leicester Square station and presented staff with a birthday card …
Tim ‘The Tube Man’ O’Toole has said that he doesn’t believe Abu Hamza’s son posed a threat while working as a labourer on the Underground. Ex-IRA spy Kevin Fulton has been arrested in London in connection with two murders in Northern Ireland. The Telegraph delves …
Londonist attended the London Film Festival press launch this morning – we’re suckers for a free breakfast. This year is the festivals 50th birthday and by all accounts all the stops have been pulled out to make this years line up a little bit special. …
Tom Conti has had over 15 years to learn his lines, so why does he continue to fluff them? Cues were fumbled, lines were missed, the delivery was messy and key swearwords were dropped in favour of more reserved language; not at all what one …
Sweaty people, on the Tube, in the rush hour. Or, as Dickens might have put it, ‘the noisome reekings of a harried banker’s malodorous pits, pressing inescapably against the recoiling countenance of his neighbour’. However you describe it, smelly people should be barred from using …
It’s like the old proverb says: “The only rich pensioner is a dead pensioner”. Ok, so that’s not a real saying, but it should be, especially now it’s been revealed that Transport for London have been “paying thousands of pounds to dead pensioners“. According to …
Plans have been announced to begin looking at the Tube running later on Friday and Saturday nights in a shock move where customer demand may actually be met. Of course, it’s not as simple as that because this results in opening later the next day …
