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Image courtesy of nic0 The enterprising souls at Oxford Airport, about eight miles outside Oxford, have hit on a clever ruse. They’re renaming it ‘London Oxford Airport’, in the hope of attracting gullible travellers by associating it with our beloved capital. . Clever stuff, you …

Photo via Nigel Wilson’s Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cocca/2254496847/ Fry and Laurie would be working themselves up into a right old state about the opportunities available to the capital’s football watchers over the next few days. It’s not every day that you can pitch up at the …

Dispensing with the (attempts at) witty chitchat this week and diving right in… Monday: Still time to get tickets for the Last Tuesday Society’s Hendrick’s Cocktail Party tonight. And should you wonder what tenuous connection we’re trying to make between gin and literature (we won’t …

Oxford pulls ahead. Image courtesy of Simon-K’s photostream via the Londonist Flickr pool Oxford prevailed. But you probably know that by now. And the view from the shore? Wet. But Londonist was there. In the name of journalism, we packed ourselves into the Doom Bar …

Ah, the transformative powers of education. Last week, we saw the kiddies philosophizing. This week, we learn of prison inmates dramatizing. And this isn’t just any kind of dramatizing, nor is this just any prison: This is Shakespeare as performed by the inmates of the …