The latest government figures on truancy were released today and it was bad news for London as the capital had the highest rate in the country, although this is probably good news for any retailer with a lax policy on selling cigarettes to kids. Given …
One of our first ever posts on Londonist was a piece about street drinkers in Islington and the fact that Islington council was busy installing specially constructed benches for their local alcoholic contingent. Now it seems that Twickenham is set to follow suit with Richmond …
As far as running into problems on a film set go its no Apocalypse Now, but amateur film makers Vincent Tempest and Adam Young managed to at least bring the local constabulary out in force in search of a dumped body. Members of the Finchley …
As Londonist sat down to our Monday morning coffee and reading of the (internet-based) newspaper, something struck our eye: Paris culture police pull the plug on l’anglais chic. We were expecting some hot article about an English designer gone astray at Paris Fashion Week but …
As Homer Simpson once said: “Television – teacher, mother, secret lover!” And he was right. Indeed, if the report over at the BBC today is correct, the UK public seem to derive most of their opinions from TV dramas: “Almost half of the UK population …
This week’s London Premiership derby sees relegation-threatened Crystal Palace at home to mid-table certainties Tottenham. The reverse fixture a couple of weeks ago produced a 1-1 draw with Defoe scoring for Spurs and (quelle surprise) Andy Johnson scoring for the Eagles. Similarly both teams will …
Every now and again a case comes to court which captures the imagination of this city, perhaps the country…and maybe even the world. The case of Benn Bouchtat versus the Savoy hotel may just be one of those stories. After all, this tawdry and sensational …
The ‘noughties’ were meant to be the caring decade but we’re buggered if we noticed it at Londonist, especially with a whip-cracking editor having no sympathy for fingers bleeding through too much typing. It seems, however, that the softly softly approach is now de rigeur. …
To be honest Londonist was worried that Team America: World Police wasn’t going to live up to expectations. The trailers looked great and the South Park pedigree was in place but the rumours from the US were that Parker and Stone weren’t really on top …
We have to say thanks to LinkMachineGo for pointing us in the direction of this Guardian article on “dead bodies found in the Thames”. The article contains at least one shiver-inducing statistic: “Along the 213-mile long Thames, a body is retrieved from the river on …
If you haven’t seen it yet, here is the first Fathers 4 Justice story of the year. Eleven of them broke into the Big Brother ‘compound’ in the early hours of this morning and threw some fireworks. They didn’t (unfortunately?) get into the house, It …
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