Londonist has been a bit too busy digging out the best china and organising a massive street party to actually write about the forthcoming Royal nuptials, but one article did catch our eye recently: this one on Poet Laureate Andrew Motion’s task of composing “a …
Forget bird flu, the latest communicable disease sweeping the country seems to be ‘Nazi Tourettes’. First it was Ken Livingstone, then Mohammed Al Fayed jumped on the Nazi bandwagon, and now it’s the turn of Labour councillor Patrick Edwards. Pat was attending a budget meeting …
First it was Ken Livingstone with a touch of the ‘Nazi Tourettes’. Then we had the related story a few days ago which claimed that the then Associated Newspapers owner Lord Rothermere had written “to Adolf Hitler congratulating Germany on its annexation of Czechoslovakia, and …
London Bridge is in such a sorry state that double decker buses no longer operate over it and tourists are now being wooed by the Dixie Belle riverboat tour and a nearby Hawaiian gift shop instead. Mike Dagon, a local real estate agent had this …
When current London tourist attraction, the royal family (as seen on cheap mugs, inside nazi armbands and frequently on holiday) realised that Charles getting hitched to Camilla behind the closed doors of Windsor Castle meant they’d have to open the very same doors to commoners, …
We know you’re sick of reading about what the IOC inspection have been up to over the past few days. For example, the most perilous stage of yesterday’s tour was when the special, shiny IOC train was held up for four minutes (yes, four whole …
So parliament reopened today, there was much procession, knocking on doors and Prince Phillip trying hard not to screw things up. The Queen read out the traditional speech written for her by the government, which explains the punching of the air and the yelling of …
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