It’s cold outside this week, so it seems like the best plan is to cozy up on the couch and watch some telly. Why would you want to risk frostbite? On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 12 November I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here (ITV1, 21:00-22:30) It’s off to the jungle yet again with Ant & Dec as they guide a new group of “celebs” through as many disgusting tasks as you’d......

21/7 men found guilty. Academic couple killed in car crash on M11. Cavalry Museum opens in Whitehall. Prince Philip becomes a Doctor of Science while his wife opens a new department and grants new charter to Imperial College - which breaks away from the University of London on its 100th anniversary. Phew, what a day to be a Royal. A (possibly) well-named Dr Pratt (allegedly) prescribed an exorcism and other mumbo-jumbo to a Muslim......

“With any luck, they also eat squirrels and tiny, annoying dogs.” So said AlyxL, commenting on our earlier post about big cats. Well AlyxL, if that is your real name, it really doesn’t matter. We have occasionally popular performance artist Mark McGowan to act in that capacity. The serial stunt-puller ate a corgi live on Resonance FM last night. (By ‘live’, we really hope the Metro is talking in the broadcasting sense.) McGowan, whose......

Daft old casual chauvinist, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, made a visit to the Cutty Sark wreckage in Greenwich Dock (originally posted by Londonista M@ here) on Tuesday and declared the devastation of one of London’s most important hertitage sites as, “A Bloody Shame”. Although it is easy to make light of such a throwaway soundbite, and we will, it must be pointed out that Prince Philip is the President of the Cutty......

It's a good day for fans of caged simians. First, the dastard who stole SpongeBob the monkey from Chessington has been sentenced. Monkey rustler Marlon Brown will serve a year behind bars himself after what the judge described as "an act of devilry". In the event the monkey was recovered but it was traumatised and still is traumatised. You showed no remorse. SpongeBob has since been moved to Battersea Zoo. He infrequently updates his......

Like Michael Myers in skiing goggles the Princess of Hearts just won't rest in peace. And al-Fayed isn't a bad choice to replace Donald Pleasence - similar build and no one believed his ramblings in Halloween... until dead teenagers started turning up. Jon Snow summed it up rather well in last night's Ch4 News email: The Diana inquest goes from the bizarre to the very bizarre. The linguistically florid Mike Mansfield QC has gone......

Capital Radio listeners have been given the chance to win an all night sleep over in the Absolut Icebar. Four "lucky" listeners will become the first people to ever sleep over in the Icebar where temperatures are minus 5 degrees. This will take place after a party to celebrate the arrival of Lucio, the station’s new "award-winning drive time DJ". Of course, if you can't get down to the Icebar, there will be celebrations......

A man was stabbed over the weekend when he asked 'a group of youths' to stop smoking on the 328 bus in Kilburn Park Road. Here's a new one: demolish airport and replace it with homes. 200 members of the train workers union Aslef are striking over a row over taxis. Prince Philip is not a big fan of Olympic ceremonies and has vowed to do "as little as possible" during the 2012 Games.......

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 last week when the Conservative councillor for Chiswick Riverside, Paul Lynch, claimed that some councillors had been excluded from voicing their opinions on the budget papers because they'd only......

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 urging the Führer to march into Romania." Now it's the turn of Mohamed Al Fayed to jump on the Nazi bandwagon, thanks to a new fly-on-the-wall documentary to be......

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 minutes) just outside West Ham. Thrilling. However, we at the Londonist were granted unprecedented access to the inspectors' exhaustive examinations and we feel it's our duty to report the......