Just as Londonist inaugurates its Agony Aunt column, along comes the perfect candidate. Distressed at his unaccountable lack of a girlfriend, 32-year-old Jeremy Butler is taking a much more direct approach – by setting up a stall on a busy street corner in Crouch End. …
It isn’t exactly the Poll Tax Riots. But Britain’s proud potato farmers appear to have a chip on their shoulder*, and are planning to voice their anger in the heart of our fair city. The farmers are apparently boiling over the phrase “couch potato”, which …
Ah maths, where would we be without you? We wouldn’t know how to calculate the hypotenuse of a triangle. We wouldn’t know how long it takes three men to dig a hole it takes one man three and three-quarter hours to dig. And we wouldn’t …
Earlier this year Londonist contacted the parenting pressure group Fathers 4 Justice to see if we could get an interview with them. We wanted to talk to them because it seems that many of their ‘stunts’ take place in the capital and Londoners tend to …
Is the world close to discovering, once and for all, the identity of the blogger known only as Belle de Jour? Londonist has previously mused that there were more than a few holes in the call-girl-turned-blogger-turned -author-turned-TV-character’s story. Now, just when Belle looked a bit …
As far as the Liberal Democrats are concerned, no political issue is too small, as the release of their snappily titled report
It’s 2005 and still the ‘Da Vinci Code’ stories keep coming. This time the claim is that the novel has helped the fortunes of Eurostar. The train operator released figures yesterday that showed 15% more people travelled on the line in 2004 than they did …
A quick TV tip for this evenings viewing is the BBCs Drugland showing on BBC2 at 9pm. Apparently it’s “an inside look at an industry that employs 20,000 people in London“, no, not the Sale Sign holding industry (though that is long overdue an expose), …
Remember the world’s priciest truffle? If not, here’s a quick recap: it’s a fungus, it cost £28,000, it weighed 1.88lbs and was bought by Zafferano, an Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge. And the latest news is…it’s dead. According to The Times the fungus may have been …
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