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”. …
No, this is not a Touch Up London entry involving a giant root vegetable or a cross-looking Stefan Edberg (whimper). The magnificent Swede in question is the rather stunning Götheborg, a full-scale replica of an 18th century merchant trading ship that this weekend popped to …
Well here’s a suprise. The cost of another major engineering project (Tube refits) is soaring. Who could have predicted? Attack bus driver, hijack bus, three times over the drinking limit, with no licence, smash up 15 parked cars and a garden porch. Sentence? Oh, go …
El-Shaddai are very excited. Particularly Dr Ramson and his wife, Pastor Linda, founders of and pastors for this “non-denominational, Christ-centred” church. They’ve just spent £5m on a shiny new London home. This weekend, they’ll be meeting their flock in the splendid surroundings of Golders Green …
HM The Queen is on a state visit to the US this week. Buckingham Palace has received another grand old lady in exchange. Or so contributor ‘Drakus’ would have us believe. Keep sending your images of a distorted capital to londonist – at – gmail …
The National Archives might be shut today (for maypole dancing or demonstrating – we just don’t know) but they’re amusing us all through the release of correspondence between Buckingham Palace and the Home Office from 1947 about affairs of grave, national importance. Wedding tat, to …
Listening to the radio on St. George’s Day (last Monday in case you missed it) we heard various proposals for a national anthem for England, something that could be sung at Twickenham to counter the emotion of “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau” or played at the …
Seven songs down, here are this year’s next seven Eurovision semi-final songs! Switzerland send the improbably named DJ Bobo performing the reminiscent-of-Aqua dance-pop songVampires Are Alive. The stage show for this should be ace, so watch out for the Bobo. Moldova’s entry, Fight, soars and …
Today is free ice cream day from Ben and Jerry’s. Could you think of any better free day? Of course, for the first time in a week the sun has gone away, but that won’t stop us. There are 4 Ben & Jerry’s stores in …
The Spill festival continues to pour out around us with performances in the Barbican, Shunt Vaults, Toynbee Studios and Soho Theatre. We’ve mentioned one piece in the programme so far, Raimond Hoghe’s Sacre – The Rite of Spring and there’s more coverage of the pieces …
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