Not that theatre… image by Pit Van Meeffe from the Londonist Flickr pool Don’t you hate people who leave it til the last minute to take their seats at the theatre? “Excuse one… excuse one… excuse one… Yis, sorry one is late, the Prime Minister …
Boris Johnson has leapt into the fray over BNP leader Nick Griffin’s controversial guest invite to the Queen’s garden party. ‘Can’t quite believe that the BNP are trying to turn the Queen’s annual garden party into a political stunt,’ the mayor Twittered. ‘Am going to …
by trailerfullofpix Though a son of Zanzibar, Freddie Mercury lived for most of his life in London, and a fitting tribute to the Queen frontman is well overdue (discounting the statue that stands over the grave of Ben Elton’s career on Tottenham Court Road). Now …
Some of London’s landmarks are having landmark birthdays this week. Big knees-up at Kew, which is 250 years old. The Queen and Prince Philip are having a walkabout there today: it seems only fair as the park was kind enough to play host to the …
This Thursday the 2nd at Cardinal Place off Victoria Street, the Royal Warrant Holders Association’s will hold its first ever specialty food and drink market, providing market-goers with the chance to “eat like a Queen” and sample a wide selection of quality products supplied to …
Cooped up in her Buckingham Palace bolthole, with a clod-mouthed husband and a know-nothing son for company, Her Maj’s pleasures are often unpredictable in nature. Take, for example, her trip round businesses in the East End this week. Accompanied by Prince Philip (“mesmerising”), Liz the …
The Telegraph reckons that our Head of State will make her Twitter debut today – or, as they put it, her updates ‘will appear live on the blogging website Twitter’. You’ll be able to follow her every move at the Commonwealth Observance ceremony, which today …
Image by dartar from the Londonist Flickr pool Sheepishness is… being made queen of an African tribe while maintaining anti-royalist sentiment. Which is exactly what happened to Liz Busch from Wimbledon who has been made queen of the Ewe tribe in Ghana, as recognition for …
With the royal residences apparently crumbling around her court shoes, our octogenarian monarch is sympathising with her hard up subjects’ penurious predicament. She’s reported to have advised her princely grandsons not to get papped falling out of Mahiki high on costly bubbles and inappropriately lavish …
Think back to those hazy pre-mayoral-voting days when you would gaze at loveable candidate Boris’s mischievous face in your daily edition of the Evening Standard, and ruminate on his status as ‘one of us’, or ‘man of the people’. Well, nostalgic friend, those days are …
Massive “event” gigs currently seem to be in favour at the moment, with Live8, Live Earth, and last saw one of the biggest to date, and most worthy: 46664, to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday and also to raise awareness of his AIDS charity’s work. …
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