Well, that’s the internationals over with for a while, so back to proper football. Which must come as some relief for Spurs striker Freddie Kanouté, who after missing a couple of chances for Mali against Togo faced rioting supporters who threatened to kill him. Coming …
Easter Bank Holiday weekend, then. Traditionally the weekend of the football calendar when promotion challengers get ready to either strengthen their cause or weakly limp out, and similarly those sides at the bottom attempt to make that final push for safety. Traditionally, but not this …
Public Private Partnerships on the Tube have been slammed harder than passengers’ heads during a derailment, in a new parliamentary report. Politics.co.uk reports that far from improving things under the streets of London the PPP approach has resulted in an increase of incidents that “could …
Crystal Palace welcome Manchester United on Saturday, although not their fans if they dare to turn up wearing Eric Cantona masks. United fans are planning to celebrate the 10th anniversary of that kung-fu kick by wearing the masks. The stewarding at Selhurst Park is almost …
Tonight is the night that Mayor Ken faces his public over at Goldsmith’s College. People’s Question Time is a twice-a-year event where Londoners are given the chance to quiz the Mayor and the rest of the London Assembly on the ‘Big Issues Of The Day’. …
It’s a bit tricky to figure out what to say about Nathan Barley, the new Chris Morris/Charlie Brooker sitcom which aired for the first time tonight on Channel 4. For a start, if you write for a London-based weblog, it’s not entirely obvious which would …
And so the trend for protestors dressed in silly costumes continues into the new year. This time it’s not the Fathers4Justice (or even Mothers4Justice), but the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s. As you might imagine the Alliance feel that taking your kids to school in a …
5. Fathers 4 Justice’s Various Pranks. Whether you sympathise with their cause or not (or worry that they just give a paranoid administration more excuses to crank up security), you have to agree that the combination of barefaced cheek and pantomime eccentricity displayed by F4J …
It’s becoming easier and easier to mock the London Underground system recently, what with the grand promises of a gleaming new transport system by 2012 and the fact that Jarvis are involved. But now it seems that the tube bosses are actually trying to make …
As a bus driver in London there are many professional responsibilities one has to take on: customer relations, passenger safety, road etiquette and, erm…knowing the bus route. If a driver fails in just one of these areas then it can quickly lead to chaos, or …
Is the site of somebody cycling while talking on their mobile phone a common site in the capital? Londonist can’t remember having ever seen anyone even attempting such an audacious feat, but apparently it’s so much of a problem that the Tories are tabling an …
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