Like books? Eyes knackered after a long week spent in front of the computer screen? Looking for a way to spend your money, Ms. City-lawyer-with-an-absurdly-high-starting-salary? Or to save your money, Mr. Devotee-of-London-on-the-Cheap? Wish we’d stop quizzing you? Then delve into the world of book art …
File this one under the ‘Huh, you don’t say’ department: A recent report by legal recruitment specialists Hughes-Castell has found that City lawyers are raking in big paycheques. Average starting salaries for new solicitors have for the first time climbed above £60,000. And of course, …
‘Credit crunch’ is surely the front-runner for phrase of the year. The long and tortured story of how iffy loans turned into high-rated assets and then turned into dust has been well-covered elsewhere. But has it affected anybody other than City bankers and the head …
Most of our male readers won’t really comprehend this, but the launch event for new posh shoes can be a big deal. A really big deal. So when Harrods yesterday hosted a launch event for some ruby-sapphire-and-diamond-encrusted Rene Caovilla sandals (value – £62,000), they took …
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 15. Poll-itics II Last week we did a little poll about what people thought was important to some of the topical political parties. What is the …
We have to admit when we first saw this advertised we didn’t have much of an idea what to expect. Henry VIII certainly knew how to cut it with the ladies, but we reckoned that a re-enactment of His Majesty’s finest chat-up lines was unlikely, …
The tube loves throwing money at art almost as much as it loves making money from big corporate advertising. Platform for Art is TFL’s public art programme and its latest commission sees Turner Prize winner Liam Gillick’s work on the new cover for the tube …
Elaine Gennard-Levy spent 20 minutes searching for a bathroom while shopping on London’s Oxford Street. She decided it would be easier to build her own. Well we can think of simpler ways to relieve ourselves, but they don’t payoff in people giving us a fiver …
You know what really bugs us? It’s the dilemma of when you’re at a train station and need the toilet – do you pay 20p (which yes, isn’t a lot, but feels it when all you want to do is pee) and go in the …
Here at Londonist we’re a sucker for a damsel in distress, and so it is that we commend to you, dear reader, the plight of one Jennifer Nobis (that’s not her in the picture, incidentally – that’s somebody called Hess – you’ll see later what …
Just when you’re wondering how you could ever live without a pair of live televised football matches per day you suddenly get forty eight hours of cold turkey during which it dawns on you that there are only eight games left in the 2006 world …
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