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Pupils from a Southwark school will hand in a peace petition and a dove of peace sculpture, made out of toy guns, toy soldiers, war planes and coins to Downing Street in the run-up to the UN Summit on Small Arms in New York. The …
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The “stereotype of wealthy Southerners and penny-pinching Northerners” is no longer accurate apparently (aren’t stereotypes generally inaccurate anyway). But don’t worry, “people living in Inner London are the best off”. Employees at Harrods are considering going on strike over the store’s decision to axe its …
Westminster Daily
Ming Campbell Elected Leader Londonist must put its hands up and admit to being entirely wrong about the result of the Liberal Democrat leadership election. We thought Huhne would pip it marginally. The gossip in the House of Commons Members’ Tea Room was that Huhne …
Londoners Not Good At Keeping Hold Of Money
No, we’re not talking about a load of used notes stashed away in some depot in Tonbridge, we’re actually referring to this week’s winner of the ‘most pointless bit of PR masquerading as research’ award. Step forward, and hang your heads in shame, Halifax Bank. …
Covent Garden Ladies Don’t Quite Mind Their Ps & Qs
Anyone who’s ever idly channel-hopped the digital channels of a late night will sooner or later stumble across a programme which purports to be a documentary but in reality is a simple excuse to show some people having anything other than vanilla sex. Sit through …
Well, It’s Nice Of Them To Admit It
George Galloway’s spokesman has finally come out and said what everyone else already knew, i.e. going on Big Brother might not have been the best idea. After the now infamous cat incident late last week it was always going to be difficult for the Respect …
Planning a bomb attack is cheaper than you think
Although moving around the tube network costs a small fortune with the recent price hike making ours probably the most expensive in the world it apparently takes only a few hundred quid to blow large chunks of it up: An investigation by the BBC World …
Keep On Running
My my, those red adverts are just about everywhere now aren’t they? Staring up at you from your copy of the Metro, in your face on the tube platform and frenetically tapping away at your subconscious as they roll past you on the side of …
The Apprentice – The Final
Have you been watching The Apprentice on BBC2? We have…in fact we might even go as far to say we’re slightly addicted to it. When we heard they were going to import the Donald Trump-fronted version over from the States, and plonk Amstrad supremo Alan …
