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Is there a hidden symbolism in the new medal design? The conspiracy starts here.

Who can write the best London-themed limerick?

A new Greenpeace protest targets Volkswagen by sending troops into Old Street.

Because we all love the smell of bullshit in the morning.

An occasional series in which we highlight the plight of London’s abandoned toy animals.

Using the ancient mystical arts of divination, spatulimancy and making stuff up, we made a few Londony predictions for the year ahead.

You remember that game you played as a kid, where you’d draw moustaches and Mohicans and long dangly earrings on people in the local paper? Yeah, well we never grew out of the habit. So while watching TV last night, we idly started doodling on …

Reader ‘Lunar Raphael’ sends us this disturbing image of a child’s plaything recklessly abandoned in a London puddle. The head-down pose is strikingly similar to the recent Teletubby atrocity chronicled on these pages. The bespattered doll is a further tragic entry in our casebook of …

The Old Red Lion. After they’d cleaned up after us. By tartalom. Remembering the festive triumph of 2 years ago, Team Londonist went out in the cold last night for its “office” party. Picked at random from the sprinkling of Christmassy PR in our inbox …

You may just have noticed all the hoo-ha in recent days about TfL’s bold decision to remove the Thames and Zone boundaries from the Tube map (and the subsequent wrist slap from the Mayor). Not bold enough, we say. Let’s sand away all the extraneous …