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Be Nice to Transport Workers Day

Please make an extra special effort to mind those closing doors this morning. See, it’s ‘Be Nice to Transport Workers Day‘, according to the good folk over at Team Nice. What do we want you to do? Nothing onerous. Offer your bus driver or station …

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Bobby Gillespie is having a beef with a North-East London pub. Pink Floyd (or you know, probably Eric Prydz) have inspired North London school kids to kick off. There might be another tube strike. And finally Monica Lewinski is job-hunting in London. Photo taken from …

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Snooker Update – Silent Ronning

We had our tongue somewhat in our cheek last Friday when we said of Ronnie O’Sullivan’s scheduled appearance at the Wembley Masters’ snooker, “Perhaps the biggest question hanging over the event is whether or not the favourite will hang around long enough to play all …

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Do You Want To Know A Secret?

The FBI have released ten pages of their ‘Now That’s What I Call Lennon’ series: The FBI has released its final surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files. The 10 pages …

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Santa’s Crap: Four great gift ideas from This Isn’t London

Evening Standard Headline Fridge Magnets. Once the day’s joyless toil in the belly of the unforgiving city is done, and we trundle back to our Barrett Boxes in travelling conditions that make the Bataan Death March look like a limo ride, what diverts you and …

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We’ve been fans of stpiduko‘s photos for ages now. His work always jumps out of us from the Londonist Flickr stream and you may remember this project of his from earlier in the year. Well, after a small test shoot of a further 25 Londoners …

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What the Papers Say with Themanwhofellasleep

Themanwhofellasleep is on an outing this month – a virtual book tour in which he’ll spend twenty days jumping around the blogosphere doing interviews and talking to people about his book. Thinking we’d leave the Q&A’s and reviews for other legs of the trip we …

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“Twenty Three To Shepherds Bush, Please.”

When he was running through what he would say in the run up to his side’s match with Queens Park Rangers last Saturday, we’re guessing Coventry City manager Micky Adams, once in charge at nearby Fulham, hadn’t reckoned on the above request. Fans often have …

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Wireless network to extend over the whole of Westminster within about 6 months. About fricking time. The police are told they can use giant water canons to control crowds. That’ll create an interesting situation if any ‘save our reservoirs’ campaigns get out of hand. We’ve …

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News From Around The Ist-a-verse

If you’re hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients – although …

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After this week’s Crucifix row, British Airways have decided to review their uniforms. Do you do a good impersonation of Cherie or Tony Blair? The producers behind ‘The New Statesman – Alan B’stard’s Extremely Secret Weapon’ could be looking for you. Is Syd Barrett’s breadbin …