“No sorry, I couldn’t buy you anything this year as I didn’t want to damage my lungs.” That could work couldn’t it? Especially if you accompanied it with a bit of wheezy breathing and the odd hacking cough. You see, those trusty researchers at Imperial …
Occasionally at Londonist we like to grow our hair long and not shave the various body appendages that any sane person should do in urban environment. ‘Jesus sandals’ become a mainstay in the footwear department, Janis Joplin an iPOD favourite and lentils start to be …
The London Assembly (yes, the lot who sit around all day twiddling their thumbs if Ken is to be believed) have rejected the motion put forward by the ‘politcial group’ One London to suspend the Congestion Charge in the run up to Christmas. According to …
It’s been a while since we had an Olympics story (we’re going to be doing this for the next seven years so we need to pace ourselves) but this is a good one becasue it involves the Thames and massive cruise liners. The Port of …
Londonist likes stories that begin “It sounds like a scene from the Jetsons or Buck Rogers” because we feel that the story that follows should be about a new kind of robotic maid or a small gay robot that likes to boogie. What we actually …
It’s been a busy week for London’s admen. First, there’s the Standard Shite Lite advertising story (which Rob is writing about, so I won’t go into here). Second, Media Week reports the “beginning of the end” for flyposting after Camden council won its battle to …
A new television system is to be fitted into London Taxis in an attempt to target the affluent ABC1 audience and presumably to give the passenger something other than the back of the cabbies head to stare at while on their phone. Cabvision is designed …
First they came for the RouteMaster, and I did not speak out, because I was not a RouteMaster. And now, the Evening Standard scare headline says it all: BLACK CABS UNDER THREAT. Well, that headline would “say it all” if “it all” meant “an utterly …
Right Guv, that’ll be £16 and a Powerbook please It seems that Londoners have come out on top yet again. This time we are the best in the world at forgetting to take our expensive gadgets with us when we are getting out of taxis. …
(Well, we had to use that headline eventually) It seems Londonist just can’t avoid sex today. The BBC has been telling us what a hotbed of raunchy activity Hyde Park was in the Sixties (“In 1962, 61 cases of prostitution, 181 of indecent behaviour and …
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