Londonist recently stumbled on the viral marketing video for new PC game Act of War. The game (which is set in ‘the not-too-distant future’ obviously) revolves around ‘shadowy consortiums of backroom conspirators’ and their financing of terrorist attacks on major cities; and is billed as …
So Prince William graduates and gets some initials after his name to match the ones at the front – must be nicer than some of the four letter words we like to throw at him and his family of leaches. Back off Royalists – we’re …
Parliament’s website was given a bit of a kicking today by the Hansard Society. The society, which exists to promote effective parliamentary democracy, declared that a parliamentary internet should be for the public, not the people who work there. The BBC quote the report: It …
Three Londoners have been charged in the US with terrorism offences over alleged surveillance of major financial centres in New York, Newark and Washington according to the BBC: Dhiren Barot, 32, Qaisar Shaffi, 25, and Nadeem Tarmohammed, 26, all of Willesden, north-west London, were arrested …
This week, if you’re thinking of going to the pictures you’ve got a choice between a crazed asssassin in Washington, gun crime in Hackney…and Matthew McConaughey taking his shirt off in the desert. At least you can’t complain that the choice isn’t ‘varied’. So first …
A while back we mentioned what was going on with the other London Bridge and in a similar vein we also like keep an eye on developments in Londons that find themselves flung far away from this, their namesake. New London, Connecticut, caught our attention …
How long have we been hearing the ‘mobile phones will work on tubes’ story? Well it finally it looks like Ken is taking some definite steps to getting the Underground totally wired up. According to the press we should see mobile phone transmitters on the …
Public Private Partnerships on the Tube have been slammed harder than passengers’ heads during a derailment, in a new parliamentary report. Politics.co.uk reports that far from improving things under the streets of London the PPP approach has resulted in an increase of incidents that “could …
As we all know, a terrorist attack on London is “inevitable”, which probably means we should be prepared for it. Thank the Lord then for London Resilience. They may sound like a vigilante guerilla group but they are actually the “strategic partnership that is working …
It was only a few days ago that London’s top copper was warning about the heightened threat to the capital by terrorist groups so we figured that as long as we played our part (looking for abandoned bags and dodgy looking characters hanging about garages …
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