If Londonist ever had to get itself a ‘board of directors’ a few names would immediately spring to mind: Iain Sinclair, Peter Ackroyd…and Lee Jackson. Lee is the author of three historical thrillers as well as a huge, illustrated book on Victorian London. He is …
Sometimes scientists don’t really do themselves any favours when it comes to combating their negative stereotyping as grant-obsessed-reality-dodging-ivory-tower-stoner-eggheads. A crack research team at Queen Mary University of London has conclusively proved that a Credit or Bank card is the optimum tool for playing scratch cards. …
Exciting times over at the ICA (yes, we are obsessed). It is Singapore Season, which is a celebration of the booming contemporary art scene in all of Southeast Asia. The entire building is being taken over, famous Asian artists are in residence, there is performance, …
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London is officially the “most diverse city ever” according to today’s Guardian. The article, part of the paper’s special What is Britain report, profiles the capital’s non-indigenous communities (e.g. Poles in Hammersmith, West Africans in Southwark, Congolese in Tottenham, Koreans in New Malden, Portugese in …
Londonist is seriously worried about its health. According to reports in today’s papers we are going to end up childless and miserable…and all because of this blog! The first story details research from the State University of New York at Stonybrook which suggests that using …
London is being invaded by hordes of bedbugs thanks to the recent humid weather and “warm temperatures”. According to Marcella Ucci of University College, by 2050 the bedbug population in the South East will “have increased by up to eight times”. Doesn’t sound too bad …
Did you really think you’d get through to Christmas without hearing another Jack the Ripper theory? To be honest we’re still smarting from Patricia Cornwell’s misleading and overstated revelations of a few years ago that it was the painter Walter Sickert what done it (Cornwell, …
The news that Hollywood is planning to turn The Producers into a film (again) seems to have been the first in a rash of stories regarding West End productions making their way over to other mediums. First up is Bat Boy: the musical. Currently showing …
The Londonist was interested to read that about 200,000 people left the UK this year for more than 12 months, half of them aged between 25 and 44. A total of 513,000 people arrived, according to figures from the Office Of National Statistics (pdf file). …
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