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And Justice For All

Justice at last then as it looks like the Met will, after all, be prosecuted for the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell. Prosecuted, that is, under health and safety laws: it looks increasingly likely that if charges are brought they will …

“For drivers who know it’s tough on the streets”

There’s far too many open spaces, winding country roads and craggy outcrops in today’s car adverts. In the good old days it was just one man against the city, trying to get to work despite the “two and a half mile tailback on the elevated …

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Aldgate Bomber Video Promises More Attacks

Video footage of Shehzad Tanweer,(one of the four July 7 suicide bombers) first aired by al-Jazeera and then on the BBC shows the 22-year-old promising “a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger.” Tanweer says in the video the attacks will become stronger …

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Opinion: Freedom Of Speech Does Not Extend To Criticising The Police

Note: I am breaking with the Londonist ‘no first person singular’ rule thing because this is an account of a specific incident that affected me and may not represent the views of the entire Londonist team. Also, this post contains naughty words that might warp …

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Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

All the weeks highlights from our international sister sites. Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid’s Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television …

Londonist Loves… Robot Fighting

Friday is stupid video day and although we could show you Pammy Anderson getting her kit off we’d much rather watch two blokes dressed as robots staging a mock fight at the London Movie Comic and Media Expo last week. Let’s get ready to robot …

Now That’s What We Call London… 2

The Nice Up by Rodney P When the mood takes us we’ll shove up a music video from the YouTube reservoir that does its best to reflect London either in the visuals or the lyrics. If you stumble across anything of interest that we should …

Now That’s What We Call London… 1

Invisible by Second When the mood takes us we’ll shove up a music video from the YouTube reservoir that does its best to reflect London either in the visuals or the lyrics. If you stumble across anything of interest that we should be sharing then …

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Sunshine update

The new Danny Boyle / Alex Garland movie currently filming in London seems to be coming along nicely from the video snippets up on the website. Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship …

The Week In -ist

Around the world as experienced by the -ist network: Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there. You can protest someone at his office, …

Random Graffiti of the Week

A multimedia treat this week, filmed by Pure Evil. About 1 year ago I was lurking around the East End of London searching for walls to paint where I wouldn’t get arrested by policemen and I went past a warehouse with boarded up windows…I turned …