So Gordon Brown delivered a budget today, a particularly well attended budget, and one of the shortest on record clocking in at just 50 minutes. Any pre-election budget usually has one eye on the electorate and this was no exception being referred to as a …
Today’s Times offers us a ‘fascinating’ insight into the lives of the “Chelsea set” via the story of Roland Straub and Cynthia Taylor. Roland is the president of the Optimus Corporation and owns porperties in London and Zug in Switzerland. He met Cynthia while on …
There are many types of love, a man’s love for a fine wine, or the love shared by a young couple just beginning a romance, but today we are concerned with the love that dare not speak its name, a website’s love for a local …
Every now and again Londonist likes to bring you a quick roundup of all the literary events takign place in the city’s bookshops in the near future. So, here’s what’s happening in the few weeks leading up to World Book Day on 3 March (hopefully …
A picture may say a thousand words, a drink choice may tell a person a lot about their date, but what does a cup say about someone? We here at Londonist aren’t sure, but that won’t prevent us from attending the current exhibition on at …
Well, it had to happen eventually: for the first time since we’ve been doing this Friday Film News thing one film has scored 5 stars from all three national broadsheet reviewers (Times, Guardian and Independent). Of course that film is Alexander Payne’s, five times Oscar …
This week’s London Premiership derby sees relegation-threatened Crystal Palace at home to mid-table certainties Tottenham. The reverse fixture a couple of weeks ago produced a 1-1 draw with Defoe scoring for Spurs and (quelle surprise) Andy Johnson scoring for the Eagles. Similarly both teams will …
“Christmas as it should be”. That’s how Camden Arts Centre is billing its Christmas Clichés Party, which takes place tonight. And they’re not kidding about the clichés. There will be mulled wine, mince pies, a “Christmas performance”, and to top it all off, a screening …
Forget ice skating at Somerset House, if you’re looking for some real fun this Christmas then you don’t have to go any further that Bankside, where Southwark council are installing a massive snow slide. The slide is part of the Frost Fair, an idea which …
At a talk in Oxford yesterday, Ian McEwan told his audience that his new novel Saturday is “set on a single day in February 2003, when London was seized by its biggest-ever peace demonstration. More than a million people took to the streets to protest …
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