London's air quality is so poor, the EU are on the verge of fining us £300m and the IOC may withhold broadcasting revenue.
Our pick of where to find funny this week.
How do you get from JG Ballard to Clarissa Explains It All? Ross Sutherland knows.
The week ahead in literary London: book and poetry slamming, swapping, chatting and walking.
Grab a flag and wave it round this pub crawl - or just attempt to obliviate the whole damn spectacle.
Verbatim plays - even the famous My Name is Rachel Corrie - get a new twist in this intriguing double bill.
Our choice of where to find funny this week.
Southeastern are handling London's big events very differently... so they say.
Londonist is loading up with flags and off to raise a glass or two to William and Kate.
Robin Ince once again curates an excellent night of intelligent comedy: can he and his guests find an activity better than reading?
The week ahead in literary London: Wendy Cope, James Frey, Literary Death Match,the Josephine Hart Poetry Hour, the London Word Festival - and more.
The ODA will miss some sustainability targets. This is not good, but it's even worse in our heads thanks to BBC4.
Can that headline get any scarier? Expect more of this stuff before next summer.
A poem taken from Simon Smith's latest collection, London Bridge.
Anti-cuts demonstrators are planning a second (or third, depending on how you see it) camp-out amongst the fountains.
The week ahead in literary London: Gillian Slovo, Wendy Cope, James Frey, a couple of smashing festivals and a lot of Russia.
Author of What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club chats about his work for the Guardian Book Club.
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