As HSBC apparently mull moving their HQ to Hong Kong, how much influence does the Mayor really have over financial megacorps?
Poems about our capital: a strange tale of pickling in Brixton.
Ooo, shiny... beautiful objects from ancient Afghanistan at the BM's latest show.
World Book Day and Night, Jewish Book Week plus Alexander McCall Smith for starters...
Foyles on Charing Cross Road is on the move... a few doors down to the current Central St Martin’s School of Art building.
World Book Day and World Book Night are this week - lots of events, very famous authors and 1 million free books.
The London Word Festival returns! With excellent guests (Alan Moore, anyone?), inventive and immersive performances, witty and intelligent ideas, and a Scrabble tournament.
The week ahead in literary London: Alain de Botton, Eve Ensler, Dorian Lynskey and more at Jewish Book Week, 5x15, some Utter! Agony and tackling that men vs women vs Mars vs Venus stuff at the British Library.
Evidence has emerged of dinners between senior Met officers and News of the World editors at the time of the phone hacking scandal, again raising questions about the relationship between paper and police.
A protest is scheduled for 3-6pm outside Downing Street today.
Croydon is cutting money from youth services but might save their libraries; Lewisham is so scared of protest they moved their council meetings to mornings.
The week ahead in literary London: festivals at the LSE and YARNfest, book swaps for grown ups and smaller people, Liz Lochhead and Andrew Motion provide a big name poetry fix, a housewarming party and a man called Zolan Quobble.
Imperial College is the first university in England to confirm they are charging the full £9,000 a year tuition fees.
Lewisham Council have come up with some ideas for what to do with five libraries which look certain to close on 28th May.
The week ahead in literary London: Blake Morrison, Firestation Book Swap on tour, John Hegley, Jackie Kay, English PEN's anniversary and as much romantic poetry as you can stomach.
It's another weekend of protests: a march against the rise in tuition fees and scrapping of EMA, plus fake hospitals setting up in Boots.
The week ahead in literary London: have elevenses with John Hegley, see Antony Beevor, Luke Wright, Ali Smith and the return of Utter!'s Richard Tyrone-Jones plus a bit of original Chaucer.
Westminster Council and TfL have announced measures to make partying in summer 2012 that little bit easier.
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