Dive into the archives.
- Picture this
For a moment, I thought our picture desk had nicked my shot of last night’s spectacular sunset… but, alas, they hadn’t.
- Rounding up your London-living advice
Readers chip in with their thoughts on the essential things you should do to enjoy more of London
- Ten years, and ten tips for living in London
Ten ideas to make living in London a little easier, and rather more fun.
- When blogs die
My favourite blog has died. It shows the value - and the downside - of passion-driven publishing on the web
- Office temperature watch
We’ve decided to start tracking the temperature of our office, and found it to be hotter than many hot places around the world. Join in the… umm… fun.
- A TV news report that could make you sick to the stomach
Bulletin misreports a report on Thames water quality, suggesting it was the river - not the tapwater - being checked and given a very high mark.
- Scots away
Luckily Mrs T regards herself as British. Otherwise, she might have struggled with this NHS registration form today.
Alongside an eclectic selection of other nationalities, she could have registered her Englishness, Welshness, Cornishness, Northern Irishness and Irishness… but not her Scottishness.
I don’t think, however, that treatment is affected by which box you tick, or by the [...]
- Applauding Shirky’s light touch
Clay Shirky rolled into town yesterday, giving a lunchtime lecture to a packed house down at the RSA on his new book Here Comes Everybody.
It’s about how online crowds form and act, but the title could have adequately described the packed auditorium; the gang was all there, as many techie, socialie, liberal-artsie types as you [...]
- First train (or: the saddest post you’ll ever read)
Hanging from a strap, pressed up against your neighbour and wishing, for the love of God, the thing would just get moving, I suspect every commuter longs for the perfect train - the service that runs direct, is fast, isn’t too busy, gets you into work with the minimum of fuss. But they’re more easily [...]
- Londonist’s look inside the new Guardian HQ
I’m a bit late to this, but Londonist scooped us all by getting a look inside Guardian News & Media’s new HQ at King’s Cross. That’s one of their pictures, right.
The redevelopment around King’s Cross is huge; for those who don’t know the city, it’s a pretty rundown bit of town, and is one giant [...]
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