Don’t fear the cheese
Tom’s right: London doesn’t have a dead centre preserved in amber and only useful for tourists. I think this is a good thing: that London’s ‘attractions’ are spread out and exist inside and al[…]

The Problem With Tourist London
(This was an ‘insight’ I had last night in the pub, and we know all about those. I am not convinced of it but I throw it open to discussion.)
Most major and middling European cities from Bilbao to Tallinn h[…]

GAY GO UP AND GAY GO DOWN
Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements
You owe me five farthings say the bells of St Martins
When will you pay me say the bells of Old Bailey
When I grow rich say the bells of Shoreditch
When will that be say the be[…]

VANISHING LONDON
3: The Parker-Knoll School Of Economics
Okay, that is not the real name of this spurious seat of learning, but might as well me. I have lived near and travel by this undemanding prefab building on the Caledonian Road for about seven […]

I went to London and all I got my parents was this nonexistent T-shirt — my dad’s been to London a few times, mostly on Navy business (the Navy over here regarding the UK as generally speaking a brilliant if tragically immobile aircraft c[…]

A LONDON SONGBOOK
LA LIGA – “Out In London (Breaks Mix)”: A track which actually has some resonance. It doesn’t manage to evoke anything of the gleeful stumble of London nightlife but its boxy, taut breaks and wriggling bleeps[…]

VANISHING LONDON
2: The bit of road on the north side of Trafalgar Square
This did not get nicked overnight. Instead the Mayor put in place a long and some say tedious process to turn London’s squarest roundabout into – his words – […]

The ubiquitous Banksy strikes again
not entirely sure who he’s striking agaist, we’ve always known that judges dress like this under their robes haven’t we? ooh, get you![…]

Public Inconvenience
A big railway station in London at 9.11pm last night. I’d had a couple of pints after work, and as per usual, arrived at the station needing the toilet. I decide not to use the one on platforms 5 and 6, but the one on platf[…]

LINKDON
Trip through the city, sonically
FOR ONE MONTH ONLY – go and read the links we’ve put on the sidebar, ignore the glib descriptions if you’d prefer. All worth a look.
Did anyone go?
All of a sudden, London has a skyline&#8221[…]