Time for Toast: Graffiti crew prepares for their close-up

The Toasters are waiting for me outside of an ivy coated Irish pub on a side street behind Finsbury Park Station. The three of them, known as Toaster A, Toaster B and Toaster D (the joke being where’s Toaster C?)

London agenda for Friday 7 October

Economy now so screwed it's threatening incomprehensible ball-based jamborees

The Josh Hall column: The dilettantes running the Tories are winning

Finally, finally, conference season is over. Three weeks of absurd pantomime, amateurish attempts at rousing spectacle, and insipid speeches seeping with fetid after-dinner jokes about incompetent colleagues. The whole thing is like a protracted public school awards show.

It's Skateboarders vs Ferrets in Woolwich square

Yobs on wheels ruining Woolwich’s General Gordon Square, say locals. The News Shopper gets the money quote.

London agenda for Wednesday 5 October

"The people want the fall of the regime" is a message that Westminster council doesn't want to hear

Egyptian artist Moataz Nasr’s plan this week to cut the grass of Hanover Square into a Kufic inscription of “The people want the fall of the regime,” chanted by Arab Spring demonstrators, has been called off.

Becoming a headphone zombie makes you safer at crossing the road

Occupy Wall Street campaigner hands Fox News reporter his ass

London agenda for Tuesday 4 October