Let's look at the UKIP's candidates for London Mayor
The UK Independence Party are having an open primary to choose their candidate for London Mayor! It’s very exciting. So, as a concerned potential UKIP voter, who should you pick?
London agenda for Tuesday 16 August
Everything to do today as recommended by everyone else.
Reviewed: Museum of London's Roman London app
The Londinum iPhone and iPad app from the Museum of London was released a couple of weeks ago. It’s free, and it includes a “Roman walk”, which uses Google maps to guide you through the vias and tabernas of the old place. Last week I walked that walk; now I shall talk it.
Proof, schmoof. Wandsworth starts evicting people accused of being rioters
This afternoon Wandsworth became the first Council to serve a post-riot eviction notice. The south-west London Council grabbed this dubious accolade after beginning an eviction process against a tenant whose son was involved in Monday night’s events.
What would Chewbacca do?
Peter Mayhew says that Chewbacca would align with the Empire in riots. I think he’d grab a couple of Stormtroopers and sort it out, he tells the Mirror.
(H/T @norock )
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
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