London has been labelled “divorce capital of the world”, but look at the bright side, says mayor Boris Johnson: zillionaires suing each other over divorce settlements is a boon to the local economy.
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London Evening Standard goes free
As ad revenue falls, most newspapers are busy trying to suck more money from their readers. But the Evening Standard is trying a different tack: giving away the paper for free.
A lesson in contrasts: how one riot was reported
Skin colour makes a huge difference on the language used, when it comes to how violent street riots are reported in the media. Better to be a London Nazi skinhead than a Sydney Lebanese Muslim.
PHOTO GALLERY: London through a lens
A great collection of photos of 20th-century London and its inhabitants from a new exhibition at the at the Getty Images Gallery.
Yuppies v Punks for a working week
Who has the superior lifestyle: hand-to-mouth agitators or the city-boy capitalists they abhor? Vice Magazine assigned one staff writer to pose as a punk and another as a plutocrat to investigate.
How modernism changed the facade of London
In very basic terms, Modernism opened up the closed Victorian city of London, but objectors, from HRH downwards, believe it would be far better to have a bit of opened-up-neo-Victoriana-Georgiana rather than a ‘brutalist’ and ‘communist’ piece of contemporary design.
London metro police accused of torture
Waterboarding is at the centre of an anti-corruption investigation into London’s metropolitan police force, putting fuel on the fire of public concern regarding police brutality in the UK.
The Tracey Emin show: self abuse and sewing
Sometimes I’m inclined to regard Tracey Emin as Jade Goody’s long-lost sister. For both, achievement has been inseparable from publicity; their careers derive from the merchandising of personal traumas, which take us on involuntary tours of their tormented innards.
Breathing gin and tonic
A temporary London bar is offering a cloud of breathable gin and tonic to its patrons. Is this just a fancy way of skimping on the alcohol?
London, the city that votes on red buses
The problem for Boris Johnson is that the GFC has put the kybosh on many of the plans — mainly public transport — that would have put his stamp on the place.
G20 washup: questions over the death of Ian Tomlinson
Footage released overnight casts a sickening new slant on the death of a bystander at last week’s G20 protests in London, writes Andrew Crook.
Allco name change should be worth a few cents on the share price
The real story today from today’s stock exchange announcement from Allco Equity Partners is that its name is mud, hence the proposal to change it, writes Glenn Dyer.
Boris Johnson cuts green team in half
Leaked documents seen by the Guardian show that the Greater London authority plans to reduce the total number of 40 staff working on environmental issues in the capital to 20.
