There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and......

Happy Holidays! Chances are, you're reading this the day after Christmas, back at your day job after all-too-short a holiday, and the last thing you want from us is stuff about the holidays. But that's just too bad. Because, see, here in the Ist-A-Verse, we do things ahead of time. It might be December 26 for you, but that's what you get for not checking your Favorite Local Blog on Christmas Eve. Austinist is......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Among the treats available to lit lovers this week are a reading in a cemetery, a reading in Shakespeare's Globe, and if you're willing to travel to Oxford, a whole slew of famous faces over the next couple of days... Events Around London (and Beyond): The Oxford Literary Festival continues through tomorrow (the 29th),......

It was reported over the weekend that the IOC have been busy putting together "a timetable of deadlines" to meet over the next seven years in the run-up to the Olympics. There isn't much detail on this "timetable of milestones" except for something about sponsorship plans and budgets. However Londonist can reveal that a section of the plan was leaked to us earlier today and we can now give you a sneak peek at......

Forget David Beckham. Never mind Sir Steve 'ooh look at all my medals' Redgrave. If you want to get serious about hosting an Olympic Games then you have to go for the big guns. And when it comes to Olympics the guns don't get any bigger than Daley Thompson. Lest we forget, this is the man who not only won consecutive gold medals at both the 1980 and '84 Olympics, but also whistled his......

The future is finally here people: they're letting robots remove our internal organs, surely the jetpacks and the hoverboards can't be too far behind? According to the report a patient at London's Guy's Hospital recently underwent live kidney transplant surgery, performed by a robot. We're not told what kind of robot we're just told that it's called "the da Vinci Robot". In our imagination the da Vinci Robot has fifteen arms, each holding a......