Bush Protest, Parliament Square courtesy of randydandy via the Londonist Flickr pool Following on from our weekend report on the anti-George Bush protests in Parliament Square on Sunday a whole crop of photos have been posted in the Londonist Flickr pool capturing the passion behind the protest and the frankly alarming flashpoint as police barricaded Whitehall. Courtesy of Simon Rigglesworth via the Londonist Flickr pool 25 arrests were reported as allegations of heavy handed policing......

The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times Square. There were disturbing photographs revealing the working conditions in which many city manholes are produced and ninjas were also a hot topic, either robbing homes or entering into alibis. But the city was really rocked by how Rudy Giuliani's visits......

It looks like summer might actually have arrived in London this week, but if you're determined to stay inside, here are a few things to help you bide the time. On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 3 September – Wednesday, 5 September Dumped (Channel 4, 21:00-22:00) We’ve already told you about this interesting concept involving contestants living on a rubbish dump, and since you’re no doubt looking to fill the Big Brother void in your......

It's often easy to forget the Liberal Democrats these days, despite the opportunity to write alliterative headlines like that. In the last few days, it must be hard to try to top a new Labour Prime Minister swanning off for a ride in George Bush's motorised buggy, or his Conservative rival escaping the floods to Rwanda, only to return to be dogged by criticism and demands for peerages. But as Boris and Ken start......

An IT specialist living in London was refused entry to his flight from Melbourne because of the shirt he was wearing. It wasn't covered in semtex, dripping explosive water or concealing boxcutters, but it did say WORLD'S # 1 TERRORIST above a photo of George Bush: It was not the first time Mr Jasson had been told to remove his T-shirt. On December 2, a security guard at London's Heathrow Airport told him, "You......

Blair is having a time of it. Following on from a little unwanted attention by the police it turns out the one person in the world that he wants to be noticed by doesn't really care: Tony Blair has failed to influence the policies of George Bush's White House in any significant way, despite his unwavering support for the US president, a leading foreign affairs think tank said today. Delivering its verdict on ten......

As much as we love blaming stuff on George W Bush even we can't quite accept that as part of the war on terror he's handing out stabbing implements to London's construction workers: A Southfields thug slashed a man across the face with a knife he bizzarely claimed was a gift from US President George Bush. Construction worker Everton Reid, 27, from Keevil Drive, was jailed for four and a half years for the......

Oh dear, it's all going to end in tears. Mayor Ken has said that he's seriously thinking about unleasing his team of environmentally friendly lawyers on the U.S. government in order to force their diplomats to pay the congestion charge. At a press conference today he said: "Londoners have to pay it, I see no reason why American diplomats shouldn't. I stand by everything I said about the ambassador...If he can't take the heat,......

Normally when we set out each week to start writing the FFN, we bring up all the broadsheet film pages and at least one movie immediately jumps out at us as being the the most interesting offering of the week. Whether it's controversial, really good, really bad or just starring Scarlett Johansson - there's usually be something to catch our eye. But not this week. This week is full to the brim with complete......

An article in yesterday's Observer has created quite a stir, with Cameron's mob now calling for an independent London bombings inquiry. The leaked report into July 7 seems to make clear that the bombers acted alone and had no direct connection with al-Qaeda: A Whitehall source said: 'The London attacks were a modest, simple affair by four seemingly normal men using the internet.' Today's Independent underlines the fact that the report paints a picture......

Hmmm did we miss the heavenly firework display that covered the Earth's atmosphere a few weeks ago? Should we be worried even now that the shuffling noise coming from the corridor is not just Will dragging his sack of fan mail into the office, but actually a carnivorous plant intent on giving us a good tongue lashing? A Day of The Triffids style light show is the only way we can rationalise that David......

- Police have 'thwarted' terrorist attempts over past few weeks and indentified continuing threats says Ian Blair (although what he actually said was that "the sky is dark", making him sound more like Michael Fish than Met Commissioner). All this on the same day that anti-terrorism laws go before the Commons. Coincidence? - Tooting Bec man and his wife are jailed for nine years and five years respectively for smuggling hundreds of young eastern European......

The 13th Raindance Film Festival is well underway and we've already been bowled over by the gems on offer. Yesterday we saw a cracking Swedish police thriller based on Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels, a snowy Japanese indie flick about three kids up to their necks in trouble and the hit of the festival so far - Late Bloomer. A beautifully shot piece of film about a man with cerebral palsy slowly becoming a......

First off congratulations to Annie Sullivan and Andy Lee who won the Kaibosh and Delta Blues competitions respectively. Prizes in the post. Soon as we get some stamps. So what have we learnt this week down in the Londonist music dungeon? Well we've learnt that it's not a good idea to be a photographer at a Britney Spears Baby Shower. We've learnt that David Gray is a little late at jumping onto bandwagons. We've......

Wow, Vanessa the biscuit-muncher from Croydon is turfed out after a mega-tense housemate vote, and this Londonist was lucky enough to see it in person at Elstree studios. (Thank you, Channel 4, for the rather wonderful salmon kebabs and the plentiful Pimm’s.) Davina was kind enough to sign autographs and banter with the polloi; she even managed to pull off the slightly odd executive shorts she was wearing. Only just, mind. But back to......

We all know the story. The one who was once thought to be our saviour fell and became the lapdog of the dark side. Now things look to be at their darkest as the Emperor sets his sights on the son: TONY: You don't know the power of the dark side. I must obey my master. EUAN: I will not turn...and you'll be forced to kill me. TONY: If that is your destiny. EUAN:......

Quentin Wheeler, the keeper and head of entomology at London's Natural History Museum, and another colleague have put the insect world into a bit of a spin after deciding to name three newly discovered species of slime-mould beetle after George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Go on and take a few minutes to have a good laugh. We did. Wheeler though is insisting that he admires these 'people' and is in fact honouring......

We've all run into American tourists who try and cram as much culture and sightseeing into the shortest possible time frame. Big Ben in the morning, the Eiffel Tower in the afternoon and The Leaning Tower of Pisa before bed. These days of course seventeen countries in five days isn't bad when you look at how long some of them have been stuck in just one country: Iraq. Now the new US Secretary of......