Anybody who's spent an afternoon walking around Upper Street, iBook in hand, trying to log on to Islington council's "Technology Mile" service may smirk, but a new report says Londoners are the most wifi-happy people on the planet. According to the Wi-Fi Hotspot Index, networks set up by the likes of BT and The Cloud in London account for one tenth of the UK's wireless usage, and just over 1% of the worldwide total......

Did you notice that the chimney stack atop the Tate Modern looked a little bigger today? A little more erect? Swelled with pride perhaps? Well, no wonder: Tate Modern is the second most visited venue in the country with 4.9m visitors, according to new research. The site, in London's South Bank, saw an increase of 21% in the number of its visitors compared to 2005. If London was on fire and we had time......

Seven men are currently in custody after a football-related pub brawl in at the Cutty Sark pub in Thamesmead over the weekend resulted in the death of a 52-year-old man. Diane Abbott and Mayor Ken have warned that London needs more black teachers in order to "to harness and develop the talents and skills of all the city’s diverse communities". If London's suburbs were apples, "many of them would be bruised and past their......

A couple more proposed skyscrapers have emerged over the past week. Both of them are only at early design stages and seem to set new standards in bonkers architecture. We mean that in a nice way. If London has to grow tall, then it should do so in its own unique style. And quirky is what London has always done best. This curvy fiend is the proposed replacement for the forgettable 1960s tower at......

If London had to describe itself as a colour, what would it be? Seems like a trite question, huh? But, mark our words, it’s going to be a very important one for the nation’s design agencies this year. The race is on to create the winning logo for the 2012 games. It ain’t going to be black and white. So our question is apt. Traditionally, it would seem, red is the colour. After all,......

We spotted a couple of reviews of London-related books over the weekend that might be worth adding to the reading-list (once we've finished the pile of books we got over Xmas that is). The first is The Subterranean railway by Christian Wolmer. Subtitled How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever, this book is aimed (according to Ian Marchant in the Guardian) at: "Underground buffs, hip young professionals who hang......