Anyone with an ounce of common sense should be able to tell you that work-related stress is not good for the health, a bit like cigarettes, junk food and bullets. But, since many of those who make decisions regarding our working lives seem to be devoid of even a gram of common sense and require THE FACTS instead, then a study reported in the European Heart Journal may help somewhat. The UCL based study,......

Once long ago, Mama Londonist wasn't happy with little Londonist and wanted to give us an earful. However, Londonist had got married to this other blog with a trendy hat, a silly double-barrelled name and a penchant for perverting the course of justice. Soon, Londonist was being photographed with its nose full of white powder and its hair all over the place, not in it's usual 'beehive' style as was fashionable in those days.......

The Stopped Clocks campaign aims to document all the stopped clocks in the UK and then do something about it. Explaining why he began to campaign, the webmaster Alfie writes, I once took a walk around a square mile in central London, I found 11 stopped clocks, either Municipal clocks, church clocks or otherwise public clocks. After poking about and doing some research, I discovered that it really does not cost much to fix......

Westminster is running out of room for statues. 'The London Gateway container port and business park' has got the go-ahead. It's a 'superport' and will cost £1.5bn. Heathrow Terminals 1 and 2 will be replaced by 'Heathrow East' terminal. Apparently this is "great news for passengers". Londonist HQ still hasn't stopped celebrating. The Lord Of The Rings musical had to cancel a performance mid show after one of the cast got their leg trapped......

We do enjoy a good debate here at Londonist HQ so were pleased to be asked along to last night's Guardian/BAFTA Film Forum entitled The Role of the Film Critic in the Digital Age: It is easy and inexpensive for anyone to set themselves up as an internet authority on film - and online film reviews, blogs and podcasts are widely available at the click of a button. Does the internet threaten the role......

Housing in London is very expensive indeed. In fact it's so expensive indeed that Londonist HQ is imaginary and we all live in Derby. However, thank your lucky charms that you aren't a lowly wannabe Argentinian farmer. He may not have to pay the congestion charge but farmland from the USA to Argentina is rising faster in price than apartments in Manhattan and London. This is all to do with the rising demand for......

Great Alexander Wept, And Made Sad Mone, Because There Was But One World To Be Wonne... Having conquered all those within his borders Ken is now looking off the map to see what new dogs can be crushed under his iron heel: Rail commuters outside London face having their fares and services dictated by Ken Livingstone, the capital’s mayor, under proposals drawn up by the Government. The Department for Transport is expected to announce......

This week - Rocky has another bite at the boxing apple (Rocky Balboa) and Cate Blanchet gets shot in the neck and all manner of problems arise (Babel). The general feeling in the press about Rocky Balboa, the sixth Rocky film, has been one of mild embarrassment. What is Sly doing? He's 60 for God's sake! Wasn't Rocky rubbish the first time? However, we here at Londonist do not follow the journalistic tides of......

Poor old MI5. It's never really been the same since Tom left - Danny got shot in the head and Zoe shacked up with some git in Chile. Some people insist that Spooks is more fictional drama than documentary, but we find it comforting to believe that Peter Firth is actually in charge of stopping us getting exploded and stuff. Sometimes though we have our doubts. Would Harry really think that sending out terror......

A case of life imitating art*, but with less monkeys and more real violence: Banky: Well, you're in love. And you've both got your own monkey. What more could two guys from New Jersey want? Jay: Well, to have all these fucks stop talking shit about us on the Internet. Banky: What've I been telling you? There's nothing you can do about it. Unless you show up at all their houses and beat the......

What with drug scandal undermining athletics and horse racing being, well, a bit posh, could maggot racing be the next big thing? Visitors to the Three Horseshoes Pub in Flackwell Heath have been gathering around a big screen to watch maggots wriggle their way around a six-lane racetrack. The maggots athletes take about fourty five seconds to complete the foot long course that has sticks the competitors must clear on the way to the......

We're proud to say that we're wine snobs here at Londonist HQ. Friday afternoon and you'll often find us out on the terrace sipping a pint or two of the red stuff. The trick is to pick the wine with the best label. We find anything with penguins on it tastes nice and goes well with a Red Bull chaser and a slice of Domino's finest. So when we keel over from stuffed cheese......

We'd like to start writing more about comedy here at Londonist. We have (arguably) the best comedy circuit in the world yet it has gone thusfar unwritten about by us at Londonist HQ. But fear not, we have changed our ways. We kick off with an interview with comedian, Richard Herring and a comedy recommendation for the week. Richard Herring is probably best known for his television work with Stewart Lee, 'Fist of Fun'......

Because Londonist was riddled with gremlins over the last couple of days we're going to catch up with a little weekend posting. Londonist: hiding from the fiery disc in the sky so you don't have to. There seem a few less planes dotted about over the Londonist HQ this morning. Must be because London City Airport is going ga-ga over a more grounded form of transport: London City Airport will be closed to air......

After the last bout of bad news concerning David Hasselhoff we figured that he just wouldn't be in London anytime soon, but not only is the Hoff here among us regular folks he's also making headlines: Hasselhoff in chandelier accident That was enough to see some major wine spillage here at the afterhours Londonist HQ. US actor David Hasselhoff has been treated in hospital after being hurt in a chandelier accident. Hasselhoff, 53, hit......

There's no getting away from the fact that we're a bunch of sinners here at the Londonist HQ so it's odd that we have a soft spot for Philip Howard, the winner/sinner man who has become such a staple of London life. Maybe it's because we just like megaphones and when you get right down to it his sub par Dr Seuss rhyming skills amount to nothing more annoying than the snippets of conversation......

The big release for this week has to be Radiohead's two dates at Hammersmith, which go on sale tomorrow from 9am. A chance to hear new material, and a welcome return for a band who've become a considerably entertaining live force of late, whilst undertaking an ever more perplexing attitude to their studio work. It's going to be fastest fingers first, since a fanclub presale brought their own, generally well regarded, site down. Not......

I's called the Cloverdilly and it's not even real. The dodgy phonecam photos below are actually of the Crown and Sceptre on Great Titchfield Street which has been temporarily taken over by the crew of the new Christina Ricci/Reese Witherspoon film Penelope. From what we could see it looks like they've turned the Crown and Sceptre into a stereotypical Irish drinking hole called (we think) the Cloverdilly. The pub is fortuitously located round the back......

After initially finding the new Doctor Who to be too British (presumably because the good Doctor wasn't riding around on a motorcyle firing off machine guns) the SciFi channel have pulled a u-turn and are set to begin broadcasting the first season (or 27th season if you like) this March: Commenting on the deal Candace Carlisle, Senior Vice President, BBC Worldwide Americas, said: “The new production has fantastic storylines and production values and has......

A typical day at Londonist HQ will undoubtedly include scanning the local press for tasty stories on which to report. We've had some great ones over the years. Kitten Survives Car Ordeal from just the other week for example. And who could forget the private detective who was hired by the council to 'investigate' a local strip club in Beckenham. Pure gold we'll think you'll agree. So imagine our delight when we saw this......

To paraphrase Cliff Richard: Christmas Pies. Mistletoe and wine... Londonist loves its pastry-based treats, and we've always found that pastry tastes better when it's wrapped around one the Square Pie Company's offerings. We've always enjoyed the Square Pie range of baked goodies, but when we visted Glastonbury this year we became officially addicted. In fact we still occassionally have drooly dreams about their Lamb and Rosemary concoction. So how happy are we that they've......

Best use bluetac and not drawing pins to stick it up then. An original poster for Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction film Metropolis has sold for a world record price of $690,000 That beats the price paid for The Mummy poster (watched that again recently - why did they ever think they could pull off a remake?) and the fiver we paid for the one of the tennis girl scratching her arse that hangs......

Get your bids in. The ‘ailing’ Alexandra Palace is now up for grabs, and is looking for someone to take on a 125 year lease. The Grade II-listed complex sits high atop Muswell Hill and is the major landmark of the area. But like Battersea Power Station and the Dome, it’s one of the great buildings of London that misses its full potential. So who’s going to buy it? Well, restrictions stipulate that the......

What is it with London councilors? After the rainbow flag ban and not allowing gay couples to hold their ceremonies on council property, they're now not letting Nelson Mandela in Trafalgar Square. Well his statue at any rate. What's that you say? Get the Mayor on the case? Before we could even light the Ken-signal atop Londonist HQ he had already jumped into the fray: "There can be no better place than our greatest......

Riveting write up of one man's run in with the police in The Guardian this morning. When they were through, the two explosive specialists walked out of the tube station smiling and commenting: "Nice laptop." The officers offered apologies on behalf of the Metropolitan police. Then they arrested me. The individual involved apparently did nothing much different than most of us do every single day and cites the following as reasons for him being......

Londonist regrets not writing up a post several weeks ago about the City of London Festival which is happening right now. They've managed to squeeze a rather amazing variety of events into the three weeks of the festival, and the idea of putting on performances of exciting, weird music in exciting, weird architectural spaces is one that needs to be imitated more. We were particular excited about Joby Talbot's new music-theatre piece performed in......

No, nothing to do with the Michael Jackson trial... This is how the first platypus has been described by the Natural History Museum's mammal curator Daphne Hills. Now over 200 years old the juvenile male specimen is deemed too valuable to go on public display, but was recently photographed for an Australian newspaper. The photos give Londoners a chance to look at the animal that was at first dismissed as a fake by British......