Isn’t it too early for winter? You’ll risk hypothermia if you’re outside this week, so stay in and watch the telly. Isn’t that really the best option? On TV, Londonist likes: Tuesday, 20 November & Wednesday, 21 November The Eight Hundred Million Pound Railway Station (BBC2, 22:00-22:30) The next two parts of this series on the brand spanking new St. Pancras station look at the race to finish the station on time. Apparently, the......

Hmm. Londonist hasn’t always had happy bouncy things to say about the 2012 Olympics. And it is rather likely that we will come up with some more searing satirical observations before too long. That is what Londonist does. But just for today, it is with vague approbation that we report on one of the side effects of the whole proceedings – the Personal Best scheme. It is true that the idea behind it is a......

Remember those brave/crazy Flora London Marathon runners we talked to last week (click on their names below to read their interviews)...? Well, they did it! So, how was it? Incredible. Exhausting, exhilarating. The crowds were inspirational and somehow spurred me on to a 3 hrs 47 mins finish, which I still can't quite believe & was beyond my wildest Paula Rad-Sloss dreams. On the final turn into the mall, I overtook Sally Gunnell. The......

In an effort to ease overcrowding, railway companies and government ministers have vowed to add an additional 1000 carriages to Britain’s trains by 2014. Ministers will announce that carriages will be used to lengthen trains on the most congested parts of the network. Much of the extra rolling stock is likely to be used on the jammed network serving London and south-east England, where passenger increases are highest. Now, instead of just tacking on......

The congestion zone, bloated and gorged on the wallets of London motorists, finally loosened its belt this morning. A doubling of girth was observed in the ensuing westerly bloat, which takes in some of London's richest inhabitants. Fans of JG Ballard will be intrigued to learn that the area approximating to Chelsea Marina is included on the extreme western fringe, as though on purpose. But what's the reaction? Mixed, of course. And the overall......

On the whole Londoners seem to be a calm headed lot - there's just no room for panic when you have to juggle so much of your life in the capital already and we're not going to start forking over money to tape up our windows when there's so much cool stuff to buy in FOP. I mean have you seen Visitor Q? Lactating is the new black. Or something. Anyway... it does seem......

Last night on BBC4 we watched the third, and sad to say, final part of Armando Iannucci's The Thick of It. The show follows MP Hugh Abbot's attempts to do his job in a political climate of constant spin and on-the-hoof policy making. He's ineptly aided by civil servants who are as confused as he is and all of them live in constant fear of the Number Ten Policy Co-ordinator Malcolm Tucker - think......

If you're in on the sofa tonight and somehow Celebrity Big Brother just didn't deliver the huge belly-laughs you were expecting, then you could do worse than turn over to BBC1 at 10:35 for 25 Years of the Comedy Store. It's a documentary, directed by Paul Merton (hence the subtitle: A Personal History By Paul Merton), which traces the history of the Soho club, which basically served as the petri dish for the birth......

Tonight is the opening night of Lindsay Anderson: A Personal Remembrance at the NFT. Malcolm McDowell's tribute to the director is based partly on Anderson's own writings, and received impressive reviews at the Edinburgh Festival earlier this year. During the tribute McDowell talks about his working realtionship with Anderson on films such as If..., O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital. And to follow up, the the BFI are running a season of Anderson's films throughout......