It’s really all about the Olympics this week, and we’ve told you all about what to watch. But if you’re not in a sporting mood, here are a few other things you may want to take a look at. On TV, Londonist likes: Tuesday, 12 August Margaret the Tabloid Princess: Revealed (Five, 20:00-21:00)) Princess Margaret spawned the paparazzi appetite for photos of royals stumbling out of London nightclubs, and this documentary looks at her......

Been a while since we had a good Royal story - we sometimes forget all about them, but thankfully years of inbreeding means that the next blue blooded blunder is just around the corner. This one involves a fold up bicycle: The Queen's nephew Lord Linley refused to apologise yesterday after he was photographed pedalling along King's Road in Chelsea with his four-year-old daughter perched precariously on the rack of his folding bicycle. The......

An 80-year-old Blackheath woman who fell and broke her neck when the bus she was travelling on stopped suddenly, has died in hospital. Apparently "figures in London show a rise in robbery and other offences around the time of Halloween" so this year the Hallo-hoodies are going to get cracked down on. The late Princess Margaret allegedly enjoyed extra-marital one-night stands in London hotels. Kevin Spacey has waived his fee as the artistic director......

What are the Royal Family for? As an anachronistic reminder of our forelock-tugging, hierarchy-beholden, deferential past, they're about as welcome in modern Britain as the sticky can of Stella you find hiding behind the sofa six months after the party. The sticky can of Stella won't demand to be shuttled around the world in grand style with an endless supply of gin, either. As Londonist is always loathe to miss a chance to slag......

Before we get onto the subject of this week's telly recommendations, let's remind ourselves of Saturday's miscarriage of justice, when Maria was voted off X Factor. Even Simon admits he made a mistake in choosing the Conway Sisters (for those who don't watch X Factor, the Conways are like standing knee-deep in the Irish Sea on a wet Tuesday in October while someone slaps you in the face with a rotting plaice, except rather......