Square Pie are celebrating the Olympics in Beijing the only way they know how: by baking special square pies. To mark the games in China, the current Pie of the Month is the Olym-pie special which is not a fawning, deep-fill, sweet and sour bird's nest affair which is kind of what we were expecting. Instead, it is... a Tibetan lamb curry pie, created by the pie company's very own Pie-a-lama. We tried one......

One of the enthusiastic Olympic buses by Orhan. The Olympic Torch Relay is all over the news this morning for the wrong reasons as far as the organisers and host country are concerned. Was the police presence over egged or was security not tight enough? Were the pro-Tibetan demonstrators treated unfairly and corralled into tight corners when pro-Chinese people were allowed to freely line the streets and wave their flags? Can you separate Olympic values......

Update 17.20: The torch is now nearing the end of its journey, a bizarre spectacle that has seen minor celebrities rub shoulders with jogging police officers and cartoonish torch guardians in blue tracksuits. Dame Ellen McSailor is now shepherding the flame towards the O2, where a celebratory concert is planned (minus the laryngitic Sugababes). Update 14.45: The torch, approaching St Pauls, has been carried onto a London red bus by a man resembling Mr......

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been stuffing your faces with kedgeree, hot cross bunnies and eggy-weggies: There has been a huge march for Tibet in central London. Red Ken is awfully-Green-Ken these days, and he’s pretty pissed off with the government’s apathy and hostility to his general eco-scheme of things. The Church just isn’t hot news any more: following a priestly mugging in East London last week, it would seem that......

Tell us something we didn’t know: London is the most expensive city to live in worldwide, according to UBS research. Pro-Tibet protesters target British Museum’s First Emperor exhibit. Heathrow to charge drivers £20 to drop off passengers if sixth terminal proposal is approved. In other Heathrow news, super jumbo jet completes inaugural flight to London, with 470 passengers aboard. Mohammed Fayed fails in his bid to make the Queen and Prince Philip testify at......

This is what we have learned whilst you have been out buying Easter eggs whilst silently cursing the commerciality of it all: It’s been a weekend of protests and marches, ranging from the serious: a prayer vigil for Tibet and the Stop the War Coalition, to the verging-on-militant: cross BA pilots, to the jolly: St. Patrick’s Day stuff of course. It has emerged that bingo can be dangerous. Another weekend, another teenager: this one......

Richard Scudamore of the Premier League has not been the most popular footballing figure of the last few weeks. The executives overseeing football in favoured destinations for his plan of playing Premier League matches abroad, such as China, Thailand and the USA, have lined up to express their objections, as has the President of world football's governing body, FIFA. However, not every land that loves football comes under FIFA's aegis. Scudamore might be able......

As we predicted last week, amidst the South African media’s prophecies of doom, the Mandela Challenge Match against Egypt will indeed go ahead next Wednesday, 15th November at Brentford’s Griffin Park with a 7:45pm kick off. Brentford now formally acknowledge the fixture and organisers Star Meridian say one thousand tickets have already been sold in the twelve thousand capacity stadium. However, the showpiece occasion ran into unexpected competition on Tuesday when it was announced......

The big wheel keeps on turning On a simple line day by day The earth spins on its axis One man struggle to write the Midweek Music News introduction while working out his taxes So wrote Massive Attack about the struggle to keep up Londonist duties while pressing matters involving HMRC are at hand. HMRC wait for no man, however, so without further ado, here's your Midweek Music News. Tonight NME tipped electro boy......