Public confusion: Londonist is not alone, apparently in failing to comprehend the Olympic budget. Tony Benn stomps his feet over plans to sell off a school playing field in Holland Park. The cases of two gunshot victims in Wembley are possibly linked. If you want to ‘Be a Councillor’ in London, it seems your moment might have arrived. A London teacher has been fined for cramming 13 people into his Volvo. And then driving.......

Tony Benn's granddaughter may become youngest ever MP. Osama Bin London. Kylie in Croydon. Police arrest illegal workers in Chinatown. Must resist pun...must resist pub. Argghhh, it's a Chinese takeawy. There, got it out of the system. Image courtesy of blech via the Londonist flickr group. Tag your own quirky images with 'Londonist' and we might just use them.......

The Guardian has a neat little slide show dedicated to the new Tate Modern extension. The flamboyant, highly theatrical and immensely complex 11-storey glass tower in the form of a spiralling stepped pyramid, or ziggurat, is destined to rise from the south-west corner of the existing gallery, formerly Bankside Power Station. See artists' impressions of what the new gallery will look like in the London skyline and what it will be like inside its......

We've just got time to mention that in a couple of hours Tony Benn will be introducing Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory for the cheap cheap ticket price of six quid (or less). It's a Socialist Worker event, but no matter what your politics it's a great film. Full details here. Quite a different target audience for the London Children's Film Festival that runs from the 18th until the 26th of November - make......

It's a struggle but Londonist must occasionally provide the odd Pete Doherty story... Model-mating tabloid-baiting Pete Doherty is reported by the NME to be confirmed for the Love Music Hate Racism gig this Sunday (1st May). According to BabyShambles.net, he's playing an acoustic set sometime between 4pm and 7pm. Ignoring the shallow image the inkies like to portray, Pete Doherty is actually capable of coherent and intelligent thought at times. As he says on......

It's the middle of the week, Wednesday is yet to become the new Thursday so you've got bugger all to do, so why not go and watch a real political firebrand in action? Londonist favourite Tony Benn will be at the British Library tonight talking about "the role of the past in shaping our understanding of the situation that faces humanity at the beginning of the 21st century". With a bit of luck he'll......