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Blue is the new green

Blue is the new green

I have been driving down the Embankment watching as the soft incandescent lights strung between lampposts slowly died of age, and no one bothered to replace them. Then the wet desolated pavement alongside the Thames was reminiscent [...]

Bog standard

Bog standard

No matter how glum I may feel driving around London the sight of a Pimlico Plumbers’ van with their amusing number plates. W4TER, DRA1N, BOG 1 or my favourite 701LET is guaranteed to put a smile [...]

London’s Fag End

Tobacco is said to have arrived on our shores in 1586 and was first smoked at the Pied Bull in Islington, the habit proved so popular that only 28 years later there was recorded over 7,000 [...]

The New Centurions

ow before you start reading today’s little missive I must add a cautionary note. If you haven’t reached your thirtieth birthday my words of wisdom will have no relevance in your life and I suggest you [...]

Demographic analysis

  his month London’s first French language terrestrial radio station starts broadcasting to the capital’s 400,000 native French speakers as a reminder of their own culture, but why are so many French institutions based around South [...]

I don’t Adam and Eve it!

he Oxford English Dictionary claims that the first use of the word cockney as a reference to native Londoners was in 1521, and since I did The Knowledge I’ve been telling anyone who cares to listen [...]

I have worms

have got worms. OK I know it’s not the sort of thing about my life that you want to read over your morning bowl of cornflakes, but bear with me on this one, while I relate [...]

A call to arms?

A call to arms?

The tragedy of the killings in West Cumbria one month today have shown just how ineffectual having an armed police force is in maintaining law and order. For although 42 of Cumbria’s 97 armed response officers [...]

Have a nice day

It started as a promising day, the sun was shining, we had a new Government and yes, I had earned enough to warrant a trip to the bank. I proffered my deposit, the cashier smiled and [...]

London’s crap years

epressed? Worried about the austerity measures promised by our new Political Masters? Before you decamp London for pastures new, consider this if you may, as CabbieBlog gives you the 10 years you really should be anywhere else [...]