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Time to catch up on the best of Londonist - featuring Christmas Day swims, an Anglo-Saxon map and a brand new newsletter
Best Of Londonist: 8-14 December 2025
Pour yourself a cuppa, and have a catch-up!
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December 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Time to catch up on the best of Londonist - featuring Christmas Day swims, an Anglo-Saxon map and a brand new newsletter
That Banksy piece behind the Royal Courts of Justice (1) when first done. (2) Hastily covered and guarded. (3) Half-scrubbed away. (4) Now with its own shed and front door (padlocked).
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
That Banksy piece behind the Royal Courts of Justice (1) when first done. (2) Hastily covered and guarded. (3) Half-scrubbed away. (4) Now with its own shed and front door (padlocked).
How to see London's Christmas lights by bus, bike or on foot ✨
London's Christmas Lights 2025: Where, When And How To See Them This Year
Top tips for seeing London's festive illuminations.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
How to see London's Christmas lights by bus, bike or on foot ✨
This new pedestrianised space near St Paul's will include the Square Mile's first public playground
Greyfriars Square: Images Released Of New Pedestrianised Area Near St Paul's
Plans for a new pedestrianised area near St Paul's.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This new pedestrianised space near St Paul's will include the Square Mile's first public playground
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
The view from the rooftop of Kitty Hawk 😍
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The view from the rooftop of Kitty Hawk 😍
This is a German tank captured in WW1 and displayed on Horse Guards Parade in 1919. The tank was left open for anybody to climb inside. A police guard had to be posted, after reports of young couples getting up to a bit of tanky-panky. "Darling, when you said we should use protection..."
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is a German tank captured in WW1 and displayed on Horse Guards Parade in 1919. The tank was left open for anybody to climb inside. A police guard had to be posted, after reports of young couples getting up to a bit of tanky-panky. "Darling, when you said we should use protection..."
Look what's back... Mayor Sadiq Khan's won permission to use the old GLC crest
It's Back... Mayor Sadiq Khan Gets Permission To Use Old GLC Crest
Old symbol of the city will rise again.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Look what's back... Mayor Sadiq Khan's won permission to use the old GLC crest
From the newspaper archives: five times Christmas went very wrong in London londonist.com/london/chris...
When Christmas Went Very, Very Wrong
Ding dong merrily on lows...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
From the newspaper archives: five times Christmas went very wrong in London londonist.com/london/chris...
London's first 'skyscraper' turned 100 this year. It's been joined by a fair few since londonist.com/london/100-y...
100 Years Of London Skyscrapers
We've been building tall for a century.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
London's first 'skyscraper' turned 100 this year. It's been joined by a fair few since londonist.com/london/100-y...
Threatened heritage on Oxford Street, a new home for Smithfield, Christmas-in-London tips, and (after YEARS of research) our pick of London's 100 best pubs.... catch up on our news and features from the past week londonist.com/london/best-...
Best Of Londonist: 1-7 December 2025
All the best stories we've written this week.
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December 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Threatened heritage on Oxford Street, a new home for Smithfield, Christmas-in-London tips, and (after YEARS of research) our pick of London's 100 best pubs.... catch up on our news and features from the past week londonist.com/london/best-...
We've been enjoying a 1970s Christmas at the glorious Museum of the Home in Hoxton. Its period rooms are currently decked out to show what Christmas looked like in various decades and centuries. And it's FREE to visit, right next to Hoxton station
December 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
We've been enjoying a 1970s Christmas at the glorious Museum of the Home in Hoxton. Its period rooms are currently decked out to show what Christmas looked like in various decades and centuries. And it's FREE to visit, right next to Hoxton station
Pride roundels, poppy roundels, Christmas roundels and Picard-illy Circus roundels... we've collected together all the times the Tube symbol has been tweaked, in one map londonist.com/london/maps/...
A Tube Map Of Alternative Roundels
Every time the Tube roundel got swapped for something fun.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Pride roundels, poppy roundels, Christmas roundels and Picard-illy Circus roundels... we've collected together all the times the Tube symbol has been tweaked, in one map londonist.com/london/maps/...
Heathrow Airport wants you to name its fleet of cleaning robots. Ideas? (And, no, you can't have "Sweepy McSweepFace") londonist.com/london/trans...
Heathrow Airport Wants You To Name Its Cleaning Robots
Cillit Bangkok, anyone?
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December 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Heathrow Airport wants you to name its fleet of cleaning robots. Ideas? (And, no, you can't have "Sweepy McSweepFace") londonist.com/london/trans...
We've been to hundreds and hundreds of London pubs over the years, and have now put together our 'working list' of the very best 100. See if you agree... and what would you add? 🍺 londonist.com/london/drink...
The 100 Best Pubs In London
This list will ensure you'll never go thirsty again.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We've been to hundreds and hundreds of London pubs over the years, and have now put together our 'working list' of the very best 100. See if you agree... and what would you add? 🍺 londonist.com/london/drink...
46 years ago today... Spandau Ballet played their first public gig. True!
December 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
46 years ago today... Spandau Ballet played their first public gig. True!
Another one of those historical 'immersive experiences' is coming to Battersea Power Station... with some impressive artefacts too londonist.com/london/museu...
Ramses And The Pharaohs' Gold: New Immersive Experience Coming To Battersea
Treasures of Egypt and virtual reality history.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Another one of those historical 'immersive experiences' is coming to Battersea Power Station... with some impressive artefacts too londonist.com/london/museu...
WEEKEND: Plenty of fun to be had in London this weekend, including a festive dog show, a beer mile party and a movie marathon all-nighter londonist.com/london/weeke...
Things To Do In London This Weekend: 6-7 December 2025
Play guitar in Jimi Hendrix's flat, and look out for hundreds of Santas in the streets.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
WEEKEND: Plenty of fun to be had in London this weekend, including a festive dog show, a beer mile party and a movie marathon all-nighter londonist.com/london/weeke...
London looks a right old dump in this new trailer for Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea. Some serious litter-picking and cathedral repair needed www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZ7...
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
London looks a right old dump in this new trailer for Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea. Some serious litter-picking and cathedral repair needed www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZ7...
London looks a right old dump in this new trailer for Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea. Some serious litter-picking and cathedral repair needed www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZ7...
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
London looks a right old dump in this new trailer for Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea. Some serious litter-picking and cathedral repair needed www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZ7...
Recognise this facade? It'll soon be gone from Oxford Street ->
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What We Lose From The Redevelopment Of This 1960s Oxford Street Building
What will happen to the distinctive facades?
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December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Recognise this facade? It'll soon be gone from Oxford Street ->
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Who else insists on some London-themed bauble action on their Christmas tree?
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Who else insists on some London-themed bauble action on their Christmas tree?
New twist with Smithfield and Billingsgate. The markets might now join together in a new site in the Royal Docks, on 'Albert Island' -> londonist.com/london/news/...
Smithfield And Billingsgate Market To Move To Royal Docks?
New future for the ancient markets.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
New twist with Smithfield and Billingsgate. The markets might now join together in a new site in the Royal Docks, on 'Albert Island' -> londonist.com/london/news/...
The surprising places where Londoners used to meet for dates... including a geology museum, a sand-bin and a German tank londonist.substack.com/p/londons-fo...
London's Forgotten Trysting Places
"Meet me under the clock... by the ichthyosaur."
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December 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The surprising places where Londoners used to meet for dates... including a geology museum, a sand-bin and a German tank londonist.substack.com/p/londons-fo...
Some of the weirdest Christmas adverts in London's history londonist.com/2014/12/the-...
The Weirdest Christmas Gifts In London's History
London shops sold some bizarre stuff...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Some of the weirdest Christmas adverts in London's history londonist.com/2014/12/the-...