Your weekly Londonist roundup, featuring Londony news and features. But not for long! Image: AELTC/Joe Toth This could just be the fattest, whitest elephant ever to lumber across Britain. Image: HS2 Oh. My. GOURD. Image: iStock/mtreasure Kingsway Telephone Exchange is said to have inspired Q Branch. © DBOX TLT. Definitely the best way to spend three hours on the tube. And they're not the ones you might think. Image: iStock/allinvisuality Autumnal walks against a golden backdrop. Image: Shutterstock LGBTQ groups rally against dehumanising rhetoric. Image: iStock/coldsnowstorm A chronology of the brown line. Ahead of the State Opening in November. (sponsor) © UK Parliament / Roger Harris Mobile phones, video calls, pay-per-view sport... even Wikipedia. Image: iStock, adapted by Matt Brown An arboreal memorial. Small museum that's free to visit. Charming events within easy reach of London. Image: LanceB/iStock Che Lovelace canvasses bring Trinidadian colour to St James's Piccadilly. Photo: Stephen White & Co Trio of incredible shape-changing sculptures hit town. We interview author Peter Watts about his new book. From Roman temples to futuristic domes. The National Archives (UK), ref. WORK25/64/25 And no, we don't mean 1952. Image: ogoco via creative commons Kilty pleasures. Image: iStock/darkbird77 |