Our helpful guide explodes some of the more bizarre and disturbing stories about the tube. Each story gets a plausibility rating of between 1 and 10 (1 being extremely [...]

Some find them irritating; others are soothed by them on their rush hour commute. Whatever your opinion, buskers are an integral part of the London Underground experience. [...]

I always give some spare change to buskers on the tube or on the street–that is, if they’re any good. My colleagues are a bit surprised by this, but fortunately they don’t ask me why. You see, it’s because I used to be a busker too.
When I came to London, I discovered that a [...]

Incidentally, kudos to British Airways: on the flight home, I absent-mindedly left in the overhead rack two Japanese paper lampshades I had purchased at Spitalfields. The following morning I called the airline in Boston. A human voice responded, the lampshades were there in baggage, and safely delivered to me the next day.
London has come [...]