Archive for category: Editorial

  • Editorial: Big Smoke and the coming election

    With just four weeks to go until the London Assembly elections it seems like an opportune moment to clarify Big Smoke’s approach to the election. The intention of the site, as you probably know, is to further a jihad against modern capitalism and everything you hold sweet and dear. We […]

     
  • Who shall we talk to next?

    Over the last few weeks we’ve had some really spiffing interviews over a great range of subjects. Whether that’s Americans in London voting in the Presidential election, feminism in the eighties, climate direct actionists, pro-choice activism, a Barnet film maker or our interviews with Mayoral candidates Lawrence Webb (UKIP) and […]

     
  • Official Launch next Friday

    Big Smoke went online in the second half of November last year so we’re coming up to six months of beavering away in our favourite city. To celebrate our existence, and to make up for the fact we never properly launched the site before hitting the national headlines we’re having […]

     
  • Interview techniques

    Having had few conversations with people over the last weeks about interview technique at Big Smoke it seems like a good time to pass on the theory, even if it’s still developing. In the media generally there are two archetypal approaches to interviews. The old fashioned “and is there anything else […]

     
  • On Big Smoke this month

    Each month we review what’s been and gone on Big Smoke over the last few weeks. Regular readers will not be surprised to learn that the whole Camden CCTV camera saga produced the most visited posts. The video and the FAQs did seem rather popular, if that’s the right word. […]

     
  • Pinterested?

    So, everyone is going on about Pinterest. We haven’t got enough to do, so not content with having twitter and facebook accounts we’ve now set up our Big Smoke Pinterest board. To be honest, we know our way around twitter and facebook – those we know – but if you’re […]

     
  • Big Smoke goes facebook

    Just as everyone else is leaving Facebook we’ve just arrived. As you may know we’re already on twitter and have been getting into some great conversations there. The next step in building our social media empire is to have a facebook page, it’s the done thing and who are we […]

     
  • Big Smoke and bias

    This week when out on my travels for Big Smoke I’ve had a number of conversations about what Big Smoke “stands for” and what the relationship is between progressive politics and journalism. You can, of course, check out our about us section on where we are coming from and our submissions guidelines […]

     
  • Having trouble with the RSS feed?

    If you follow Big Smoke on RSS you *may* have experienced a problem with ghost posts or reposting. We’re sure this is really annoying and we apologise. While we get to the bottom of the problem we have a work round fix which is a new RSS that works just […]

     
  • In case you missed them, the best of January

    Whether you’re new to Big Smoke or just need a recap it’s always useful to take a quick look back at the last month’s most popular articles in case you missed them. Each month we like to give a gentle reminder of those items that may have slipped off the […]