Archive for category: Editorial

  • Come and join the debate

    As time goes on we’re getting into more and more conversations. Certainly on twitter and at #londonmanifesto but also here at the site. Often online the comments can be as good or better than the content. What with our brand spanking new comments policy (pass the delete all button someone) […]

     
  • Operation Filthy Lucre

    Lenin once said that “social being determines social consciousness” but then again he would, wouldn’t he? What’s certainly the case is that he never had to deal with a seemingly intractable problem in WordPress so there seems to be little to be learned from that particular Russian gentleman. Over the next […]

     
  • Giving Big Smoke a hand

    Here at Big Smoke Towers we’re into our sixth week. At the beginning of February, we’ll be having our official launch – there’ll be wine, Twiglets, Power Point, you know the sort of thing. We’ve smoothed out most of the wrinkles and started to put out the quiet word already, […]

     
  • The best of December’s litter

    As we move from or first ever month to the second it seemed worth while to take a quick look back at the best posts that you may have missed if you’re new to the site. Our most viewed posts of December were in no particular order;   Muff Marchers […]

     
  • Merry Christmas from The Big Smoke

    We just wanted to wish all our readers a very happy Christmas. If you’re spending time with your family over the festive period – please, forgive them their foibles, try to get through it with minimum of rows. If you’re working on Christmas day we salute you! Whether you’re officially […]

     
  • Big Smoke takes to that there twitter

    Readers may be interested to know that as a special Christmas treat Big Smoke is taking to the tweet-waves at @LondonSmoke. You may choose to follow us, which would be splendid. The tweets will be a mixture of links to the best content of the site and the best of […]

     
  • Smoke Slowdown

    We hope you’re enjoying the magazine as much as we are but as the holiday season approaches Big Smoke will be slowing down for the next two weeks until New Year’s Day. We’ll keep posting everyday but you may notice a drop in frequency – don’t panic! We’re just binge […]

     
  • Write for Big Smoke

    As you know Big Smoke launched just a couple of weeks ago and despite having to iron out the fact that different browsers are displaying the headers differently – oh my! – we’re pretty happy with how it’s going. For us content is always going to be the priority – […]

     
  • Big Smoke: one week in

    Big Smoke celebrates its first week today and we hope you’ve enjoyed it so far. We’re very happy with it so far and from the feedback we’re getting you like the look, you like the idea and you’ve really appreciated what we’ve written. Although we only ‘soft launched’ the site […]

     
  • What would you like?

    Well, Big Smoke has been up and running for several days now and despite one minor ongoing technical fault, that you wouldn’t notice unless you’re subscribed by rss, it all seems to be working pretty smoothly. We certainly think there is a real space for an online magazine that is […]