It’s the bane of every jobbing politician – the easy quiz question. No one cares if you get it right but if you get Azerbaijan’s capital city wrong, woe betide you, you could be responsible for World War Three. The classic moment is, of course, Dan Quail’s attempt to “correct” […]
On what was until recently a stretch of closed down shops on Archway Road near Highgate tube, a cluster of interesting shops has sprung up. Big Smoke’s Sarah Cope went along to investigate… Souvenir We started our tour at Souvenir (249 Archway Road), where proprietor and graphic designer Cassie […]
It’s time to start looking at London’s elections with fresh eyes, and when I say fresh I mean old. What if today’s election was being conducted at the time of Palmerstone, Gladstone or even Keir Hardie? Well, putting my far from adequate photoshop skills to use I’ve had a go […]
Natalie Bennett at the Huffington Post on prostitution and the Olympics. Lives Running on the athletes that have to exit with dignity. 100 things you might not know about the Olympics, in the Evening Standard. The F-Word asks where does the metal in the medals come from? There’s more street […]
Last night was the Parliamentary film screening of a Tale of Two Barnets (see our previous interview with the film maker). Attended by MPs, councillors, union representatives, activists and interviewees among others all packed into the Wilson Room to watch a showing of the film and here from some of […]
The Martian Ambassador by Alan K. Baker is a delicious mix of nostalgia harking back to H. G. Wells mixed with a very modern take on a sci-fi Victorian London. Set at the end of the nineteenth century mainly in London we our stiff, middle class heroes contend with the […]
There’s lots of Olympics news to catch-up on; BBC on the athletes attempting to get into the Games. With a look at the shooting events we have the Londonist. Shop workers’ union USDAW say that their members are opposed to suspending the Sunday trading laws. A new site Greenwash Gold looks at […]
Channel Four is encouraging people to take part in an Urban Fox Census. If you live in an urban area, it’s highly likely you have met our wildest neighbour, the Red Fox. Spot one after 4 April 2012, and we want you to report the sighting. Help us map the […]
Just opposite the CLR James library lies a hidden gem, The Dalston Eastern Curve Garden. A reclaimed space the garden is on the formerly abandoned Eastern Curve railway line. As part of the Making space in Dalston residents have turned the area into a delightful garden with kids spaces, wild […]
Just round the corner from King’s Cross station, technically on the Camden and Islington border but in reality in the nether space that exists around large stations, lies Housmans bookshop. Housmans was founded in 1945 as a mail order book club for pacifists. As the fire of world war […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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