Despite a panel that was a touch skewed towards the aviation industry the Evening Standard’s debate on aviation was of a lot higher standard than you might expect. The debate, hosted by journalist Jon Sopel, brought together philosopher and writer Alain de Botton, Aer Lingus CEO Willy Walsh, CBI chief […]
Bus workers in the Unite union will be striking across London today despite a last minute court injunction that hoped to halt the industrial action. Disruption will began around 3.00am and will finish at the end of the night shift on Saturday 23 June. A judge ruled today that the action […]
The trial of PC Simon Harwood, accused of the killing of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, began this week some three years after his death at a G20 protest. Harwood denies the manslaughter charge. The prosecution claimed that Harwood attacked Tomlinson during a “rush of blood too the head” in a “gratuitous […]
The London Array is a massive wind energy project based in the Thames Estuary that should provide a significant amount of London’s energy. They have produced a progress report on the ambitious initiative that involves 175 large turbines providing renewable energy for the capital. The project should be online by […]
Campaigners delivered a letter to Network Rail offices yesterday to protest over the behaviour of the organisation which they fear breaches the Wildlife and Countryside Act. The letter, signed on behalf of the Leader of Islington council Cllr Catherine West, was delivered by a delegation including Labour councillors, Green Party […]
The BBC is reporting that Green MP Caroline Lucas has used Parliamentary privilege to name a police informer, or agent provocateur, of planting a bomb that two Animal Liberation Front (ALF) members were jailed for in the 1980’s. She claimed that she believed there was strong evidence that under cover […]
For the republican minority this Jubilee has been a lot less fun than the last one, where at least you had some bete noir punk rockers storming up the Thames. This time round we had a Dunkirkesque flotilla which, for all the raptures that the BBC commentators were in, did […]
On Wednesday, in the House of Commons, Abortion Rights held a packed meeting with members of all parties to go on the front foot over a woman’s right to control her own body. There is a rise in attacks on women’s rights, from various Parliamentary adventures by Nadine Dorries MP […]
Today hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the US embassy in Grovsner square to protest against war and occupations. Organised by the Stop the War Coalition and CND to coincide with talks in Chicago with the G8 and Nato. Protesters called for an end to the occupation of Afghanistan, the […]
The RMT rail union today published leaked internal documents showing that London Midland plan to profit to the tune of £1.25 million a year from a programme of cuts to ticket offices and staffing. London Midland are blazing a trail for the McNulty plans to axe ticket offices and eliminate station […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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