Parents, teachers and anti-cuts protesters came together on Saturday to stop four Haringey schools being forcibly turned into academies. Hundreds of campaigners marched in support of Downhills Primary School, Nightingale Primary School, Noel Park Primary School, and Coleraine Park Primary School supporting ‘community schools’ status rather than academies. Wembley Matters, who have […]
Disability campaigners today took peaceful direct action on Oxford Circus to highlight the dangers of the controversial Welfare Reform Bill. Members of UKUncut and Disabled People Against the Cuts took part in the action blocking traffic including a chain of wheel-chair users locking themselves in place – chaining themselves together […]
Mizan Chaudhury is the ‘speaker’ of Tower Hamlets council, who takes on the ceremonial functions a directly elected Mayor is, frankly, too busy to do. Said Mayor, independent Lutfur Rahman, in a bid to cut excessive costs cancelled Mizan’s official car. Rahman was, perhaps not unreasonably, more concerned to retain public […]
Transport union RMT said today that it has secured a ground breaking Olympics pay deal on DLR worth £2,500 made up of a guaranteed attendance payment of £900 and guaranteed overtime payments for all staff throught the olympics and para-olympics period. The agreement includes a £900 attendance bonus, paid at £100 […]
Cycle campaign group Bikes Alive staged a second protest tonight ( #bikesalive) outside Kings Cross against Transport for London (TfL) inaction on dangerous junctions. The group say they intend to hold weekly protests at the spot from 6pm on Mondays until there is a commitment to deal with the junction between York […]
On Friday campaigners for an open and honest sex education policy celebrated the withdrawal of Nadine Dorries MP’s bill to teach girls (and not boys) the virtues of abstinence. Despite managing to pass through its first reading at 67 votes for and 61 against (Camden Greens have the list of […]
The High Court ruled in favour of the Corporation of the City of London today by granting them an eviction order on the Occupy London protesters who have mounted a round the clock protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral for the last three months. Occupy London are due to appeal the […]
Earlier today (Monday) dozens of women and a few men marched across Westminster Bridge to Parliament to support a campaign to “ditch dieting”. The protest, organised around the twitter hashtag #ditchingdieting aimed to “speak out against the misery caused by the diet industry”. Campaigners chanted “Say hey, say ho, BMI has […]
Bevan’s Run: Two GPs arrived in Whitehall this afternoon (Sunday) after running the 160 miles from the founder of the National Health Service, Aneurin Bevan’s, birthplace in Cardiff to highlight the dangers of Coalition plans for the health service. In a speech as they set off from Cardiff on Tuesday […]
The newly formed formed protest group Bikes Alive held its first protest last night to highlight road safety for cyclists. The group stated that “Transport for London (TfL) is quite clear that it is deliberately putting cyclists’ lives at risk (not only passively, but actively by designing dangerous “cycle superhighways”), in […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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