Archives

• Wednesday’s London Links

  What have we found today? Tube drivers granted Olympics bonuses, now for the buses. Evening Standard. It’s anorak corner at Diamond Geezer, the best sort of corner. Most used tube stations anyone? Conversations with local composer Stuart Wood at the Hackney Hive. Dave Hill thinks it suits Boris to attack […]

   

• Vacancies: Policy Exchange paid intern

  Job Title: Intern – full time ( Monday – Friday) set period of 6 months Working For: Policy Exchange Salary: National Minimum Wage Job Details: We have two internships available: full time (Monday – Friday) set period of 6 months. Both will be starting 23rd July 2012 Policy Exchange is based in Westminster and is […]

   

• Event: Women seeking refuge in a climate of cuts, Wednesday 23 May

  Launching the second edition of Seeking Refuge? A handbook for asylum-seeking women. Rights of Women invite you to the launch of the second edition of our handbook, Seeking Refuge? A handbook for asylum-seeking women. Join our expert panel of speakers to discuss the problems facing women with gender-based asylum and […]

   

• As seen in any London street

  Actually, you don’t often see a red star with the word “Stalin” in it. He’s gone out of fashion rather.

   

• Tube Tube: short soaps underground?

  I quite like this two minute vignette underground;

   

• Number crunching: the rise of the postal vote

  Over the last ten years there has been a steady rise in the number of voters casting their ballot by post. It was in 2001 that the law was changed introducing the right to vote by post on demand rather than, as previously, where the voter had to have a […]

   

• Tuesday’s London Links

  A few posts we’ve spotted from here and there; London Underground sacks victim of racist attack. RMT London Calling. How similar is London to ancient Rome? BBC. Boris Johnson attacks the left bias of the a fore mentioned BBC. Evening Standard. TfL says that commuting during the Olympics will be […]

   

• Poster on gated communities

  Spotted this poster the other day commenting on the rise of the gated community. Some estates are full to the brim of bars and gates. Prepares you for prison I guess.

   

• What is the sex capital of London?

  The sex toy industry is bucking the recession, both glorious dips of it, with increased sales across the UK to a priapic £250 million a year. One company decided to put these sales to the service of social science and has revealed which parts of the country spent the most and […]

   

• Video: sleeping pods for Olympic staff

  It appears that Olympic staff will be grown in pods. No! Sleep in pods – forget I said anything about them being grown!