In Barnet and Camden local traders, campaigners and bloggers came together with a campaign to sack their Conservative Assembly Member Brian Coleman. The reasons for this are long and arduous but are essentially a combination of a reaction to Coleman’s generally boorish and offensive manner to his constituents, with a […]
If you are easily shocked looked away… NOW! There’s lots of works going on down by Camden’s canals (near York Way). One local resident decided to take the opportunity of living in a democracy to express their views. If you look closely you can see the new corporate branding name […]
Some of Camden Council’s staff took to scaling the sides of the Town Hall today in aid of the Mayor’s Charity Action for Hearing, without even the incentive of tax breaks or cash back for the effort. Speaking to one shaking but happy employee, who’d just finished descending by rope, […]
One of the set piece themes of London politics is the obsession with police numbers. The constant wrangling over stats, with its repetitive “I’m best, you’re rubbish” refrain is sterile and unhelpful in so many ways. For one thing voters have no reliable access to the statistics themselves so for most of […]
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 […]
This weekend (Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th) Greenpeace invite you to a film subversion event. Volkswagen lobby against EU emission laws overshadowing their greenwashing commercials. Greenpeace ran a competition for film makers to create a “suubvertisment” for VW that shows its dark side. From Saturday we will be showcasing the […]
It’s nice to look up and find that life is beautiful on Plender Street.
Outside one Camden school; As the sign says. No poo please.
Retrofitting fans should watch this interesting guided tour around one home in Camden that has done its best to become the most energy efficient that it can be as part of a project to reduce emissions from all our homes.
People may have seen in the news that anti-abortion campaigners have been picketing the clinic in Bedford Square (Bloomsbury) harassing women who are going in and generally being a pain. The Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance is a group that pickets the picket every Sunday (when the clinic is shut so there’s […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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