Migrant Resource Centre Fixed Term: One year (this may be extended subject to funding) Salary: £28,000 per annum – pro rata Hours: 28 per week Location: Westminster, London Secondments may be considered The Migrants Resource Centre is seeking to recruit a Volunteer Co-ordinator/Advice Supervisor who will support generalist advice […]
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 […]
Andrew Dismore is the Labour candidate for the Barnet and Camden constituency seat. As one of our “ones to watch” we wanted to ask Andrew a few questions to help voters decide if he is the candidate for them! Q: Barnet Council seems to be on a mission to close […]
These birds were caught out in the rain. The ducks didn’t seem to mind but this cormorant (?) just stood and stared into the sky for around fifteen minutes.
“Sacktivist” Dawn Foster explains why the Sack Boris team were out and about round London last night projecting images onto various London landmarks. Locations included City Hall, the Bank of England, the old County Hall, once proud seat of the GLC, and the Transport for London building in Victoria – […]
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, […]
Thousands are expected to take part in the ‘Big Ride‘ on Saturday 28 April, when people join together in central London for a fun event with a serious message: the city needs safer streets for cycling. This fully marshalled family-friendly bike ride takes place just days before the mayoral […]
A nice little campaign video from Sack Boris, the unaffiliated anti-Johnson group. A toe tapper, if a little focused on the negative.
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 […]
Not sure what I think of this bit of scrawl. It’s either dark in a good way, or the other one.
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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