Last night was the Parliamentary film screening of a Tale of Two Barnets (see our previous interview with the film maker). Attended by MPs, councillors, union representatives, activists and interviewees among others all packed into the Wilson Room to watch a showing of the film and here from some of […]
With George Galloway’s surprise victory in Bradford is there a new space opening up for the left? Can the left copy respect’s “Bradford Spring” here in London? This meeting brings together speakers from the progressive left, Labour, the Greens and TUSC to debate the prospects for the left at the […]
Thursday 19th April 2012, 6pm Outside DEFRA, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR Walk & Cycle March, Rally and Direct Action Join the event on Facebook SPEAKERS CONFIRMED: Jenny Jones, Green Party London Mayoral Candidate and London Assembly member. Alan Andrews, lawyer for Air Quality issues at Client Earth Join us for […]
Lovely little video with a sad end, all Blur fans will appreciate. (h/t Richard Osley)
Hope you’re enjoying your Wednesday so far. Here’s some London links for you. The Solidarity Federation are reporting on immigration checks at New Cross bus stops. I love this. The London Tube map with the stations placed in their geographically correct positions. Fail to plan on what is happening to […]
As you’ll have already seen we at Big Smoke are building up a set of resources to help you decide how to vote at the beginning of May. We’ve already created a one stop shop for info on the London Assembly constituency candidates which tries to provide at least one […]
The Martian Ambassador by Alan K. Baker is a delicious mix of nostalgia harking back to H. G. Wells mixed with a very modern take on a sci-fi Victorian London. Set at the end of the nineteenth century mainly in London we our stiff, middle class heroes contend with the […]
Never the less “Amy More” is a lucky lady.
There’s lots of Olympics news to catch-up on; BBC on the athletes attempting to get into the Games. With a look at the shooting events we have the Londonist. Shop workers’ union USDAW say that their members are opposed to suspending the Sunday trading laws. A new site Greenwash Gold looks at […]
The election broadcast for the Conservative Party. Watch it and judge for yourself. What are we to make of this? Sad music, gazing wistfully out of a train window… I was wondering whether this might turn into a tampon advert. Curiously it is slightly downbeat rather than inspirational, although in […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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