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  • Vacancies: Press and PR officer: Refugee Action

    Refugee Action Press & PR Officer This challenging role is about maximising positive and appropriate media coverage of our work and views and the context in which we work. Responsible for all day-to-day contact with the media, there will be a particular emphasis on promoting the voices and views of […]

     
  • Labour launches London broadcast

    Labour launches London broadcast, see what you think; Now this is more like it. Distinctly London, distinctly real and with a strong underlying theme that suggests that Londoners aren’t just better off with Labour, but are naturally Labour supporters. The switcheroo at the beginning changing from a “boring” talking head by […]

     
  • Subtle alterations in Bloomsbury

    Is Brunswick Center or The Brunswick Center? Clearly someone cares because the “the” has been carefully erased in a fit of tightly controlled rage.

     
  • Talk: ‘Whose Music? Community vs. Copyright’ with Mat Callahan, Weds 11th April

    ‘Whose Music? Community vs. Copyright’ with Mat Callahan Wednesday 11th April, 7pm Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, King’s Cross, London, N1 9DX Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase   Music is a collective activity which activates collectivities. The sounds produced are only one result, the others being the communities formed to make […]

     
  • London Liberal Democrats launch campaign

    The Liberal Democrats have released this launch video. I was trying to place what this video reminded me of and then it came to me. A corporate video. Souless music, odd lighting and fake enthusiasm. Although without it we would not have had the comedy gold of the “nodding man” […]

     
  • Tuesday’s London Links

    Welcome to the East end riviera? Evening Standard. Though Cowards Flinch were at a jazz gig in Stoke Newington with disturbing results. Traffic smoothing is not flavour of the month at the Campaign for Better Transport (pdf) Londoneer has been looking at open spaces on the edge of the city. […]

     
  • London’s bookshops: Housmans, a radical bookseller

    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 […]

     
  • Environment Sustainability officer for the Victoria BID

    Environmental Sustainability Officer Salary pa: up to £30,000 depending on experience Closing date:  Friday 27th April 2012 We are looking for an exceptional individual to help drive forward the green agenda for the Victoria BID.   The BID is championing a sustainable green agenda for the SW1 area and is […]

     
  • Sci-fi London

    In old days with conductors you could keep rowdy elements off the buses.

     
  • Video: Eddie Izzard on Ken’s Fare Deal

    Long term Labour supporter Eddie Izzard explains why he thinks you should be backing Livingstone at this election. Focusing on fares, again, it’s certainly Labour’s strongest theme for the election and they’d do well to keep at it. The fly on the wall filming style works rather well here, I […]