This video appeal from Assembly Member Darren Johnson asks us to sign the online petition to call on Boris Johnson to clean up the air along heavily polluted runs that run near to 1,148 schools in Greater London. You can also download a copy and take it around to parents at your […]
Job with Keith Taylor MEP: Keith Taylor MEP is recruiting a paid intern based at the Office of the Green MEPs in London for 21 hours a week. The internship will involve a variety of tasks including helping to draft responses to constituent enquiries, conducting research, providing administrative support and some press work. […]
In the first of a regular feature Big Smoke takes to the pulpit. This week Jim Jepps takes on tribalism in politics. With the Occupy Movement creating a unique fusion of camping and political philosophy (spawning the greatest political pun ever “This is the winter of our discount tents”) it’s […]
The Islington Tribune reports that Islington Borough Council has gone for a twenty mile an hour speed limit on every road controlled by the local authority (ie this excludes the larger TfL roads). This is fantastic news that road safety campaigners across London will be delighted by. Green Party activist […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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