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• Interview; Beatrix Cambell and the green agenda

  In the second part of our interview with Camden’s Beatrix Campbell we discuss the green agenda and whether it is a good thing that the mainstream parties have adopted it as their own.

   

• Funky Buskers Kings Cross

  90% of buskers are a welcome addition to or streets in my opinion, but few go to the effort of having a three piece electric ensemble including drums and a super funky beat. It was all I could do to resist dancing there and then. Well done everyone.

   

• Interview: Karin Robinson Obama’s UK vote

  This week Big Smoke spoke to Karin Robinson, Vice-Chair of Democrats Abroad UK. We discussed organising US citizens in the UK to vote in the Presidential elections and why she felt it was important to vote the right way. In the other part of the interview we discussed some of […]

   

• ROFL Against Racism, Monday 19th March

  Monday, March 19: 7:30pm until 11:00pm The Black Heart: 2-3 Greenland Place, Camden, NW1 0AP As part of the UNITED European-wide Action Week “Open Your Mind – Speak out Against Racism” we invite you to join us for a special evening of comedy and politics a la Lampoon Apathy. Joining us to discuss the impact […]

   

• Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Sunday in the Square

  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 […]

   

• Interview: Kerry Johnson co-founder Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance

  Big Smoke met up with Kerry Johnson, co-founder of the Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance, who has been organising pro-choice vigils every Sunday against anti-abortion activists who have been harassing women outside the BPAS clinic. The Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance was set up to raise awareness of the attempts by 40 Days for […]

   

• Book review: China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun

  China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun is classic”New Weird” writing. At nearly every page there’s a new bizarre image or discombobulation that keeps your mind struggling to keep up with the text. This is not the first time when reading Mieville that I’ve found myself thinking things along the lines of […]

   

• Thursday’s London Links: election watch

  The last Mayor’s Question Time of this Mayoral term yesterday was a bad tempered tribal affair. Londonist reports. Liberal Conspiracy are detecting a lack of the Tory brand on Mayor Johnson’s campaign material. Some Tories are becoming a bit jittery about their candidate. London Daily News. Meanwhile Snipe’s Adam Bienkov is skeptical about […]

   

• Barnet Question Time: Thursday 15th March

  Young and not-so-young are invited to a “Barnet Question Time” event at Woodhouse College tonight, 5-8pm. The panellists will be: * Neil Seabridge: Borough Commander, Barnet Police * Cllr Andrew Harper: Cabinet member in Barnet for Education, Children and Families * Robert McCulloch-Graham: Director of Children Services in Barnet * […]

   

• Tasteful Encounters?

  If ever there was a place for a tasteful encounter… this may not be it.