In this week’s Sunday Sermon Jim Jepps wonders whether negative campaigning actually works. We are all doomed. In the long run everyone of us will die. At some point in the future even the human race will cease to be. And then, at last, the universe itself faces a slow […]
Jim Jepps examines today’s so called twitter controversy and asks whether Diane Abbott is a racist or facing a backlash of racism. One unexpected aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence murder convictions is the vilification of the first female black MP, Diane Abbott, who has the unasked for distinction of being […]
In this week’s Sunday Sermon the stupendous comedian and blogger Kate Smurthwaite takes on reality itself. What a joy to be asked to write a sermon. No wonder vicars and priests have for so many centuries ignored the tsunami of counter-evidence about virgin births and miracles and encouraged their “flock” […]
One man’s view of why he’ll be striking on Wednesday. Caution: there is a tiny amount of swearing!
Big Smoke editor Jim Jepps welcomes you to the new site. Hello. You’re looking well. Have you lost weight? Thanks for stopping by to our new online magazine for London, we hope you enjoy it. You’ll notice that we have quite a strong focus on environmental and community issues. For […]
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 […]
A new video by Camden Council urges us all to look out for each other on the roads.
The Occupation protest puts the curious non-democratic status of the City under the spotlight, argues Natalie Bennett Green Party London Assembly candidate The Corporation of the City of London has withstood a lot. It withstood William the Conqueror, who agreed “to establish the citizens in all the rights and privileges […]
We can address cycling deaths in London, but we aren’t, argues Jim Jepps “If Transport for London’s roads were a factory it would have been closed down with this number of deaths and accidents.” So said Hampstead resident Tom Kearney at Camden Council’s Road Safety hearing on Wednesday night. The […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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