A few links that we spotted over the last week; The urban art fare in a couple of weeks looks great. Is the world ready for X-rates “apps”? I’m not sure. Evening Standard. The Atlantic discusses London’s cycling culture. Not pretty. There’s a lovely archive of the designs for London’s […]
Tsk, tsk. Olympics volunteers heckle David Cameron. Guardian. Petition against using animals in the openning ceremony reaches more than 20,000. Nice bit of street art. Ocado, the supermarket that comes to you, has been hit by the curse ofthe Games. Independent. Comment is free Londoners are coming together to oppose […]
Big Smoke, or at least editor Jim Jepps, had the pleasure of appearing on Londonist Out Loud this week discussing the People’s Supermarket, or lovely Mayor and the bus strike, among many other things. We recorded it at the really interesting Arches Gallery in Tower Hamlets. Check it out if […]
UNISON along with Barnet Alliance are hosting ‘Barnet Council not for Sale’ Conference Saturday 7 July 12 – 3pm Greek Cypriot Centre, Britannia Road, Britannia Road, North Finchley, London N12 9RU Guest speakers Professor Dexter Whitfield Andy Mudd APSE Consultant John Dix aka Mr Reasonable (local resident & Blogger) Aberdeen UNISON […]
News on the Olympics from out and about; The Independent reports that “Protestors have taken over a large property owned by Olympic Orbit tower designer Anish Kapoor in the first demonstration against the London Games.” 853 sees the weekend work on Greenwich cable car in preparation for the big day. Are you traveling through […]
Netroots UK is a long term project to support the growth of infrastructure, networks and movements for left and centre-left online activism. Netroots UK began in partnership with the US grassroots organisation Netroots Nation, and aims to bring some of their approach to building grassroots activism in the UK. We want […]
The Press Complaints Commission handily publishes its rulings in one handy place. Flicking through the rulings I noted a few London based complaints that people might be interested in. The rulings aren’t always earth shattering, resulting in a correction or slight apology but interesting none the less; Ex-BNP Assembly Member […]
The leader of the Labour Party, and son of two European refugees who fled to this country, decided to give a landmark speech on immigration. It was a disappointing speech, but perhaps that’s not surprising. Despite a call to be “candid” it was a generally thin speech, designed to get headlines […]
A few links for the weekend; There are some really interesting statistics from Green AM Darren Johnson on how affordable are London rents? Mayor Watch on the Mayor’s new policing deputy utterly mucking up. If you’d like to you can support the campaign to stop London restaurants serve Foie Gras. […]
Incredible leaflet issued by Camden Council to local traders.
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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