Big Smoke spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, on a fantastic little community garden project in Camden. It’s great that Camden Council was open minded enough to help support this initiative involving members of the community finding new ways to both fight austerity and make the […]
We spoke to Tom Moggach, author of the The Urban Kitchen Gardener and teacher, about the growing project that he helps run at Rhyl Primary School. It was good to see a primary school taking such a committed approach to teaching young kids. Many school have projects around gardening but […]
People may remember the quite possibly mis-spelled graffiti in Camden a little while ago professing love for Amy More. Well, not far from the scene another little note has a appeared… ah. Sweet.
In Barnet and Camden local traders, campaigners and bloggers came together with a campaign to sack their Conservative Assembly Member Brian Coleman. The reasons for this are long and arduous but are essentially a combination of a reaction to Coleman’s generally boorish and offensive manner to his constituents, with a […]
If you are easily shocked looked away… NOW! There’s lots of works going on down by Camden’s canals (near York Way). One local resident decided to take the opportunity of living in a democracy to express their views. If you look closely you can see the new corporate branding name […]
Some of Camden Council’s staff took to scaling the sides of the Town Hall today in aid of the Mayor’s Charity Action for Hearing, without even the incentive of tax breaks or cash back for the effort. Speaking to one shaking but happy employee, who’d just finished descending by rope, […]
One of the set piece themes of London politics is the obsession with police numbers. The constant wrangling over stats, with its repetitive “I’m best, you’re rubbish” refrain is sterile and unhelpful in so many ways. For one thing voters have no reliable access to the statistics themselves so for most of […]
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 […]
This weekend (Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th) Greenpeace invite you to a film subversion event. Volkswagen lobby against EU emission laws overshadowing their greenwashing commercials. Greenpeace ran a competition for film makers to create a “suubvertisment” for VW that shows its dark side. From Saturday we will be showcasing the […]
Charlie Kiss attended the High Speed Rail 2 Forum in Kilburn This event was advertised as a forum, but it wasn’t long into the meeting at Swiss Cottage Library that I felt that these ‘forums’ were meant to calm and reassure all the angry and ignored residents affected by […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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