Post Tagged with: "Camden"

• Camden employer complains that ‘Back to Work’ boss pays herself millions and nothing to clients

  Camden’s People’s Supermarket has revealed that A4e, who take government contracts to find work placements for the unemployed, has refused to pay companies providing those places despite awarding their boss an extraordinary bonus. The Daily Mail reports that A4e boss, Emma Harrison, has personally pocketed £8.4 million after being awarded […]

   

• Your walking lane

  You don’t often see a pedestrian lane like this. Not sure what I think about this.

   

• Today’s Robo-Round Up (3)

  It’s been a funny few days, but with the council giving in for now hopefully it’s all going to start slowing down again. Thanks again for all the support and apologies for any messages not returned, etc.; Big Smoke editor, Jim Jepps, gives a ‘masterful’ interview to the Guardian. The […]

   

• Strange fonts in Camden Town

  Although the fonts on this curry place seem more apt for a phone shop the lovely bit of graffiti more than makes up for it.

   

• Delicious font in Gospel Oak

  There’s something really stylish about this coffee place’s use of fonts. Anyone know if the coffee’s good?

   

• Camden-Cop-Cam round up 2

  Camden Council statement. The Telegraph are on the case. Camden New Journal cover the deactivation story. The Anorak have an amusing twist to the story. Richard Osley – re-botting copcam. Then there’s Londonist who have it all. The Huffington Post are highlighting it. Storyful have assiduously gone through the tweets. Also Liberal […]

   

• Monday’s London Round-Up Robocop special

  Thanks everyone for the tweets, follows and reposting; Story in the Independent. Richard Osley ponders alternative voices. Story in the Evening Standard. FilmDetail’s take on the saga. And then there’s Snipe. The Week also covers it (although they say the ESTATE is crime free, which is a stretch)

   

• Camden Robocop FAQ

  Over the last couple of days we’ve had a wide range of responses to the video of the new Walker House CCTV camera that barks orders at you in an American accent. Many have been aghast and I’ve read the words “dystopian” and “1984” more times over the weekend than […]

   

• Who the hell do Camden Council think they are?

  Just getting home from a photo-taking expedition in the snow and my neighbour points the camera out to me. Now, the flash camera has been there for a while, we’ve complained about it before and we’ve been told the objective is to move people on. Seeing as this is our […]

   

• Camden’s economic advisers start crowd sourcing

  I’m waiting for the second edition of this graffiti to discover whether this is advice to prop up the euro with an enormous bail-out or simply withdraw all my money before it all goes haywire.