It’s that time of the month again. Foxes, our poor benighted urban neighbours, are getting it in the neck from no less a personage than Ian Wright, yes, him out of that Arsenal. In the Evening Standard this week Wright has been complaining that important and rich people like himself […]
For the republican minority this Jubilee has been a lot less fun than the last one, where at least you had some bete noir punk rockers storming up the Thames. This time round we had a Dunkirkesque flotilla which, for all the raptures that the BBC commentators were in, did […]
We spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, about his new book and the idea of following your food from seed right through to wolfing it down. We pledge to you, here at Big Smoke, never to interview anyone with a chicken on their lap again. Hens […]
When one cyclist saw a man rummaging through bins he decided he couldn’t just watch him go hungry. All caught on his cycle helmet cam.
The sex toy industry is bucking the recession, both glorious dips of it, with increased sales across the UK to a priapic £250 million a year. One company decided to put these sales to the service of social science and has revealed which parts of the country spent the most and […]
Just down the road from Tufnell Park tube on Fortess Road you’ll find two “free books” shops. The concept is simple, revolutionary and not a single customer who was there while I was around actually believed it. Every year thousands of good books are pulped simply because there is no […]
As thousands of public sector workers across London went on strike to defend their pensions, around 30,000 police officers also took to the streets against the cuts. Police officers are banned from taking strike action but a number of those we spoke to today raised the idea as a very real […]
After extremely poor turn out results across the country Labour leader Ed Miliband, to his credit, warned of a “crisis of politics” acknowledging politicians of all parties needed to win back people’s trust. Certainly the drop of 10% in turnout in London could partly be responsible for Livingstone’s loss last […]
The Green Party achieved an incredible result on Thursday. In a city the size of London it is no mean feat for a minor party with just two councillors to come third place. Although Greens will be disappointed that both they and the Lib Dems have an equal number of […]
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond today told the Evening Standard that he is prepared to order an airliner to be shot down if the London Olympics are threatened. The security arrangements around the Olympics have been extremely controversial including extreme restrictions on protest and missiles sited on top of residential flats. The sabre rattling […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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