This weekend saw the national Green Party’s spring conference in Liverpool and London Green Party members made a big splash at the Titanic themed Adelphi Hotel. Amid the motions and machinations that always accompany such occasions the upcoming London Assembly Elections were preying on delegates’ minds. In his Deputy Leader’s […]
Just checked out ‘Bloomsbury Occupy‘ the latest franchise in the global Occupy brand. Sadly the building was guarded by a highly trained SAS style man in a yellow jacket (cunningly disguised as a minimum wage worker hoping for the easiest shift possible). I had hoped to pop in for a […]
In the first of a regular feature Big Smoke takes to the pulpit. This week Jim Jepps takes on tribalism in politics. With the Occupy Movement creating a unique fusion of camping and political philosophy (spawning the greatest political pun ever “This is the winter of our discount tents”) it’s […]
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 […]
In this brilliant video the Occupy London Stock Exchange people prove that the journalists of the Telegraph et al who’d claimed no one was sleeping at the protest over night were… well… you judge for yourselves. It’s a sad fact of life that the press are not always 100% reliabnle […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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