We have a bumper crop of Olympics links for you. Don’t worry – it’ll all be over soon; Mark Steel on why he’s for the Olympics, but not here. While in the Guardian we have a delightful etiquette guide for the Games. The Daily Mash have a great “history” of […]
We all make the Games. Willing or not.
A few of the recent Olympics stories we’ve spotted; Lives Running reports on the weekend’s anti-missiles protest. Also on that story Random Blowe and BBC video. The BBC say there are problems with the cycling routes. The Great Olympics Tax Swindle. Ethical Consumer. The Mayor Louth dresses as a penis to […]
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 […]
A few of the items we’ve spotted in the last week or so around the upcoming games. After all the fuss about people selling their torches on ebay the Olympics organisers are flogging off “memorabilia”. Guardian. Just another feminist asks are they the international Olympic committee or the gender police? […]
Protest: No missiles in our communities Saturday 30th June, 1pm Wennington Green, Mile End Park, E3 5SN Stop the Olympic Missiles Fattylympics 7th July Grassroots Resource Cenre, Memorial Park, Memorial Ave. E15 3DB Events include; Fat activism, fun and games, performances. All ages welcome. Fattylympics Whose Games? Whose […]
I’m beginning to think the Olympic flame is getting more press attention than the fires that were lighting up London’s boroughs in spring last year. Sadly it has gone out on the way here so that’s it, the Olympics are cancelled apparently. You heard it here first. A spokeswoman for […]
Some of the Olympics stories we’ve spotted over the last few days: This is great. Can you foil the protesters with a battery of surface to air missiles? Tom Scott The New York Times on the security Olympics. 20th May: meeting on police powers during the games. Random Blowe. Evening Standard. […]
It appears that Olympic staff will be grown in pods. No! Sleep in pods – forget I said anything about them being grown!
Some of the news and links we’ve spotted in the last few days on the approaching London Olympics; How the Olympics clean-up is putting sex workers in danger. Independent. The ongoing evictions as landlords try to cash in on thee Olympics. BBC. Kosmograd on the Olympics brand exclusion zone. Down […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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