A few of the accumulated links and stories about the Olympics that have stacked up during the election coverage; Museum Lines takes a look around HMS Ocean here to protect us during the running and jumping. The Mail says you’ll only be able to buy water inside the stadium… for security. […]
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 […]
Monday, May 21: 6:00pm Friends Meeting House, Euston Road (opposite Euston Station) It was a moment that changed more than just Olympic history. That it certainly did, forever. most iconic image of the Olympic Games and the Black Power movement also captured the mood, the anger and resistance of 1968. […]
Residents of Central London have occasionally dreamed of having surface to air missiles in their blocks, or at least they would have dreamed this if the police helicopters had let them get some sleep. You will have already heard that six sites have been earmarked for to site surface to air […]
Campaigners in India have burned an effigy of former Tory MP Sebastian Coe in protest at Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the Olympic Games. This is the anniversary of the the Bhopal disaster which was one of the world’s worst industrial accidents. A chemical leak saw over 2,000 people die at the time […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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