Post Tagged with: "Southwark"

  • Video: Cycling in Southwark

    A little film from the good people at Southwark Council on cycling in the borough.

     
  • Welcome to Southwark, now keep out

    Sometimes you get the impression that some estates are all stick and no carrot. This is actually the one green space in the immediate, and it is of course behind bars, unused and it is forbidden to play on it. Why don’t they build a glue factory on it and […]

     
  • Drummond Road: the street art of doom

    In Southwark’s Drummond road we have one of those walls that’s been painted by/for the community. I’m generally a fan of this sort of thing. It gives the feel of community and certainly beats pictures selling washing machines. However, while taking a look yesterday it began to dawn on me […]

     
  • Big Smoke interview: Daniel Lambert, Socialist Party Great Britain

    Daniel Lambert is running for the London Assembly in the Lambeth and Southwark constituency. Unlike other candidates this gregarious and lively socialist is not running on a platform of improving cycle lanes or making things better, but on the simple policy of abolishing capitalism in its entirety. Filmed in the Socialist […]

     
  • Union protests at proposed wage cuts in Southwark

    This  morning UNISON organised a lobby of Southwark Council over proposed 40% wage cuts for 70 part time staff members. The workers who are mainly Pupil Support Assistants (PSAs) are facing proposed cuts in their hours from 25 to 15 hours a week but will be expected to handle the […]

     
  • Saturday’s London Links

    There is a Bikes Alive logo contest – why not try your hand at an inspiring image? Tut, tut. The Southwark Mayor is double parked. South London Press. Lewisham News Shopper reports that unions are up in arms over library transfers. There’s some great underground footage at Londonist. The Camden New […]

     
  • Wednesday’s London Links

    What have we spotted around London today? Lambeth Save Our Services explain why you should lobby the council in February. Crouch End sells world’s most expensive coffee, apparently. Hornsey Journal. Kate Belgrave reports that Barnet council workers will be on strike again. There’s one of ‘those’ headlines in the Lewisham […]