News on the Olympics from out and about; The Independent reports that “Protestors have taken over a large property owned by Olympic Orbit tower designer Anish Kapoor in the first demonstration against the London Games.” 853 sees the weekend work on Greenwich cable car in preparation for the big day. Are you traveling through […]
With the news that the Olympic openning ceremony is to conjure up images of a greener Britain using farm yard animals like horses, cows and ducks – yes ducks – it’s time to reflect on whether these people are just making it up as they go along. According to the […]
Tuesday 8th May: 7pm until 9pm Housmans bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1 Non-violence and sport. Discussion and debate led off this monthby Jim Jepps (editor of Big Smoke) Is sport usually just an excuse to indulge our most primitive tribalist instincts? Does the hysteria around many sports events […]
Time for a bumper crop Olympics news links: Ceasefire Magazine on the Olympics and social cleansing. We have public art Olympics stylee at Brockley Central, BBC. Evening Standard on kids at Olympics protests. There’s also a ParaOlympics exhibit on tour BBC. Also on the BBC how the Olympics changed Barcelona. […]
Hope you’ve been enjoying the weekend so far. Here’s a few Olympics news links from April so far to polish it off; Apparently it just takes “one idiot” to disrupt the Olympics…. challenge accepted! BBC Londonnet tells us that the large rise in prostitute arrests is *not* connected to the […]
A quick round-up of the various news stories around the Olympics; In Blackheath the arrival of the games has meant that a homeless man is being evicted from his hole. (update: see comments for correction) London Greens have been crowing over their victory to ensure the official chickens will be […]
David Mentiply takes a look at the top ten nicknames in football; Killer Derek Hales was christened with the nickname “Killer” by Charlton fans in the early 1970s. This was due to his lethal finishing (168 goals in 368 games) and the fact that he used to […]
It was confusing being a young Charlton supporter in the early 1990s. By the time the ‘92/’93 season kicked off, I had seen my team play at “home” at three different grounds – Selhurst Park, Upton Park, and then finally, we hoped, The Valley. We had two managers: Steve Gritt […]
‘Harry Redknapp believed he was the subject of innuendo and continued investigation into his financial affairs because he spoke with a cockney accent and was called “Harry”, Southwark crown court has been told.’ Harry Redknapp is often portrayed by the national press as a ‘wide boy’, a ‘wheeler and dealer’, […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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