An opportunity to join the New Statesman team as an online graduate trainee. The New Statesman is seeking a determined, talented and knowledgeable writer with a background in economics and journalism to join its online team. The successful candidate will help manage the expanding business and economy sections of newstatesman.com on a day-to-day basis […]
Five days in August is one of a number of reports into last august’s riots. Email them your views by Feb 1st. A library in Bexley that was taken over by a charity is to start charging. Evening Standard. Meanwhile Inside Croydon reports on libraries selling off their books to […]
First Sack Boris action day on Tuesday – come along and help Thanks to everyone who has arranged to give away our brilliant new fares-focused SACK BORIS oyster wallets this week. Our volunteers will be at stations around London in the morning and evening rush hours on Tuesday, and they’d […]
One Society is currently recruiting a Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer. We are seeking an individual with the ability to both develop well-evidenced policy proposals and engage persuasively with decision makers about those proposals. The ideal candidate will be comfortable dealing with both policy makers and employers, in addition to […]
Two GPs ran 160 miles (or six marathons) from Cardiff (Bevan’s birthplace) to the ministry of Health in Whitehall to highlight the opposition to the Coalition’s health “reforms”. Read the full report here. This video shows some of the speeches made just after the runners arrived.
Westminster Skeptics Thinking critically about NHS Reform When? Monday, January 23 at 7:30PM Download iCalendar file (e.g. import to Outlook or Google Calendar) Where? The Monk Exchange Strutton Ground SW1H 0HW
In this week’s Sunday Sermon Jim Jepps wonders whether negative campaigning actually works. We are all doomed. In the long run everyone of us will die. At some point in the future even the human race will cease to be. And then, at last, the universe itself faces a slow […]
We’re Likely Ltd We’re the company behind many Facebook and Twitter accounts, such as Handpicked London on Facebook or @LDN on Twitter. We’re a funded startup, and we try to find the best of the web around a particular topic to present to our communities. To do this efficiently with our small team (there’s […]
Hope you’re having a good weekend. Here’s a few links we spotted out and about that you might find interesting or useful; The Hackney Citizen asks you to use your spare room for good. The Islington Tribune is bigging up the green volunteers. The Camden New Journal hosts Big Smoke […]
With the mayoral election just around the corner, Thursday 3 May 2012 to be precise, we thought it would be a good idea to set out some policy ideas. Over the coming weeks and months, we hope to publish a range of different contributions for a #LondonManifesto. Who knows, one […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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