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• Video: Joe Rukin takes on High Speed Rail

  Joe Rukin, of Stop HS2, spoke to the BBC last night.

   

• Walks: The Radical East End

  Walks in 2012 East London will be attracting a lot of attention this year with the Olympics. I hope you will want to encourage your friends to take an interest in other aspects of East London such as its rich social and political history! The dates for my first walks […]

   

• Vacancy: Camden Green Party Coordinator

  Camden Green Party is seeking a paid election coordinator; 16 hours/week from late January to mid-May 2012 Payment: £11/hr including weekend/evening work Applications, which should be in the form of a CV and covering letter, should be sent to camden@greenparty.org.uk . Queries can be directed there, or through 0207-388 8969. Applications close on […]

   

• Sunday’s London Links

  Not sure where to celebrate Burns Night in London? Londonist has the info. Paul Kingsnorth has a really excellent essay ‘confessions of a recovering environmentalist’ in Orion Magazine. Fancy exploring nature or digging things up? Brockwell Park has a handy diary. Cycling weekly says Britain has failed cycling. Ever heard […]

   

• Video: Geese over London
   

• Saturday’s London Links

  Labour councillor in Barking expelled from party for voting against cuts. Socialist Worker. Richard Osley has written a really excellent post on shouting the news. Academic performance at school linked to the amount of exercise. BBC. Mark Pack on the Met Police and short haul flights. The world’s largest parkour […]

   

• Trauma surgeons write on cyclist deaths

  Two practices trauma surgeons have written a joint letter to the Evening Standard to highlight the need for action on cycle deaths. As practicing trauma surgeons, working in two of London’s Major Trauma Centres, we regularly see the effects of injuries from trauma. Both of us also work in the […]

   

• Should we take the clutter out of our streets?

  David Mentiply takes a look at shared streets and is not pleased with what he finds. Exhibition Road, the ‘cultural heartland of London’ that attracts 11 million visitors a year, is now without pavements. All ‘kerbs, barriers and street clutter’ have been removed as part of the Mayor’s programme to […]

   

• Friday’s Links green special

  Zac Goldsmith MP urges the “Green Movement” to address its lack of strategy. Guardian. Leftist renegade Brendan O’Neil in the Telegraph attacks an idea floated by the Greens to provide “democratic representation for unborn people”. The Evening Standard reports that one of Hackney’s poorer areas is to receive 2,000 solar panels cutting […]

   

• Book Review: China Mieville’s Kraken

  As we’re talking about the deities of London  it would be an outrage if we didn’t mention China Mieville’s Kraken. Having almost nothing in common with the Rivers of London in style, meaning or intent they do share a sumptuous love of London which, rightly, finds its expression in the mystical. But […]