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• Video: London Zoo holds annual stock take
   

• Public Meeting: London Keep Our NHS Public. Tues 10th Jan

  LONDON KEEP OUR NHS PUBLIC MEETING TUESDAY 10 JANUARY 7.30pm Camden Town Hall, Judd St, WC1 (Kings X tube) A combination of massive public opposition and lobbying stopped the Health bill in its tracks in the spring of last year. Now we need the same again as early as possible in […]

   

• Media takes focus from actual racism in Abbott ‘race’ storm

  Jim Jepps examines today’s so called twitter controversy and asks whether Diane Abbott is a racist or facing a backlash of racism. One unexpected aftermath of the Stephen Lawrence murder convictions is the vilification of the first female black MP, Diane Abbott, who has the unasked for distinction of being […]

   

• Video: fuel poverty protest

  A fuel poverty protest that took place last week outside the HQ of EDF.

   

• Event: Meet Brixton (18th Jan)

  After the success of the first Meet Brixton event in December, we’ve organised a second with the Brixton Bugle team on 18 January at the Dogstar. Social media commentators are always banging on about how these things have changed the way we socialise and interact. And yes, it was a little strange to be asked on introducing myself as […]

   

• Thursday’s London Links

  The bits and bobs from round the web that you might have missed; Have you come across the urban walking planner? The Guardian is delving into everything Dickens, as are we all. Well the Olympics get greener and greener. They’ve bought as fleet of BMWs. The Telegraph. Snipe ask why […]

   

• Review: Rivers of London

  Although I enjoyed Ben Aaronovich’s Rivers of London I did find myself frequently stopping and thinking “do I like this? Really?”. A supernatural murder mystery set in today’s London of coffee shops, mobile phones and traffic jams might not be to everyone’s taste, but you may well want to give it […]

   

• Video: 1999 ITN’s interview with Lawrence suspects

  ITN’s ground breaking interview with the suspected murderers of Stephen Lawrence from 1999. h/t Richard Osley

   

• Wednesday’s London Links

  Still catching up from those things we spotted during the Christmas break. Some gold dust not to be missed; There’s a lovely historical piece on Alphabet Threat on the battle for South London’s commons. Londonist scouts out the highest views in London. More sightings of nature graffiti in Lewisham from Transpontine. The […]

   

• Predictions for London’s 2012

  Second only to the tradition of reviewing the year just gone by are the predictions of doom for the year ahead. 2012 has seen a bumper crop from predictions of global war, planetary climate collapse or economic meltdown. So many different dooms have been foreseen for humanity that the four horsemen have […]