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• Video: Green Party Christmas Appeal

  The Green Party have a Christmas Appeal that you can donate to online here. Chief Executive David Murray puts the case;

   

• Dickens at the British Library

  Currently the British Library has a compact and free exhibition on Dickens and ghosts. Just up the stairs inside there is a sweet little annex with deliciously rich ‘taster’ displays of books, posters and objects around Charles Dickens’ obsession with mesmerism, ghosts, and the unexplained. I’m sure we all know […]

   

• London Advent (20th)

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• Monday’s London Links

  Adele is moving from London to protect her voice from the smog. NME. Wired has a fabulous post for those stuck for Xmas toy ideas. Joyous comments! The Tower Hamlets bid for city status has just got a boost. Lutfur Rahman. Londonist wonders whether the new bus has broken down […]

   

• Vacancy: Green Party part-time press officer

  LONDON GREEN PARTY – PART TIME PRESS OFFICER REQUIRED The London Green Party is seeking a Part Time Press Officer as part of its team for the 2012 Mayor & Assembly Election Campaign. If you would like to apply please send a copy of your CV and a letter of application setting out […]

   

• Video: Look at him go!

  Impressive stuff from the London Cycling Campaign.

   

• Review: Mark Steel’s In Town

  I knew when I picked up Mark Steel’s In Town I was going to enjoy myself. However, what I hadn’t realised was that this was going to be the best book I’d read all year. Really. I do have a nagging feeling that the book was written specifically for me. […]

   

• The architecture of transport: All froth and no coffee

  David Mentiply looks at how Boris prioritises form over function London’s post-war architecture gets a bad rap. Buildings like the Barbican, the Southbank Centre and Royal Festival Hall are derided as grey and ugly. All three undoubtedly favour function over form. But they were built to serve a purpose, not for […]

   

• London Advent (19th)
   

• Sunday’s London Links

  In excellent news Dow Chemical have agreed to remove their logos from the Olympic wrap. Trial by Jeory. Scrapper Duncan thinks it’s time for Occupy London Stock Exchange to set a date to leave. More than 500 people are expected to attend the farewell do of Streatham’s ice-rink. Evening Standard. […]