Archive for category: Overflow

• Writing on the wall in Islington

  Whenever a small business shuts down someone should simply write their thoughts on it. They don’t have to be earth shattering, in fact the simpler the better. Every small business grave should be marked in some way.

   

• Sunday’s London Links

  Tube boss criticises ‘selective and partisan’ documentary. Mayor Watch. Stop HS2 focuses on the campaigns in the capital. Making the marriage between schools and libraries work. Michael Rosen. Deptford calling sees dead people. And takes some lovely pictures. I do like maps, even weird and whacky ones but this one […]

   

• This is snow time for bad weather

  And… it’s that time of year again when we get all excited as if we’ve never seen snow before. Do not expect to be able to use public transport or to read a paper without being told how the nation is losing money.   We’ve also been tweeted a few […]

   

• Covent Garden Walkway

  I’m a great fan of overhead walkways. One of my, many, irrational desires is that we should have far, far more of them. This is a fine example in Covent Garden.

   

• Saturday’s London Links

  There is a Bikes Alive logo contest – why not try your hand at an inspiring image? Tut, tut. The Southwark Mayor is double parked. South London Press. Lewisham News Shopper reports that unions are up in arms over library transfers. There’s some great underground footage at Londonist. The Camden New […]

   

• Camden’s economic advisers start crowd sourcing

  I’m waiting for the second edition of this graffiti to discover whether this is advice to prop up the euro with an enormous bail-out or simply withdraw all my money before it all goes haywire.

   

• Friday’s London Links

  The Guardian reports on London’s eco-straws wars. Camden Council axes award winning play service. Brent and Kilburn Times. Mayor Watch on campaigners launching their clean air London manifesto. Croydon seems to have lost £50million in tax. Inside Croydon is perplexed. 853 is delighted that Greenwich is now a Royal Borough. […]

   

• The bombs of London Bridge

  I’ve often wondered whether this V2 rocket at London Bridge is meant as a threat to non-paying commuters…

   

• Thursday’s London Links

  So what does Thursday bring us… let’s see; London Living report on how Exhibition Road’s experiment into kerb-less streets is going. Lambeth has the highest school exclusion rate in Inner London. The local Green Party are not best pleased. There must be an election coming because Mayor Watch witnesses some […]

   

• An understandable response to some of our media coverage

  Sometimes you just have to look at the news and go “ppff”.