I may be alone in this but I find the mixture of washing line and barbed wire a powerful image. Although I’m in danger of stereotyping here, or poverty porn, (after all having a washing line is hardly a sign of extreme poverty, nor is having a low balcony in […]
Smashing something up? Check. Lots of red all over the place? Check. Workerist worker working on his workerism pose? Check. Attack on other left-wingers? Check. Reference to Stalin? Check. Yup we’re all done. Enjoy your Marxist stickers.
And these looks nothing like happy customers on this advertising in Tower Hamlets… not a smile among them.
I hesitate to ask as it may call down dark magic upon the site but… what is a Necrobus?
A few posts and links we’ve spotted in the last few days; Has the Mayor mucked up Pride? Pink News, Huffington Post If you’ve not been watching the secret history of our streets you really should catch up with it on i-player. In Lewisham Goldsith’s college has brought a decaying […]
Some of the blogs aand articles that have caught or eye over the last week; In Lewisham Council one absentee councillor for New Cross is being held to account. News Shopper. Camden’s “parking enforcement officers” are on the brink of a historic strike. Camden Unison. This is Croydon are looking […]
A few of the recent Olympics stories we’ve spotted; Lives Running reports on the weekend’s anti-missiles protest. Also on that story Random Blowe and BBC video. The BBC say there are problems with the cycling routes. The Great Olympics Tax Swindle. Ethical Consumer. The Mayor Louth dresses as a penis to […]
A few links that we spotted over the last week; The urban art fare in a couple of weeks looks great. Is the world ready for X-rates “apps”? I’m not sure. Evening Standard. The Atlantic discusses London’s cycling culture. Not pretty. There’s a lovely archive of the designs for London’s […]
Tsk, tsk. Olympics volunteers heckle David Cameron. Guardian. Petition against using animals in the openning ceremony reaches more than 20,000. Nice bit of street art. Ocado, the supermarket that comes to you, has been hit by the curse ofthe Games. Independent. Comment is free Londoners are coming together to oppose […]
News on the Olympics from out and about; The Independent reports that “Protestors have taken over a large property owned by Olympic Orbit tower designer Anish Kapoor in the first demonstration against the London Games.” 853 sees the weekend work on Greenwich cable car in preparation for the big day. Are you traveling through […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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