Something for the weekend? Police in Islington hand details of informants to criminals. Islington Tribune. Hackney Citizen reports on Hackney Council’s climb down over disabled woman’s eviction. A man on Tottenham Court Road was arrested after a suicide bomb threat. Camden New Journal (exclusively show my elbow in their pic, no […]
This ad campaign, on a government building (what our taxes paid for and that), encourages us to think Queen and country and buy shoes whether or not we’ll be able to pay that credit card bill at the end of the month. Wonderful. Shopping is Great (Britain) because we don’t […]
Eye witness to Mark Duggan’s shooting emerges. Evening Standard. A Dutch review of her trip to the London book Fare. One Barnet trader is being harassed by the council Barnet Eye. Snipe ask whether it’s time for road pricing. Political comedy down Camden way at the Lolitics podcast. Londoneer on […]
Take one perfectly decent old building. Paint with migraine inducing colours and, hey presto, you have this clash of the old and the spew.
One restaurant has already fallen a fowl of the Olympics branding police and had to change its name. Image. Games Monitor is raising awareness of Coca-cola’s behaviour as an official sponsor. Apparently it is the policy of the Olympics to not pay musicians. Corporate Watch. The Greens say there is still time […]
A few bits and bobs for the morning; HarpyMarx has an excellent report on last week’s disability demonstration. They’re discussing the history of Battersea Power Station at Cats Meat Shop. Stripping the illusion reports on a recent GMB meeting in Tower Hamlets. There’s a run down of the Big Green […]
If you are easily shocked looked away… NOW! There’s lots of works going on down by Camden’s canals (near York Way). One local resident decided to take the opportunity of living in a democracy to express their views. If you look closely you can see the new corporate branding name […]
These birds were caught out in the rain. The ducks didn’t seem to mind but this cormorant (?) just stood and stared into the sky for around fifteen minutes.
Some of Camden Council’s staff took to scaling the sides of the Town Hall today in aid of the Mayor’s Charity Action for Hearing, without even the incentive of tax breaks or cash back for the effort. Speaking to one shaking but happy employee, who’d just finished descending by rope, […]
Not sure what I think of this bit of scrawl. It’s either dark in a good way, or the other one.
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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