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  • Vacancies: Total Politics event co-ordinator

    Event co-ordinator £20,000-24,000 depending on experience Total Politics Events has recently launched the event division and is looking to expand! At Total Politics Events we focus on public policy conferences, we produce our own conferences as well as organising events on behalf of clients, providing a first class service, originality, creativity […]

     
  • Cows to represent British Olympian spirit

    With the news that the Olympic openning ceremony is to conjure up images of a greener Britain using farm yard animals like horses, cows and ducks – yes ducks – it’s time to reflect on whether these people are just making it up as they go along. According to the […]

     
  • Video: Rhyl Primary School growing project

    We spoke to Tom Moggach, author of the The Urban Kitchen Gardener and teacher, about the growing project that he helps run at Rhyl Primary School. It was good to see a primary school taking such a committed approach to teaching young kids. Many school have projects around gardening but […]

     
  • Network Rail referred to police on tree felling

    Campaigners delivered a letter to Network Rail offices yesterday to protest over the behaviour of the organisation which they fear breaches the Wildlife and Countryside Act. The letter, signed on behalf of the Leader of Islington council Cllr Catherine West, was delivered by a delegation including Labour councillors, Green Party […]

     
  • Public Meeting: Coalition of Resistance, Tuesday 19 June

    The Coalition of Resistance has called a rally to help build the 20 October TUC demonstration against cuts and in defence of the NHS Tuesday 19 June 6:30pm Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London NW1 Stop the Cuts Defend our Services Reclaim the NHS Speakers include; Tony Benn Len McCluskey […]

     
  • Save Our Placards

    The Save Our Placards project ais to preserve all those wonderful hand drawn banners and placards that would otherwise end up in the bin somewhere. Personally speaking, I far prefer the home made placards than the mass produced ones because they are sally funnier and because, more seriously, they don’t […]

     
  • MP accuses police spy of bombing London department store in the eighties

    The BBC is reporting that Green MP Caroline Lucas has used Parliamentary privilege to name a police informer, or agent provocateur, of planting a bomb that two Animal Liberation Front (ALF) members were jailed for in the 1980’s. She claimed that she believed there was strong evidence that under cover […]

     
  • Vacancies: Fair Pensions, paid interns

    Campaigns Intern (Paid, 6 months) Our paid intern roles provide an opportunity for individuals who wish to combine practical experience of campaigns with research and analysis. You will be given clear, structured projects to suit your interests and develop your skills, although you will also be involved in a variety […]

     
  • Mayor Johnson on the Letterman Show

    Our Mayor has been touting London’s wares in the US. Part of this involved appearing on Letterman, which is about as embarrassing as you might expect – no more, no less. I have no idea what they must think of us.

     
  • Today’s London Links: Law and order

    Some of the stories from around the capital on crime and policing; John Titlow in Read Write Web the is worried about London’s police and mobile privacy. The family of a man who died in police custody plead for answers Evening Standard. The Weekly Worker calls for the end of harassment […]