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• Video: We all make the games

  We all make the Games. Willing or not.

   

• Vacancies: Detention Advice Service – Advice worker

  The Detention Advice Service (DAS) is a voluntary organisation set up twenty years ago to provide advice, information and assistance to those who are detained or threatened with detention under Immigration Act powers. Each year more than 25,000 people are detained by the UK Border Agency. They are held without trial, charge or […]

   

• Barbed wire washing line

  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 […]

   

• Released today: Welcome To London – Edenites

  Single released today – Welcome to London by the Edenites. You can download the single Welcome to London by clicking the link.

   

• Marxist stickers

  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.

   

• There’s nothing like happy customers

  And these looks nothing like happy customers on this advertising in Tower Hamlets… not a smile among them.

   

• Natural History Museum: putting the terror into Pterodactyl

  Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) were demonstrating outside the Natural History Museum yesterday in protest against its decision to host a reception for the Farnborough arms fair. Our public institutions should not be supporting the arms trade. The campaign states that “Arms dealers will enjoy cocktails in the shadow of the Museum’s […]

   

• What is the Necrobus?

  I hesitate to ask as it may call down dark magic upon the site but… what is a Necrobus?

   

• William Blake, poet of the streets

  William Blake radical, poet and artist was born and bred in Westminster in the 18th century. An advocate of “free love” and opponent of organised religion Blake was not one to swim with the cultural tide of the day and was one reason why he owned his own printing press. […]

   

• Friday’s London Links

  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 […]