Here’s the final paragraph from an online Telegraph article on the tube strike:
Having trouble getting to work? Please share your tales of travel woe below. For readers who live outside London, this is your chance to gloat about your trouble-free commute.
Who said conservatives don’t have a sense of humour? Yes, vent your anti-union anger if you [...]
It’s Sunday afternoon. I’ve just completed my first week in paid employment as a fully-fledged journalist and, having begun to appreciate the true value of weekends, I am determined to spend them doing something thought-provoking, engaging, cultural and generally productive. Thus, after a deeply thought-provoking, engaging, cultural and generally productive night on the town (well [...]
A Progressive Agenda to Stop the Right in 2012
Saturday 30th January 10am-5pm
Congress House, Great Russell Street, WC1H
www.progressivelondon.org.uk/conference/progressive-london-conference-2010.html
An Interview with Ken Livingstone
They say never meet your heroes. You’re only ever gonna be disappointed. And having had some bad experiences in the past – a particularly awkward conversation with a very reluctant Mark Steel, and managing [...]
The art and craft, the subtlety and subterfuge, the pomp and pageantry, and the dealings and misdealing of international politics easily lead to the conclusion that in the world of international diplomacy nothing – but nothing – is ‘a given’. And not even it would seem is it any longer a given that countries can [...]
In yesterday’s London paper the guest columnist, Mike Barnard, publicised the launch of a campaign to reinstate London’s rise festival. The background, for those who don’t know, is this: for about a decade, London – with financial support from trade unions – hosted a massive annual anti-racist music festival. When Boris came in he decided [...]
