Tag archive for ‘London’
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Follow Labour in London
The London Labour party is now on Facebook and Twitter. Follow the party in the capital here on Twitter and catch up with news from Labour in London here on Facebook.
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A progressive agenda to stop the right in 2010
Readers of this blog may be interested in attending the Progressive London conference on 30th January – “A progressive agenda to stop the right in 2010.”
Some of the initial speakers, including Ken Livingstone, leading members of the London Assembly, MPs such as Jon Cruddas, Diane Abbott and Tessa Jowell, trade unionists, bloggers, writers, London councillors, MEPs, campaigners and activists, are listed here along with an early indication of some of the subjects for discussion.
As Progressive London reports, Ken Livingstone says:
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Former Tube MD Tim O’Toole’s tribute to Redmond O’Neill
The former Managing Director of London Underground, Tim O’Toole, posted a comment earlier today paying tribute to Redmond O’Neill, Ken Livingstone’s former director of transport, who died last week.
He said:
“I join with you and everyone who was lucky enough to know Redmond in the profound sense of loss and sadness at his death. How I admired his kindness, his gentle soul and his rigorous mind. You are right that any attempt to sum up his life will be an injustice, [...] -
London playlist – Life Begins At Oxford Circus
This week’s New Statesman – guest-edited, as you may have noticed by now, by Ken Livingstone – features a number of prominent people picking their favourite London songs. Their choices are led-off by an article on London’s music by Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley.
What’s striking is how many of the selections in the list are of old songs. Admittedly there’s London Calling and Lily Allen’s The Fear, but also chosen are Noel Coward’s London Pride, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, [...]
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Read “The Grass Arena”
Yesterday I was lucky enough to meet and get time to talk to John Healy, the writer of The Grass Arena.
Healy’s book deserves a much bigger readership than it has had so far and he deserves much more credit for it. His book changes how you think about something going on around you – the subculture of the lives lived by vagrants on the streets of London. It is a subject that most of don’t want to think about. When [...] -
Jubilee Line – extra closures this year or overrun to 2010 on the cards
Several weeks ago I raised that the engineering works on the Jubilee Line were in trouble and that there was a danger that they would overrun.
This blog said on 1st August:
In addition to the problem now and for the rest of 2009 as the line experiences regular closures is the nagging question of whether the Jubilee work will be completed in time. From the start one of London Underground’s complaints has been the lack of transparency from the contractors [...] -
The legacy of the londonpaper
So the London Paper is to close, ending Rupert Murdoch’s intervention in the London evening newspaper market, which, until the paper’s first edition hit the streets, was completely dominated by the Daily Mail group.
Broadsheet readers and news junkies will not mourn the passing of the one-edition-a-day London freesheet distributed at tube stations and on the streets. Its mix of news and lighter material always leaned towards the latter. But it was only able to launch in the first place because [...] -
Comment is Free – the londonpaper closes
Comment is Free has published a new piece by me on today’s news that the londonpaper freesheet is to close.
I argue:
The londonpaper’s debut was the first serious attempt to break the Evening Standard’s monopoly in decades. Associated Newspapers enjoyed unassailed control of the London-wide daily print market, frequently enabling it to drive the news agenda. More than this was its commercial power. Because it had no competition it had unparalleled leverage over cover price and advertising rates…
Murdoch’s londonpaper sought to [...] -
Update: latest news on changes at Equalities Commission show London’s case was right
Last week I noted Harriet Harman’s statement that the way the Equalities and Human Rights Commission had been set up was a mistake, though her comments were largely ignored in the furore over her Sunday Times interview that kicked off a week of Harriet-bashing in the press.
‘She now admits the way the organisation was set up was misguided and reveals she has ordered Phillips to restructure it,’ reported the Sunday Times. “We put it all into a melting pot, when [...] -
In The City – and London’s embrace of the world
The post below is a recommendation of In The City – A Celebration of London Music, the new book by Paul Du Noyer, which I’ve just finished reading. In addition to his writing for NME, Q and MOJO he wrote Liverpool – Wondrous Place and has now produced this excellent celebration of the popular music of London.
————In the City lays out its celebration of London music across the city’s history from the pre-Beatles era – stretching as [...]
