Dale Farm, the ethnic question
At our Newspaper course today, we looked at the Dale Farm evictions that started in the morning. One of the stories aspects that I identified is the ethnical problem, since part of the evicted persons...
View ArticleThe Occupied Times of London (1)
St. Paul’s Cathedral protesters started publishing “The Occupied Times of London”, a newspaper manifest. I looked into the first two issues and feel like I read about any and all the problems in the...
View ArticleOccupy Boris’s ‘People’s Question Time’
A group of young protesters from the Occupy St. Paul’s camp staged a speech moment at the bi-annual “People’s Question Time“, organised last night by the Mayor of London. Eight of them were manhandled...
View ArticleNew Southwark library
London’s first “super library” opened its doors in Canada Water this week. Technology is at its home in the new library. Users can borrow any of the 40,000 books by using one of the eight self service...
View ArticleRiots for a change: Romanian protests
Dramatic images and quotes have filled Romanian websites in the past two weeks. Thousands of people gathered every day for the past week, in all major cities, to protest against the current...
View ArticleA classic: Monday morning tube chaos
Thousands of Londoners suffered severe delays in transport this Monday morning because of partial closure on Jubilee Line and Metropolitan line. A large part of northwest London was hard to reach this...
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