Tag: Ken Livingstone
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Dismantle the Metropolitan Police
This video projected on New Scotland Yard by Led By Donkeys says everything about Metropolitan Police corruption, violence and bigotry I’ve been saying since 2009 if not before. Certainly the likes of Ian Tomlinson and Jean Charles De Menenez, as mentioned in the video were a wake up call for me, as well as few…
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Dear Students…the Cuts the Cuts (missing an n there)
At the risk of this being the repost-everything-in-b3ta-blog, this video by Sir Ian Bowler pretty much says all I feel re: the massive 1918 (!!!) style cuts and taking off the cap in tuition fees this government is doing. Yes the Lib Dems sold y’all down the river for not very much at all…and the…
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London Cycle Hire
Those outside of London might not know that a new cycle hire scheme based around Montreal’s Bixi system has been implemented at something like £140 Million cost, with 400 docking bays and 6,000 bikes (ahem – more on that later). Known commonly either as Barclays Cycle Hire (the main sponsor) or Borisbikes (after Boris Johnson,…
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Politics of Fear
I wrote this over at Bicyclemark‘s blog in response to his great and thoughtful 50th show – I noticed no-one responding was actually on the spot where it happened, so I wanted to reinforce my view from the ‘front line’. I support the comments from bicyclemark, George Galloway and Ken Livingstone (although people have pointed…