Awards night and the strange psychology of the police
Last night, the Metropolitan Police sent a delegation to the Jane’s Police Review Gala Awards. Held at the Park Lane Hilton, and attended by “the most senior and influential figures in policing and government”, the awards are billed as an opportunity “for recognising and rewarding excellence in community policing.”
04 Nov 2011
Please please please can we not call the new Routemasters "Boris buses"
“The Mayor’s new “Boris Bus” could make a surprise appearance in the next James Bond film, Transport for London chiefs revealed today.”
I feel a bit sick in my mouth.
Looking at you Evening Standard
04 Nov 2011
Nigel Farage is angry and wrong. Again.
Lovable UKIP leader Nigel Farage is absolutely livid at David Cameron for letting the EU stifle The City through over-regulation. Because, you know, it was too much regulation that got us all into this mess.
“…a blizzard of EU regulations that led to a massive growth in the compliance culture. Everyone moaned about it but no-one worried too much. All that has changed.”
He says they’re worried now. Well, tough shit. To see why, compare his fulmination with this anonymous female stockbroker, interviewed in The Guardian for their fascinating series on women in finance:
“On the trading floor, men would chew paper into little papier-mache balls and try to shoot them up my skirt. They’d actually reach into the aisle to throw them. If this happened now, you could sue. Those times were different.”
Regulations can be good!
Farage rant: Londonlovesbusiness
04 Nov 2011
A post in honour of sodden feet
Wharf profiled Sioned Morgan, a reflexologist. Here are the five most ridiculous sentences in the article.
5. “Your right foot is male and past and your left foot is female and future.”
4. “The skin around my toes was irritated, more on my right foot, which could be linked to emotional irritation with a man.”
3. “Your instep is where your digestive system lies.”
2. “Sioned…claimed it was possible to tell if someone was pregnant and also determine the sex of the baby just from the mother’s feet.”
1. “Sessions cost £73 for 50 minutes”
04 Nov 2011
London agenda for Friday 4 November
1. View the exhibition of fashion photographer Giles Duley who switched from fashion photography to capturing humanitarian images at Becoming the Story [Le Cool]
2. Go see Ms Marmite for an after work food rave round a bonfire, and a daytime farmers and craft market at a Secret Location [Rin Riot]
3. Celebrate 15 years of Tim Lee’s Tummy Touch Records at Xoyo [Flavorpill]
4. Resign to the inevitable at The Idiots Are Winning [Don’t Panic]
5. Realise that at least Time Out is pretty good for Bonfire Night iistings [Time Out]
6. Ask the question Leonardo and Mona Lisa. Why? [Ian Visits]
7. Visit the Hanger Hill Garden Estate [Tired of London]
London Agenda is Snipe’s daily compilation of what to do in London as suggested by everyone else. Send additions to listings@snipelondon.com
04 Nov 2011
Cat & Mouse by Sacred Animals VS Owensie
Sacred Animals VS Owensie // Cat & Mouse from Feel Good Lost on Vimeo.
This poignant song/video is based on a very real tragedy. It’s all an all Irish affair brought to you by Dublin’s Sacred Animals and fellow countryman Michael Owens, aka Owensie. Download it for free via the Delphi website.
03 Nov 2011
Does London need another airport?
Does London need a new airport? Plenty of people think so. Here is Lord Foster outlining his much-ridiculed plan for a new hub in the Thames estuary at the Isle of Grain.
If you address the national interest of future generations still to come you have to have the courage and you have to face up to the realities in terms of trade, in terms of competitiveness and in terms of quality of life.
And trade is what this is all about. It’s important to realise that absolutely nobody on the side of increased airport capacity is worried about giving you more flights to the Costa Brava.
It’s about business passengers, and more specifically, transfer passengers.
The report which goes with those horrid Heathrow growth adverts makes this explicit.
…Airlines serving Heathrow facilitate the majority of face-to-face business meetings between UK and overseas business people, who do £590 billion a year of business deals adding more than £150 billion a year to UK GDP. This economic contribution depends on transfer passengers.
So any new airport will not be built to take Brits on holiday to the Mediterranean, but to act as a stop over for Wall St businessmen en route to Shanghai, Delhi or Hanoi.
But will we need this extra capacity? I would hope that better technology (do the deal on Skype!) and increased environmental awareness, together with rising fuel costs, will mean a levelling off of air travel. If that happens, a brand new multi-billion airport would start to look like an expensive, environment trampling white elephant.
But the lobbyists behind the Heathrow report would argue that once citizens and businessmen in emerging markets get the chance to fly, they’re going to take it. And we’re going to want their money pretty bad.
I can only hope my rune-reading is more prescient.
The Politics Show has more on the race for transfer passengers, and where it might take us.
03 Nov 2011
London agenda for Thursday 3 November
1. Visit the Hackney Attic (the penthouse suite of the the newly re-opened Hackney Picturehouse for The Bus Driver’s Prayer [Le Cool]
2. Release the magazine addict at the Book Club’s Print Out [Run Riot]
3. Watch Whenever I get blown up, I think of you at the Albany [Don’t Panic]
4. Discuss marketing icons from Christ to the Coke bottle [Ian Visits]
5. Wander around some tents [Tired of London]
London Agenda is Snipe’s daily compilation of what to do in London as suggested by everyone else. Send additions to listings@snipelondon.com
03 Nov 2011
Bleeding Heart Narrative - Shoals
A rip-roaring, melodic, adrenalized post post-rock ride that lingers in the wide open space between Arcade Fire and Battles. Powerful, affecting stuff. See them live at The Wheelbarrow on Nov 17th with Fireworks Night and Bastardgeist.
Bleeding Heart Narrative – Shoals by Bleeding Heart Narrative
02 Nov 2011
Open Fields this Friday
For those who also find fireworks to be the most overrated thing since cocaine, why not avoid your local common-ground squib-fest this weekend and head down to Fields at Electrowerkz on Friday. DJ/Producer Max Cooper (pictured) will be headlining, with support from Manchester’s Ghosting Season, Hiatus and Shura and former Snipe MPFree star and all round electro wonder Kid Capac. A night of ‘danceable experiments in band and DJ electronica’ and not a Catherine Wheel in sight. Lovely. Earlybird tickets are available here and here.
02 Nov 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
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