Lies the London Underground tells you
Amusing gents Tom Scott and Matt Parker take a look at some of the Tube’s little white lies.
15 May 2013
Video: Soho's green roofs are really cool
Would it not be great if the city had more of these?
Video by dustygedge on Vimeo
21 Feb 2013
How Australians view East Londoners
The brothers Van Vuuren visited London last year on holiday from Australia. Their video London Underground by “Cnife Krime” is their artistic representation of their experiences.
13 Feb 2013
London's oldest anarchist bookshop firebombed over the weekend
Whitechapel’s Freedom Press, founded in 1886, was firebombed last Friday by persons unknown. Brian Whelan at Vice has the definitive story.
It’s not business as usual, but the shop has re-opened today. They would love donations of books.
04 Feb 2013
Fire on the ground as helicopter crashes in Vauxhall
Video by niczerogoeshome
According to the BBC, a helicopter crashed in to a crane. There is no information on injuries at this time.
Related: 520 firefighters, 18 fire engines and 12 fire stations face axe
16 Jan 2013
Watch 93 Feet East get raided by 175 cops, the Met helicopter, and dog units to arrest five people for possession
This video, supplied by the Met, proudly one supposes, shows the vast overkill that their ‘Operation Condor’ exerted on Brick Lane venue, 93 Feet East.
Intended as ‘a major capital-wide crackdown by the Metropolitan Police on crimes relating to licensing issues,’ all the officers, including the public order specialist branch, helicopter, and dogs arrested five people on suspicion of possessing Class A drugs, two people on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of drugs, one for being drunk and disorderly, and one for being the poor guy in control of the premises. The Met also arrested that one creature even worse than a single mum on the dole, an illegal immigrant.
10 Dec 2012
The Chicken Cottage Awards on video
We’re a little late on this, but as the London Video Log of record we could not ignore this amazing work, the annual awards ceremony of Chicken Cottage,
The fried chicken shop may be London’s most significant contribution to food culture, so it is gratifying to find that its largest representative takes its leadership seriously.
Here’s Part 2:
Previously
28 Nov 2012
Cirque du Hoxton Overground
In this latest video from Londoner Remy Archer, the morning commute on the Overground becomes a circus train.
26 Nov 2012
City History: Soho's Chinatown is a product of World War Two
Chinatown Oral History Project – Part1 from Collins Tam on Vimeo.
In this video (it takes 55 seconds to get going) a Chinese man, so old he claims not to know his own age, tells the story of his life and of Soho’s Chinatown.
From it we learn that the original Chinatown was in Limehouse, clustered round the sailors working at the docks. But then the bombs of World War Two forced another displacement of Chinese Londoners, further west to Soho.
Collins Tam’s film is also good at explaining some of the outward pressures pushing people to leave China and come to the UK in the mid-20th century.
For more Chinese London stories, see our in-depth interview with photographer Mike Tsang. He explains how the children of those first immigrants deal with their complex Chinese/British heritage.
And there’s a brilliant post from 2009 here about the mistreatment which the original inhabitants of Chinatown in Limehouse received from the popular press. The Yellow Peril, and all that.
More city history:
More demonisation of immigrants, and a gun-toting chase across Edwardian Walthamstow – Filmmaker Si Mitchell brilliantly explains the Tottenham Outrage of 1909
Protected building porn – English Heritage’s round up of London’s newest listed buildings
Samuel Pepys gets a steel rod up his cock – Dr Richard Barnett’s Sick City Project for the Wellcome Trust
05 Nov 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
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- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- Diary of the shy Londoner
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