London agenda for Monday 4 October
London agenda for Monday 4 October
1. Abandon whimsical storytelling approach and see some proper gags with Alun Cochrane [Spoonfed]
2. It’s Meatball Mondays at the Gallery Mess [Le Cool]
3. Watch Cory Doctorow interview William Gibson at Cadogen Hall [Run Riot]
City Hall: The old mayor will battle the new mayor. Again.
It’s the second most powerful job in British politics with an international platform and a huge personal mandate. Successful applicants can expect a plush office with riverside views and invites to all the best parties in the finest city in the world.
And yet, barring some miracle or catastrophe, City Hall will only ever have had two occupants, by the time it enters the second half of its second decade.
I pondered this as I watched Ken Livingstone clinch Labour’s nomination for Mayor. Now I say clinch but in reality the result was never in much doubt.
Off Fleet Street: everything in media isn't a downer
For the most part, the media consists of slick sales-pitches. It wants us to buy something, believe someone, serve somebody. Occasionally, however, a piece comes along that offers more than platitudes and does more than prescribe. These magical little moments occur when, and where, they are least expected. Recently, I picked up the October issue of Red for a swift goggle at Vanessa Paradis and came across ‘Why Giving Up Is Good To Do’. A brief, but imminently sensible article critiquing the notion that whatever it is you’re doing, you have to keep doing it till the bitter end. Author Anna Pursglove’s remark that: “The sky… does not fall in when you admit that you never should have done it in the first place or that it worked for you once, but doesn’t any more,” was exactly what I needed to read at that moment.
Campaigners hope to save one of London’s finest cinemas. With Alfred Hitchcock's help
Campaigners hope to save one of London’s finest cinemas. And Alfred Hitchcock will help
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
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