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London agenda for Wednesday 25 July 2012

British Museum guerrilla Shakespeare protest

London agenda for Tuesday 24 July 2012

Actors perform a fine reworking of MacBeth in protest at BP's union with the British Museum

A witty protest from the Reclaim Shakespeare Company at the British Museum yesterday. They acted out scenes from MacBeth rewritten to question BP’s sponsorship of the Shakespeare: Staging the World exhibition, in the light of that company’s abysmal environmental record. Here’s the press release and full script.

I like this protest because it questions rather than hectors, and does so with a bit of style.

The essay du jour on big energy companies’ role in climate change is by Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone. It may be the most depressing thing I’ve read all year. Sample:

“The numbers are simply staggering – [the energy] industry, and this industry alone, holds the power to change the physics and chemistry of our planet, and they’re planning to use it.”

Worth a read if you can bear it.

Plan B on why he wore a Skrewdriver t-shirt

— Plan B, explaining why he was wearing a Skrewdriver t-shirt on the cover of Shortlist. Plan B tells The Quietus that he had no idea that Skrewdriver were a neo-Nazi sympathising band.

London agenda for Monday 23 July 2012

London agenda for Friday 20 July 2012

Interviewed: Iain Sinclair and Andrew Kötting on their Olympic pedalo film Swandown

The London Eye Olympic happiness index illustrates everything that's wrong with everything