Next time someone tells you they are conservative, in favour of a small state, of personal freedom, of liberty, ask them their views on Dale Farm
Two columns of riot police, shields in position, carrying ladders and armed with tasers, cresting a hill under cover of darkness. A single, stark, sandblasted house in the background; the inhabitants, one imagines, peering out of the windows in confusion and fear.
Hogan-Howe: for now, it's all about the PR
In this image he stakes out his role as a civic paterfamilias, sternly disapproving of his errant son (Boris, here representing the lawless city itself), but ultimately forgiving.
Occupy protest: some backlash
If Josh Hall articulated the case for wholeheartedly supporting for Occupy London, then Patrick at Shit London sets out what is probably a more widely held view.
Just for comparison
Annual salary of Gareth Daniel, Chief Executive of Brent Council: £194,550 [pdf link]
Annual cost of the now closed Kensal Rise library: £162,468 [pdf link]
Huzzah to Julian Barnes
The 2011 winner of the Booker Prize has just been announced and finally after three previous nominations, Julian Barnes is a winner.
Occupy London: It's not the beginning of the end, it is, perhaps, the beginning of the beginning
OccupyLSX is a remarkable, amorphous thing. In 72 hours it has passed through at least four distinct iterations.
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
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