Image / iDeLick With Parliament still subsumed by the slime and sludge of the MP expenses scandal, it seems the right time to dump a whole lot more effluent on our elected representatives. That’s almost what’s going to happen: a new supersewer is being constructed …
Image / Simon-K Nick Griffin’s attempt to celebrate his party’s European election success was scrambled today when protestors pelted him with eggs outside Parliament. The MEP-elect for North West England may have overestimated his support in the Big Smoke when he organised a press conference …
By Simon-K Tamil protesters remain in Parliament Square this morning, calling for the UK government to act to end the war in Sri Lanka. The demonstration caused chaos on Westminster Bridge yesterday as protestors sat down en masse, forcing police to close the bridge to …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 19th January 1917: A fire breaks out at a munitions factory in Silvertown, East London, igniting some 50 tonnes of TNT. The resulting explosion kills 73 people, injures some 400 more, and damages as many as 70,000 buildings …
Everyone saw the fireworks last night – either you were stood in the deep-freeze, snug on the sofa on the TV screen or you simply went to bed and caught up with it today on the glorious interweb. Amid the tumultuous bright lights, clouds of …
The pig farmers of the UK are today trotting on parliament to protest about the rising cost of feeding their porkers. Led by mascot Winnie, a veteran porcine lobbyist, the farmers took their grievances to be heard by those that are equaller than the rest …
Our friends in Westminster have voted that more money from the Eamon Holmes fronted tax on the poor, the National Lottery, can be used to plug the funding gap for the 2012 Olympics. Culture Secretary James Purnell said the £9.3bn budget for the Games (almost …
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