Archive for July, 2006

fly-tipping and punishment

Monday, July 31st, 2006

epolitix had this little excerpt today: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs publishes guidance for councils on how to tackle fly-tipping by householders. "Councils have tended to concentrate on clearance. That is vital, but there needs to be more emphasis on preventing fly-tipping happening in the first place," said ...

Bill Viola@ Haunch of Venison: Love/Death The Tristan Project

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Love/Death: The Tristan Project Now showing for free - at two venues: Haunch of Venison Yard and St. Olaf’s College - Tooley St. ( or what used to be the College) [ Adjacent to Tower Bridge Rd, London, SE1 2JR - nearest tube is London Bridge] The Love/Death: Tristan Project is ...

zadie smith ‘on beauty’ @ wanstead library

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Zadie Smith discusses her latest book 'On Beauty' at Wanstead Library this Saturday - 29th July. This is her third novel and was published in 2005, and won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. It's been referred to in a lot of reviews as a 'homage to EM Forster'. Starts ...

The Tel Aviv Protests in favour of Peace

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

via Daniels Counter - ( Not in the news! Tel Aviv: Anti War protest) This was interesting - Daniel highlights the anti-war protests in Israel on Sunday 16th July - which the mainstream media hardly covered. Also on the 21st of July in Haifa. “This featured in the Israeli papers Haaretz ...

Israel prepares for land invasion

Friday, July 21st, 2006

"Hundreds of thousands of people were warned to flee from southern Lebanon today as Israeli military officers indicated that final preparations were being made for a ground invasion." Guardian Yeah like where to? Any bright ideas? " The UN estimated that about a half a million people had been displaced in Lebanon, ...

Summer Scorcher

Monday, July 17th, 2006

Okay, depressing news like the world erupting into wars aside, check this out! Here in London temperatures forecast this week are in the 30's and 37 degrees celsius on Wednesday! If that's the case, surely we're close to the record 38 degrees back in 2003. Sweltering..going to have to think hard ...

Blasts hit Mumbai trains

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

..Breaking news.. explosions on commuter trains in Mumbai. Nothing much seems to be clear yet - the BBC's reports indicate that the first blast was at around 6 pm local time ( 1 p.m. here) According to Sploid - there were seven separate explosions - and they also have ...

Seventh of July - one year on..

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Tomorrow: one year on from last year's awful attacks here in London. It will be marked by a two-minute silence at noon - to remember the victims, and presumably - more generally - mark the tragedy of loss of life. A public ceremony is also being held in the ...

Spitalfields Green Fair - 16th July

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

A date for your diaries - the Spitalfields Green Fair is happening on Sunday the 16th of July from 12 noon - 6 p.m. at Allen Gardens (off Brick Lane) & Spitalfields City Farm - Weaver Street E2 in the Spitalfields Green quarter. Admission is Free! Featuring: music and dancing from around ...