Public spaces in London

A while back I linked to the Evening Standard report on the new and improved ring of steel and the topic also game up both on the last little walk I went on and in comments about it. so it’s interesting to note that the London Assembly Planning and Housing Committee are “reportedly” going to be talking about private management of public spaces. I saw “reportedly” because although the press release mentions that the “private management of public space can mean Londoners are excluded from parts of the capital or subject to arbitrary rules around activities like filming” , there’s … Continue reading

Sticking it to the bankers

Via Captain Ranty a nice, simple risk free way to stick it to the bankers and smash the system. We all just need to withdraw all of our funds from the banks on the same day the 7th December, we can put it all back the very next day but just for one day leave nothing in the bank it will cause chaos and Eric Cantona is supporting it – what more reason do you need? As Captain Ranty observers you don’t even need to take out all of your money, leave in enough to pay any bills due in … Continue reading

Fitwatch down

It would seem that after posting an article offering advice to students on how to make getting arrested after committing criminal acts the site Fitwatch has been taken down at the request of the police. Unlike Dizzy I don’t think Fitwatch consider all police to be “brutal bastards” and quite liked what they were doing. Overt surveillance of peaceful demonstrations does have a chilling effect on protest, and the compilation of dossiers of protesters who haven’t broken any laws is not acceptable. So hampering police operations when they’re doing this, and playing them at their own game seems fair enough … Continue reading