Metroblogging London

I have been dismally disappointed by the Labour Part ever since I can remember. It started when they stole my parents from me for most of my Childhood on the promise of a bright and better Country. Then John Smith Died...

McDonald’s installed an interesting LED screen at Piccadilly Circus… see for yourself. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. Just pose rightly for it ;) Happy posing...

Free event. Booking required. “If there were water… If there were only water amongst the rock… If there were the sound of water only TS Eliot, The Wasteland The Walbrook River was one of the largest and most important rivers in London...

I like Anarchy. Its good. Its doing something at least for what you believe in and from what I have experienced there can be a whole lot of fun involved if you’re not taking it all incredibly seriously… So with that I bring to you the Anarchist Movement Conference 2009...

LOVE IT!!!

Brisbane News - London police find dead man after G20 protests. I couldn’t believe this at first when I saw a comment posted on a friends facebook… Strangely its not in th UK News as of yet. He added later “I was in the vicinity...

OK, I don’t know why this central London building (occupied by the FilmLight digital film technology company) was covered in giant black-and-white stickers. And the pictures are gone now. But I thought it was cool enough to post photos of anyway…

BoingBoing has a great posting from London resident Cory Doctorow here. Basically, if you’re under 16, in a public place after 9pm, and a police officer decides they don’t like the look of you and your mates, they can tell you to go away. Even if you are doing absolutely nothing wrong...

You may have noticed the weird little Google street view camera cars trundling the streets of Londinium over the last year. At long last the pics have been processed (Boots the Chemist, I expect) and put online. Yay! Of course this is extremely cool...

Major demo, on Tues 31st March. Protesting against Westminster Council’s cash-grabbing and opportunistic fees. The scheme to make you pay to park your bike isn’t permanent yet. If enough people kick up an inconvenient fuss, they will quietly bin the scheme. So - protest!!...

So - I took this pic of a pair of jeans in the window of a clothes shop in Dalston. WTF??!! One gets used to seeing mangled English on T shirts and jackets of cute Japanese tourists. But what local English-speaking person would want to be seen wearing this load of bollocks...

How gross… theres even some hairs stuck in it!

Ha! This sign, by the counter in Soho’s best pizza place, Maletti, in Noel St. I’d love to see some inattentive customer get “humiliated” by one of the staff. Preferably some git in a suit

as voted by Gareth S. Do you have a place that is cooler?

Sleepy girl on the H & C Line xx So Sweeeeeet!

Once in a while you stumble upon something that makes you, once again, praise the lord that you live in a teeming metropolis, rather than out in the sticks. Karauke: The fusion of Karaoke and Ukelele playing. In a trendy bar in Hoxton. Tres chic. This apparently happens once a month...

Smart parking, with 90 degree option Apparently this is legal parking for these little Smart cars. Nice! And it makes sense, considering the fact that they are shorter then many SUVs are wide…

Not all coppers are bad. These lovely Community Support Officers agreed to have their picture taken with a rose given to them by The Optimists Society on Valentines day...

Oh man.. Le Corbusier @ the Barbican heavenly, dont miss it! 19 February 2009 - 24 May 2009 Map

Wherever you go in London, even in the poshest, trendiest, most-upcomingest areas, you will find little secret corners of urban decay and neglect. Maybe they are in use, but not tarted up. Maybe they are areas that are subject to dispute between contending landowners...

No to the Bike Parking Tax You may have noticed that motorbike parking bays in central London have suddenly sprouted new signs, demanding payment for what has always been free. This is Westminster Council’s latest bright idea...

Tucked away inside today’s thelondonpaper rush hour freebie, this nano-article: Photographers at risk from law Taking photos of police officers could be deemed a criminal offence under anti-terror legislation that comes into force next week Does that make your blood run cold? It does mine...

Boris is at it again…. Boris backs Thatcher over golliwog sacking.

Jail for photographing police...

I figure I broke the tube with my wishful thinking. I’m awfully sorry if you have a car, but I really really wanted to stay home and snow fight. What are you doing with your day off?

This guy noticed me looking, and said “Do you like my sign?” I said yes. The thing is - he was selling the Big Issue, and probably wasn’t subject to the 9-5 Monday to Friday grind. But still - you don’t turn down an invitation to smile

Here’s a gallery of simply stunning aerial pictures of London at dusk and by night. What an extraordinary place we live in! The photographer is Jason Hawkes and here’s the link.

Love it. I want a T shirt of it. Would it be bad of me just to make one? I mean - they put the pic up in the street, so it’s kind of public domain, right?

What did the BBC do wrong? The people need help, what is the problem?

Seems like Ken has been busy… if I could have a choice, I’d swap out a Galloway for a Benn, but hey: Speakers at the Progressive London conference this month include Harriet Harman, Tessa Jowell and David Lammy from the government; Susan Kramer and Mike Tuffrey from the Liberal Democrats,...

OK Londoners, scary-time. BBC news site has this story: ...

I got just the place for ya! Today is Blue Monday, and considering yesterday was my birthday.. I know exactly what they mean. Yes Boys and Girls. it is the worst day of the year! But lovely James and the Optimists Society (do you remember them?) have a cure...

Walking tube sign by Stevec77 Did anyone else hear the alternative tube announcments at Hammersmith last night? It was absolutely Hilarious...