Riot aftermath: Boarded Up But Please Come In
At 8.20pm on Saturday 6th August 2011 two empty police patrol cars were set alight near a police station in Tottenham. Earlier that evening around 300 people had been protesting outside the Tottenham police station over the fatal shooting by police of a 29-year-old earlier in the week. Later on a double decker bus and a shop were set alight. By the end of Monday 8th the looting and violence had spread... Read More
MERKEL! YOU MADE IT, YOU MEND IT!
Frederick Forsyth, political commentator and author, has lambasted German Chancellor, Angela Merkel in an open letter published in the Express. His beef is her decision to side with French President, Nicolas Sarkozy in support of a tax on all financial transactions. I’m not convinced this tax will even get off the ground, considering how complex, not to mention Herculean it will be to implement and regulate. I fear we’re witnessing... Read More
GADDAFI HAS BEEN KILLED, SAYS LIBYAN AMBASSADOR TO UK
The Libyan ambassador to the UK has told Sky news that Colonel Gaddafi is dead. Mahmud Nacua, the Charge d’affaires at the Libyan embassy in London confirmed the news and this has been followed up by the NTC vice-chairman. Reports state that Gaddafi died of wounds sustained in capture near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday. Meanwhile, NATO confirmed that it hit a convoy of Gaddafi loyalists near the City. If the news is true,... Read More
Occupy London continues sit-in outside St Pauls
Occupy Wall Street has spread across the Atlantic to the City of London. Protesters are settling in for a third night in the shadow of St Pauls to vent their frustrations over large corporations’ part in the economic crisis. They plan to stay "indefinitely". The demonstrators had planned to occupy Paternoster Square, where the London Stock Exchange is based but were barred from the area. Here is their manifesto: The First Statement... Read More
Capitalism: With The Ups Comes The Downs
Greek contagion is spreading across the Atlantic. Not in the form of widening yield spreads and plunging bank stocks but in the form of protests. On Saturday, a splinter group of Occupy Wall Street, Occupy LA gathered outside City hall. Their beef? Bank bailouts, bonuses and unemployment. They are "the 99%": those that will "no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%". Ana Kasparian, co-host of the Young... Read More
SMILE (WHILE YOU NICK THOSE TRAINERS). YOU’RE ON FLICKR!
A photo-fit collage of alleged looters has been released on the photo-sharing website Flickr. Operation Withern run by the Metropolitan Police is using the website to ask for help identifying people in connection with looting and riots in Tottenham, Croydon, Hackney, Wandsworth and Haringey on 7 and 8 August, 2011. Operation Withern is urging anyone who recognises people in the photographs or has any information about the violence and... Read More
