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Greener transport letter-writing campaign

July 1st, 2008 2 Comments

At the Liberal Conspiracy event last week, I had a chat with Siân Berry, the Green party’s Stop Boris blog-reading former candidate for Mayor. She asked me to highlight her new campaign, which she’s running with her Alliance Against Urban 4×4s hat on.
I must admit I couldn’t remember what the campaign was about and therefore [...]

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If…

July 1st, 2008 2 Comments

(Make your own)

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Steve Bell’s Boggleratis!

July 1st, 2008 No Comments

Thanks to Tom in the comments, I learn that Steve Bell’s If… cartoon strip hasn’t been taken off the Guardian site – far from it! It now has a new, improved home on the site.
So from there, I present today’s instalment of this week’s Borisfest, which the new site tells me has the title Boggleratis!

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Anti-racism rises again – a bit

July 1st, 2008 9 Comments

The Tory Troll reports that the latest batch of publicity for the approaching Rise festival now features a quote from Boris claiming it “is still an anti-racist event”. It seems between the various people making decisions for him, they can’t quite agree on the nuances of their message here.
The latest news here is that apparently [...]

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