Yesterday at around 3pm a group of 50 activists from Greenpeace broke onto the Parliamentary estate and climbed onto the roof of Westminster Hall to protest against what they see as a weak government position on climate change.
The protesters stayed overnight on the roof for what was quite a cold night. During the night around [...]
So it’s election day in the UK (for the European and County Council elections). I voted on my way to work this morning, but if you haven’t voted yet you still have 2.5 hours to get out and vote.
Because of the recent expenses scandal in Parliament chances are turnout is going to be very [...]
OK so here are the pictures from today’s Tamil protest outside parliament as promised. It took me longer to process them than I’d expected. It also looks like I was right about the mainstream media coverage. Considering about 1,000 people held a sit down protest outside Parliament blocking the traffic, I have [...]
I’ve just seen one of the oddest sights i’ve seen in a while. At the moment there are literaly hundreds of protests sat down in the middle of the road outside Parliament. Right under Big Ben, at the junction of Westminster Bridge Road and Victoria Embankment this group of people calling for a protest in [...]
So yesterday was Shrove Tuesday, or to give it its more common name – Pancake Day!! And what a great day it is, you can’t beat a day that has an in-built excuse to eat pancakes
Anyway, apart from eating plenty of pancakes another British tradition on Shrove Tuesday is the pancake race. [...]
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