Metropolitan Police Sergeant Delroy Smellie was cleared of assaulting protestor Nicola Fisher at the memorial to Ian Tomlinson’s killing at last year’s G20 Demonstrations. District Judge Daphne Wickham ruled he acted lawfully despite video evidence posted on the internet showing Smellie thrashing a woman half his size with the back of his hand [...]
Dr D’s swipe at this year’s election campaign continues unabated. This time it’s on a billboard at the M4/A312 junction in London.
Of his latest stick ‘em up he’s said: “I never thought I could cram in a reference to WWII graffiti, a has-been chat show host and a suspect political party on one board [...]
Am adding this here as a place of pride. Like many other polenta-eating hacks, I watched Sir Trevor McDonald lick David Cameron’s face for an hour interview David Cameron on ITV1.
Seems I’ve narked a few true blues by suggesting that Tories at CCHQ were melting at having to shake hands with a black man. I’m [...]
Artists and activists will gather in the saunic sweat of Dalston’s Cafe Oto this Friday to revive “Cafe Carbon“, a musical devised by The Gluts for the COP15 demonstrations this past winter in Copenhagen.
The Gluts are Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews and Hayley Newman. Gina’s a founding member of The Raincoats, I once lay in Kaffe’s [...]
Shortly after charges were dropped, I accepted a job as media coordinator for Merlin. They’re an emergency medical relief charity who responded to the Haiti earthquake by setting up a field hospital in what was a tennis court in one of Port au Prince’s worst hit areas, Delmas 33.
Part of my role was to spark [...]
Crown Prosecution Service drops all charges against 11 Space Hijackers for impersonating police officers.
Elated. Over the moon. Downing a stiff gin to celebrate. But shaking with anger at the drama I and my friends have had to endure over the past ten months. Many of us have suffered throughout this ordeal, a farcical attempt by [...]
I’m making a film. A virginal effort. I wrote an article for Who’s Jack last autumn. I was then invited on a press trip to India with Pants to Poverty. At this time, I was at the Frontline Club on a course with documentary Claire Lewis. I told her about the trip and she shoved [...]
The Home Office is to appeal a European Court of Human Rights decision stating that the use of Section 44 (Terrorism Act 2000) to stop and search individuals violates the right to respect for a private life guaranteed by Article 8 of the Convention on Human Rights.
Section 44 has long drawn criticism from protestors who [...]
Environmental pressure groups have abandoned their moral integrity by clubbing together with arms manufacturers and corporate energy giants. So why should you go to Copenhagen?
Over 50,000 members of the “I Only Fly to India” militia will descend on Copenhagen over the next week to demonstrate over a shopping list of demands longer than J-Lo’s rider. [...]
Who would win in a fight between a baboon and a badger?
A question posed to the leader of the opposition, David Cameron, by the Brighton Argus.
He dodged the question then…but others are more forthcoming.
Among those who chose to tackle this Copernican question are: Stephen Fry, Adz from 5ive, Jon Snow, the cast of Skins, Noam [...]
