It was one of those one-off phone call scenarios.
Dr D, this wheatpasting vandal I know, rings up. “You still doing your telly things?”
Yes.
“What you doin tonight?”
Erm…. I scrabbled around for a camera.
“Wanna meet me at six or seven around [redacted]?”
So after I convinced Emily James to come out shooting with me, we met D on [...]
The Reverend Billy came to London one autumn weekend to connect Occupy London with Occupy Wall Street. He landed, made his way to St Paul’s and found himself sleeping in Emily James’s vacant tent [complete with inflatable mattress under the bells of the cathedral].
He gave a rousing sermon livelinked with our friends in New York [...]
A series of Home Office proposals could ban protests during the London 2012 Olympic games. In reaction to the longevity and scale of recent Occupy London takeovers of public and private space at St Paul’s Cathedral, Finsbury Square and a former UBS bank, ministers are reported to be drafting legislation loosely based on part 3 of the Police [...]
London’s Metropolitan Police has called for large businesses and the public to report suspicious anarchist activities immediately. A weekly communiqué (see below) issued by the City of Westminster’s Counter Terrorist Focus Desk said:
“Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information [...]
Thanks to a fateful week in journalism, I got to have a little fun at the expense of Rupert Murdoch, Andy Coulson, Rebekah Wade and the Metropolitan Police…with a coupla dudes in dirty macs and cheap hats….
First met Jonnie through a strange phone call.
“Hi Leah. Do you want to film a comedian who’d like to get himself kettled at the next anti-cuts demonstration?”
“Does this mean I’d have to be kettled with him?”
“Yes.”
“Ok,” I said, knowing I had a press card that could – at the very least – get ME out [...]
The day after any major demonstration always brings out the hungover “mostly peaceful, shame about the violent minority” mantra from the meeja-darling bloc. Whenever there’s an alternative popular movement that grips the national imagination, left-ish commentators and journalists fight whitened tooth and manicured nail for public alliance to this season’s worthy cause of resistance. Yet, [...]
one cold winter morning comedians chris coltrane and jonnie marbles went to the conservative party offices to give chancellor george osborne a jammy dodger. why give fatty a biscuit? he came up tops in a national Tax Shirker poll.
Short clip of journalist, activist and blogger Jody McIntyre being dragged by the Forward Intelligence Team from his wheelchair to the no-man’s land between two police lines at Westminster Abbey, 09 December 2010.
Here, a FIT officer tells him he’s not arrested, that he’s “going to get hurt”.
I regret not staying with him. My phone rang [...]
Remember Nicola Fisher? The lady armed with a juice box who got up close and personal with the back of Sgt. Delroy Smellie’s hand?
Footage has emerged of TSG officer U1202 punching a man in the face at the student demonstrations in Central London on 30 November 2010.
