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REVIEW: The Clifden Arms, Worminghall2 comments

Muddy Stilettos wrote 11 months ago: Remember the restaurant I’ve been trying to get into for weeks? I went at 12pm one afternoon a … more →

Tags: Restaurants, Buckinghamshire, food, Reviews, Child-friendly, Buckinghamshire, Food, Chef, Worminghall

Galloway's win should be a wake up call to the left3 comments

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: This morning Ladbrokes will begin the biggest payout in British by-election history. George Galloway … more →

Tags: Voting, Elections, Parliament, George Galloway

If you exploit us we will shut you down.1 comment

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: On Saturday morning, as shoppers begun to fill the pavements of the Capital’s busiest shopping … more →

Tags: Protest, Unemployment, Workfare

Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier. More Racist: An Update

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has decided not to intervene in regard to Channel 4′ … more →

Tags: GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS, Travellers, gypsies, racism, advertising

Another Own Goal by the Metropolitan Police

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: This morning, in a room packed full of Tottenham residents, religious leaders and local schoolchildr … more →

Tags: police, Tottenham, Riots, metropolitan police

Boris cracks down on protests in Central London

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is planning to ban ‘unauthorised’ demonstrations at … more →

Tags: Protest, Boris Johnson, parliament square, trafalgar square, mayor of london

The End of the Opposition5 comments

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday the official opposition gave up. In a packed room at The Insititute for Education Ed Balls … more →

Tags: Cuts, austerity, Labour, fabians, Greens, Ed Balls

Spills and Spin

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: For some unknown reason I had always thought of BP as the ‘least bad’ oil company. Then they spilt n … more →

Tags: climate change, Oil, BP, Spills and Spin, Tom Bergin, Gulf of Mexico

Remembering Victims of Road Accidents

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: This post first appeared on Bright Green The horrific crash on the M5 earlier this month was a stark … more →

Tags: Transport, Cars, Tories, motorists, Roads

Double Hit to the Homeless

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: This Christmas, once again, the charity Crisis will be giving homeless people a warm place to stay. … more →

Tags: Squatting, housing, Homelessness, Benefits

Freezing and Fighting

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: As the sun began to go down this evening, and the warm autumn day faded into a cold night, most of u … more →

Tags: Cuts, occupylsx, Libraries, capitalism, Kensal Rise

Bleak forecasts for children in the UK2 comments

marcusampe wrote 1 year ago: New figures released on Wednesday the 11 th of October  show that the number of people, including ch … more →

Tags: Welfare and Health, Economy, Belgium, united kingdom, poverty, living wage, Institute for Fiscal Studies, resolution-foundation, Peter Aldous

Poverty isn't just about welfare

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies released today suggests Britain is set to miss its lega … more →

Tags: Tax, poverty, Children, Child Poverty

Block The Bill2 comments

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: “I haven’t spent seven and a half years as shadow secretary and secretary of state to see the NHS un … more →

Tags: Protest, Privatisation, ukuncut, NHS, Healthcare, Andrew Lansley, Block the Bill

The Self Fulfilling Prophecy

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: As coalition cuts begin to bite, hundreds of thousands of young people find themselves out of work a … more →

Tags: climate change, Oil, Tar Sands, Canada

Post Works: Architecture Foundation, London. 30 September-29 October 2011

pmas2001 wrote 1 year ago: The central bar for this year’s 100% Design at Earls Court, London has been commissioned from archit … more →

Tags: Commissions, installation, Digital Media, Interiors & design, Architecture Design, Art & Public Space, A&AJ Critical Writing, Commissions & Projects, exhibitions & events

All Work and Low Pay

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: This was Originally posted on Any Other Business UNICEF’s most recent report, published this w … more →

Tags: Low pay, poverty, living wage, Working Poverty, Children

I am Spartacus

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: It isn’t easy telling your boss you’ve been arrested and are going to court. But telling them that d … more →

Tags: Cuts, Tax, police, Fortnum's

The Great train robbery – fighting unfair fairs

matthew1butcher wrote 1 year ago: Much to the surprise of my instructor I recently passed my driving test. The idea is that, if push c … more →

Tags: Trains, Transport


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