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Photo: London Reigning by Alberto D Prieto in the Londonist Flickr pool.
- Two people die in a house fire in Plumstead.
- Charles Saatchi gets a ca...
Verrus - PayByPhone - Not a bargain
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You go abroad for a few days and you come home to an unexpectantly high
bill or you let your child have your iPad and suddenly you owe £thousands;
that i...
Barnet and the Art of Tautology
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On Tuesday I attended the Budget & Performance Overview and Scrutiny
Committee meeting. I had submitted 30 questions well in advance of the
meeting so I wa...
The Final Push - New Leaflet
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We are currently in the process of urgently distributing our new leaflet,
reminding people of the trial on 2nd July and making a final appeal for
funds. ...
Summer Magic (Plot)
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I'm not at all sure what is going on with the weather again this year, but
it's driving me to distraction. For the second year running we’re in June
and ...
Closure of the independent living fund
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TweetLatest article in our New Statesman series on cuts to services and the
people who are directly affected. This article is about the closure of the
Inde...
Your Choice Barnet: cuts WILL affect quality
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There is a lobby tonight of the Your Choice Barnet board. Campaigners
against the planned cuts will be there, including parents and carers of the
adults af...
Memories of dear Cllr Bwian
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My dear obedient constituents, I have no doubt at all that you all share in
my shock and grief that my dear friend Cllr Bwian has lost his seat in the
GLA....
Shopping Trip
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*"Can you buy some salad, we've got Trish Deseine and her children *coming
over tonight?"*
Audible sigh. Barely intelligible mumbling along the lines of 'I'...
Cameron takes the Conserve out of Conservative
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Bernie Ecclestone donated £1 million to the Labour Party. Formula 1 was
subsequently exempted from new advertising regulations introduced by the
last Labo...
Site update
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Since last May I’ve done very little to update this site. This is partly
because I’ve taken a complete break from local politics and have been
enjoying hav...
We the Undersigned, are totally opposed to the closure, sell off or downgrading of the Library service in the London Borough of Barnet.
We believe that Libraries are a vital part of the Borough and recognise the importance of having trained Libraries run by trained librarians. We believe that it is vital to have "quiet space" for students to study.
We believe that closure of the service would cause untold damage to the citizens of Barnet and is totally opposed by the vast majority of the population.
I got into blogging about politics by accident. I had intended to blog about local music.
I've run a music recording & rehearsal studio in Mill Hill, North West London since 1979. I play in a band called The False Dots, over the years we've played all over Europe, but now we mostly just play local shows as we're all too old and lazy. We play up tempo punky tinged rock, tinged with a very dark humour. We've bene joined on stage by various friends over the years such as Boz Boorer (Morrissey's Musical director) and Huw Lloyd Langton of Hawkwind.
I've organised many charity gigs with artists such as Kate Nash, Chris Spedding & Lee Thompson from Madness.
I also help organise many local festivals. I love a good row !!!! Oh and I did a blog on the Edgware Times for a while.
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If you have received a penalty fare at a Thameslink Station and you sent an appeal off to the Independent Penalty Fare Appeals Service, did you notice that this says at the bottom of the letter you got back "London and South Eastern Railways T/A IPFAS". In other words, it's not independent, it's an arm of a train company. They actually run Blackfriars station.
I believe that it is a scandal that this service calls itself independent, but there is no right of appeal and it's run by one of the train operators. I believe that the penalty ticket scheme is a scam to generate extra profits for these companies.
A little tool to help you defeat the invisible men
I've added an IP address lookup tool. If you get an email or you have a stats counter on your blog, you can see who it is and where they came from using this. If you've got an email from someone, view the email. Click on File, then click on properties, then click on details. Now click on message source
You will see some text as follows :- X-Originating-IP: [1.2.3.4]
Where I've put 1.2.3.4, cut and paste this number into the IP lookup and hey presto, you know where the email came from.
If it says it's from your bank, but the IP address is Freds chipshop, you know it's a scam.
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