A rather cramped demo this morning in front of Australia House in London. Roadworks all round the building meant most people having to squash into a rather narrow corridor of construction fences, and not actually coming into contact with that many passers-by. Still, everyone stayed cheerful, and rattled their protest boomerangs. Paul in the piccy …

Luckily as an avowed sports hater, I’m immune to the current wave of cricket-inspired Aussiephobia, and can show a bit of solidarity with their unions and working people. It’s a year to the day on Thursday since John Howard’s government introduced sweeping new labour laws, which were a body-blow to people trying to organise and …

Thanks to Martin at Blogging4Merton for a bit of nostalgia whilst reading Bloggers4Labour on my commute in to work*. Where were you on 22 November 1990, when Maggie announced her resignation? I was at 6th form college, in my A level politics class, when we heard cheering coming through the wall from the class next …

Here’s a story from last week (have been PC-free this last weekend). John Monks, General Secretary of the ETUC (and former GS of the TUC) was in town to give the annual Bevan Lecture, entitled “The Challenge of the New Capitalism”. His speech is online and is well worth a read (as is Stefan Stern’s …

This post from Tom Watson scared me not inconsiderably! A creationist lobby group sending DVDs to MPs, purporting to offer evidence why creationism should make it into the GCSE biology syllabus. Made me wonder after reading Mr Tony’s recent New Scientist Interview: NS: One subject that is of great concern to scientists is creationism. There …

A very apt book to kick off the tigmoo bookclub, this is at once a very illuminating peek into the world of working for a dotcom, and a hilarious satire. Stand-up comedian and story-teller Mike Daisey spent three years (21 dog years) working at Amazon in the US during the early days, and wrote up …

Or, more precisely, I’m about to have a diet forced upon me now that Goddards’ Pie House in Greenwich town centre has closed its doors and sold its final portion of stewed eels. No more of my customary weekend lunches of Banks ale and soya pie, with mash, peas and parsely liquor, followed by an …

Commiserations to Cllr Kerron Cross (and especially his cat), who seems to have had a pretty miserable firework season. I’ll declare up front that I do like fireworks very much, so am rather partisan, but I’m not sure though that a ban is the best way to deal with growing firework bother. I often have …

Well, it looks like a reasonable result over the pond, but thought I’d share something from yesterday which caught my eye. This, via the AFLCIO’s blog, is a very scary account culled from US blogs about last minute Republican dirty tricks. Some absolute (evil-) genius stuff here – Why not set up one of those …

And on the subject of webcameron… Have you seen their new web-widget, which is finally live? It’s neat-o in a not tremendously useful way to the user, though it probably does wonders for webdave’s googlejuice, having all those keyword terms linking in from around the web. I thought I’d put it here, but mainly because …