I went shopping earlier this year, to find myself a new t-shirt. I’m very hard to please when it comes to t-shirts, and a good shirt hunt can take me quite a way across the city. On this occasion I happened onto the Firetrap shop at London’s Seven Dials, where I found a nice tailored, …
We in TIGMOO love our folk art. Enamel badges and glorious banners are a kind of comfort to unionists – showing us our place alongside the millions who’ve taken that route before. As unions merge or modernise though, the painted banners of old, with the quasi-heraldic panels showing members’ trades, union heroes and famous incidents …
Clever ploy by the NUJ to make us Stand Up for Journalism, by cramming so many people into the room for last night’s rally that we didn’t have a choice about standing up 😉
A most unexpected burst of sunshine made Saturday’s demo for the NHS into a pretty enjoyable way to spend a few hours. It wasn’t your run-of-the-(trouble-at)-mill union demonstration either – the attendance of a whole bunch of carnival artists really jolted people out of the traditional slump you’re likely to get halfway round a march. …
I’m Standing Up for Journalism today (even though it makes it pretty tricky to reach the keyboard). The NUJ is using today to focus attention on what it sees as the erosion of quality journalism on many fronts and across all media. Can’t really talk about this though in my sector (new media) without getting …
Yay! Top techno-country tunesters and trusty Tigmoo tubthumpers Alabama3 are going to be playing at the NHS Together demo tomorrow in Trafalgar Square. Apparently they’ve actually rewritten “Woke Up This Morning” to support the NHS Together Campaign, which is a tad more dedicated to the cause than just turning up and waving – tho personally, …
Woke up with a cold this morning, and thought “wouldn’t it be nice to have a bank holiday today and get up a bit later?”. Fat chance though with our miserly quota of public days off, and a dreary 16 week run without hols between August and Xmas. The Bank of England used to recognise …
Tories under fire in the Guardian today for their non-dom tax plans, as it seems there may not actually be that many people to pay the non-dom charge. What surprised me most though was the tiny level of the charge – a fraction of what these people owe. Surely better to get as many as …
Greetings earthlings from the world’s first virtual reality picket line. It’s spread over a huge are of IBM corporate campus in virtual world Second Life. I’ve seen quite a lot of people, flown around some fun places, and had a chat to some nice IBM staff who were clearing up the 80 foot “Oi IBM, …
Aussies will soon be going to the polls, as current speculation suggests Howard will call within a couple of weeks. One thing that might cause an upset this year is that crafty Mr Howard has tightened up the voter registration regulations, meaning that the same evening that he calls the election, any late registration will …