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Young people in the UK are often painted in broad strokes, dismissed as layabouts and criminals, and burdened with the blame for last year’s riots. Theron Mohamed looks behind the scenes at On Road, a youth magazine attempting to alter these harmful perceptions. On Road magazine is produced by Fitzrovia Youth in Action (FYA), a …
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By News Reporters A group calling for an elected head of state and an end to any constitutional role for the royal family held a demonstration outside the BBC's Broadcasting House in central London this morning. Anti-monarchy group Republic called the protest in response to what they say is the BBC's continued bias in reporting …
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By John Dales While I admire the Evening Standard's campaigning about illiteracy and the dispossessed, I’m dismayed at its one-sided pseudo-campaign about Westminster City Council's parking proposals. This is typified in Monday’s Standard by a news article and an editorial fashioned from a predictable, politically opportunistic, and self-serving letter from Labour Councillors calling for the Conservative leader …
By Angela Lovely 2011 was a busy year. Far too busy at times. It seemed to end as it began with stories of those neighbours from hell bent on destroying the historic fabric of our little part of London. But in between it seemed we were fighting each other, when we should have been fighting …
Reviewed by Linus Rees British and American governments since Thatcher and Reagan have handed power over to the private sector and little has been done to halt the erosion of the public by market interests. In 2007 this all went terribly wrong when the current financial crisis broke and it was the public who ended …
It seems The News of the World are really desperate for stories about the squatters who occupied Guy Ritchie’s house in Fitzrovia, writes Angela Lovely
The mainstream media have done the young people of the Really Free School and the people of Fitzrovia a disservice in their reporting of the occupation of Guy Ritchie's house.
A new tube map called The Moral Underground depicts the Daily Mail's editorial formula
