➤ After the looting, the London clean-up has started in Hackney and Clapham

Posted on 9 Aug 2011 | Leave a comment
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Photo posted at 2pm by Lawcol888 on yfrog: “We’re ready in Clapham and Vauxhall”

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Dan Thompson: appeal by radio and Twitter

❚ DAN THOMPSON, an artist, writer, photographer, explorer of Worthing in Sussex has called for everyone with a dustpan and brush to get out on the streets of Britain today to lead the clean-up after three days of rioting and looting.

➢ Follow Dan Thomspon on Twitter @artistsmakers

➢ Comment at yfrog on the Clapham clean-up photo

➢ 10am video statement by Clean Up London at Twitvid after overnight clean-up of Hackney

➢ Search your Tweets with #riotcleanup hashtag

➢ “Get real, black people!” — Fearless street speech last night by Hackney woman has already clocked 1m views at Twitvid

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Riot police in London today: "appropriate force" will be used

STAY AT HOME TONIGHT AND ‘GIVE US THE STREETS’ — POLICE CHIEF

Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police, told Radio 5 Live today: “The police will respond robustly and we will get the streets back.” 16,000 officers will be on duty in London tonight and will respond robustly to troublemakers and with appropriate force. Londoners are asked to stay indoors and give the police space in which to operate.

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➢ Live riot map: being updated with every verified incident by Guardian Online

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London riots: three-day overview at BBC Online

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2011 ➤ Images of London in the hands of the mob

Posted on 8 Aug 2011 | Leave a comment

London riots, Saturday: Fire rages through the Carpet Right store in Tottenham, north London, after an arson attack

London riots, Saturday: three text messages sent via the BlackBerry BBM service by some organising hand to rally looters. (BBC)


❏ Tottenham Hale retail park, Saturday-Sunday: One looter asks the cameraman to look after his bike so it didn’t get nicked while he went inside the shops (by viceuk1)


❏ Fires over north London: Time lapse filming as Tottenham buildings burned into early Sunday morning (by itdrewitself).

London riots, Sunday evening: Two young men are detained outside the Currys electrical store in Brixton, south London. Photograph © by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

London riots, Monday: A woman leaps from a burning building into the arms of neighbours in Church Street, Croydon. She was later identified as 32-year-old Monika Konczyk from Poland, who works in the local Poundland store and was able to spend the night with her sister. Photograph by © Amy Weston/WENN.com

❏ Update Aug 10: The photographer Amy Weston took this dramatic shot on Monday night in what she called a “war-zone”, meaning the outer London borough of Croydon where the House of Reeves furniture store was ablaze [below]. It was published on the front page of Tuesday’s final editions of the Guardian, Times, Sun, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph and in many other papers. Weston says: “In front of me was this fire with six or seven riot police and this lady falling from a window, but directly behind me was Surrey Street market where the larger stores sell electrical products… As I turned around it was like a war-zone… People were turning on each other and beating each other up, and mugging and robbing each other. That’s when I took my cardigan off and wrapped it round my camera so nobody could see what I had and I ran as fast as I could through that crowd back to my car.” Listen to the full four-minute interview for BBC Radio 4’s Media Show here:

London riots, Monday: the 144-year-old House of Reeves furniture store ablaze in Croydon, south London. A 33-year-old man was later charged with arson. (BBC)


❏ Driving through London riots: Video of looters ruling in Clapham about 21:30 Monday before police took control of the situation (by RussiaToday).

London riots, Monday: Looters run from a clothing store in Peckham, in a third night of violence. Photograph © by Dylan Martinez

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➤ Steve Strange puts on an Essex face for Ascot

Posted on 7 Aug 2011 | Leave a comment
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Steve Strange before: master face-painter at work at Ascot... Photography by Becky Varley

❚ OLD ROMANTIC HABITS DIE HARD. Steve Strange finally got himself onto a stage this weekend singing the odd Visage hit, following the horse-racing at Ascot in Berkshire for this summer’s last Here & Now 80s revival line-up. But beforehand, the veteran poser and onetime greeter at the Swinging 80s Blitz club had to plaster over the cracks with a touch of Polyfilla — he’s just celebrated his 52nd birthday after all. Then, naturally, he couldn’t resist applying slightly more bronzer than an Essex girl would need for a night out clubbing down the Chigwell Road. The after snap is a minor miracle that should convince the doubters Steve hasn’t lost his knack for maquillage, whatever the voice sounded like (audience reports eagerly awaited). Supporting Steve during his comeback was a galaxy of 80s stars who included Kid Creole, Toyah Willcox, Paul Young and Jimmy Somerville.

Who better than Steve could qualify as the face of a cosmetics firm, according to breaking news at Wales Online? (Remember his origins as Steven John Harrington from Newbridge where he went to school?) WO reports this weekend: “The Visage frontman, famed for wearing garish eye shadow, mascara and blusher alongside the likes of Boy George in the 80s New Romantic movement, is set to front products made by Illamasqua. The firm aptly markets its range as ‘night-time make-up for your alter ego’ and says its distinct style is inspired by members of ‘alternative scenes’.” Bingo!

➢ Visit Facebook to view more Here & Now pictures at Ascot yesterday from Becky Varley and Shawn Clubcapture

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Steve Strange after: masterly poise onstage with Here & Now at Ascot. Photography by Shawn Clubcapture

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➤ Inbetweeners, bring your wellies — Christos hits the cutting-room floor and he’s gutted

Posted on 6 Aug 2011 | Leave a comment

❚ THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE opens on August 17 in the UK, but apparently without Christos Tolera, actor, socialite and in the 80s singer with the Latin combo Blue Rondo à la Turk. He’d been cast in a wonderful cameo role in the film of the TV series — until this Wednesday, when he made this tear-stained announcement on Facebook …

“ My agent received a call today from the producer on The Inbetweeners movie. Having been featured in the trailer for the last month, been inundated with messages of people having seen it, i was today informed i have been cut from the movie due to time constraints. If you were planning to see this film to see a glimpse of me, don’t bother. Gutted. ”

So for all of his fans the video above has rescued that lost scene, cut from the latest trailer as well as the movie. But it is dedicated especially to Christos himself, as a tribute to a man who has entertained us in so many ways over 30 years. His co-stars are Blake Harrison as Neil and James Buckley as Jay, from the C4 TV series The Inbetweeners. The film sees the four 18-year-old lads who are its stars heading off to the buzzing resort of Malia, one of Europe’s hedonistic hotspots for mainly young British tourists on the Greek island of Crete.

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In Malia: Jay spots Kristie behind her camera

The new official trailer isn’t worth the celluloid it’s printed on (*spits*), but the locally shot video by Malia TV [below] gives the flavour of the place. A second clip is a gem shot by a British holidaymaker called Kristie who caught the film crew at work on main strip, Malia Beach Road. It’s pretty obvious that Jay (left, in red) has spotted the girl behind the camera, and she’s definitely in with a chance ;)

❏ FOOTNOTE — Who have Facebookers voted “Hottest Girl From The Inbetweeners”? Answer: Neil’s sister, closely followed by Will’s Mum.


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➤ 30 years ago today: “The Day the Middle Class Died”

Posted on 5 Aug 2011 | Leave a comment
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Fighting America’s downward slide: Moore blames President Reagan

❚ PROVOCATEUR EXTRAORDINAIRE and Oscar-winning filmmaker, Michael Moore, argues today on his OpenMike blog that President Ronald Reagan (1981–1989) kick-started the decline of the American economy on this day in August, 30 years ago. As the USA’s international credit rating is tomorrow set to lose its triple-A status and China proposes a new global reserve currency for the 21st century, Moore claims that in 1981 “Big Business and the Right Wing decided to ‘go for it’ — to see if they could actually destroy the middle class so that they could become richer themselves” . . .

➢ Read his full rant “The Day the Middle Class Died”
at michaelmoore.com

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