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View of the week: BPAS protest
I thought I’d have to go all the way to the USA to see abortion clinics being targeted by religious protesters, but no – it’s happening right here in Bloomsbury. Spurred on by Ben Goldacre‘s recent tweets about an ongoing protest in Bedford Square, I wandered down to see what the fuss was about. Police were […]
Monbiot, Toynbee @ Russell Square “Teach-Out”
November 10, 2011
Awesome author, columnist, environmentalist and activist George Monbiot addressed a small crowd in Bloomsbury’s Russell Square on Wednesday 9th November 2011, as part of a wider day of protest against university tuition fee hikes and government cuts. At Monbiot’s side was Polly Toynbee, fellow Guardian columnist, author and current President of the British Humanist Association. Other speakers included Alex Callinicos of King’s College London, Richard […]
Protest over New College of the Humanities disrupts Dawkins & Myers event
June 10, 2011
Protesters disrupted an An evening with Richard Dawkins and P. Z. Myers on Thursday 9th June 2011 at the Institute of Education in Bloomsbury. The evening was organised by the British Humanist Association. Richard Dawkins (below) – evolutionary biologist, author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, and former Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science - is arguably the best-known of the […]
Smoke bomb for A. C. Grayling at Foyles in London
June 7, 2011
If it’s true that you haven’t had an authentic post-GFC London experience until you’ve been in the midst of a student protest, then I have finally qualified. What started, on the evening of 7th June 2011, as “The Arts in Britain”, a conversation at Foyles book store about the state of arts and humanities funding in […]
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