How the world learned that London's firefighters would work on November 5
Just after 5.30 on November 4, the FBU’s London Region decided it would call off the November 5 strike on the terms available.
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Picket line violence - but not the sort you've been taught to expect
Last night I watched the third striking firefighter of the day being hit and hurt by a strikebreaker driving fast straight at him. I was inches away as a fire engine mowed down a picket, and it was a very frightening moment.
It was at Southwark Fire station, where a dozen or so fire engines were due to b
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A strange tale of two playwrights
Yesterday I recounted conversations with Clodagh Hartley, Whitehall editor of the Sun. Since then I’ve found out that she and I are probably the only two people to have had plays produced in London about the MPs’ expenses scandal.
The creeps of my trade
One of the tabloids has sent a reporter round to Matt Wrack's former wife, and another to his student son's flat. The latter carried a phoograph of Matt's son, asked around the neighbours, and rooted through the dustbins.
What sort of creep does a job like that? I'd starve first.
A uniformed thug whom the Met are protecting
So the Metropolitan Police Commissioner thinks it's too easy to sue the police, and wants to make it harder. Try telling that to Cliff Augur.
On Saturday 5th January 2008, Cliff went to watch Chelsea play football, as he has done most Saturdays for 40 years. He had with him his two teenage sons and two of their friends.