Is £30k a fair wage for a bus driver?
I may be soured by waiting over half an hour for a non-existent Number 67 bus, but I think drivers striking for a £30k pay deal are simply greedy.
A newly qualified teacher in London gets £25k, and will probably have between three and five student loans to pay off. And they don’t have the good fortune of being behind a toughened perspex screen when the customers get violent.
I know who I think deserves more.
Published on 13th September, 2008
Hoxton Square: getting wired now unnecessary
If you’re one of the people who follow my photo blog, you’ll know from the map that I don’t get down to the south of Hackney very often. It’s not that I don’t like the area - after all, it’s the only place I’ve heard builders’ dialogue as fine as this exchange on a scaffold:
“Oi! Crispin! I can see your ringpiece.”
“Oh, you can see that far then?”
It might, though, be worth taking a trip down to to the area soon, especially as Rachel Jay from The Shoreditch Map tips me off that Hoxton Square is going to become East London’s first public space with free wi-fi. This means that, from 6 June, I can wander round Shoreditch picking up snippets of amusing dialogue, and then go straight to Hoxton Square and blog about them. For free.
Of course, I’d have to be quick because the battery in my laptop is almost completely shagged; but that’s hardly anyone’s fault except mine. And Apple Computer, Inc.
Bastards.
Anyway, if you’re in the area, all you have to do is spread yourself out on a patch of grass, crack open a bottle of Tiger Beer (they’re one of the sponsors, dontcha know?) and point your browser to www.hoxtonwifi.com. And there, no doubt, you will find all the instructions you need, along with lovely details about the other sponsors and upcoming events that I’ve omitted to mention.
Published on 24th May, 2008
Blue Letterbox, Yellow Pages
Something battered and beautiful I spotted this afternoon.
Allen Road, Stoke Newington N16.
Published on 11th May, 2008
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