Today marks the end of the first full calendar year of 853 being a reader-funded site. Site editor DARRYL CHAMBERLAIN explains how the year’s gone, and outlines some plans for 2019. It’s been an amazing year at 853 Mansions, and I thought I’d take the last day of the year to look back on 10 […]
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Greenwich Council’s anti-Donald Trump motion passes: Why the Tories were wrong not to back it
Memories of the British National Party’s presence in south-east London during the 1990s loomed over Woolwich Town Hall on Wednesday night as Greenwich councillors debated a motion urging the Government to overturn Donald Trump’s planned state visit to the UK. 853 editor DARRYL CHAMBERLAIN, the only journalist sat in the council chamber, sets the scene […]
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Suttons Radio: Lewisham’s new pub on wrong frequency with poverty map
Lewisham town centre’s hardly known for quality pubs – it never seemed to get over the horror of Yates’s, which shut its doors nearly 10 years ago. But Antic, the firm behind quirky boozers across south London, has ridden to the rescue, by opening Suttons Radio in what used to be the Market Tavern (and […]
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Keep 853 watching events in Greenwich and SE London – please donate to the site
Hello. This is Darryl. I publish 853. I’ve a small favour to ask you. You’ve probably noticed a few changes to this website over the past few weeks. It’s been given a redesign and a slightly-altered web address (853.london). I’ve also added Twitter and Facebook pages. There’s going to be a very slight change in […]
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Lewisham helped Labour win Eltham – Greenwich should repay them by funding Blackheath fireworks properly
We’ve been here before, and I make no apology for raising it again. As this website’s long-suffering readers will be aware, Greenwich Council embarrassed its residents in 2010 by withdrawing funding from the long-running Blackheath fireworks display, claiming it couldn’t afford it because of Conservative government cuts. Greenwich and Lewisham used to fund the display […]
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Six thoughts after June 2017’s general election in Greenwich borough
The dust may never settle on the 2017 general election until the next one comes along. But the result was clear-cut in this part of south-east London – a big “up yours” to the woman currently barricading herself inside 10 Downing Street with the help of strange men in bowler hats. So, only a few […]
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Dead cat on the line: How the Cannon Street train ‘plan’ distracts from the real issue of who runs our rail
In political campaigning there’s a tactic known as the “dead cat strategy“. It’s best associated with the Conservatives’ campaign manager, Lynton Crosby. Boris Johnson, no less, once explained it: “Let us suppose you are losing an argument… Your best bet in these circumstances is to perform a manoeuvre that a great campaigner describes as ‘throwing […]
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OnBlackheath 2016: What a difference a day makes….
Five years ago, this website was one of the few places you could go to find updates on a planned music festival due to take place on Blackheath. I even had a chat with the organisers in a nice place in Blackheath Village. OnBlackheath’s birth was a difficult one, though, not helped by a lack […]
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