All articles by Leah Borromeo
Leah Borromeo on July 22, 2010 0 Comments
No charge in Ian Tomlinson death
Editor's Pick, Resistance
Welcome to RupertLand
Leah Borromeo — June 17, 2010 0 Comments
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation feels it’s time for its cousin BSkyB to join the family.
Editor's Pick, Media
Section 44 – Your Rights
Leah Borromeo — June 11, 2010 0 Comments
Thousands of people across Britain have been stopped and searched illegally by police using Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000. This is what you can do if you find yourself at a copper’s behest.
Politics
Inside the Doctor’s Surgery: street artist Dr D talks
Leah Borromeo — June 1, 2010 3 Comments
Billboard vandal and drinker of tea Dr D plies his trade in a West London warehouse nestled in a landscape of railway lines, telephone poles and refrigerator graveyards.
Art
sTate Modern: Tate Makes Surveillance An Art Form
Leah Borromeo — May 28, 2010 1 Comment
A new show called Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera opens at Tate Modern this week. It features images made surreptitiously or without the explicit permission of the subject. It is the history of spying with a lens in just over 250 photographs.
Culture
Haiti is still the issue: Nadije’s Letter
Leah Borromeo — May 5, 2010 1 Comment
I have nothing but photos and the fading memory of a meeting to remind me that this woman is real. Naïve trust borne from her persistent communications about her day-to-day and a gut feeling to tell me she’s genuine. She’s also one of thousands – but she is still someone. What would you do?
Resistance
Sergeant Delroy Smellie’s acquittal is an assault on Justice
Leah Borromeo — April 1, 2010 5 Comments
The anger over Sergeant Delroy Smellie’s acquittal is two-pronged. The first prong goes to Smellie, the police and the courts that are opening the door for future assaults. Smellie, after a suspension from service following his charge, is now on back the streets protecting the people of London. The second goes to Nicola Fisher who should have given evidence against the man who assaulted her. Her spinelessness makes her the Clare Short of activists
Social Policy
European court rules stop and search powers illegal
Leah Borromeo — January 12, 2010 3 Comments
The Home Office is to appeal a European Court of Human Rights decision that the use of section 44 (Terrorism Act 2000) to stop and search individuals violates the right to respect for a private life guaranteed by article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Section 44 has long drawn criticism from protesters who argue the police have used to power to infringes on their right to protest
Politics
I’m not conned by Copenhagen
Leah Borromeo — December 11, 2009 2 Comments
The feeling that a potentially powerful global movement is being hijacked by some very slick PR is keeping me away from Denmark. The talk around and within the conference seems to be an exercise in appearing to make a difference without actually changing a damn thing
Science
Police in bras and stockings?
Leah Borromeo — October 1, 2009 2 Comments
Despite the fact that photographs from the first day of the G20 protests in April 2009 show me astride an armoured personnel carrier in black bra and blue boiler suit with another woman straddling me in red stockings, lipstick and heels, the Crown Prosecution Service has charged me and 10 others with impersonating police officers. We’ve been charged with two counts under Section 90 of the Police Act 1996 – the greater of which carries with it six months in prison
Editor's Pick, Politics
Deadly White Gold
Leah Borromeo — September 2, 2009 4 Comments
In a world where 26 million tonnes of cotton is produced, its little wonder why cotton is called “white gold”. Worldwide organic cotton production increased by 152% in 2008 to just under 150k metric tonnes according to an Organic Cotton Farm and Fibre Report released by the Organic Exchange. The question of how best to dye cotton is one that stings organic campaigners in the tail. The use of dyes and their disposal, especially the ones used to make black, is still an issue that needs to be resolved
Editor's Pick, Politics
Keats’ Home To Reopen / Miserable Young Lad Who Wrote A Bit and Coughed to Death
Leah Borromeo — July 25, 2009 1 Comment
The public has waited and we’ve urned it. It took around two years and half a million pounds, but the London home where poet John Keats composed On a Grecian Urn, On Melancholy, and La Belle Dame Sans Merci is set to reopen this Friday. The Grade I listed house in Hampstead (a museum since [...]
Culture
Leah Borromeo
old enough to know better, young enough not to careLondon
Leah Borromeo is a journalist who has served as deputy foreign editor at Sky News, fawned over Jon Snow's bad socks at Channel 4 News and nearly died in a Land Rover for APTN. A bred televisual beast, she also writes for The Guardian, Juxtapoz, Who's Jack and things on the internets. And 'the biggest show off since Lady Godiva turned up in town on a horse claiming she had literally NOTHING to wear'.
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