Selected linkings

• Rather lovely map showing the tides of imperialism in the Middle East from, well, the beginning of human civilisation until now.
  
  
• AVPS discusses socialism and space.
  
  
• Candy Udwin, a tireless Camden campaigner, has a piece in the Guardian discussing what shape the fight against the cuts should take.
  
  
• Socialist Unity reports on the strange case of the sex workers who started picketing a local church.
  
  
• Living with rats tells us that even the air can hurt us.
  
  
• Westminster skeptics are hosting an event on September 13th from 7:00pm - 8:30 with award winning freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke on 'Freedom of Information and Evidence Based Policy Making'. Old Monk Exchange,Corner of Strutton Ground and Victoria Street, London