Sexist, patronising and generally awful advertising (most notably on public transport). The 'love your shape in just 2 weeks' campaign feeds people's insecurities and should be banned. Love your body how it is. Boycott Special K. 7 days ago via web

Just tried to get a replacement for my faulty phone. I'm paying £5 a month for this service. Turns out Orange can't replace the phone as it's out of stock, and in fact they only have one single model, the (officially crap) Toshiba TG01, that they offer as a replacement. No choosing a different phone from their site, no sir! And they call that customer service? 21 days ago via web

This is a positive Quiet Riot comment! Want to say how amazingly good the Oyster card is. It really is. No queueing at ticket desks ever. Autotop up means it's scarily easy to spend money but all in all it's a great service and something most cities in the world have nothing remotely as good as. about 1 month ago via web

O2... please admit that you drop calls all the time with the iPhone. It's affecting so many people. I know I'm not the only one. Just want you to acknowledge the problem. You have too much network traffic. Orange and Vodafone are just as bad. about 1 month ago via web

Cut off just as the call was starting after going through the menu options. Definitely was at the Virgin Media end that the call was dropped. I'm on a landline. Are the call reps trying to improve their call? about 1 month ago via web

It's so easy to be accused of being a whingebag but... calling O2 took 20 minutes last week to transfer a number to prepay. Then the SIM card arrives. It's for the wrong number and the wrong payment plan. Call again. Get cut off. Call again. Get told I need to talk to the Consumer department to then transfer to Prepay. That's fine but it took so much time and wasn't my mistake in the first place. about 1 month ago via web

go to the campaign website at http://tinyurl.com/33s3om9 find your council ward and click on the link for the councillors and the planning committee.

Send you comments and be at the meeting on the 21 July

Hurry time is short about 1 month ago via web

Streatham in the last 10 or so years is a story of the local authorities over-promising and simply not delivering. Having lived in different parts of Lambeth and Wandsworth in the late 1990s and early 2000s, we moved to Streatham about 6 years ago. Like many, we saw the attractiveness of relatively low cost housing (for SW London), tree-lined streets, and the promise of investment into local projects such as:
1. The Streatham Hub
2. The regeneration of the High Road (improved paving, lighting, and shops such as the Iceland façade, and the “dip” near Streatham station)
3. Improved facilities at the previously grand Tate library, enabling local people to better educate themselves
4. A turnaround of places (such as Streatham Leisure Centre) where everyone, but especially the young, could take part in sport, get fitter, and improve their social well-being
5. The regeneration of social centres to take people of the streets and have some fun, such as the development of the former Megabowl and Caesars Nightclub

The local authority, for one reason or another, has failed to deliver on any of these promises, and as a result it has failed the people who fund it and more importantly the people most in need who rely on it:
• Not a single stone has been broken in the development of the Streatham Hub despite promised completion dates dating back to 2003. If the buildings were as high as the promises and newspaper column inches that have been given by the Streatham authorities we would have a skyline to compete with some of the biggest and best cities in the world
• The High Road remains a place where people only shop when they cannot get an item elsewhere. While the central part of the High Road now does have some trees and the central brick bollards removed, the rest remains a deeply depressing place to shop. Moreover, the recent development highlights the broken local planning process: as the builders moved in to finally lay the paving, they found that the plans contravened safety regulations and had to go back to the drawing-board, costing more time and money
• The Tate library is falling apart and will soon be unusable
• The Streatham Leisure centre is now closed. On the way to Streatham station yesterday I found that it has now been completely boarded-up with notices saying that it is closed until further notice. There is no worse signal to the young people of the area who used the facility that its local government has deserted it. Is it any wonder that some of the young people in the area choose a life of crime rather than trust the empty words of the local council? The council will of course blame Tesco, other small vested interests, or the tight cost constraints imposed by the “Credit Crunch”. On passing the building I noticed that the foundation stone was laid in 1928. Most public buildings have a usable lifetime of around 60 years. There is no excuse for not planning and delivering on the replacement of this facility in those timeframes
• The development of the social facilities is beset by delays. It is clear that decisive decision-making is absent. The minority of people who fear that the Megabowl redevelopment is one storey too high are able to hold sway over the vast majority who just want better than an empty, boarded-up monstrosity on their high street

I love this area. I am passionate about making this area better for everyone. Much of the good things that I have seen happen in the past 6 years have not come from government or the local council. They have come from people willing to take things into their own hands: building a local nursery, tidying their garden, getting involved in local community projects. This post is intended to be a small push in that direction: to get like-minded people together to take the lead, and perhaps also (I hope) put pressure on the local council to finally deliver the bigger projects that this community desperately needs.
about 1 month ago via web

I would like to raise awareness of a condition called anosmia.

I developed this condition a few years ago and have encountered a near total lack of understanding from both medical professionals and the general populace.

It is a condition which has a significant but invisible impact on my life, and the lack of awareness means that encounter various obstacles. I have to deal with people being unsympapthetic. Doctors are often unaware of possible treatments and dismissive of the condition. There is no infrastructure to support fellow sufferers. Many people suffer in ignorance unable to share experiences or developments in potential treatment.

Anosmia is the loss or lack of sense of smell. There are various causes of this condition, with a variety of prognoses.

I would like to campaign for a Royal National Institute for Anosmic People, analagous to the similar organisations for the deaf and the blind. about 1 month ago via web