Hundreds of families could soon be running their estate after homes saved from demolition
““Residents have at best been treated as a problem to be dealt with, not as individuals to be engaged with. We fought for the right to retain the roofs over our heads, and to prevent the social cleansing of our corner of SW2. We decided to resist, to fight back, as did our brothers and sisters on Central Hill and the other threatened estates.”
via the new South London Express - worth a follow.
“Perhaps more immediately painful as the weather turns is the knowledge that gas from Jackdaw will do sweet FA to bring down energy bills at home, according to most analysts. However, it is a big win for owner and operator Adura, a joint venture between fossil fuel giant Shell and Norwegian firm Equinox, so I guess we can all be pleased for their shareholders.”
via Novara
“I loved the term Big Undo so much, of course I had to get the domain. I started putting up my usual placeholder site but realized I should do this page in Markdown, not HTML. It looks fabulous. Markdown is right. It’s sobriety, go back to the beginning and put the potency in the ideas, give writers the space to write. Get the F out of my way with your freaky character limits. Anyway I’m full of manifesto these days. The money people strangled the web. I think it’s time for the creative people to make it work for real”
Tell It Like It Is
via Dave Winer
‘In his thorough research, Gall reminds us of the band’s refusal to get involved in Billy Bragg’s Red Wedge project. Despite its political idealism, Red Wedge was, nevertheless, an unsuccessful attempt to turn Britain’s youth culture towards supporting the Labour Party and its diluted form of social democracy.”
Socialist Worker on the new Redskins bio