“The Lambeth Conservatives may not be a very influential force, having lost their last councillor in 2022, but it was their arguments that ensured the ward name has an apostrophe in the correct place: Myatt’s Fields rather than Myatts Field. As a pedant, this author salutes their efforts on behalf of a ward they will never win.”
Arf.
via OnLondon
250,000 on streets: Palestine march shows movement’s breadth and radicalism
via Socialist Worker
Rimbaud and Vaucher discuss Dial House with The Observer
via HNWB
“I take blogging seriously, you should too. It’s very powerful, as long as we’re really working on the web. There’s a difference between having a product you can access through a browser and being on the web.”
via Dave Winer
Burnham told his government must improve the lives of the working class or risk fuelling a ‘fascist fire’
via Morning Star
HDIF Weller Night
“Finch then developed a distinctive tower block design for the borough, used on a number of sites built in the late 1960s. Eight tall towers with projecting facades were built in the area either side of Kennington Park Road/Clapham Road between Kennington and Stockwell.”
The legacy of George Finch, via Modernist London
“But in recent seasons, the Premier League middle-class have been flexing their muscles: Aston Villa regularly qualifying for Europe and wining silverware, Crystal Palace lifting the FA Cup, Newcastle United the League Cup, Bournemouth and Brighton establishing themselves as top ten clubs with an eye on a trophy, and lest we forget our three semi-finals and seventh place finish. The point being that such clubs might even have achieved more were it not for City’s sham contracts.”
David Marples on Man City
Weller on Clobbered
“I’ve been on these trips with corporate platforms, and if they want you gone, you should just take the hint and go, because eventually you will get the point. This is a company that has nothing put spite for the web, or perhaps envy, or individual developers (ie indieweb). They are pure fuckers when it comes to people like you and me.”
Dave WIner on https - and yep, you have to bypass the bloody annoying Google Nanny State to get there…
Coltrane at 100
via Richard Williams
Restore Britain: a party on the road to fascism
via Socialist Worker
Incoming new live Weller album
“Parliamentarians tend to be a self-serving bunch: getting the PLP to vote for an early election is tricky when so many of them are predicted to lose their seats. "
via Novara
“Watson’s role will be to increase the “social and economic value” of its work through public services, jobs and skills. Translation: this former minister will help grease our way to the government teat.”
Telll It Like It Is. via Novara
Richard Wilson on Woody
“Harnessing the power of harvest, when after the fruit comes decay”
Late Junction captures the season to perfection.
“I come from NYC where all the bodies of water were cesspools when I was growing up. The Hudson River had garbage floating in it. When I went to school the incinerators in the buildings we lived in burned garbage on the kids, all nicely washed and dressed by our mothers, we arrived at school smelling like smokers. My grandfather took me to Knicks games at the Garden, and the arena was filled with smoke by half-time. We can clean things up. Humans as a species are good at this if we put our minds to it.”
Dave Winer on cleaning up the social web
“I cannot ignore the thought that the contradiction between these two pieces of news reflects the nature of our times. The Brewery decision reveals a government in thrall to big money and big tech in the quest for growth at any cost, despite the objections of more than 7000 people.”
The 17th Annual Report from Spitalfields Life
