“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
“We humans are doing a fine job of wrecking everything, all on our own, denying climate change, giving into the same old tricks that lead to WWII and the Holocaust, so maybe it isn’t the worst idea to turn management of everything over to the machines. "
via Dave Winer
Looking back at Rock Against Racism—with hope for the future
via Socialist Worker
“Forest have had managers whose bluff and bluster was a dominant character trait — perhaps all they really had in their skillsets — but the Austrian is far from that. He is serious about building relationships. He is serious about improving players. He will be ruthlessly focused in his attempts to get where he believes he can take this Forest side.”
LOUD cough. Dyche… via the excellent Pete Blackbrun
Islington exhibition celebrates 50 years of cycling campaigns
via Ian Visits
“Blair opened his premiership on the Aylesbury Estate, a few minutes' walk away, in which he promised to rid the country of “no hope areas” like the flats behind him. “There are estates,” he said, “where all that is left of the high hopes of the post-war planners is derelict concrete. Behind the statistics are people who have lost hope, trapped in fatalism.” The narrative was set: estates as archaic decay, a Labour framing that met an existing Tory one halfway."
The Londoner on the framing of the Heygate.
Falling Standards: How Evgeny Lebedev saved - then sank - London’s newspaper
Cracking read on the fall of a once proud title.
Cheaper buses but more bombs from Burnham
via Morning Star
An interactive exhibition of Zang Tuum Tumb releases. Art, artefact and pop architecture, collected one edition at a time.
“When I close my eyes now I have a a movie-reel of stunning moments available to me. Anderson - constantly aware, constantly scanning, leading and directing - patrolling all areas of the football pitch as if the other players are just pawns in his game. Anderson isn’t human, he’s superhuman. His sense of the positioning of himself and others constantly updating, cataloguing every step those around him take and performing Rain Man calculations every millisecond to find the angles in which to dart and dance. Anderson is marvelous in the mundane moments and spectacular in the special seconds.”
Tell It Like It Is. Pete Blackburn on Elliot Anderson.
