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society
This town, is coming like an Eco Town
“This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This place, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won’t play no more
too much fighting on the dance floor”Lyrics there from Ghost Town by the Specials, which, if you replace ghost with eco, may prove an ominous prophecy for the future of Eco [...]
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economics, society
Crash?
The irregulars looked at this before we knew what blogging was, and dug it out last night. American property prices since records began, modelled as a ‘Theme Park’ rollercoaster (do you remember how full of win Theme Park was?)
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art, london, shoreditch
Bard-a-bing
Cowards die many times before their death
Shoreditch hasn’t always been packed full of languishing artistes, whining musicians and general “cooler than thou” fuck tools. Some of it’s famous former residents include Jeremy Beadle (RIP), Barbara Windsor (watch the infamous Carry on Camping scene here) and none other than William Shakespeare. In fact, if the Bard [...] -
Uncategorized, facebook, society
Find your friends on Facebook, er I did?
07.17.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsAnyone who’s been on said networking site for any serious amount of time will no doubt have trawled their brains and the facebook network for people that they have even the remotest slither of liking for. However, Facebook has added a new functionality that hangs over you like a spectre, that assumes that you’re not [...]
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Politics, Uncategorized, society
From bad to worse…
So I think it’s fair to say that the press has well and truly gone for the jugular on the whole recession thing. Every other page is RPI this and negative equity that.
I’m more sanguine about the whole scenario to be honest, I think we’ve been living large for the last 10 odd years and [...]
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