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Puritans don’t party

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Sorry to be talking about the Olympics again, I know it’s pretty much inescapable where ever you go so I’m sorry to be adding to that. Now certain bits of the international media have noticed that we’re exactly in a party mood. I’m sure by now you’ve all seen the numerous stories about what that august body LoCog have decided to ban to prevent any local business actually benefiting from the disruption of the Olympics, in case you’ve missed it here’s a selection.A volunteer produced village news paper for Boxhill has been banned from making and selling a special edition … Continue reading →

The Olympics ™ (c) Pat Pending

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This blog would like to make it clear how very proud it is not to be an Olympic sponsor for the London 2012 games this summer. Following what must surely become known as chip gate the level of paranoia exhibited by the official sponsors turns out to exceed that of our security forces. Though of course they haven’t tried to put missiles on to nearby tower blocks to pre-emptively remove any unauthorised advertising, t-shirt, snack. The 300 purple capped brand police will be enforcing special legislation brought into protect the corporate interest of the big sponsors making sure no small … Continue reading →

Do keep up at the back

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Just a shy of two years after Henrietta Williams mapped out the ring of steel to high light the social engineering taking place in the City of London and Eighteen months after the London Assembly started debating the privatisation of public spaces, the Guardian has finally noticed that public spaces are being quietly eroded. One thing I think the Guardian (and possibly Henrietta Williams) fails to differentiate is between places where a right of public access has been removed and where a right of public access never existed. Whilst there are an increasing number of pseudo public places that are … Continue reading →