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Why I hate the Champions League
Who came third the year Arsenal won the league at Anfield in 1989? Does anybody remember? Does anybody care? Indeed, who came fourth in 2007? Third when Manchester United won the treble in 1999?...
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Brixton Bugle: the future of local newspapers?
Even in these days of live blogs, hyperlocal websites and social media, it can be easy to miss news stories. While national attention focuses disproportionately on a handful of big stories – whether...
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Peter Hitchens on drugs and the moral, opium-eating, Victorians
Peter Hitchens is a very clever man. I’m sure he’s also sincere – I can’t believe British newspapers would employ somebody to say stupid and provocative things just to get attention, after all – but...
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At Speakers’ Corner
This article was first published in Time Out in 2006. I am posting it after hearing about Sounds from the Park, a partnership between On the Record and Bishopsgate Institute that is hoping to record an...
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Nostalgia corner: Zola, bitumen, Paolozzi and the great ‘is London shit?’ debate
Because of a frantic start to 2015, I’ve neglected Great Wen recently. Hopefully, I’ll find something to stick up soon but in the meantime here are a few interesting bits and bobs. First, here’s me,...
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It’s all glass here now – the taming of St Giles and death of the West End
I have a piece in today’s Guardian about the disappearing London district of St Giles, for centuries a hive of villainy and low entertainment but which is now, finally, being aggressively domesticated...
View ArticleReversing the ferret: affordable housing at Battersea Power Station
The Evening Standard, usually a reliable cheerleader of the Battersea Power Station redevelopment, reports that the already limited affordable housing commitment is being slashed in half. The argument...
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