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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Olympic Spirit Comes to East London
‘Is that a rollercoaster, daddy?’ a young boy, his face pressed firm against the plate glass, points in the direction of a towering, twisting hulk of clay-red metal in the middle distance. ‘No son, it says here it’s a piece … Continue reading
Posted in Society and Culture, Sport
Tagged Hackney Tours, Iain Sinclair, Olympics, Simon Cole, Stratford, Westfield
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Access All Areas – LRB Blog
In January, Transport for London applied for anti-social behaviour orders to be issued against four unnamed young men. Under the terms of the ASBO, they are prohibited from speaking to one another for ten years, carrying equipment that may be … Continue reading
Ireland’s tough road back
It doesn’t feel like a country in the grip of a lost decade, writes Peter Geoghegan, but beyond Dublin’s corporate office blocks and crowded city-centre bars lies another Ireland Last weekend more than 50,000 people – many of them Scottish … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Scotsman, Society and Culture
Tagged Abie Philbin Bowman, Celtic Tiger, Conor McCabe, Economy, Ireland
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Rangers’ fall from grace leaves long list of victims
On Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron paid a visit to Scotland. At a press conference, held in camera-sight of Edinburgh Castle, the Tory leader made an impassioned plea for maintaining two venerable institutions with long histories and uncertain futures: the political union between Scotland … Continue reading
Posted in Sport, Sunday Independent
Tagged Celtic, Craig Whyte, David Murray, Rangers
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Paul Mason – Kicking Off the Revolution
On a bright Saturday morning early last year, a bleary-eyed Paul Mason sat down to pen a blog for Newsnight, the BBC current affairs programme on which he is economics editor. The previous evening he had delivered a lecture on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Politics, Society and Culture, The Herald
Tagged Guy Debord, Newsnight, Occupy, Paul Mason, Revolution
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