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Weeds
Flying into Belgrade on a clear early April day a couple of days ago, I was treated to an amazing spectacle, glimpses of which are shown here, of the heavily farmed agricultural landscape of this part of the Danube valley. … Continue reading
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April 14, 2013
Tagged agriculture, art, Belgrade, Danube, freedome, Judith Rugg, Landscape, Serbia, weeds
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1963 – the great unbuttoning
As 2013 begins, I am reminded that it marks the 50th anniversary of 1963, the year when, in most people’s reckoning, the 1960s really started. Last night, I had dinner with Liz Heron*, whom I first met when she invited … Continue reading
Starting the new year with a bit of decay
I used the image in the last post as my greetings card this Christmas (changing the title to ‘knock, knock’ because people found the existing one rather obscure). I took the picture in Budapest several years ago when the sight … Continue reading
you’ll never know unless you try
With all best wishes for happy holidays and nice surprises in 2013
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Happy Christmas, Corporations! with love from George Osborne
The public debate about yesterday’s Chancellor’s Autumn Statement has been largely framed, by the Labour party as well as by the mass media, in terms of a redistribution between the poor and the rich, with the latter presented in their … Continue reading
Size Queens, consumption work and the unpredictable paths that ideas travel
Last week I received an email saying, ‘My band, The Size Queens, are about to release our 5th album, in part due to your work. The cybertariat was the inspiration for it — though we’ve been progressively moving in this … Continue reading
Found Art (or the delights of negative entropy)
A sophisticated awareness of graffiti is now part of the essential intellectual armoury of any East London resident or visitor with pretentions to hipness or gentility. Tourists take guided tours of the street art of Shoreditch, Islington home-owners trying to … Continue reading
Stuck in the head
Whether it is because the synapses transmit more randomly to each other in an ageing brain or perhaps just because I am exposed to fewer auditory distractions, I have recently found that songs are getting stuck in my head for … Continue reading
Posted in political reflection, things visual
Tagged Bobby McGee, Cerys Matthews, earwork, Grateful Dead, guitar, harmonica, here comes the sun, hiraeth, hobo, hwyl, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, John Cale, Kerouac, Kris Kristofferson, memory, music, myfanwy, nostalgia, Righteous brothers, Ron Pigpen McKernan, There she was just a walking down the street, Welshness, you've lost that loving feeling
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Identity, nationality and the Olympics
When wondering what to call this post I realised that if you take the limp out of Olympics what you are left with is oiks. I’m sure there’s a joke about the coalition government in there somewhere but I haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in life in Dalston, political reflection
Tagged Dalston, Hackney, multiculturalism, national identiy, Olympics, patriotism
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The cannibalisation of the NHS continues
Every encounter with the health service seems to bring on the one hand an example of the dedication and sympathy of individual health workers and on the other yet another instance of the way in which the NHS is being … Continue reading
Posted in political reflection
Tagged hearing aids, NHS, outsourcing, privatisation, public services
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