links for 2013-10-20
“Philosopher, cricket fan, country music lover, Marxist, liberal socialist, democrat, political blogger…”
I could skip the country music bit, but that’s quite a character description for one of the original old school bloggers.
…aka when crappy PR stunts backfire. I doubt if the marketing fool at aspect.co.uk responsible for the picture opp waiting to go wrong feels any shame.
You can’t buy links out there in the Blogosphere [GEDDIN].
Nope - YOU REALLY CAN’T BUY LINKS OUT THERE…
See what they did there?
And what is it with these Apprenticeships anyway?
The Boris Bikes Gis A Job may be a mighty long way from the boardroom bollocks of Sir Alan, but both prove that capitalism ISN’T working.
YEAH.
“Residents tend to feel more connected to their neighborhoods than to London as a whole, and because it can be an undertaking to travel to another part of town for a social occasion, geography starts to feel like destiny.”
The New York view of living in London, via @nytimes.
“Londoners wear their urban identities more lightly, living in the city but not necessarily of it. They tend to belong to where they’re from, not where they are.”
Transpontine explorations are strangely absent from the essay.
A rather affluent lifestyle isn’t.
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