Dec 22 2008
Thatcher was in power, the industrial powerhouse of Britain was about to be switched off, converted into lofts within which drones for the new service-based economy c ... titles like Jackie and Blue Jeans, that featured a young couple running off to London to get away from their disapproving parents....
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Dec 07 2008
In the US the fall of the rate of profit in the industrial sphere resulted in a speculative spree in the artificial economy, a spree which put prices in the artificial s...
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Oct 24 2008
Hackney Council displaying their characteristic control-freakery and incompetence: “It seemed a diktat had come down from above that I was a non-person and should be barred from the library for the crime of writing an off-message piece on the Olympics. This essay, published in the London Review of Books, responded to aspects of the creation of the Olympic Park in the Lower Lea Valley: the destruction of the Manor Garden allotments, the eviction of travellers, and the famous ‘legacy’ revealed a
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Iain Sinclair - banned in Hackney
Oct 11 2008
Child Insurance: A Threat? Saturday 11 October 2008 @ 1:42 pm The attack on child insurance, if not adequately answered, threatened the very life of industrial insurance. Weekly Premium business was for the family; and unless the youngsters who formed so large a part of the family were included, the basic principle of this type of coverage was defeated. This result was abundantly evident from the experience of the Prudential of London, the expansion of which had been radically hindered by
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Sep 13 2008
... he tally) at around 300 C. E, a feat that would not again be matched until London of the industrial revolution. ... This kind of farming had been attempted since the 1600’s in New England, but never to such successes, now possible thanks to the mobility of industrialization, a nd burgeoning market economy....
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