I found it quite interesting when I was chatting to people over the my travels darn sarf how even the least politically minded had noticed London's problems, especially the gentrification in the midst of poverty. Just read this description of London in 1844 by Engels, quoted in David Harvey's Social Justice and the City"These Londoners have been ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to post on this cos it's actually very dull (for a change) but I'm now raging so here goes ( Read more... )

That Jesus bloke didn't quite have it right. It's not 'easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God', nope. He actually meant to say: "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a over-keen PhD student to write his research proposal." Only 2000 words in, and a ( Read more... )