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Pinkham Way demonstration
(called a 'rabble' by Barnet councillor)
Link to Daily Telegraph |
"... London comes across as a
visceral creature, crouching in the smoking ruins left by the fire of 1666
(where three-fifths of the city was destroyed), from which it is rearing,
learning tricks both hideous and clever; cranking out the sinews and meat of
new buildings and streets and squares; forming political and legal muscle,
raising or crushing or hanging its populace with impunity.
"White’s London is panting, glorious, vindictive, unapologetic, sensual and
alive; a creature in stark contrast with the polite blandness one sometimes
takes for London now (yet, as the 2011 riots show, a city, however mellowed,
still able to pillage and burn)."
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