Disaster Updates

Poorly and full of strong painkillers, so not much to post at the moment - instead, go read the following: a quite brilliant post at the Tomb, in reponse to the curious argument that the 'core vote' ought to be grateful for 11 years of New Labour, outlining how their pernicious, ideologically-driven and obsessively power-crazed politics have played out in 'regeneration' and 'investment in public services' in the city of Sunderland.



The I.T-derived mordant urbanist photo-essay sub-genre attempts to find defenestrating bankers - a short post by the IT girl herself, and a longer disquisition at E&V, which goes into detail on a rather philosophically ambitious pumping station; and on that apocalyptic economic situation, AWP politely asks that people stop referring to multi-billion dollar handouts to banks as 'socialism'.