Insult update

Me, either using the Tarnac Nine as an excuse to talk about collectives and communes, or using collectives and communes as an excuse for talking about the Tarnac Nine, in BD. Good also to see this being discussed in Comment is Free by the Institute. Relevantly, there's also now a site devoted to the Narkomfin building.

In that issue of BD is also a news story, a column and a debate on PFI, with the general thrust being the hope that, now that it can't even raise the capital it once could (albeit for its own entirely nefarious purposes), there's no possible reason for its continuation - not that this seems to have bothered Islington PCT, who voted yesterday to sell off the Finsbury Health Centre. So it'll either end up as a private clinic, or probably more likely, sit rotting until after another property boom inflates, when it can be sold for development as flats, as per its contemporary, the Peckham Health Centre - which is now a gated community, in the middle of one of the poorest areas in Europe. It's difficult to put into words just how disgusting this all is...