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Back room of the Shaftesbury is good for a party and the pub is hugely helpful and does good food etc. Nor sure if it would fit 100.
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I had noticed people's decision to widely flout the Hanley Road closure in one direction. It is needlessly closed, however, as it's wide enough to get two lanes of traffic through there. I think it's the water board. They should sort it and just …
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Thanks Ali, will give that a read
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Got to admit that while you know more about art than me Atom, I'm with Luke. The house is an impressive piece of work, but while I like the look of her stuff it doesn't make me think 'wow, that's amazing'. The craft of the ceramics is really impres…
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Especially, as there is no apparent connection between what she said and what's been designed. How is that installation exploring the area's culture, heritage and rich history? Enjoying using the new entrance, even though walking round to Goodwin …
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Is 'an accountable and trusted media' controlled by the state? It often seems to be, when that's put forward. Mr Corbyn seems a big fan of that. Not saying yours is, but very interested as to how you think it could be achieved.
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Granary Thai cafe is top notch. I really like the food from there and I can confirm that I too am a committed slaughtered dead animal etc eater. An M&S food is going to clean up in that location. Should suck a lot of custom away from the awful …
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Nice one Arkady, The builder reckoned this week or next from Goodwin Street was a possibility
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I stopped to chat to one of the workmen the other day, between Starbucks and Oak as you could see down towards the new entrance - but it didn't look like you'd be able to get to it within a few weeks. That's because, as MountpElephant says, the way…
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If I thought that Corbyn and McDonnell would actually go after the big digital businesses dodging tax by shuffling revenue overseas; get more money off the fat cat executives on multi million pound salaries and bonuses; get the people leaving £10mil…
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It's tough for restaurants and cafes at the moment... even really good ones.
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The problem is that we keep expanding the population and building more homes in London and the South East and never put the infrastructure in place to support it, from schools, to hospitals, to trains, buses, and wrecking chalkstreams. It would tak…
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True, I have sympathy with the difficulty in doing it but it's made even harder if you neglect it for years, while leaching money out of the system to investors. Privatising water should never have been done.
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From the Times: Thames Water lost 178 litres per property every day last year, the worst performance of any company. To put that in context Consumer Council for Water stats show the average person in a two person household uses 300 litres of wate…
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It has absolutely trashed a load of people's homes. I feel really sorry for them. Thames Water is also among the water firms destroying the UK's unique chalk streams by tapping into the aquifers for water - at the same time as letting it leak out o…
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Can confirm Piccolo Diavolo is now open in its new location the old La Porchetta. Stopped in and said hello on way past last night, looks nice in there - will go in for dinner next week. It's step up in terms of space and an example of a long-stan…
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When you see some of the bills the councils present it's shocking. The charge for scaffolding, for example, is often way higher than what it would cost one of us to sort privately... Surely the councils get bulk discounts on scaffolding?
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That entrance opening news is a real bright spot, will make a huge difference.
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BrodieJ, I agree, an example I would give is that the difference between Finsbury Park and Clissold Park is stark
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My suspicion is that it's like parking fines and roads: It theoretically goes back into the park budget but what they do is fudge it by then not allocating money they would have had to spend on the park from the usual budget.
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Not sure if this has been posted, but Guardian article on the pimping out of parks - with particular focus on Finsbury Park. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/05/revealed-how-london-parks-are-partly-privatised-festivals-wireless-finsbury-…
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And the other stuff, I just read that Gazette skateboard ramp article and for the benefit of nobody in the world who is interested though I'd set out what actually happened to the ramp. You never know, some local journalist might copy it from here …
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What you mean due to this sentence: 'Anyway, in other Parkland Walk related news.' It's because it's from a newspaper. I believe he also did a talk last week and is doing a walk, those may be news. I'd agree, the decision not to extend the North…
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There are a lot of inaccuracies in that skateboard ramp story, which seems to have been cribbed badly from here. The first is the intro: The community is "split 50-50" after an "iconic" skateboard ramp was ripped out of the abandoned railway track…
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Saw them setting it up the other day, looks interesting. Let's hope it's great and a success
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Lawrence, I didn't even know there were meetings. Care to elaborate? I'm a local Islington resident who heads up there regularly, whose kids play on it, albeit not at Cape, got involved when the skate ramp was so terribly replaced, and I wasn't aw…
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That's Islington's only skateboard ramp and one of only two skate facilities in the entire borough. They were meant to get a proper skatelite replacement for the old ramp, then decided to cut corners and got the cowboys in. There has been a ramp th…
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If they have fenced that off it's a real shame, the kids love playing on that and there is nothing dangerous about playing there unsupervised. Children play there all the time. My understanding was it was a playground open to the public at all ti…
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Scruffy, you did that thing again of putting words into my mouth. At what point did I suggest anything was PC nonsense?
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Krappy didn't stereotype ethnicity, he made a joke about scrap metal to do with a bunch of people who pitched up their caravans in the park (a place you aren't allowed to pitch up a caravan) related to the traditionally higher likelihood of people l…