Category: london | 倫敦 | 런던 | ロンドン
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Japan – Soul Train connection
Japan – Soul Train connection The Japan – Soul Train connection can consider to have started with The Three Degrees who seemed to do consistently more successfully in Japan than the US. The Three Degrees The Sound of Philadelphia is better known to people over 40 as the theme tune of the Soul Train TV…
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Apple Is Trash + more news
Apple Is Trash Why Apple Is Trash? Because Apple has demonstrated a moral bankruptcy in its behaviour. In the west, it is pro-LGBTQI, pro-security, pro-freedom etc. However its conduct elsewhere shows that it supports and strives to please authoritarian regimes. The Information on Apple in China, Apple’s Deal, Evaluating Apple’s China Risk – Stratechery by…
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Angry Britain + other news
Angry Britain Radicalised normal: how Britain fell to the conspiracy… – The Face – interesting essay. But one that I think under estimates the nature of what I’ve called angry Britain. Angry Britain don’t like the speed of change, they’re drawn from all classes of society. Angry Britain encompasses Where will angry Britain take us? Business…
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Lee Dunne + more things
Lee Dunne How Lee Dunne challenged the depiction of working-class mothers | RTÉ – I originally didn’t know Lee Dunne as a novelist. Instead he was part of my childhood. Lunchtime listening when I wasn’t at school was Harbour Hotel, a radio soap opera written by Lee Dunne that gave a good sense of everyday…
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Endeavour Christmas card and other things that caught my eye this week
Creative agency Endeavour sent out the first Christmas card that I received. This year they focused on content rather than design with everything that you need Christmas 2020 – Endeavour. There was guidance on how to make paper Christmas trees including a green PDF that you can print out if you don’t like the snow…
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Boris Johnson + more things
The Irreparable Damage Boris Johnson Is Wreaking on Britain – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace – unlike many members of his party, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not have any particular animus toward foreigners. He has betrayed pretty well everyone in his various lives as philanderer, journalist, and politician: wives, mistresses, editors, readers, party…
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1999 eclipse
The 1999 eclipse, also called millennium eclipse as it would be the last total solar eclipse of the 2oth century popped up recently on the BBC. For me it was a big online event. Eclipses don’t happen often. The last one in the UK had been some 72 years earlier. I was working in an…
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Stussy soundtrack & other things
Stussy soundtrack to work to. Stüssy and music have always been a blend. Shawn Stüssy has talked about the soundtrack to his work. Soon after Stussy customers in punk, hip hop and beyond provided a Stussy soundtrack of sorts. The International Stüssy Tribe made up of people who Shawn Stüssy had met as the business…
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Bush TR 82 – throwback gadget
Whilst you might not know the Bush TR 82, if you were from western Europe you’ll recognise its style immediately. Post-war Britain In the post-war era Bush Radio Limited tried to fill consumers demands for entertainment. There were radios that would sit on a sideboard and would have the presence of a TV set. Many…