Every time I think I've seen it all from the Daily Mail, they go and raise. That shitting stock photographer needs introducing to the real thing down a dark ally
http://www.david-campbell.org/2011/03/06/thinking-images-v-12-fake-bad-girls/
Are the lives of Daily Mail readers so mind numbingly dull that they concern themselves with social issues that rarely have an impact on them. The fear and and contempt they have of the working class is undeniable, it's reprehensible.
Erm...
Fuck em
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Saturday, 12 March 2011
A ride on the Ghost Train
Today was an annual thing, a trip to re visit The Crooked House, re visit the kid in us all. It's a trip to let free from yourself.
Turned out it was closed and a guarantee of magic will happen on it's return. I doubt it. It's just another fine memory of a place being erased (gray squirrels).
So . . . . on the Ghost Train, it was. Some of us became kids again. It was magic.
Turned out it was closed and a guarantee of magic will happen on it's return. I doubt it. It's just another fine memory of a place being erased (gray squirrels).
So . . . . on the Ghost Train, it was. Some of us became kids again. It was magic.
Friday, 11 March 2011
Red Squirrel
The Red Squirrel is Ben, Ancoats is his natural habitat. It was mine when I was a boy. A population of grey squirrels have been introduced to Ancoats and they don't mix well with red squirrels.
"History is written by the victors"
Winston Churchill
Ancoats is considered to be the first industrial suburb in the world. I didn't know that growing up, I would not have cared. I do know that red squirrels have been there for a long time. Surviving in a tough environment and enduring things like a lower life expectancy, a poor education, a lack of social mobility. The lack of social mobility tends to mean that red squirrels don't migrate that much. They live and die close to where they were born.
Gentrification is seldom a good thing for red squirrels. It's an interesting social experiment but it's not driven by a social concerns,
it's driven by finance. Red squirrels have no money, you've got to attract grey squirrels. How do you make a tough environment attractive? How do you sell it? You reinvent it, you destroy many of the homes of red squirrels. You make new one's that only grey squirrels could hope to live in. You gate them off from the natives, you tell them it's a new town.
Saw sign a couple of years back that said "Buy to live". In the distance I could see the old council block where I had my first flat after leaving home. Twelve floors of derelict flats that the council had just abandoned,
homes for at least 60 red squirrels
That's a high price to pay
"History is written by the victors"
Winston Churchill
Ancoats is considered to be the first industrial suburb in the world. I didn't know that growing up, I would not have cared. I do know that red squirrels have been there for a long time. Surviving in a tough environment and enduring things like a lower life expectancy, a poor education, a lack of social mobility. The lack of social mobility tends to mean that red squirrels don't migrate that much. They live and die close to where they were born.
Gentrification is seldom a good thing for red squirrels. It's an interesting social experiment but it's not driven by a social concerns,
it's driven by finance. Red squirrels have no money, you've got to attract grey squirrels. How do you make a tough environment attractive? How do you sell it? You reinvent it, you destroy many of the homes of red squirrels. You make new one's that only grey squirrels could hope to live in. You gate them off from the natives, you tell them it's a new town.
Saw sign a couple of years back that said "Buy to live". In the distance I could see the old council block where I had my first flat after leaving home. Twelve floors of derelict flats that the council had just abandoned,
homes for at least 60 red squirrels
That's a high price to pay
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Don McCullin speaks
Been two years this weekend since Dad died.
I have no idea why I'm brought back to Don McCullin's Radio 4 interview tonight, in two parts. Just great.
Part 1
Part 2
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