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For enlightenment see above

My god it was you!

The Dalai Lama?

The usual Guardian scattergun scaremongering, hand wringing, money and government hating claptrap; where does one start? Nobody from outside London has ever easily bought property in London; they have always been priced out by rich Brits and foreigners, so they try and buy on the fringes and then move in or rent or stay where they are. Nobody forced the cheerful Cockernee greengrocer to sell up to Kurds and move to Orpington. Only bad artists have ever had any money and artists? studios have always been impossible to find. If Network Rail wants to develop the arches in Brixton then it is down to the locals to oppose that and they should petition the government for help. The article bemoans the lack of housing but hates the developments yet all those box like flats are being snapped up and not only by rich Chinese. Just walk around them and listen. The piece says that industry in the capital has been denigrated since Thatcher and has been pushed to the fringes but then contrarily an interviewee says: ?There is a vast diversity of smaller businesses that is unstoppably, entrepreneurially driven. It is so fascinating to watch the refreshing of industry in London: things that people had written off are reviving and growing.? Yes pubs are closing but craft beer shops are opening every day. It says a number of mental health centres are being merged and the complaint is that some ?intimacy? will be lost. How about efficiencies increased? The article moans about the One Hyde Park development; agreed it is truly horrible but then the article concedes that it was Ken Livingstone that let it happen. It moans about basement developments in rich areas and then says that the sparse populations in these areas means that nearby shops and restaurants have to close. Er? where? It suggests that people are living in garden sheds. So what? Some sheds are nice. I?d have willingly lived in a shed when I first moved to London. Yes, the Heygate has been a scandal and the government and possibly the police should look into it but it looks more like old-fashioned corruption than politically driven social cleansing. It moans that the regeneration of the Crystal Palace Central Hill Estate, which it describes as ?draped beautifully around a hilly terrain? - have they ever been there? ? will mean demolition. Where?s the evidence of that? The Guardian wants to live in an imaginary past where artists, nurses and colourful artisans frolicked around the Maypole outside their low rent studios, local hospitals and shops then walked around their corner to their light and airy affordable park side flats. It ain't happening.

Did your mum take you Quids?

Damn this heat

Do all those white middle aged tossers really like Kanye West?

I'd be quite happy troughing it in there but I need to eat before September

When did you bust out CtJ?

Calling all Notting Hell experts. Old style with table cloths preferred but not the Ledbury

I agree, the wafting aroma from that stall yesterday whooshed me back to a holiday in Paros half a lifetime ago. We went on the Magic Bus so you can guess just how long ago. Unfortunately I wasn't hungry but I'm going to make sure I'm starving next time and eat two

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I know things are bad up there but Christ on a bike, maybe you should buy them a mobile.

Clever lad, run towards the big bloke. Nice one Nathan. Charge them with assault

The men anyway

I don't know how 40 someethings tell each other apart

Good man Loz

This one might have run its snotty course but someone brave among us might rake over the coals http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?9,1528112,1536367#msg-1536367

I luv Julie, reactionary old Israelite that she is. I wouldn't want to be stuck in a lift with her though, not with my tinnitus

Eight wrist slitters + TS Eliot

Quids! You've made a friend!

Tosser, areshole and smug, all in a little gem of a sentence. Respec

I haven't seen anyone in the Moore Park Tavern for a while

Tomasz Schafernaker?