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Another London Blog: About

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Welcome to the site! Here you will find musings on a diverse range of topics from London life and curiosities to Argentine domestic politics by way of British transport policy and whatever else takes my fancy on any given day. Anyway, obviously I hope you enjoy reading what is here, and please always feel free to comment/abuse/ridicule. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Surely London does not need Another Blog? Well, probably not, but I thought I'd write one anyway! Inside the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

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Another London Blog: Babylon

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Tuesday, 11 February 2014. Sunday 9th February saw the feature-length pilot episode of cop drama Babylon. On Channel 4. If you're reading this soon after the event, then you can still watch Babylon. Or that his character would be anything other than a very negative caricature given that the show was directed by Danny Boyle. By way of Modern Family. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Surely London does not need Another Blog? Well, probably not, but I thought I'd write one anyway! Strange Maps Big Think.

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Another London Blog: On the obvious lure of unions

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Tuesday, 11 February 2014. On the obvious lure of unions. This is based on something I first posted in September 2010. You don't get to keep your job and lifestyle the way it is by rolling over. Everyone else saying "that's not fair, we can't protect ourselves so why should you? Will not make union members think "oh yes, how right you are". Having witnessed what has happened in other industries which no longer have union representation, they will only redouble their efforts. Have a worthless pension?

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Another London Blog: Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat

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Friday, 2 August 2013. Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat. An interesting letter appeared in Spanish daily newspaper El País. On Wednesday which sums up quite nicely my thoughts about the reaction to the Santiago de Compostela rail crash. I feel it is worth reading in its entirety, and so I hope that neither the author nor El País. Will mind that an inconsequential English blogger has translated and republished the letter in full below:. It is necessary to ascertain why all the signal-activate...

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Another London Blog: Life Ending Arguments

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Monday, 1 April 2013. The BBC website today carries a story on its homepage about a young man killed by a train after an "altercation". I am certainly no stranger to fierce rows, but would like to think - wouldn't we all? That it would never come to this. 1 April 2013 at 15:15. 9 April 2013 at 23:41. Sadly, its just one of the occupational hazards of our jobs. And I think on the railways it always will be unless they PEDs on every platform and walls along every stretch of open track. 9 April 2013 at 23:42.

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Another London Blog: Review: "A Taste of Contemporary Catalan Theatre" at Arcola

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Saturday, 18 May 2013. Review: "A Taste of Contemporary Catalan Theatre" at Arcola. Is an impressive little place in a distinctly unlovely part of east London. It is bigger than it first appears, the main building housing a large bar room and two studios, while a big top-style tent makes for an innovative space thirty metres down the road. When we arrived, the bar was buzzing with people excitably waiting for the Sons without Fathers. A Chekhov adaptation that looks pretty good. In hindsight I suppose th...

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Another London Blog: Value for Money

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Friday, 12 April 2013. In Cumbria earlier this week, I paid five pounds per single ticket for a ten minute journey on a bus that had taken 40 minutes to arrive. Londoners: you don't know you're born. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Surely London does not need Another Blog? Well, probably not, but I thought I'd write one anyway! These are the musings of a London addict, a history lover and a KCL graduate with incurable wanderlust. Inside the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Strange Maps Big Think.

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Another London Blog: Derailed

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Monday, 29 July 2013. The worst thing about the Spanish rail crash is that it should not have been possible in 2013. When a disaster of this kind occurs it is easier for everyone to say "it was a accident waiting to happen"; for the papers to scream "Rail chiefs (hospital chiefs / education chiefs / army chiefs &c.) were told 94 times about failings in x, y and z". It is less easy, less palatable, to witness a crash the causes of which it should no longer be possible to create. Investigating the actions ...