London's Falling

A pictorial essay

To paraphrase the Clash from late 1979 / early 1980.

“The ice age is coming, the sun's zoomin' in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin”

Well the Ice Age failed but London is trying very hard to bring about a human ice age, where everything is tracked. Try paying cash in the centre of London and you’ll be mostly out of luck. Of course I think that it’s still legal tender so if you leave say £20 on their counter for your lunch as you walk out into the London air is there really anything they can do about it other than run after you with a terminal in their hand saying “sir but you have to pay by card”.

I don’t think so….

Anyway here’s London mostly from Friday just gone. My comments were (mostly) added at the time as I snapped on my phone. They’re not in order.

Eid in the Square (it has fallen)

It’s Vegan so it won’t take cash of course.

Defibrillator on site, of course.

Figure this pizza place knows where to stick it

So fuck you shake shack

In your face constantly

Just don't bring cash

Virtue signalling & just in case a worker goes down with a heart attack…

Black artists from the American South

Black lives matter

Waiting for the King to be coronated

Just don’t bring cash yet again…

NZ House is soon to get a makeover. So as it can also be an eyesore for a new generation.

Heed the Eid

Fucking Rainbow bus stops

Dystopian messages about how you were being watched by CCTV were playing as I walked past here.

Sure, sure.

Of course there’s retail opportunities (a whole lot of them)

Just don’t bring cash

There might be a whole lot of bikes parked 5 metres away but there’s no bike lanes anywhere

Maybe 10% wind & solar, 20% nuclear and the rest coal?

Even the Muslims are into fucking rainbows

Charlie’s flags

These falafel places are everywhere

They’re blocking streets off with these (not a terrible idea around Covent Garden it has to be said)

Transphobic show

No bike lanes but lots of bikes (you really do take your life in your hands to bike around London)

I’m sure that this 4,000kg EV is saving the planet. I’m sure.

Oh yeah…

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Cyclists do you feel brave?

Generally the most irritating thing about London right now, and it is very irritating, is the number of places that don’t take cash.

Vegan is everywhere. So are messages about “clean energy”. And to a lesser extent there are rainbow crossings, signs and the occasional pub. But although there are quite a lot of rainbow flags around & other woke paraphenalia about making sure that the WEF gods of sustainability are fed I’ve yet to see one trans person. Not one. Unless I didn’t notice a short gal with a beard walk past (they all have beards). But I don’t think so. It’s not just nothing in Dunedin, it’s nothing in its home, London.

Oh and the hotels are expensive. And Charlie is getting coronated (is that the right word?) this Saturday.