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London's Falling

A pictorial essay

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May 01, 2023
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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”

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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 Sqare (they've taken it)
Eid in the Square (it has fallen)

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