Monthly Archives: October 2013
The annexation and colonisation of Stratford and Hackney Wick
When Jacques Rogge took to the rostrum in Singapore in 2005 he might as well have been dressed in a black cloak with a large stick supporting a Cockney skull. When he announced the host city for 2012, a death knell rang out over the part of East London earmarked for the Olympics. Sebastian Coe, […]
The Immaculate Olympic Conception
When that old seducer, Jacques Rogge, announced London as the host city, he was putting the final touches to an elaborate foreplay, which was to culminate in a union between the International Olympic Committee, the city of London and the British government. Out of the union non-identical twins were conceived, genetically engineered using code provided […]
The awarding of the 2012 Olympics to London
There is this beast, a weird kind of vulture, a parasite, which has evolved over the last one hundred years, adapting itself to first the modernist and now the post-modernist world. For the most part, like any vulture, it takes to the sky, too high to be noticed. But every four years, needing to feed, […]
Ravish London 