Regeneration projects In August of 2009 the Islington Tribune reported on a story that revealed with unusual clarity the logic at the core of recent ‘regeneration’ projects in the UK. Having already reneged on promises to expand transport services, provide green spaces and social housing to abut the newly built Arsenal Emirates stadium, Arsenal FC […]
England
HM Prison – A Survival Guide
Carl Cattermole, HMP: A Survival Guide In calling this a ‘survival guide’ I guess I’ve already wrong footed you: people’s vicarious view of prison is that you’ll arrive, get robbed, get banged up with a psychopath and then get raped in the shower. In reality it’s nothing like this… I ended up on the high-risk […]
Letters
More lettuce to chew over from our readers. Dangerous Alliances: Class and the Student Movement, Edition Zero is really very interesting and beautifully written. Reminds me of Pasolini’s Valle Giulia but, just like Pasolini’s poem, I think there might be a problem in your argument. Whether you’re from Oxbridge or Croydon shouldn’t count in a […]
Lines in the campus sand: lecturers across picket lines
Crossing a Picket Lines In Edition Zero of The Paper, Morten Paul asked ‘what do academics do, when they go on strike?’. The answer offered by one of his professors was that ‘they use the time to work on their research’. The answer offered by other academics, it seems, is that they cross picket lines, […]