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London, Global City of the Year. You bet it is!

“It’s shockingly expensive. The roads are jammed with traffic. The subway system’s hopeless, and the buses no better. There’s a surveillance camera on every other corner, and the sidewalks are strewn with litter. The biggest airport is a joke. The richest residents are fleeing or threatening to; the poorest have been chased out into the suburbs by soaring property prices. And the weather sucks.

Why is somewhere with so much against it such a great place for creatives to live and work?…”

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“Rolling Stone Keith Richards is as wrinkly as a leather bag, which evidently makes him the perfect choice to be the new face of Louis Vuitton.”

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“It Warms The Cockles of Your Heart”
Tonight the RSA is showing the documentary Lake of Fire. Fifteen years in the making it is a two and half hour epic, shot in black and white, that tackles the subject of abortion in the US. The film was made by Tony Kaye who famously disowned his first feature film American History x. I wasn’t surprised to learn that it contains extremely disturbing and graphic images but I certainly didn’t expect Tony Kaye to also be the man responsible for one of the most recognised television adverts of the 80s. The Q&A afterwards should be interesting…

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