by uzwi

“…there needs to be a much bigger public debate about control of advertising before commercial corporate interests infiltrate every aspect of the public landscape” –Dr John Middleton, Faculty of Public Health, quoted here. Best of luck with that, then. “One unwritten law of the free market is that every space possesses potential as a marketplace, and that to fail to realise that potential is an offence against mammon.” –Jonathan Meades, “Terminal”. I don’t care if London becomes a National Park–whatever postmodern insult to the original logic of the term is being used to give that idea its skim of meaning; all I care about is that the existing National Parks don’t become like London.

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