August 2011
4 posts
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The micro-generational schism and why 28 is the...
What’s the difference between twenty four year olds and people with mortgages? You can’t get a mortgage when you’re four, even if you do try and form a toddlers’ buying syndicate with your pocket money. Poorly constructed jokes aside, there is a very curious difference between most 24 year olds and most 28 year old. Certainly in the UK as least, where home ownership is built up to be such...
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Socialising and Evolving CarWoo
This is a slightly strange post. After much batting back and forth of ideas concerning riots on the streets of London, riots on the streets of Birmingham, I wonder to myself how much more there is to say. A lot of course, but an off the cuff tweet from one of my favourite start-ups from the past few years provided a great excuse to write about something else. CarWoo is a service that turns the...
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Teaching the norms of both consumption and...
Raiding trainer stores, stealing mobile phones, smashing into money stores and pawn shops. As many of the ‘string them up’ lobby has been pointing out online, these people are not stealing to survive. But this is not an audacious raid on Gucci. They have not been forming up in Knightsbridge to try and gain the baubles of the very elite. Nor are they stealing bread to feed their families. What...
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When Britain and 'Shadow Britain' collide
Many people have been guilty of a vast misjudgement. This blog has already somewhat missed the point in posts earlier this year that bragged of integration, regeneration and the cultural vibrancy of Britain and the capital in particular. Though an article ten days ago here covered the other side, a warning as to what could happen if the wealth and increase and cultural exchange in London is not...
