Brixton news, rumour and general chat - August 2014

[ViolentPanda]

We've been in Amsterdam for the last 6 years having lived in Brixton for 10 years before that. We've been very happy here but it's never been home really like Brixton was (even though we're Irish but the place gets under your skin).

I like Amsterdam, but I couldn't live there after having seen the film "Amsterdamned".

 

[Gramsci]

That pretty much applies from the mid '70s-onward, with a few ripples, and for graduates, applies pretty much from the mid '90s-onward, especially if you studied a non-core subject and/or didn't attend Oxbridge.

From this

Oxbridge graduates also have a stranglehold on top jobs. They comprise less than 1% of the public as a whole, but 75% of senior judges, 59% of cabinet ministers, 57% of permanent secretaries, 50% of diplomats, 47% of newspaper columnists, 44% of public body chairs, 38% of members of the House of Lords, 33% of BBC executives, 33% of shadow cabinet ministers, 24% of MPs and 12% of those on the Sunday Times Rich List.

Milburn said that having such little diversity at the top of society was "not a recipe for a healthy democratic society".

He explained: "Where institutions rely on too narrow a range of people from too narrow a range of backgrounds with too narrow a range of experiences, they risk behaving in ways and focusing on issues that are of salience only to a minority but not the majority in society."

 

[Mr Retro]

I like Amsterdam, but I couldn't live there after having seen the film "Amsterdamned".

Don't worry, you'd be fine.

 

[Gramsci]

Local band "The Thirst" in busking in Brixton today:

 

[editor]

Here's my Friday night out in pictures:

http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/08/an-entertaining-friday-night-out-in-brixton-august-2014/

 

[leanderman]

9,500 Local Authority social housing dwellings were lost through RtB between 2001 and 2011 (and "social tenants" who exercised RtB are no longer "social tenants": They're owner/occupiers).
Compensatory to the loss of stock (bearing in mind the state of Lambeth's need for social housing above and beyond retained stock, running at around 17,000 residents, so if we're conservative, maybe 4,000 households plus), 6,500 RSL dwellings have been "added", leaving a deficit of available social housing properties of 3,000.
It's not about whether tenants have been converted to owner-occupation, it's about a removal of housing .

We'll have to disagree about the figures, chiefly the effect of RTB.

However, we can agree on the necessity for more social housing, something even the FT calls for today.

 

[editor]

Coldharbour Lane 6.45am.

 

[gabi]

Local band "The Thirst" in busking in Brixton today:

I think there was a bit of a one hit wonder band a couple of years ago with the same name

 

[snowy_again]

The synchronised swimmers got a big round of applause.

 

[Orang Utan]

There's a new restaurant on Coldharbour Lane called Three Eight Four. Anyone been?
I was looking at the menu yesterday on the street and said out loud to myself 'oh god not another wankers' place', not noticing that the owner was opening up at the time true though
http://www.threeeightfour.com

 

[simonSW2]

There's a new restaurant on Coldharbour Lane called Three Eight Four. Anyone been?
I was looking at the menu yesterday on the street and said out loud to myself 'oh god not another wankers' place', not noticing that the owner was opening up at the time true though
http://www.threeeightfour.com

It's the people who run seven in market row.
Food seems to be the usual menu of ribs, pulled pork, brioche bun blah - nothing new. I think booze and cocktails are the primary thing.
It used to be a fish and butchers shop that sold horse meat back in the day. There a great photo kicking around of it. I'd like to see horse on the menu again.

 

[editor]

There's a new restaurant on Coldharbour Lane called Three Eight Four. Anyone been?
I was looking at the menu yesterday on the street and said out loud to myself 'oh god not another wankers' place', not noticing that the owner was opening up at the time true though
http://www.threeeightfour.com

My friend went and wasn't too impressed, but then he wasn't in the target demographic.

Can't say I like the cod-Brooklyn iron framed frontage or the fact that they feel the need to have a bouncer outside all the time, but I'm sure the Village crowd will love it.

 

[editor]

It's the people who run seven in market row.
Food seems to be the usual menu of ribs, pulled pork, brioche bun blah - nothing new. I think booze and cocktails are the primary thing.
It used to be a fish and butchers shop that sold horse meat back in the day. There a great photo kicking around of it. I'd like to see horse on the menu again.

'Tis right here:

From horsemeat to fish to curry to cocktails – the story of 384 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

 

[Gramsci]

'Tis right here:

From horsemeat to fish to curry to cocktails – the story of 384 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

Sign says "fish restaurant"

Years ago there was a cafe on this stretch of road. It was called "Silvas Nest". I think this might have been were it was located.

 

[editor]

Trot over to the September thread, if you please:
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/brixton-news-rumour-and-general-chat-september-2014.327007/