Last Friday night, my husband and I had a rare night out – a proper one with a babysitter and everything. We left Kentish Town for once and went over to fashionable East London to see Luke Haines’s new film Art Will Save the World. If you are a fan of Luke Haines (which I am) or […]
Bob Diamond, Show Trials and the Society of the Spectacle
Jul 5th, 2012 by Lucy Reese.The furore around Diamond also reminds me of something that happened way back in the dark days of the 80s, in the Wild West atmosphere of the City post the Big Bang of 1986. The roots of our current troubles can be traced back to those days, when regulations separating investment and high street banking were removed and the finance genie was soon out of the bottle. (Cue gratuitous shots of 80s city workers.)
