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Haringey Council Cabinet: tear down this wall !

IT IS NO accident that Finsbury Park now contains a ring of steel, hundreds of metres in length. The Iron Curtain that's descended in a public park is a result of the Haringey Council Cabinet Outdoor Events Policy, decided in December 2013. This lifted the ceiling on attendees to 50,000, a number that for a host of reasons, some believe is unsustainable.

The park's Green Flag Award … now on Live Nation-controlled land, behind a wall of steel

Hackney resident and top man Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones was interviewed recently in the Haringey Indy. He spoke about the Local Authority-approved steel wall and compared it with Israel's West Bank wall.

Haringey-Live Nation's wall is not the only politically-inspired wall on public or quasi-public land. Here're a few other walls where authorities, big and small, seek to divide space, often, between the haves and the have-nots:

Arizona

Belfast

Berlin (the subject of Ronald Regan's famous challenge to the USSR)

Korea (the DMZ)

CDC

Haringey Councillor
LIberal Democrat Party

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Permalink Reply by Declan O'D on July 10, 2015 at 13:44

I have some issues with the cigarette sales tent too. I tried to buy cigarettes there when at Wireless 10. I proudly (and drunkenly) declared I was a 'former smoker' before asking to buy a pack of cigarettes. I was refused them on the grounds that I was a non-smoker. 

I really wanted one too. Despite my repeated pleas, they refused to alter their position and I was forced to enjoy the rest of the evening (except Drake) without smoking. Madness.

Permalink Reply by Declan O'D on July 10, 2015 at 13:39

LOL

Permalink Reply by JLJones on July 9, 2015 at 22:53

I knew I'd seen allegory before! Here's a definition....."A story that has a deeper or more general meaning in addition to its surface meaning. Allegories are composed of several symbols or metaphors. For example, in The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan, the character named Christian struggles to escape from a bog or swamp.

Permalink Reply by John D on July 9, 2015 at 23:17

It's not an allegory: it's either a simile or a metaphor, depending on whether the word " like " is used.

" Animal Farm " is an allegory.

Permalink Reply by JLJones on July 9, 2015 at 23:21
Thank you, you make my point and I rest my case...
Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on July 10, 2015 at 6:20
It's neither, it's hyperbole. In this context it comes under Godwin's Law
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Permalink Reply by Gordon T on July 10, 2015 at 6:25

And there, perhaps, it rests. Thank you Michael.

Permalink Reply by JLJones on July 10, 2015 at 8:35

... but I'd never trust Wikepedia....!

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on July 10, 2015 at 8:41
Permalink Reply by Gordon T on July 4, 2015 at 20:34

Clive, you just  Jumped The Shark.

You're baffled: link.

Permalink Reply by Declan O'D on July 7, 2015 at 9:57

Hi Clive,

There was a fence all around a good part of Alexandra Palace Park at the weekend. Some kind of ticket-only foodie festival going on in there. I had to alter the route of my run slightly to get around it. I peered through the fence at one point and am pretty sure I saw some people having fun in there. Can you have a word with the council? What a disgrace!

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