Under the Spotlight

City Boys. What does that mean to you? How do they feel? Are they bankers or insurance brokers or restaurateurs, may be something else. What do you think about them or what they may represent?

Protest Spreads

A second camp in Finsbury Square set up nearly a week ago. Partly as there is no more space around St Paul's Cathederal and also to show this protest is not going to finish any time soon.
A recent update from the Daily Mail here.

Economic Protests

Thousands have been protesting around the world against corporate greed. In London the protesters are camped around St Paul's Cathedral. This area borders the offices of the city workers. Paternoster Square is cordoned off and guarded by security personal, effectively locking in the city workers. The protesters are saying they will be there until Christmas. I'll keep you posted.

Closed

In days gone by when Queens were no longer considered an asset, or their husbands had fallen from grace, they had their head chopped off. The lucky ones didn't actually lose their head, but instead they were sent in to exile. Mind you, if you were going to be sent to Telford in Shropshire for the rest of your days (the most boring place on earth according to a recent survey) then beheading might have almost looked like an attractive option.

In modern day Pub terms I guess that being closed down is the equivalent of losing your head. And so it is with this poor Queen. She, and 66 of her fellow local pubs close every week in the UK according to the papers. I found some stats showing that in 1980 there were 69,000 pubs. By 2009 this had dropped to 53,466. In the same time frame the percentage of independently owned (or "Free Houses") ie not owned by the breweries, dropped from 84% to 47% . So what do you think this is telling us??