@CityElephant

A city dweller's reflections on urban life.

 London
elephantinthecity.wordpress.com/
Joined May 2011
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Who 'owns' our capital? xitter.cf/leohollis/status/65543…
Leo Hollis@leohollis17 Oct 2015
And now we are buying cities @SaskiaSassen: Qatar own more of london than the Queen
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I miss you @Wellington_NZ. Where is the world's windiest city? Spoiler alert: it's not Chicago gu.com/p/4czk4/stw
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The Writer@TheWriter7 Oct 2015
Has the gov used confusing language to stop people having a say on the BBC? Here's our @CityElephant bit.ly/1VDBXX2 @caitlinmoran
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Here's me with my work hat on. Bad language and the BBC: @38degrees 'translates' government jargon. bit.ly/1ZbUaKp
Creeping around the cellars of Shoreditch Town Hall Hotel with #absentshoreditch last night sent shivers up my spine. Eerie but very moving.
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Ireland’s abortion law does not stop abortions – it stops safe abortions. Help decriminalise abortion in Ireland bit.ly/1FEpBAK
Labour seats vs former coalfields. Even better than that Maggie Simpson map! (HT @VaughanRoderick)
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So proud! xitter.cf/PennedintheM/status/59…
Penned in the Margins@PennedintheM6 May 2015
Gordon Burn Prize longlist is announced. Congrats! to Honor Gavin: her novel Midland appears alongside Amis & Mantel bit.ly/1F5sUWX
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The Writer@TheWriter5 May 2015
Ahead of the #GE2015, our @JoHolmes2 had a linguistic encounter with her MP. bit.ly/1IdbU1j
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Annington, Barnet Homes: Stop the demolition of the Sweets Way estate, stop the evictions of curren... change.org/p/annington-barne… via @UKChange

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Stop the evictions and demolition of the Sweets Way estate

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Lancashire council delays vote on fracking. But opposition is growing. Add your name below foe.co.uk/act/petition-stop-…
Sophie Nellis retweeted
The Writer@TheWriter29 Jan 2015
We're holding a Q&A from 2.30pm to 3.30pm tomorrow. So if you've got a wordy woe, tweet us with #WriteWell2015 and we'll be on hand to help.
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Raif will be flogged 50 times every week for 20 weeks simply for advocating free speech. Call for his freedom. bit.ly/1ALQuSI
Will Self on Tate Modern: "Another spatialisation of the savage inequality that's coming to typify 21st C. London"? gu.com/p/43ezy/stw
Gloomy news for wannabe home owners in London: a map of London’s declining housing affordability via @Londonist. londonist.com/2014/11/mapped…
London past & present. Fab footage of the capital in "London in 1927 & 2013" by @mrsimonsmith vimeo.com/81368735 #london
A tale of two cities, both close to my heart. "Paris / New York" by @RabbitShoot is just lovely. vimeo.com/108552265 #paris #newyork

Paris / New York

Paris & NY, like many large cities, have a lot in common ; transport, infrastructure, national monuments. I wanted to explore not only these comparisons but also the differences, in order to expose...

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Another cool map of London: the capital's second languages mapped by tube stop gu.com/p/42qbt/stw
What happens to the workers behind closed doors? #Downton Abbey vs #Amazon warehouse bit.ly/1eHfBwW
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I got 12 out of 12... The Sweariest Grammar Quiz You’ll Ever Take buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the… via @flashboy @buzzfeed

The Sweariest Grammar Quiz You’ll Ever Take

Split this sodding infinitive. NSFW, obviously.

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