31 march 2010, complaining at birdsong

Wednesday 31st March 2010

Another step today on the road to manchester becoming a first-in-the-nation “combined authority”, essentially (anoraks on !) its ten local councils moving their intensive collaboration into a much stronger statutory framework. Good little video on the city in the guardian, with a former resident of a very run down area (hulme) complaining that in this awful “new” environment you can hear birdsong rather than the neighbours’ sex pistols at full blast. It’s a case of my totally disagreeing with everything said, but being happy to defend his right to say it. Give me clean and creative over mouldy and momentous any day of the millennium.