1980s

Appendices

BM Blob's appendices to Once Upon A Time There Was A Place Called Nothing Hill.

Postscript: Sometimes We See A Cloud That's Dragonish...

BM Blob's postscript to Once Upon A Time There Was A Place Called Nothing Hill.

An Artistic Swamp: Designing The Emperor's New Clothes

BM Blob on art and gentrification in West London in the late 20th Century.

The Saints: And When The Cops Came Marching In

BM Blob on the tensions on All Saints Road, West London.

The 1987 Carnival and the Limits of an Urban Pacification

BM Blob on the riot at the 1987 Notting Hill Carnival.

Photo of two policemen standing underneath a "Library" sign. The Library is closed, so security shutters are behind them.

Bollocks To Theory?

BM Blob's conclusion to Like A Summer With A Thousand Julys.

A black and white photo of a policeman adjacent to a large bass drum as used in marching bands

All Quiet On The Frontline?

BM Blob on work, unions, unemployment and the 1981 riots.

A "Merseyside" street sign which has been graffitted to read "Merseyslide"

The Strangled Embrace

BM Blob on the 1981 riots in Liverpool.

Seven male police officers on bicycles in a rural setting

Crime And Punishment

BM Blob on policing, prisons and the 1981 riots...

Xray Spex advert showing an audience wearing 3d glasses, similar to the cover of Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle"

The Lingering Death Of Rock n' Roll

BM Blob on punk, reggae, rebel music and the music business...

Heading "History repeats itself" above two photos - one of the 1936 Jarrow March against unemployment and one of the 1980s Peoples March For Jobs. Beneath the photos is text "The first time as tragedy - the second time as a B-movie stunt" - James Joyce

Culture And The T.U.C.

BM Blob on the Trade Union Congress and The People's March for Jobs.

Photo of train wheels with the caption Jobs Express - from TUC poster

Got any Money?

BM Blob on monetarism, the "moral majority", regeneration after the 1981 riots, etc.