All the Angels Sing
You can’t help thinking at times that Knight has simplified what was a complex and exhaustive investigation, that had massive impact – gun crime went down by 92% after the arrests. The book needs more space. And Knight’s tone lets him down. Too many stories of abuse, violence and grief are rendered with terse staccato relish and reverence. He’s like the crime reporter, thrilling at the nods from detectives; or the student barman staying back after hours to listen to the faces, thinking this’ll get him respect and women, when any one of those villains could tell him there is more respect and women to be had by going to your lectures and working hard. Knight is absent in the way that the piano player is absent from the bordello.
Max Dunbar reviews Gavin Knight‘s Hood Rat.
Budgies
Furtherance: starbucks for France! Furtherance: Warburtons for France!
In one of those rare moments the after effects of some perverse dream but it’s gotta be better than watching Spiderman II with Kev: ‘Fukc Furtherance!’ a slogan by French Connection UK
And behind her a wall of cigarettes. What was it like to believe in God. What do I feel like wearing this store branded fleece. Should I throw out the grill magiX
Not nice exactly but kinda nice like people say about log fires or reading the Guardian with a Yakult
By James Davies.