"Sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy" is both an insult shouted at Ramsay McDonald by James Maxton of the ILP and a rather fine blog on architecture, culture and politics, under the undoubtedly true epigraph, "there is something aphrodisiac about wet concrete". In a recent post the author discusses "David Adjaye's great, Scheerbartian Whitechapel Library," and says, with uncanny perceptiveness, "you can't unreservedly enjoy it, because some bit of glaring Blairist idiocy will hit you - in the Library's case, the moniker 'Ideas Store' (imagine the focus group meeting on that one - no, library's a bit fusty, call it a store and people will come, you know like they do to Bluewater, sniff sniff)..."
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