Getting rid of the Amazon and Google robbers

Amazon is raking in billions from the UK and paying less in tax than it receives in grants. "Company filings showed Amazon's main UK company paid just £3.2m in corporation tax on sales of £320m last year. However, the Seattle-based group has told investors its 2012 UK sales were £4.2bn." (Guardian). Additionally it is hiring people via its Luxembourg so-called "base" but all the work and interviewing etc is via London and British offices. So it's a scam. (Ref: Guardian special investigation)

I will get rid of everything connected to Amazon from this website and all my websites but it will take a while. I am very busy with the day job lately. I will have to setup alternative local sources for the New Short Stories books.

Google too. You're next! It is established that your advertising sales etc. are happening in the UK, not Dublin, you devious shitehawks.  (Ref. Independent)

The next revolution is to overthrow globalist warlordism and get control of national rights, customs & excise. Jobs are more important than money-spinning opportunities for unprincipled plutocrats and their croneys on the gravy train.

"I will move this whole bang shooting match to WordPress" (Red)

Oh and don't forget, support your local independent coffee shops, because Starbucks is another crock.

Tonight

Bishopsgate

Evening Standard

See you tonight

If you're in town, hie thee to the Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, EC2, 7pm for 7:30 tonight for The Special Relationship literary riot. Extra: Read all about it!

A quarter past nine

Willesden High Road

Escaped copy of New Short Stories 7 recaptured

Photo: S J Bradley

We're planning a really cool launch. Ssshhhh! Will it happen? Nobody knows. Watch this space.

"The best new short stories of 2013, as submitted to the Willesden Herald international short story competition. This year we are transported to locations in Australia, Britain, Ireland, Italy and Nigeria as vividly as in a waking dream. Relationships within and around families are played out in dramatic scenes of crisis, social alienation, dark humour and ultimately compassion. All in the company of ten writers with effulgent and compelling narrative gifts." (Barnes & Noble, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com)

Lavender sky

West northwest, about 9pm

In two minutes, the purple has almost gone.

Looking north

Takers and givers

The Money Shop & Samaritans charity shop, Walm Lane

One side messes you up and the other side tries to fix you.

The self-service confessional / Confessomat

This is one for the Dragons' Den (Shark Tank - US). We know that the Catholic church is facing a crisis with a shortage of priests and most of them leaving to get married. Brethren and sisthren, behold: the self-service confessional. I call it the Confessomat.

Advantages: increased productivity, speed of throughput, can be placed in supermarkets alongside lottery machines etc etc.

1: Select Sin.

2: Select Quantity.

3: Confirm: Are you sure you have broken the Nth command-ment?

4: Yes, I have more sins or No, go to checkout.

5: Note: We may share your data with selected third parties. If you do not want this press No.

6: If you have a Nectar card, place it in the reader now.

7: Important Terms and Conditions. I understand that unless I truly repent, my sins will not be forgiven and no liability will be accepted in events including, but not limited to, death in venial sin, death in mortal sin, impure communion. I confirm that I have provided true and complete details of my sins. Nothing in this agreement replaces your rights or liabilities under civil legislation. If you believe you have broken the law, you should report to your local police station. If any one of the terms of this agreement should fail, the remainder of the agreement shall apply with maximum effect. This agreement shall be construed and enforced according to the laws of the Vatican State. (I agree/I do not agree)

8: Finish. Thank you, your penance is being printed.

9: "Te absolvo." Thank you my child. You have received N Nectar points and one Hail Mary off your penance the next time you use Confessomat.

Simon Moribund

Wednesday evening

Willesden Sports Centre

Black leather sofa

All Souls Avenue

Willesden Green Library at George Furness House

Grange Road opposite the old library

The old library is now closed. This is the temporary replacement.

Cricklewood Broadway

Tuesday midday

Cobblers

In the waiting room of the Western Eye hospital

Perhaps I'll write a sonnet to while away
The numbing hours spent here in A and E.
Impatient I, outpatient while the day
Unspools on Marylebone's evening street.
Here while taxis' amber lights go by,
A boy is screaming in the triage room,
The all-night clinic of the Western Eye
Hospital, where no one can see the gloom.
All are cheerful. Maisie, Mansoor, Abdul,
Concepta and Fatima have all been
Here before and know the drill. They're full
Of London gallows humour often seen
When the worst comes to the best. But joy,
It's home for the fearful, now quiet boy.

Ganache

Ritual adornment of the sacrificial building

InkFetish

PositiveArts

The Willesden Library centre, home of the Brent museum, BelleVue cinema, Gigi's Café, the Willesden Bookshop, The Brent One-Stop centre, The Space I and II performance venues, The Gallery, The Gallery Concourse, the education room and other community spaces, the only town centre car park, and not least the busy upstairs and downstairs library with tables thronged with children studying, is about about to be demolished.

In the past few years, over £600,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund was spent on it to move the museum from its former location, and other changes. Since then it has been deliberately run down and the car park made practically unusable.

The whole place was continuously booked and busy with community groups and cultural events. We even had The Divine Cat on loan from the British Museum. But fear not, in another few years you will have an office building with community areas and a private block of flats where the car park was. The piazza at the front will be consumed and the Victorian library building conjoined to the new box.

And they're also demolishing the Queensbury, opposite Willesden Green station for - you guessed! - another block of flats. They've already demolished Dollis Hill House in nearby Gladstone Park and closed six out of the twelve libraries for Brent, so the culturecide continues apace. They must spend all their time thinking, "What else can we destroy?"

This library centre is the seventh out of twelve to close but they promise it will reappear as large as ever in a couple of years. Let's wait and see. Well, we have no choice. Money has spoken. You can thank your local Labour party representatives at the next local election.

Artists at work

InkFetish (left) and PositiveArts (right)

Two artists from PositiveArts

InkFetish.co.uk - The artwork of Tom Blackwood

PositiveArts.co.uk - Empowering and Inspiring people through Graffiti Art / Street Art

More pictures

The high road this evening

Former LibDem office

The Spotted Dog is back, sort of.

Murals appear on condemned library & bookshop

The angry creature with a box is alongside another (incomplete?)

No mean talent has gone into these.

Painted on a window of the closed Willesden bookshop

This picture incorporates the electrical flex.

Grange Road

Update: About the artists

Glenda Jackson today on the legacy of Thatcherism

This is local MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, Glenda Jackson, in the special parliamentary debate today. She speaks most eloquently and passionately about the disastrous legacy of Thatcherism. The video stops before the end of her speech.

No state funeral / State funeral

Atlee's record versus Thatcher's (via)

Unveiled: The cover for New Short Stories 7

Stratos Fountoulis has once again done us proud. Here is an impression of the new cover. I think this is going to be an excellent addition to the series.

You can read the contents list and author bio's at the following link:
http://newshortstories.com/2013-new-short-stories-7

Available from: Barnes & Noble, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com