Aug 16, 2011
Marco’s Song
Highest estimated cost of riots: £200 million.
Tax avoidance by Vodafone: £6 billion.
Tax avoidance in 2010 by “richest” (?) people in UK: £7 billion.
Tax spent on Libyan intervention: £1 billion.
Tax money spent in Iraqi conflict: £4.5 billion.
Tax money spent in Afghan conflict (up until 2007): £7 billion. Still rising.
Tax spent on interest for bank rescue package: £131 billion. Still rising.
Total MP expenses bill (2007): £87.6 million. Still rising.
Technically, we could afford to have a riot for everyone!
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The blog of Hax (Punch Press: August 2011) by F.C. , after Sean Bonney's Black Water (yt 2007) — an anthropological investigation of the north London borough of Hackney. In no ways handmade. Trade edition. 160 pages, $10 / c.£9 incl. P&P. Cover photo: "Dalston Occupation" (intersection of Dalston Lane and Roseberry Place, Hackney) by Sean Bonney. The structures photographed have since been leveled for construction in advance of the 2012 Olympics.
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