The State We're In: (Revised Edition)

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The expansion of the railway network also made it easier for people to get out into the countryside to paint.

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We are always prone to moan and complain and imagine that ‘the good old days’ were a real thing (they weren’t) but there is a collective weariness across the British Isles; a sense that nothing is working quite like it should.

You might have heard of the Ranters and Levellers, whose pamphlets adorn a wall - but did you know about the Adamites? I, along with my friends who also had a break from regular ministry this summer, would have liked a lights in the sky moment, for the heavens to open and the divine voice to speak through the thunder.

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We would all meet up at Hornby’s flat in Earls Court for a drink, spend the night there and be up bright and early for the flight to Helsinki. We’re not very good, though, at assessing how the multifaceted social changes of the past decades have impacted our national psychology.I have little experience in that kind of environment and had all kinds of anxieties about the things that might go wrong.

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Such an arrangement was sanctioned by an amoral conservative political, business and financial class that deployed the power of the monarchical British state and the accompanying icons of gentlemanly prestige to privilege markets and denigrate a shared conception of the public realm. Members of WikiProject:Timeline team are working on editing pages in response to the information revealed in the book. The alliance with Gordon Brown and his strand of New Labour, readier to do business with the British progressive tradition (though much closer to Blair than many of his supporters concede), has become ever more uneasy.

This was created by a capitalism preoccupied with short-term financial gains and the next deal rather than building businesses and husbanding workforces. I thought that British consumers, saturated with debt from the 1980s, could hardly rescue the British economy again and, even if they did, that our export earners were so weakened by Thatcherism that if the economy grew at any meaningful rate, Britain would be left with a huge trade deficit. In Victorian Britain, art attracted huge audiences as the emerging middle classes began to have money and leisure time. I was living in London at the time and, though I’ve lived all over the world in the intervening years, here I am again, back in London. Gratitude for common grace, all the good things of everyday life, even among the brokenness – married to gratitude for saving grace, the miracle of God in Christ condescending to meet us in our sin and need: his stooping down to our level.

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I’m about to launch into ‘where the fuck have you been’ when Karl, the only one sober and drug free, pointed out that I was in fact looking at Sam Yaffa, the bassist from Hanoi Rocks. The danger was that it might persuade the New Labour leadership and worse - many voters - into wanting something other than the pure milk of the free market. The strange cult that says market sentiment must be divined then deferred to sits oddly with ideas of public policy and democratic desires.It was March but heavy snow still lay on the ground and our 20-minute journey was always nerve wracking as ‘Roger’ fancied himself as a rally driver … in the snow! His work is often exhibited in galleries around the world and he has participated in many global art, film and installation projects. The new rehang aims to offer more context to the works to provide "a more truthful account of history", says Farquharson. All I remember in those three days was Kusworth waking up in the back, rear-facing seat next to me and opening the back door to take a piss.