tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post115321006878194602..comments2024-03-29T09:13:55.008+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Community ActionLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1153301691662519892006-07-19T09:34:00.000+00:002006-07-19T09:34:00.000+00:00"Brick Lane"'s a rotten book anyway, in my obvious..."Brick Lane"'s a rotten book anyway, in my obviously worthwhile opinion. I prefer Tarquin Hall's "Salaam Brick Lane" - middle class man spends a year in a Brick Lane slum, and, as you'd expect, gets on fine with everyone except for members of the white working class..<BR/>http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0719565561/202-1894642-1530211?v=glance&n=266239Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1153261396444579092006-07-18T22:23:00.000+00:002006-07-18T22:23:00.000+00:00"Quite right, too. After all, whose streets are th..."Quite right, too. After all, whose streets are they ? It's not as if they were a public space, open to just anybody"<BR/><BR/>Tell the Ulstermen how the streets are open to everybody.Mercurius Aulicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130901970855873480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1153256391580891772006-07-18T20:59:00.000+00:002006-07-18T20:59:00.000+00:00Yep, I can just see the younger residents being en...Yep, I can just see the younger residents being enraged by an ungenorous representation in a book, much like the notorious Glasgow Opera Riots of 1965. <BR/><BR/>Hey, if they want us to take into account that they'll riot at the drop of a hat, could they at least stop yammering about the fact now one will employ them ?DJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00446322024174274621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1153253704353626122006-07-18T20:15:00.000+00:002006-07-18T20:15:00.000+00:00"younger members of the community becoming enraged..."younger members of the community becoming enraged". Ho hum, it must be a weekday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1153234797127938012006-07-18T14:59:00.000+00:002006-07-18T14:59:00.000+00:00Should we start referring to "the Mainly Bengali B...Should we start referring to "the Mainly Bengali Brick Lane" in the style of a certain other road whose residents think they ought to be allowed to control access.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02263275229285861236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-1153215964267684852006-07-18T09:46:00.000+00:002006-07-18T09:46:00.000+00:00Interesting post -- I was talking to a Bengali guy...Interesting post -- I was talking to a Bengali guy in Brick Lane when it was about to be designated 'Bangla Town' and given the whole Chinatown-type schmeer. He - and lots of others - didn't agree with this notion because 1) they didn't want to be fixed to this place which, after all, is always being positioned as a transit zone (you know the routine Time Out-ese 'wave after wave of immigration... yada yah') and more importantly 2) that many of the landlords in the area were still of Jewish from that era of immigration so the Bengalis didn't even own properties there. It was then - ten years ago - being suggested that Brick Lane was going to become Somalian, God help us all. So how come the Lane has now, in contra-indication to history, become a defensive territory, a kind of Banglastan?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com