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LondonReview

  1. Rebekah Brooks is a director of the TLS? http://bit.ly/pneEq3
  2. yfrog.com/kepqmpp Tory MEP explains how to deal with rioters (via @autodespair and @leninology)
  3. @saidimu Thanks.
  4. James Meek: 'Loving the cultural diversity of London as a spectator-inhabitant is not the same as mingling with it.' http://bit.ly/o9I2qO
  5. When the system wills the death of a young black citizen from a deprived community it simultaneously wills the response http://bit.ly/pVcj5W
  6. Tariq Ali: Why is it that the same areas always erupt first, whatever the cause? http://bit.ly/pVcj5W
  7. Reports from Brixton http://bit.ly/oFv1CG last night, Peckham http://bit.ly/otEQ97 and Hackney http://bit.ly/rizF1r this evening
  8. In 1958 Mao held a meeting in a pool to embarrass Khrushchev, who had to wear water-wings. (via @telegraph) http://tgr.ph/pD4mU5
  9. ‘Canada: Like America Six Years Ago’ http://bit.ly/mYCXM1
  10. LRB discussion at #edfest on 19 August: 'The Tory Interpretation of British History' http://www.lrb.co.uk/about/edinburgh
  11. 'Stealing is stealing,' the DA said; but 'hacking' isn't always hacking. #Swartz v. United States http://cot.ag/nTWTkd
  12. @rachel_london Congratulations! And you've still got a while before the next one arrives (summer double issue). Time to explore the archive?
  13. @andyheath You can. Thank you.
  14. 'Obama doesn’t belong in the paint. He hasn’t the body for it.' If the Capitol were a basketball court... http://cot.ag/ohr9t7
  15. Thomas Jones on the Great Fleet Street Novel http://nyti.ms/pvp1BP
  16. August events @lrbshop: Hari Kunzru and Siddhartha Deb bit.ly/oC3gcy