Sprezzatura

Wow, I love Banksy This new HSBC ad campaign? It's Not Good . Let's go through why, step by step. Think of this post like an expanding brain meme in essay form. Here's the actual ad, by the way: Broke: "The ad is good because it's against Brexit!" Let's get this out of the way: "That's the bad argument? Yikes, fam, didn't realise you were a Brexiteer..." I'm not a Brexiteer. I know I said I was against globalisation in the last post , but I'm not particularly opposed to the sentiment expressed in the adverts. I like chicken tikka masala (and sweet and sour chicken, doner kebabs, etc.), I enjoy a continental lager from time to time, and the only reason I don't currently support a Belgian striker is Benteke 's injured and Freedman won't pull the trigger and bring in Batshuayi . I may have my reservations, but I also accept I live in a thoroughly globalised world and that isn't going to change anytime so...

Welcome to the blog. Here are some things you'll need to know. 1. On Multicultural London English I'm going to use it all the time, and I'm not going to explain what anything means. I'm serious. No more linking to Urban Dictionary. Yes, it's incredibly exclusive and insular. No, I don't care, it's praxis. One's locale is everything. Specificity is everything. It's right there in the Communist Manifesto - "The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature." I know that sounds utopian and good but it's actually terrible, I promise. Accents and sports teams are pretty much all we have left to differentiate ourselves, and I intend to use them both to their full extent. You get me? Safe, lad. That's what the "do sul" in the blog name is by t...