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Our nation’s next leaders might lack Barack Obama’s oratorical oomph, but there is still something very different about the current election – why, it’s almost as though politics are cool. And as usual, it’s the curious and creative of London who are having the most fun. And there seems to be a slightly longer-lasting trend here too.
When opening new drinking establishments in London, it was once the case that the best names were positive, intriguing, even captivating – perhaps an admired icon, like Shoreditch’s new McQueen (in honour of Steve, I’m continually reminded, and not Alexander). But these are the elections after all. And how often do you get to name a bar after a much-maligned political dominatrix? Over in Fulham, the chaps behind Bart’s, have launched Maggie’s – pure ‘80s kitsch with the piece de Thatcherite resistance: Iron Lady-adorned bathrooms complete with her greatest speeches piped on loop through the soundsystem.
Some say we should study our political history; that we should analyse the mistakes of our past to better understand the importance of our present. Of course, others say we should just drink to it.
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Maggie’s opens this Thursday
329 Fulham Road, SW10 9QL
McQueen officially launches this Thursday too
55-61 Tabernacle Street, EC2A 4AA
And the heated final Marmite debate is also this Thursday
The Parliamentary Waffle House, 65-67 Broadwick Street, W1F 9QU
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