All news is local, but it’s not every day that a disgraced American musician and reformed Nazi sympathiser attempts to plot his comeback tour in your back garden.
For years, my issue with Finsbury Park being turned over to music day festivals has been the usual NIMBY fare. The privatisation of public space by skint councils is a stain on our city. Our green spaces lack the infrastructure for thousands of people to eat, drink and use the bathroom. It ruins the grass for months by turning it into a muddy pit/a dust bowl, depending on rain or shine. They fence off the viewpoints so you can’t even enjoy the show for free, even as they blast noise pollution into your window each night. Etc. etc.
