Thursday, January 12, 2012
The end of civilisation
Waterstone’s is dropping
its apostrophe.
Truly,
these are the end times.
The UK bookshop chain is
owned by the Russian oligarch Alexander Mamut, who bought
it from HMV (of which he owns 6%) for £53 million in May last year. At the
time, the Daily Telegraph reported
that he “has strong links to the Kremlin”. Fancy that.
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2 comments:
Ah no, Stephen. Civilization ended long ago. I think it died quietly in its sleep sometime in the last century.
"Mamut" means "mammoth" in Russian. Cool!
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