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However, this comparison is Date TBC P crazy gun toting individual killed 58 in [email protected] SE1 2DB Wander on down the historic road to the Hackney Empire By James Billot deeply problematic because there are a Chelsea Christmas Gift Fair sounds of carol singers, the Fulham Brass The classic rags to riches tale of scarcity of resources that gold possesses Luxury boutique gifts return to the December 1-2 band, a Rock Cadohoir and a cappella Cinderella will be told in true Hackney and Bitcoin does not. Although there is Chelsea Old Town Hall on Kings Battersea Park's Pear Tree quartet belting out Yuletide tunes such style by the award-winning pantomime a finite number of Bitcoins in circulation Road in December of 2018 thanks Pear Tree Café as Jingle Bell Rock and Santa Baby. There team as they prove a new pair of shoes (21 million), there are very few checks to Clever Creations Events annual As the frosty evening draws near and is also eye-catching street entertainment really can change your life. and cause frankly a huge stink. n a brisk October morning in and balances in place to prevent more Chelsea Christmas Gift Fair. Do all your the candles start to glow, the Saturday from the acrobatic elves, roller-skating 020 8985 2424 1929, Joseph Kennedy decided FLY, YOU coins from being produced or ‘mined’. Christmas shopping in one go with over to get his shoes shined. He left Night Market will be a magical gathering satsumas, the snow balls, one-man band 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ Las Vegas - neither were connected to The valuation of Bitcoin therefore cannot 85 hand-picked quality exhibitors from for friends and family with carol singers and a visit from Santa. hackneyempire.co.uk Subscriptions: his office and walked down a few blocks correspond to the fundamental laws of LONDON LITERARY FESTIVAL all over the UK and abroad. O FOOLS! and festivities. Pear Tree Cafe will be lbhf.gov.uk before finding a boy offering a shoeshine supply and demand. chelseachristmasgiftfair.com service. As he took a seat and propped up But there is one obstacle in the putting on an evening supper with views November 23 and 24 POETRY INTERNATIONAL his feet, the shoe shiner asked Kennedy THE marshy swampland of the cryptocurrency overlooking the market and ice dusted DANCE Wild Card - Gianluca Vincentini November 17 – January 1 park, serving seasonal dishes such as Lilian Baylis Studio • It has taken 29 years for the parents what he did for a living. Kennedy told world that looms larger than any Winter Wonderland pulled pork sliders, pickled apple and red Ends December 14 Originally from Italy, choreographer and the boy that he was an investor, among BITCOIN other: government. It is often said that Hyde Park SOUTHBANK CENTRE other things. The boy stopped shining political power follows economic power, cabbage; turkey schnitzel brioche bun Fagin’s Twist curator Gianluca Vincentini is passionate Get into the Christmas spirit as Winter with cranberry sauce, melted brie and The Place about nurturing dance artists. Curious ISIS. Kennedy’s shoes and looked up. “An but in the case of Bitcoin, it is unclear Wonderland returns to London’s Hyde investor, eh?” said the precocious boy, CRASH radicchio. Look out for the Pear Tree Fagin’s Twist is the untold story of a about the entwined nature of movement [email protected] where the economic power actually lies. Park for the 11th year. Broadband falls over across the 13 OCTOBER - 1 NOVEMBER “well, I’ve got a whole bunch of tips for Hatch handing out sausage rolls, hot notorious and complex villain. It imagines and emotion, Vincentini believes that Cryptocurrency poses a huge threat 020 8233 5400 you.” chocolate, mince pies and mulled cider. Fagin’s youth, driven by greed and dance can reveal the complexity of our IS NIGH to the sovereignty of a government London W2 2UH Kennedy politely listened to the because it does not want to lose its Lakeside Cafe, Battersea Park, London ambition in the face of overwhelming intimate connections to each other, and families of those 96 Liverpudlians HILLARY CLINTON boy as he recited a shopping list of hot SW11 4NJ poverty. The streets are a place of little without compromising entertainment. privilege as the monopoly issuer of a November 24-26 stock tips until his shoes were eventually 020 7978 1655 comfort and fairy-tale endings are hard to Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R legitimate currency. As the economist The Scandinavian Christmas Market shined. The 52-year-old stood up, Abba Lerner wrote: “The modern state peartreecafe.co.uk find in this piece of poignant coming-of- sadlerswells.com Come and experience the Nordic TOM HANKS brushed himself down, and paid the can make anything it chooses generally age dance theatre. Christmas atmosphere at the annual boy for his service (presumably for the acceptable as money…It is true that a December 2 020 7121 1100 Ends December 31 Scandinavian Christmas Market taking Publishers: shining and not the investment advice). simple declaration that such and such is Hammersmith PHILIP PULLMAN place on Albion Street in Rotherhithe Soon after, Kennedy walked straight money will not do, even if backed by the A fantastic opportunity to get into the between the Finnish and Norwegian back to his office, put his coat on his an exponential price rise.Sounds familiar, the Financial Times examining the most convincing constitutional evidence festive spirit and bring some extra sparkle killed at Sheffield Wednesday to gain Churches. desk, and promptly sold his entire stock doesn’t it? For those who can cast their financial crashes of the past one hundred of the state’s absolute sovereignty.” As to Hammersmith. There will be over 100 ANNIE LIEBOVITZ Albion Street, Rotherhithe London SE16 estate. The palace has had its portfolio. “When a shoeshine boy has minds back to the early 2000s, where years. In the article, Thaler refers to an of yet, no country taxes Bitcoin (part of stalls along a traffic-free King Street and ’ 7HZ Carols, tips,” Kennedy later remarked, “the stock George W. Bush controversially defeated excerpt from John Maynard Keynes The the coin’s appeal) and no state accepts it in Lyric Square offering seasonal gifts and • Texas massacre. Man fires at church market is too popular for its own good.” Al Gore in the U.S. presidential election General Theory of Employment, Interest as legal tender. Indeed, Japan may have scandimarket.co.uk food. The wintertime fun will be boosted Kennedy was proven right; a few weeks and Destiny’s Child released their third and Money, where Keynes finds that authorised Bitcoin exchange centres, by live music, carol singing and a visit span of time that it’s been a fixture.