We Are Bad's invectives against sport as class-cleansing and social engineering have been appearing on and around the fence of the London Olympic site over the past couple of months. Mute presents the first in a series of specially commissioned posters, made available here in hi-res for home printing

Looks like the 'Your Park' brochure inviting community participation in the London 2012 Olympics which I received through the post yesterday has already drawn an enthusiastic response from some denizens of the O-Zone....

In Mute 2.6 fictitious capital collided with hypermetrical verse distemper[*].  What follows makes matters worse by further entangling these things with forthcoming Mute subject matter: baby biometrics, tax credit tagging for Hard To Let Families, etc.

Back to the bridge. Apparently the New York Times is pissed off about last week's Minneapolis bridge collapse, and the steam pipe that blew up round the corner from their offices too. Turns out that bridges are the *least* decayed part of the US's dodgy inventory.

Due to some back room bungling at Mute, this article failed to make it online before the Mental Health Bill received royal assent last Thursday to become law. Here mental health activist and editor of Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture traces the history of this deeply unpopular bill, from the early '90s to the present day. As of 19 July 2007, psychiatric service users can expect to be forcibly medicated even when not institutionalised and importantly when deemed 'untreatable'. The expanded number of health professionals given the powers to section patients will undoubtedly also result in more people being incacerated - predictably amongst the most vulnerable and discriminated against groups

This is a brief report about the anti-gentrification (sorry, 'cultural regeneration') protest in Dalston today. I left out some of the most telling and blackly comic bits (eg the street poet's unfortunate declarations, such as: 'today, we're re-writing history'), but maybe other people will give their accounts...