Hints and tips:
...He is at home on the island; a smiley, wiry firecracker about to turn 61, he speaks for hours with the pep of a 20-year-old, even while fending off bronchitis....
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...And has there ever been a more banal symbol than the yellow smiley face of rave culture?...
...Surrounded by shiny apartment towers, the plazas are almost spookily spotless: clipped lawns, croony French music, a smiley-face toy-town police van....
...Smiley and quick to laugh, she is unable to describe why she chooses certain objects over others, except to say that “everything has a possibility for the future”....
...Dozens of Google’s pod-like car prototypes, with their rooftop sensors and smiley headlights, trundle around the Silicon Valley town every day....
...The quote is lifted from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, a prescient graphic novel about the rise of the security state in the face of terror; typically for Banksy, it is a piece of second-hand pseudo-wisdom...
...But there is still time to live the “V Dub dream”....
...At this rate, Google will be posting news of its exit with a few “lol”s and a smiley on Twitter....
...Fact v fantasy: How farfetched is it? “If you believe in spooks, clap your hands.”...
...Damian says I may be giving too much of myself and that it’s tweets not twits :-) See my smiley face. SourcesclosetoGordon@No10: Smith is for the chop. Gordonstayingput@No10: Followers 1,765....
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