I spotted this on the awning of an underground (literally) cocktail bar in East London. I can’t tell if it’s trying to persuade passersby to part with their money over expensive drinks or attempting to offer some kind of pop-philosophical critique of free will in e modern age. You’d think Kierkegaard has a bar tab running in there or something. Or it could, even more disturbingly, be the credo of a character such as Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. Perhaps a Napoleon figure. Nietzsche’s Übermensch perhaps. However, it’s probably much more innocent than all of that over-intellectualised nonsense.

As regards the besides; it was an interesting week for the city and the world. A step forward in civil rights and more crisis in Europe. The more things change, etc.