##LondonCalling: Lord Mayor Sadiq Khan says NIMBY to the Sphere. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
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##LondonCalling: Lord Mayor Sadiq Khan says NIMBY to the Sphere. @JosephSternberg @WSJOpinion
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/world/europe/london-sphere-msg-vegas.html
1873 The present palace of the Lord Mayor of London
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| 0:39.7 | editorial board. |
| 0:41.5 | He writes political economics. He's in, and there's a story on the front page of the London papers that I read, that would be the London Times, about the sphere. If you're unfamiliar with the sphere, it's a new character in the world of American entertainment. |
| 0:58.0 | It appeared in Las Vegas some months ago, and there were spectacular stories about the electricity bill and |
| 1:05.2 | what it's up to and is it popular but right now it's considered a hit it's a |
| 1:10.5 | giant sphere, giant. |
| 1:13.0 | You can see it for miles away. |
| 1:15.0 | And because of its construction with all these LEDs on its surface interior, |
| 1:22.0 | it can be anything at once. It can be characters, it can be names, it can be lists. |
| 1:26.0 | During the Formula One racing held in Las Vegas, it followed the cars every time it went by. The eyeball would go from one side |
| 1:35.2 | to the other, rolling back and forth. It's got a personality, apparently you can project |
| 1:40.6 | upon it. It's like a Chinese, it's like a character, it's like a |
| 1:44.0 | cartoon character. That same sphere was developed over these last years to be built in |
| 1:50.1 | London and now the news comes that, not in my backyard, says the Lord Mayor of London, Sadee Khan, a rising |
| 1:58.9 | star in the Labour Party, and there looks to be a contest between Labor that is the ascending party for the next general |
| 2:07.2 | election and the Tories who have been in power for 450 years and are the descending party. |
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