May 16 2013
I am once again left speechless. How exactly do burnt-out cars look like Beirut? A CAR trader who lost eight vehicles in a huge fire last night has spoken of the devastation at the scene. The vehicles were lost in a blaze at Southside Farm, Wooburn Moor, which began in the early hours of this …
Feb 28 2013
Over the past year or so, I have been using photos of Beirut to accompany my Looks Like Beirut posts. These photos have been made available thanks to the Creative Commons-licensed photos posted by users on Flickr. Through a recent search, I came across a photo with a very interesting title: Beirut? Here is the …
Feb 28 2013
We’ve had construction sites (incomplete buildings, tram work, flying scaffolding, delayed construction, metro lines, road works – take your pick) that look like Beirut and a myriad of dilapidated buildings (former military base, a Hindley building, downtown Buffalo, one of the poorest cities in the US) that apparently also look like the Lebanese capital. So …
Feb 12 2013
From Glasgow, to Tiverton, to across the ocean in Ohio, roads everywhere are looking like Beirut. We now have an addition to the list with Alness: ROADS in a pothole-plagued Easter Ross estate have been compared to “war-torn Beirut” by a fed-up local whose complaints have “fallen on deaf ears”. Alness man Allan Mcleod, a …
Jan 28 2013
It was quite an eventful weekend: I turned 30 on the 27th, this blog turned 4 on the 26th, and columnist Angus Young of the Hull Daily Mail acknowledges receiving a “Looks Like Beirut” certificate on the 25th: I was delighted to open a large brown envelope addressed to me which arrived in the office …
