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After occupying Guy Ritchie’s Fitzrovia mansion<\/a> for a while, those cheeky chappies at The Really Free School have found a new location for their activities at The Hand and Racquet Public House, 48 Whitcomb Street, London, WC2H 7HA.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They’ve moved over from their last ex-public house premises at The Black Horse, and have already announced a full session of forthcoming activities, with lessons, talks and\u00a0workshops. Check out their website for event listings<\/a>.<\/p>\n Conveniently, I’d already posted up a feature<\/a> on this closed pub which had lain empty for well over a year, so they were able to quickly find an image to use on their site \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Telegraph is aghast<\/strong><\/p>\n Naturally, the ghastly Daily Telegraph is up in arms at the prospect of people putting long-empty and disused buldings into community use, \u00a0posting\u00a0up predictably\u00a0whiny and\u00a0alarmist\u00a0articles:\u00a0The middle class serial squatters exploiting the law<\/a> and How squatters evade the law<\/a>.<\/p>\n It seems that the Torygraph could only afford the same one image to illustrate both articles. If they’d asked nicely, they could have used one of mine. For a donation, natch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After occupying Guy Ritchie’s Fitzrovia mansion for a while, those cheeky chappies at The Really Free School have found a new location for their activities at The Hand and Racquet … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,17,193],"tags":[365,138,19,84,363],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-photos","category-places","tag-anti-cuts","tag-leicester-square","tag-protest","tag-squats","tag-students"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hand-and-racquet-pub-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-WZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/4245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Hand](\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/images\/hand-and-racquet-pub-03.jpg\")
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