Capitalism can only go backwards, it has nowhere else to go!

Although it is only a matter of time, capitalism hasn't collapsed yet; but even so, right now the way it is going backwards is still a groove sensation – empty retail units and what only a couple of years ago would have seemed like really unlikely pop-ups in place of tedious corporate chains.

As a teenager in the 1970s I always loved exchange bookshops and there were plenty of them in London, even in the centre of town… you'd buy a paperback and if you didn't want to keep it you could trade...