The BBC's Newsnight has revealed that, following Cameron cuts planned by the government, many ordinary British people decided to reduce the lighting on the streets. This announced austerity has sparked much controversy: the question most discussed is that of security. London will be back in the dark as to the time of Jack the Ripper? Then, the darkness is an accomplice in crimes and misdemeanors, and falling on the city, with its dark cloth hiding the mass of the poor sleeping on the streets and prostitutes in the alleys of the suburbs behind the pub. But that was Victorian London, the same with excess Puritan covered the legs of tables with long tablecloths, as if they were to hide the legs of all the English ladies. There are those who see it as their own and are rightly worried, but I can not dwell on the thought that the landscape with these measures seem likely to change their appearance. Perhaps the city of return to their original appearance before the neon glare of the skies will be so constricting the inhabitants to leave the countryside for miles to watch the sky. I do not think you can choose between darkness and light, because both are part of the human soul and compensate each other. How much will seem absurd to the people of London a few years ago thinking he could no longer see the stars reflected on the Thames because of the neon? How would seem unthinkable a noi, oggi , non vedere scintillare le insegne più famose d'Europa su Piccadilly Circus? Buona notte!
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