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ceasefire latest - tents destroyed, and 11 people

it gets better each time you re-read it

“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated.“

What price the rock 'n' roll dream? From 90s record shops to present day Manchester To Rise in the Dark by Nick J Brown SALE 99p ebook 'For anyone who asks, we're all over eighteen and have got the fake IDs to prove it.'

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Friday! It’s time

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….

📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

it's not FOR us

Tuning the Dial We’re lost in music, caught …………… at second slip, low down, by the outstretched hand of ……………….. the US vice president, JD Vance, who was spotted ... …………..….…. working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when …………………. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 was premiered in the …………………..… Forties. South or southwest 5 to 7, occasionally gale ………..………… from Croydon is on the line, who wants to talk to us about ……………………….… why Aviva life insurance is right for you and …………………………………... offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I’m right or ………….…….….. left wing but there’s nobody in the centre and the ball gets cleared to ………..…….. ….......….…..... Oscar Wilde, who famously announced ‘I have nothing to declare except …………….…………… .……….….. I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long. Brian Bilston

Happy Radio Day to all those who celebrate.

So yes, there is this point of view. You could very easily be cynical, jaded, lost in realpolitik at the revelation that Ratcliffe feels it useful to pretend Britain is in economic difficulty because of an invading army of foreigners. And that Nigel Farage, arch deregulator, seems, in his disinterested view, an entirely reasonable voice on this topic. Let us be clear about what is happening here. There is very little chance Ratcliffe feels any of this deeply. But he does know that a slash-and-burn Reform government would be good for business. With his Ineos hat on Ratcliffe has spoken publicly about the problems of doing business in the current version of a non-EU UK. He wants a harder out. Immigration is just a wedge issue in this dynamic, a way of pressing those buttons. If Ratcliffe actually gives a personal toss about this, is actually losing any sleep about its effects on "everyday people", I will gladly eat my own arm. This is pre-electioneering on behalf of the super-wealthy. A powerful person with skin in the game is trying to influence people into voting a certain way.

This is the best explainer I’ve seen on Ratcliffe’s motives for his racist outburst. We shouldn’t enter into any ‘debate’ on immigration on these terms. It’s a deeply dishonest and dangerous call to arms by cynical people who prioritise profit over everything else
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

My hot take? This country is so intent on being shit and broken that whoever is in charge will be a cunt within 2 weeks. You could put Master Potter Keith Brymer Jones in charge and he'll be dressing up as a golliwog within a fortnight. It's all fucked, and has been since 2016.

YouTube video by Pitchfork Khruangbin @ Villain | Pitchfork Live

Today has been unnecessarily stressful, so it's Khruangbin time...
youtu.be/q4xKvHANqjk

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I need to disrupt soup. Maybe... Dry soup? “Think soup is wet? Think again.” Hmmm. Oh! Shit! I got it. Soup 2.

Nicky Campbell is on it now.

where Harry Hill gets his material

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you beauty!

Tuesday

a "pledge" eh? will the progress never cease?

#5debutalbums0509 Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger (2005) No transatlantic drawl here. A differentiator that sets MP apart from their many peers is a pride in their provincial origin. That and the umlaut, obviously. High energy indie rock from a band that's still relevant and gigging this album.

great record

YouTube video by Lord Flashheart rik mayall man down romantic story

Day 10: Rik Mayall’s idea of a romantic story.

youtu.be/mgsvfGKe14E?...

#februaryisfunny

Chris Mason: Labour sticks with Starmer for now but this is not over The prime minister has come through a political near-death experience, the BBC's political editor writes.

"but this is not over" - say Mason, Robinson & Kuenssberg - they have more work to do as a certain stubborn woke radical lefty refuses to budge
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, on the stripping away of American rights. The book is mostly a family travelogue. But new laws were devised midway through our travels, and I got mad, and wrote that down too.
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

Morning! No work for me today so it's a day of music ... 🎶