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Harry Gray! Those who know, know. #lufc

Don't usually like covers LPs, but The Damned's Not Like Everybody Else is great. Sounds like they're having really good fun saluting the late Brian James.

The enemy of enemy is... the temporary subject of my good wishes.

Stop tempting the football gods but, yes, a huge win.

The Sleaford Mods frontman discusses life and creativity with his friend, the film maker and occasional director of music videos

Peer Review: Jason Williamson Interviews Ben Wheatley… and Vice Versa

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A sense in Labour of some voters being more 'authentic' plays in here. As the two-party system being on life support. I don't think any party can build a stable coalition of voters as things stand. Best stop now or I'll start talking about proportional representation...

Agreed. Labour is losing its hold on Britain's cities. (Has already lost this in Bristol and Brighton.) I look ahead and I just see two Red Walls crumbling. Not that I would necessarily mind if it weren't for the spectre of Faragism.

Good luck. I have to reseal a badly fitted shower pre-my mother arriving pre-Xmas. I keep putting this off...

Just listened to it and it sounds a bit trite now, oddly enough, where it didn't pre-Buckley. It's as if the song's familiarity has washed away the grit I used to find in Cale's version.

Geese had flown over me before. I just listened to a couple of their things, including a live Suzanne, and I feel like they unloaded on me from a great height. Cohen was a tough old bird. You at the very least have to play his songs with *intention* to reflect this or they just sound winsome.

Agreed. More happily, John Cale's reconstruction of Hallelujah – and, hands up, I was for a while obsessed with his live version on Fragments of a Rainy Season – paved the way for Cohen's final act as the world's most unlikely arena act.

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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

The Quietus Albums of the Year 2025 (In Association with Norman Records) | The Quietus One of the scant benefits bestowed by editing a countercultural magazine born in a time of great financial turmoil is that you eventually develop a state of permanent readiness for the next disaster. ...

tQ's albums of the year 2025 have landed! As ever, it'll be a joy over the next 12 months speaking to people excited about the releases they discovered through it – this is why we continue, into our 18th year. I hope you'll find something you love herein:

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Here are some places you can still see the ace film GAME.

(Yes, made by pals of mine, but ace nonetheless)

The ‘squeezed middle’ is back – and this time it could be Labour’s undoing | John Harris Last week’s budget left middle-income families anxious and angry. The party is turning its back on voters it can little afford to lose, says Guardian columnist John Harris

This is excellent from @johnharris1969.bsky.social. Labour is levying higher taxes on squeezed middle without as yet improving services in ways people really notice. Or telling a convincing story about the country it wants us to be. Dispiriting times.
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Weird how some things carry on being their thing. Leeds United will, give or take the odd Bielsa season, always be falling just short and in comedic crisis. And the left will always be arguing with itself, at least when not arguing with social democrats, rather than taking on the right.

He'll likely do best serious, we're-all-comrades face if asked about this, but Zack Polanski probably has wet pants from laughing.

"Nasty, unpredictable, properly bonkers. One of a kind." Possibly not a coincidence that scriptwriter @robwilliams71.bsky.social is all of the above except "nasty". It's more, I think, that he has a dark sense of humour.

So sad to hear of passing of Mani. Have been listening to first Roses' LP and it's fabulous.

I hope not. I'm on a low-carb diet. Could we go berry republic instead? Better for my blood sugar.

This looks excellent from @danieldylanwray.bsky.social via @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. I hope to learn much about I'm So Hollow, Comsat Angels, Artery and others. Going into an awards show, I once heard two girls discussing whether I was a member of Def Leppard, but that's another story.

Just back in from seeing Game, the film my mates Geoff, Marc and Rob (and a few others) have made. The boys done good! Very proud of them.

On general release from this Friday, but still plenty of screenings with post-film Q&As. Go see!

Excellent evening at Bristol’s Watershed seeing Game, scripted by similarly excellent @robwilliams71.bsky.social, plus a Q&A featuring producer Geoff Barrow of @invadarecords.bsky.social & co-star Jason Williamson of @sleafordmods.bsky.social among others.

#lufc Current mood of fanbase: not dissimilar to when Leeds lost 1-0 to Everton in February 2023. Seems a bit early for complete despair. Although that day may yet arrive this season.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

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Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.

Review – An evening with Clive Deamer from Portishead at Roseberry Road Studios, Bath – The Bath and Wiltshire Parent Tucked away just off the Lower Bristol Road, Roseberry Road Studios is one of Bath’s most welcoming creative spaces — and it recently played host to a fascinati

I don't often get reviews, so chuffed with this. Had a great time chatting with top fella Clive Deamer, who made doing the interview easy. Thanks to all at Roseberry Road Studios in Bath for making this happen.
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Didn't know that on the numbers. Interesting. I guess Mamdani seems like something new. Especially in US terms. And charismatic. So newsworthy.