James Chapman

Clearly the writer didn’t mean that at all

Can this be true? Scandalous if so.

'Brexit was a giant con by plastic patriots – we need a plan to get back in EU' The Mirror's Kevin Maguire argues the only way for Britain to return to its former prosperity is with a plan to return to the EU after Brexit proved to be a giant con that only leaves us poorer and we...

“Brexit is a self-inflicted assault on the UK economy that will prove more than twice as expensive as abolishing slavery in the British Empire…we need a plan to get back in the EU.”

Interesting to see demands to rejoin now gaining mainstream media traction.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Brexit was an attempted counter-revolution against many of the changes this country has gone through since 1945. It has turned out to be a failure with elements of farce. This has driven many people on the Right completely mad.

YouTube video by Tori Amos - Topic Sweet Sangria (2023 Remaster)

Sweet Sangria from Tori Amos’s masterpiece Scarlet’s Walk.

youtu.be/BJ3nQtopdGk

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

And she’s still producing extraordinary covers decades into her career and in her sixties. Her version of Swimming Pools (Drank) by Kendrick is amazing. ❤️

Hahahahaha… Brexit has been a success… I can hardly breathe.
Can “Lord” Frost get any more ridiculous?

It’s such an incredible cover. You might both appreciate my Tori Amos covers playlist.

open.spotify.com/playlist/7o1...

All great but the versions of Climb, Spring Haze and Lady in Blue are exceptional - better than studio

I agree, Chappell Roan is a bubblegum pop princess. Her latest song The Subway (which is excellent) reminds me of The Cranberries, the Sundays and Roxette. Not much in common with Tori Amos except the red hair and iconoclastic statements.

That’s like asking me to choose between my children.
However, I can say that Boys for Pele and Scarlet’s Walk are my joint favourite Tori albums.

Both customs unions involve a common external tariff on goods imported from countries outside the union. Both facilitate free trade by removing tariffs and other trade barriers on goods traded between member states or participating countries. The main difference is Turkey’s doesn’t cover services.

Turkey and the EU have been in a customs union since 1995.

Revealed: Labour group’s £9,500 ‘cash for access’ breakfasts A Times investigation has found companies have been offered sponsorship deals involving private meetings with an ‘influential Labour figure’

All the main parties are doomed to tawdry stories of this kind until someone grasps the nettle and gets big money out of politics by introducing state funding. The Phillips report setting out how to do it is there on the shelf waiting to be taken down.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

These moments are for the history books. When your kids and grandkids ask you whether you stood up and fought back, be someone who can say you did.

The climate change book?

YouTube video by ChappellRoanVEVO Chappell Roan - The Subway (Official Music Video)

If in four months this feeling ain't gone
Well, fuck this city
I'm movin' to Saskatchewan

The pop lyric of the summer.

youtu.be/woLfAvD5iXI

Reading Davey's piece today feels like the tide has turned... but let's see.

The Lib Dems getting 150 seats may be the only way to stop Farage. More power to them.

Brexit has been a resounding disaster. Starmer must find the courage to change course | Ed Davey Poll after poll shows most voters think leaving the EU has been a failure. Closer ties with Europe would bring huge rewards, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk is showing more leg than ever on Brexit. "Brexit isn’t working, and the British people know it,' he says, calling for reentry into the customs union and then single market.
Potentially huge prize on offer here for the Lib Dems.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UK inflation is 3.4%. Eurozone inflation is 2.0%

The Bank of England interest rate is 4.25%. The ECB rate is 2.0%

Brexit is costing the government around £50bn a year.

We are paying a massive cost for not being in the EU and the Eurozone, in higher inflation, interest rates, and taxes.

YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape Tori Amos - Pretty Good Year (Official Music Video)

Pretty Good Year by Tori Amos. My favourite song by her, along with the much later Reindeer King.

youtu.be/xr8auZq-Xn8

Listening to Tori Amos’s Winter, about her relationship with her father, whose death she announced.
Dr Edison launched her career, accompanying her to play in bars in Washington as a teenager.

“I tell you that I’ll always want you near /
“You say that things change, my dear”

youtu.be/_PDlGUdDF8Y

Just 29% of Brits would vote for Brexit today, according a poll in @thetimes.com. The omertà among the main parties on the issue of rejoining cannot last forever.

This song is so underrated in her catalogue. Good to see such love for it!

I am totally here for this opinion. You might appreciate my Tori covers playlist.

open.spotify.com/playlist/7o1...

You’re simply ignorant about this Stephen, and don’t understand what’s been announced. As well as rude. Time for my very first Bluesky block.

Any answer Stephen? Or apology for your abusive tone, which is very un-Bluesky? Shadow Cabinet office secretary Alex Burghart says: “Banned parental occupations will now include nurses and teacher.” So actually appears it’s you that’s misunderstood.

Charming. The BBC report says quite clearly that “professional and managerial occupations” include chief executive, doctor, engineer, teacher, nurse and journalist. So what have I misunderstood?