Sophia Deboick

Will the horrors never cease?

Gogol Bordello bring anarchy to Strasbourg Eugene Hütz and his band turn the Council of Europe into a carnival of defiance

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Pam St Clement to return to EastEnders as Pat Butcher in dementia episode The beloved character, played by Pam St Clement, returns next month in Nigel's memories from the 90s.

The real scandal at the BBC - spending licence fee-payers' money on this for 40 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Stop the torture of women with cancer at HMP Bronzefield Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Britain, 2025. Beyond belief. chng.it/ZYbw9gSRqT

We found this letter (complete with badge still in situ) in our attic when we moved in. That was over 50 years after it plopped on to the doormat and was opened by a no doubt thrilled Kenneth. It's now framed in our hall. #BiddyBaxter

The Baby's Catalogue had such progressive depictions of parenthood for the early 1980s - hands-on dads, working mums. The knackered dad carrying the baby on the back flyleaf has always killed me.

The revenge of Alice Cooper As Ozzy Osbourne bows out, rock’s other shock legend returns to his roots – and reminds us who did it first

Alice Cooper - the band, not the man - are back after half a century to remind us exactly what they are all about. Me on their peerless run of early '70s albums, dark subversion of American popular culture & securing of a legacy www.thenewworld.co.uk/sophia-deboi... @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

YouTube video by Flutter525 Danger, Danger (Angry Mob) (Song) - MLP: A New Generation

Farage RN www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P-L...

Brian Wilson, the president and the end of California The Beach Boy is gone - and as Trump’s troops stalk LA, the state’s sun-drenched dream is over too

When LA's Watts neighbourhood erupted in riots in the summer of 1965, the Californian idyll of the Beach Boys' songs was exposed as a myth. 60 years later, Brian Wilson has died as LA is again in turmoil. What future for both the real and imagined Golden State?
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The latest skirmish in the long ideological battle over children's play... www.thenewworld.co.uk/adventurous-...

Touch of the Klaus Nomis about that winner. I approve.

The Eurovision troll contest Estonian Tommy Cash’s Espresso Macchiato mocks Italians. Is he a prankster, or a racist?

Tommy Cash for Estonia coming in THIRD! Now go and have a lot of fun on his YouTube channel... www.theneweuropean.co.uk/sophia-deboi... #eurovision

That coffee-themed Estonian entry and Cha Cha Cha share the same writer/ producer, btw. Cha Cha Cha was the televote winner in 2023 and widely felt to have been robbed by Loreen. Just saying... #eurovision

Kaarija vs Baby Lasagne?! This is the stuff.

Gotta be Denmark, surely? #eurovision

The Eurovision troll contest Estonian Tommy Cash’s Espresso Macchiato mocks Italians. Is he a prankster, or a racist?

Estonian Tommy Cash’s Espresso Macchiato mocks Italians. Is he a prankster, or a racist?

YouTube video by TOMMY CASH TOMMY CASH - LEAVE ME ALONE (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

Tip for #Eurovision tonight - Tommy Cash for Estonia with 'Espresso Macchiato', which has annoyed Italian nationalists and been the first controversy out of the traps for this year's Contest. Piece on him coming out soon... Here he reflects on his post-Soviet youth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qoo...

'Island of strangers'. Eek.

Thanks to Professor Duncan Wheeler, Chair of Spanish Studies at Leeds, for walking me through the contradictions of the Spanish transition period and the meanings of Julio Iglesias!

Camilo Sesto, the singer who ushered Spain into a new age A new museum in Alicante celebrates the Jesus of Madrid

In this week's @theneweuropean.bsky.social, the Spanish balladeer who brought Jesus Christ Superstar to Spain during the death throes of Francoism and became one of the Spanish-speaking world's most adored singers www.theneweuropean.co.uk/sophia-deboi... On newsstands now #CamiloSesto

Remarkable

If you were ever under the impression the UK is a civilised country...

ITV missing a trick here - Mickey Rourke doing 'Respect and Inclusion training' is what they should have televised. Basis of a sitcom.

Oh no, that's tipped me over the edge.

a man with long hair and a fur coat is waving ALT: a man with long hair and a fur coat is waving

Iconic. So long.

I was 6 when Willow came out - I remember going to see it at the Southend Cannon. Val Kilmer's role in the formation of my psyche cannot be overstated.

Trevor Lock obituary: hero of Iranian embassy siege Unassuming PC who raised the alarm and calmed hostages before fighting an armed terrorist as the SAS went in

Only recently read The Siege. 'Be more Trevor Lock' was a big takeaway. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

This could drive me to violence.

Chanced upon this at a caravan park in Kent this weekend. Americans who died for freedom in Europe.