I took a friend who coached Women’s football at college level in the USA to a non-league game a few years ago and all he could talk about was what the ref allowed players to get away with at the corners. And no, non-league is no more prone to “grappling” than any other level.

MARCH NOISE UPSTAIRS!

My podcast is called The Rest is Silence. And it lives up to its name: it doesn’t exist. Simply switch your listening devices off for an hour and sit in an empty room.

You can get the Non-League Paper.

You can get papers on it here. But not the LRB, NYRB, or TLS apparently

It’s called Borrowbox In Manchester.

Another win for Starmer?

Why the hell is anyone paying “Sir” John Hayes anything let alone £88,000+?

Fascinating article by Matt Vella in the #FTWeekendMagazine today #Fortean.

Nasty, brutish and short….
Hobbes

That phrase “why is this bloody liar bloody lying to me” coming into its own now.

“I say old chap, do you really need another book? Just look at that pile of unread ones.”

That’s massively unfair to free jazz.

It’s not rewriting knowledge: it’s constructing a lie machine.

Just been informed that it might well have been parsley rather than lettuce.

YouTube video by INTVmusic Dexy s Midnight Runners Geno TOTP 1980 HD

This is how you turn up to Top of the Pops:

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That’s nothing. Once ordered a sausage salad in Munich and got a bowl full of sliced sausage with half a radish and a very tired lettuce leaf on top. With a side of excellent mustard.

And nb - you can get LRB and NYRB at Etchells. If you buy an unusual journal you get remembered- I appear to be one of two regulars for The Wire.

If you can read German Jungle World makes all of the journals discussed here look a bit low powered. Trouble is my German is so bad it takes me about 3 months to read a copy.

That said - agree with the person who suggested New Yorker as another alternative. Always an interesting read.

There’s another alternative that you can buy every other Friday at Chorlton M&S or Etchells. Covers more actual books than either LRB or NYRB, and has a rather more interesting arts coverage imho ( eg latest issue reviews a Joseph Beuys exhibition in London I’d not seen discussed anywhere): TLS.

You might get a lot of angry Americans in your timeline because of one of the answers there: no spoilers!

But useful for libraries?

5 mins in Compagnie on rue des Ecoles shows it!

Was going to say this.

“We want eight and we won’t wait.”

Wait- Oxford’s smaller than St Albans?

We never found one. It’s a long time back now though…

Well I wondered if you were whether you’d found a pie shop?

You’re not in New York are you?