Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2026

The Joy of Six 1563

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"Toby Young stole his status and career. And in every sinew of his body, he knows that. For most people, imposter syndrome is an irrati...
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Sunday, June 07, 2026

The mysterious mole men of New York caught on video

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Adam Gabbatt reports from New York for the Guardian: The first sewer episode happened on 5 May, at 2am. Three people, wearing hip waders an...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

The Joy of Six 1524

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"You will know them. They are in every policy working group, every conference fringe, every strategy call. They are the people who hear...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Le Tigre: Deceptacon

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Who are Le Tigre ? Le Tigre (Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman) formed as an obstinately hopeful, even joyous, post-riot grrrl ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

You can visit Noah's Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky​

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Embed from Getty Images Most Europeans who visit the United States go to New York or California, which are liberal, cosmopolitan places very...
Saturday, February 07, 2026

The Joy of Six 1472

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"The fallout from the latest revelations has again put survivors secondary to the actions of powerful men. Mandelson, who maintained a ...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

The Joy of Six 1338

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Chaminda Jayanetti examines the hidden impact of Labour's disability benefit cuts - from carer's allowance to railcards. "When...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

St Vincent: New York

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St Vincent - the American singer-songwriter Annie Clarke - has featured here before . New York is a track from her fifth studio album, Masse...
Sunday, February 02, 2025

Steve Winwood, Sheila E. and Orianthi: Everybody's Everything

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This week's music video reminds us of a better world: an American President and First Lady honouring a Mexican immigrant. Each year Kenn...
Saturday, August 03, 2024

The Joy of Six 1254

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"Easy though it is to mock the quality of the Tory leadership hopefuls, enabling and encouraging the worst impulses of the far-right ca...
Sunday, November 05, 2023

Odyssey: Native New Yorker

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I heard this song twice on Friday. First piped into Tesco's and then again on the soundtrack of the film The Eyes of Laura Mars. I got t...
Tuesday, April 04, 2023

Lib Dems say sewage is coming up on the doorstep

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It's the issue that's sweeping the country, says the Guardian : Josh Babarinde, a Lib Dem councillor in Eastbourne who is also the c...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Brandon deWilde: Together Again

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Born in April 1942, Brandon deWilde* was the darling of Broadway at the age of seven. Acting alongside Ethel Walters and Julie Harris, he pl...
Wednesday, June 01, 2022

The Joy of Six 1054

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Jonathan Meades reviews Tina Brown's book on the royal family: "They are out of their depth. The prurient, hypocritical red-top me...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The man who links the murders of John F. Kennedy and John Lennon

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Dive down the JFK assassination rabbit hole and you will find that anti-Castro Cubans, who felt the President had let them down over the fai...
Wednesday, March 03, 2021

Six of the Best 997

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"Many Liberal Democrats don’t know that the late great Paddy Ashdown leaned heavily on the concept of a Basic Income as a fundamental c...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

The boys from the NYPD choir

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On Saturday BBC4 showed  The Story of Fairytale of New York , in the course of it we learnt that there is no NYPD choir. This impressed me e...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Bolivian orchestra stranded at ‘haunted’ German castle surrounded by wolves

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Our Headline of the Day Award crosses the Atlantic. Well done to the New York Post  and thank you to the reader who nominated it.
Thursday, April 02, 2020

Andrew Cuomo’s nipples take our minds off coronavirus

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After meeting by Zoom for the third consecutive day, the judges agreed this blog's Headline of the Day Award should go to the New...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Paul Simon: The Late Great Johnny Ace

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A song about three deaths: Johnny Ace, who killed himself in a shooting accident in 1954 when Paul Simon was 13; John F.Kennedy, assassina...