Sunday, March 04, 2018

L.A. Salami: Generation L(ost)

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David Christiensen explains: London-based Lookman Adekunle Salami, known as L.A. Salami, is equally adept playing a full club or a quie...
Saturday, March 03, 2018

Floods at Nottingham Station, 1947

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Embed from Getty Images This extraordinary photograph shows Nottingham station - Nottingham Midland as it would have been in those days - ...

Ian Jack on The Causes of Brexit

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Embed from Getty Images England has been in a dreadful state for some weeks. Lord Coodle would go out, Sir Thomas Doodle wouldn’t come in,...

Six of the Best 773

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Rally round Theresa May? No chance, says Cicero . Tim Crook argues that the public has a right to know about Max Mosley's past: ...
Friday, March 02, 2018

Stewart Lee and Iain Sinclair on The Last London

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We've heard Iain Sinclair talking with Alan Moore about London. Here he is doing it with Stewart Lee. As the blurb from the London ...

The Lib Dems checked Stasi files for Agent Cob

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An intriguing paragraph from Keven Maguire's Commons Confidential in the New Statesman : Maybe the Sun, Daily Express,​ Daily Mail a...

Demolition of Bishop's Castle chapel put on hold

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From the Shropshire Star : Work was scheduled to start on January 22 to bring down Bishop's Castle Methodist Chapel, which members ...

George Osborne finally hits an economic target

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From BBC News : David Cameron and George Osborne have hailed their austerity plan after the former chancellor's deficit reduction ta...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

Six of the Best 772

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"To paraphrase Neil Kinnock, how did we end up in the grotesque chaos of a Conservative government – a Conservative government – sett...

Jonathan Meades in the New Forest

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Embed from Getty Images The great man has reviewed New Forest: The Forging of a Landscape by Hadrian Cook for the Literary Review : Ther...

Don't go along with Jacob Rees-Mogg's act by attacking him for being posh or old fashioned.

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Embed from Getty Images The thing about really posh people is that they make it look effortless. Think of Prince William or David Cameron....

Theresa May warned two days before the referendum that Brexit would make a hard Irish border inevitable

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MUST WATCH: shocking video in which Theresa May tells the truth about what Brexit will really mean for the Northern Ireland border. Ev...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair on The Last London

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Two of the grand old, grumpy old, men of psychogeography in conversation at The House of the Last London, Gallery 46, Whitechapel.

There will be no Arts Fresco this year

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The organisers of Arts Fresco - Market Harborough's celebrated street theatre festival - have announced that it will not take place ...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Six of the Best 771

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Waseem Yaqoob explains why university staff are striking: "The success of the strike will depend to a large extent on how students re...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Private Eye, snobbery and The Antiques Roadshow

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There is a silly little item in the current Private Eye. It begins: Hard times at the BBC, where it appears even the treasured Antique...
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Church spires should be beacons of energy in the landscape

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From BBC News the other day: Church spires could be used to boost mobile and broadband coverage in rural areas under an agreement betw...

Eels: The Deconstruction

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This is the title track from an album to be released in April. It sounds very Nineties to me, but then that is when Eels started out.
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Round 94 of Andrew Bridgen vs Keith Vaz

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Embed from Getty Images It is no secret that Andrew Bridgen (Conservative MP for Leicestershire North West) and Keith Vaz (Labour MP for L...

Lib Dem councillor takes temporary charge of City of York Council

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The Ludlow & Tenbury Wells Advertiser once described Ludlow Town Council as  "beleaguered" and "in meltdown" . ...