20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1998
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1998 Featured Album: Life Thru a lens – Robbie Williams This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on that [more…]
Arts
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 1st July 2021 Panel: David Davis (Conservative) Andy Burnham (Labour) Chika Russell (Businesswoman) Madelaine Grant (Daily Telegraph) Benjamin Zephaniah (Writer) Venue: London Question one touched upon Boris’s non-sacking of Matt Handcock. David Davis [more…]
Arts
Rough Gardening In A Pandemic & 40 Things To Do…….
An eventful couple of weeks on the political front has culminated in a horny Government Minister apologising (and having his apology accepted by the PM), not for shagging his bit of spare, but for “Breaking [more…]
Arts
The Rebel Alliance
Not a Star Wars fan but this morning while thinking about the protest it did strike me that the people marching were a good representation of society. The left, the right, people with no real [more…]
Arts
Puffins March For Freedom
Saturday the 26th of June saw another well attended, not least by Puffins, anti-lockdown Freedom March in London. As usual, the run-up to the event was embargoed by mainstream media with no advanced publicity except [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Sixty-One
We are in Battishill Street Gardens, Islington. It is raining. Myself, Natasha Williams and Jakey the borrowed toddler are sat on a bench, sheltered by a tree, next to bushes over-growing a monument. Natasha had [more…]
Authoritarianism
Puffins March For Freedom!
In a week in which thousands of senior EUFA officials, sponsors and hangers-on have been given the green light to attend Euro 2020 football matches at Wembley out-with quarantine, Britain still remains in partial lockdown [more…]
20th Century
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1997
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1997 Featured Album: Van Morrison – The Healing Game This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on that much [more…]
Arts
Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review
Question Time 24th June 2021 Panel: Robert Buckland (Conservative) Jon Ashworth (Labour) Caroline Lucas (Green) Kate Andrews (The Spectator) Victor Adebowale (NHS Confederation) Venue: London Question one. Is it not double standards to allow UEFA [more…]