About 20 years ago the guy who was my best mate during the first few years of secondary school suddenly started popping up in a load of fairly high profile TV shows. He’d left the school at about 16, and w […]

Thirding this. Saw them onstage with Martha Wainright and they were great. Had forgotten all about them.

Very good! 😂

Sneakers is a brilliant movie. I also really enjoyed his late career work; The Last Castle, The Clearing, All Is Lost and Truth. He was always reliably watchable right up to the end. I know a few people […]

You’re about 89 too, Lodestone. I’ll still consider it terrible news when you pop your clogs.

Noooo – this is terrible news 😩

Why is it performative posturing, rather than simply a differing opinion? I agree about the Brexit vote, for what it’s worth. I just think there’s a material difference between ignoring the view of 17,000,000 peo […]

While I take the point that in any crowd of 100,000 people, not all of them will be bad, I think this is very much an example of a Labour politician seeing what they want to see, as they’re often prone to doing. […]

Yeah, we’re much the same. The high tide of DEI washed through and receded, taking with it good and bad. On the plus side, certain employee groups got to raise a voice and help people understand a different p […]

Thank you – it’s an excellent example of what I’m talking about. The mention of original sin is such a giveaway; this is Catholic guilt dressed up in the language of social justice, and it’s been used as an excus […]

Ban algorithmic social media. You get to see what your friends post chronologically, but what you don’t get is a line of code that says “you’ve clicked on a video about small boats/eating disorders/the Bee G […]

Independent of whether we should be listening to Saturday’s demonstrators, I completely agree with what you say above regarding white privilege/anti-imperialism, etc. We’ve had about a decade of identity pol […]

No idea. From where I’m sat a far right government looks highly likely as long as we have unchecked algorithmic social media.

That’s a six word slogan 😉 I think we start by moving beyond the generalities of immigration good/immigration bad to ask what are the opportunities and risks and how can we capture the former while avoi […]

I don’t agree with the suggestions above that we should listen to or entertain these people. I think we should listen to voters, absolutely. There are millions of them, they make up the vast majority of this c […]

Early kick off for Millwall, late kick offs for West Ham and Chelsea. 🤷‍♂️

Came back through Waterloo from the football and found myself surrounded by these “protestors”, presumably making their way back to wherever it is they live. As noted on other threads, I’m someone who has s […]

Been listening to Grace a lot the last few months and, if anything, think I’ve gone in the opposite direction. For whatever reason, it’s striking a real chord at the minute.

Co-sign for the Big Thief album. Grandmother – what a tune.

I think with some records it’s just the right moment in your life and they suddenly make sense to you. Had it only recently with Roxy Music. Streaming has definitely made the experience more disposable, but t […]