Afterword t-shirt.

I’m into it – it’s glorious to see the deployment of science and human ingenuity for something so inspiring and at least potentially beneficial. Not everything in life has to be about you know who.

Trust me, you wouldn’t be calling it perfect if you’d heard that rendition of Sound of the Underground. Still haunts me to this day.

This is mine. I only heard it for the first time a few weeks back, but it’s just wonderful….

I love love love this song.

Congratulations, Gatz – lovely news. Wish you much happiness together. Our wedding was at Matfen Hall up in Northumberland. We were the first of our social circle to get married, even though I was knocking on for […]

Heard: Lots of new music this month. Got very into the recent MONO Live in Tokyo album. Tremendous stuff, listened to consistently across the month. As advertised elsewhere, big fan of the new Amanda Bergman […]

If you can only have two…. Live 66 “Albert Hall” Time Out Of Mind One of the greatest live albums of all time, and the three Bobs: Folk Bob, Rock Bob, and Old Man Bob.

London. It’s fucking fantastic.

I guess the framing of this as Trump’s war is designed in part to help peel voters away from him/the Republicans. If you inexorably tie Trump and his previous voters together, and force them to defend his […]

Can’t really imagine voluntarily attending a reunion. It’s ok to look back but you have to move forward. Most of the people I went to school with have stayed local, in a town that never showed much interest in […]

I don’t know about best, but leaving aside Van Morrison I think this is probably my favourite, and it doesn’t seem to have made the list at all: Put me down as a yes for Zombie. Always been a fantastic song.

Can’t do a recap of the whole month as there was quite a lot going on, but – per a few recent conversations on here – I did manage to see Amanda Bergman play London. Tiny venue, probably only about 50 people. […]

Bloody hell, Sal – I’m really sorry to hear all of this. Sounds like a lot to take in. Hope you’re doing OK (sounds like you’re processing it all pretty well), and that fortune smiles on you shortly. Green Man […]

The developments of the last few days demonstrate once again that anyone who claims they can tell you what will happen in an election to be held in 2029 is either a fool or a liar. Events, dear boy, events.

I am so sorry to hear all of this, Freddy, sounds absolutely brutal. I know this has been going on for some time, and I can only hope that each step takes you a little closer to turning a corner.

It doesn’t greatly matter, but you can’t really extrapolate directly from the poll response above that people see drugs users as criminals. It’s possible to see someone break a law that you believe in and not r […]

Source here, from Jan 2025: https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/51415-how-do-mps-views-on-drugs-policy-compare-to-the-british-publics Third chart down, under “With regard to hard drugs such as heroin and crack c […]

Thanks, Sal, I appreciate that. Apologies for my obvious irritation yesterday. Being honest, it was triggered by thread title and the assertion that listening to (in this case overwhelming) public opinion is a […]

Portugal has not legalised all drugs. They’ve decriminalised them in small quantities, which is an entirely different policy. The debate on drugs isn’t “taboo”. It’s been discussed passionately and at length ac […]