Last week’s episodes were brilliant, bonkers, edge of the seat stuff. Looking forward to the, if you will, denouement…

Kudos for getting Nuts in May into this thread. One of the great TV dramas and Alison Steadman’s Candice-Marie is even greater than her Beverley in Abigail’s Party

I’d give 4 and 7 to the Beatles which still makes it 5-4 to The Stones. But if I could only have one of these albums it would be Let It Be all the way.

And my overall position? I’m a lifetime Labour supporter, firmly in the centre of the party, and one of those hateful types who think Blair Brown and their Cabinet did more good than bad and aren’t war cri […]

The Doughty Coves. TMFTL

I agree. And more broadly, I can see that many of the candidates replacing moderate Labour MPs who are standing down for this or other reasons are squarely to the left, Momentum types. Same at local Council level […]

When moderate reasonable people like Luciana Berger and Louise Ellman feel they have to leave the party because of the anti Semitic vitriol they have faced from within the party, and because they have no […]

He got some stick recently over his alleged comments on Brexit. One opera singer I know (who I doubt he would have known from Adam) made some characteristically strong comment about him on Twitter. Apparently he […]

It was their big hit but actually they produced at least two whole albums of outstanding material. Great band.

And here’s band leader Ted Heath with his trombonist kid brother Turville Heath….

Lily, Rosemary is magnificent. More than any other album Dylan made, Blood on the Tracks is all killer, no filler, and I wouldn’t lose a single second of it. No bothered about all this revisionist ‘the earlier ver […]

it followed hard on the heels of that neglected classic Hokey Croakey

I’ve met him once as well on a political visit he made as the then relatively new Labour leader. He was perfectly pleasant, showed interest and was excellent with the kids in the project he was visiting. Seemed s […]

Great shout – who’d have thought Nazareth could produce the definitive version of a Joni Mitchell song?

Marquee Moon and Pout Down Like Silver. Two of my absolute favourite albums. But perhaps you’re right – maybe you had to be there

Absolutely – it’s the curse of the CD innit? I’m listening to Van Morrison’s new one right now – if he’d pruned 6 of the 14 tracks he’d still have had a full album in old money and it would have been even bett […]

There was some radio presenter who used to invite listeners to suggest such placenames as treasured thesps, as in ‘ah yes, I remember dear Sir Charnock Richard’s Hamlet very well’….

I live in Louise Ellman’s constituency. She is a good MP forced out by the inflow of radical left and anti-Semitism. So there is simply no way I can vote for whoever the new Labour candidate will be (though t […]

I hate it too although growing up in Norn Iron we used to have fireworks and bonfire night on Halloween rather than 5 November – but without all the dressing up paraphernalia there is now. But it’s a g […]

Superb two episodes. My favourite moment (of many) was the old fashioned look Laurie gave Gilou when he was chatting up the Fraud Squad officer – a mix of jealousy, irritation, and Gallic shruggery in one facial […]