Surely 2 can only be met by staying in the EU? You can’t leave a club and get the same benefits as you had. So this is twaddle. The Labour (or Corbynite) line, seems to be vote down whatever Theresa May proposes, […]

I left in the late seventies, but still go down there to see relatives, so I’m not sure. It was closed for some years, but I think it was refurbished and opened up again.

This is of limited interest but I’ve […]

I will show my true Gosport roots, by knowing that Hug is the correct spelling – it is Hug’s the Jewellers. I think Mike must have added the extra G.

I think it was, the classic furniture shop with a record department up a few stairs at the back. What was the name of that second hand record shop at the end of Bemisters Lane, where you coud offload that copy of […]

Isn’t your second sentence from an early draft of Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands?

The first jazz record I bought was Eric Dolphy’s Out to Lunch. Prog, like it did for so many, opened me up to the idea of listening to all sorts of music. So, I thought I’d try jazz and I think it was Richard Wil […]

A bit of an aside, but I think part of Corbyn’s appeal, for some, is his incompetence. By this I mean, his lack of experience in the practical politics of making things happen, despite having been more a p […]

What I always like about the loons who genuinely believe this, is that they will accept that the British government will pour huge sums into developing this chemical, and the salaries of the people into planning […]

But wouldn’t actively promoting the site with new content and a higher profile involve making it into a commercial enterprise of some kind, as it would need to support editorial staff. Some sites like The Q […]

Isn’t subscribing the best way to make sure that the journalists continue to be left to their own devices? It would show that there’s a market for a paper with a variety of opinions and proper (researched) journalism.

Well, having nothing better to do, I looked up his last comments. His more or less last posts were about the row over anti-Semitism caused by Naz Shah and Ken Livingstone. He didn’t question that they had made a […]

Clear Mountain would have been a great name for a Band album,

I’m not sure it was the last straw for him, but as far as I remember, he became exasperated by criticism of anti-semitic comments by Labour politicians. Totally irrelevant apparently.

When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez, and it’s Eastertime too.

Just like Tom Thumb’s Blues

(Although for years, I thought “in Juarez” was “and worries”, which I still kind of prefer)

On the other hand, I get the impression that lunchtime drinking has faded away, at least in the office circles in London that I work in. When I moved to my first job here in the eighties, there was a pub over the […]

He inherits the toupee?

In many ways I think Stewart Lee is a very traditional comedian. He creates an onstage persona loosely based on certain aspects of what I’d guess is his off-stage one personality. And then his material is mainly o […]

For a jazz composer, Billy Strayhorn is pretty good. And for a laconic slide guitarist, Ry Cooder is so perfect that it can’t be real – surely Beefheart renamed him during their brief collaboration.

Not a g […]

I think Bob Mortimer’s real career renaissance has been his appearances on Would I Lie to You, if my family are anything to go by. People of 88 and 25, who were the wrong generations to have watched Reeves and M […]