This doesn’t annoy me, it’s just one of the changing quirks of speech, but another way of agreeing with someone now seems to be to say “exactly that”.

The Arendt book appeared on the list of items that Peter Murrell bought with the money he embezzled.

Well Gerald’s mother liked him. (One for the older posters.)

Be overweight? These semaglutide drugs to treat it are now being advertised on TV and seem to be easily accessible. If they are as successful as they appear to be, this whole problem might not be seen any […]

Vote Wesley Streeting He’s a friend to the poor…

Yes, that’s what I thought it meant.

Pranny – there’s a word I haven’t heard for a long while. It’s great to have these words in the back of your mind when someone has been irritating you and you can sum them up like that. More effective than the mor […]

I don’t know if this proposed boycott would have any impact on the Israeli government, and it’s not clear what the supporters want to achieve – two state solution, the abolition of Israel? Just a righteous f […]

I realise I may be out of touch with what’s hip and happening in the world of The Afterword, but when I saw the title I genuinely thought that this thread was going to be sad news about Shakin Stevens and Lulu p […]

I bought a new Marantz amplifier a couple of months ago, as some of the outputs on the old one had failed – it was 15 years old. What struck me was that they now expect you to integrate it with more than j […]

My point was that you really need to have people who are prepared to enforce a constitution. It is not a mechanical process which ticks over on its own as a system of checks and balances. America is just one […]

No constitution is itself a guarantee of justice, it depends on people enforcing it. But following the release of some of the Epstein files, police in the UK have arrested two prominent unelected public figures […]

Is it the forties? The reference to a war of annihilation makes me think it would be post H Bomb, and the tone is reminiscent of someone like Bertrand Russell or H G Wells.

Andrew was arrested by Thames Valley Police and the Metropolitan Police are investigating Mandelson. The allegations are different and so may require different types of investigation, and they may also have […]

In the documentary series a couple of years ago which focused on each of the Stones, Charlie showed his collection of around 100 drum kits which had belonged to his heroes, mainly jazzers like Art Blakey. They […]

I’m in London. So if you think that it might be fixable – I thought it wouldn’t be – I will google to see if I can find a reasonably local repair shop.

It’s a Marantz. The problem is that all of the sound comes out of the right hand speaker. Whatever processor works out which channel certain sounds should come out of has stopped working and it is sending all of […]

Thanks for all of the advice. I was in fact referring to Marantz. That is the make of my current CD player, and I also have a Marantz amplifier. As I have always found the sound quality good across a wide range of […]

On a slightly related point, my CD player broke down the other day, after about fourteen or fifteen years, and so I have been looking for a replacement. What has surprised is me that the cost of a fairly standard […]

I think Springsteen has shown courage by recording this, as he must be aware of the backlash he might get from Trump and his supporters. But it’s hard to know if it’s going to change any minds or just provide som […]