My favourite is Donatello.

Were it not for the Brexit vote being split, I suspect Jarvis would have lost his seat.

A very minor point, but Henry II wasn’t English in any meaningful sense of the word.

As an aside for anyone planning to let it to Dublin or similar. If the UK or English economy goes down the pan, the implications aren’t great for our neighbours.

In amny of thr places I am talking about it is going to take a look time for that to happen.

Locally, it perhaps didn’t help when a few years back JC attended a rally of local government candidates.. He had spent the morning canvassing in and around Bristol, before travelling to the south coast for the […]

I suspect we over-emphasise the impact of the media and also doubt that the machinations of the security services ( if they exist) have much impact. I live in an area with very many former Labour voters. They are, […]

Also worth noting that in 1980 tens if not hundreds of millions of LPs were sold, presumably with some economy scale in terms of both production and distribution.

Also worth noting that in 1980 tens if not hundreds of millions of LPs were sold, presumably with some economy scale in terms of both production and distribution.

Prior to his election as party leader, Jeremy Corbyn wasn’t even viewed as a suitable leader by the PLP Socialist Group, even though there were only about a dozen of them.

Two other elements re Tory prospects. Firstly, the Brexit Party hasn’t really started to fully put the boot into them. Secondly, a fair number of their relatively younger and/or business owning supporters are […]

They are, of course, both wrong lol

Where I lived very many people had already discovered the equivalent to skinny white boys via Rock Steady, Ska, Motown, Stax, Muscle Shoals and so on, but perhaps that was unique

To be honest his only impact on me was that I disliked most of the things he played on. Allied to his failings as a person, I am not really that bothered one way or another.

Yes because no classical music , for example, has soul, does it?

Boycott’s knighthood doesn’t make a lot of sense whichever way you look at, unless it is now legitimate for someone to bestow awards on their favourite player. Prior to Cook, the only English players to be […]

I think I am right in saying that vinyl accounts for something like 4% of sales by with annual growth of 12 %, at least in the US. Those figures suggest it won’t be off-setting the drop in CD sales anytime soon. […]

Whether or not the Scottish and Southern Irish would be prepared to fund Wales and Norhten Ireland is a moot point.

Or any folk festival. Or folk gig, for that matter.

I thought Luton came out of it pretty reasonably, all things considered, with a mix of white characters ranging from the nakedly racist to the very supportive. Sort of how I found the town to be at the time for […]