It would help if they changed their names à la The Ramones. If they were Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee Coldplayer then people could remember who they are more easily and they’d be able to charge more on Cameo.

Yes. Now a UN commission has declared it a genocide, I wonder will Starmer take any meaningful stand against Israel, like he should have done many months ago? It’s so utterly shocking that Israel can do this and […]

Of the 10 films he directed I’ve only seen Ordinary People, A River Runs Through It and Quiz Show. I enjoyed them (though I’d rate Clint Eastwood much, much higher as a director). I’m wondering which others I […]

Do any of the potential candidates show signs of genuinely wanting Israel’s killing to stop?

I’m a bringer of both good and bad news, Jaygee. The good and the bad news is that there already is an obit (in the “obits” section).

I can’t really comment on what’s going on in UK beyond what I read in the papers. It all seems very different to the situation in Italy in many ways. I’ve often discussed racism and immigration with Italian […]

I’m not going to say anything derogatory about Wordle in this comment. Which is kind of me.

Billy Bragg, The Few, written 44 years ago: At night the Baby Brotherhood and the Inter City Crew Fill their pockets up with calling cards And paint their faces red white and blue Then they go out seeking […]

So… he uses his Jewish connections to explain his support for Netanyahu’s government, as if being Jewish entails some obligation to do so, and cites the oppressiveness of Hamas as a valid counter-argument to […]

Easy-peasy- Laswell played on and produced Public Image Limited’s Album. Lemmy Kilmister tried to teach Sid Vicious to play bass. I’m surprised we’ve got this far down the thread, or anywhere really, without […]

Louder Than Words shouldn’t be anywhere near any list of best Floyd songs.

Hawks and Doves is a surprising choice. It doesn’t seem very popular among Young fans and rarely gets mentioned. I’m not a Young fan, but I bought it the week it was released out of curiosity. I was very […]

I’ve always loved TFC. Some great songs – The Gunner’s Dream, Paranoid Eyes, Fletcher Memorial Home, Southampton Dock, Two Suns In the Sunset – and I think the overall concept of “a requiem for the post-war dream” […]

You’ll love it. It’s sort of an aimless, self-indulgent succession of bluesy ambience.

Ever heard Metallic Spheres? The album The Orb made with David Gilmour. I love it.

On a couple of the YouTube channels out to bust the scammers they try and trace the money as much as they can. The biggest problem seems to be that the money, once received, is very quickly transferred around the […]

Rock Follies and Rock Follies of ’77.

I’d say his very late and completely ineffectual criticism of the Netanyahu government’s actions is belied by his bewildering lack of any concrete action so far. No sanctions? No boycotts? When an ally is […]

Perhaps he thought someone of Mahmood’s calibre would be ideally suited to home affairs. And perhaps she is. But can we imagine him appointing a pro-Palestine politician as Foreign Secretary? Or to a US […]

I wonder what persuaded Keir Starmer to appointment the staunchly pro-Israel Cooper to replace the staunchly pro-Israel Lammy?