I loved the story (in Popbitch) that Jacqueline Pearce, who played Servelan, used to get some really dirty fan mail. And if it was dirty enough she would go and enact her fans’ fantasies for them.

Perhaps a better way of putting this might be “why don’t the cranks attracted by Corbyn go back to their fringe organisations?” Because Labour gives them a bigger platform, even as their presence diminishes that platform.

What makes you think I would want Labour to expel “the whole of the left”? Members of other parties (eg Militant, Socialist Appeal etc.) and anti-Semites would pretty much cover the cranks attracted by Corbyn.

The shouty woman turned out to be ex-SWP – the sort of crank attracted by Corbyn, in other words.

Loach expelled himself, through continued membership of an organisation incompatible with Labour membership. It’s worth noting that Loach set up his own vanity party to campaign against Ed Miliband. His […]

The Blair (and Brown) governments changed lives for the better. Corbyn was a thin-skinned thicko with a hard-on for violent extremists and anti-British authoritarian regimes abroad who nearly destroyed Labour […]

Still makes me laugh *every* time!

I am in awe of the iron will of you both. Having a gap would be too annoying for me – though I don’t have a copy of the 2013 double, so that does make it easier. by the same token, I’m hoping for a re-release of the TaaB one.

I’m hoping for another Ken Loach vanity party to siphon off the nutters.

“not in a set to match my others” See, I struggle to get beyond that.

It’s pretty much a red line for me. You miss the bigger point: what sort of person cares more about mice than children?

I’m in!

Unpopular opinion: Keir Starmer is doing alright.

Labour was struggling to survive following the Corbyn Catastrophe. It has both survived and begun to grow. The influx of nutters is rapidly flowing out, back to […]

I would not vote for a pact that includes people who would prefer to watch children die from diseases like cystic fibrosis, than have mice used to develop treatments. The Greens are the most reactionary party in […]

Oh – and it was great to be back at a gig again, though pretty strange to be wearing a mask all the way through..

On reflection, I think where that Genesis material scores, compared to some of their prog contemporaries, is that there’s no aimless noodling – just tight, action-packed songs. Albeit long ones.

That is sad. Yashar is an old favourite of mine.

Susan Anway, lead vocalist on the first two The Magnetic Fields albums, has died from Parkinson’s disease. 100,000 fireflies is probably the best-known song from that era. The band’s twitter feed says “She was a […]

This is timely for me. [gets out notebook]