“I’ll have a fag in a bit.”

Another beauty.

I understand. Peter did the same for me, after the death of my wife and I had a similar experience – he somehow managed to look inside me and produce something marvellous and meaningful. It’s a talent as rare and […]

Marvellous! What’s its name?

I’ve sprung for one of the weedge nights. More in hope than expectation. But still – it’s Dylan.

Indeed it was very bad, including an over-reliance on charlatans, to the point of gullibility. But they did genuinely believe it.

John McDonnell – the man man whose enthusiasm for violent republicanism led him to oppose the Good Friday Agreement process.

There are three obvious howlers here. The first is the (oft repeated) assertion of an “illegal war”. Yet this has never been found to be the case – it’s just something that people like to repeat in the hope that […]

Hmm. Let’s come back to that.

Alexi Sayle is an animal rights nutter. No-one is just one thing of course, but I find it difficult to get past the fact that someone would rather stand and watch a child die from a disease like Duchenne muscular […]

This rendition of Love a Little by Blue Rose Code is just heart-melting. Well, it melts mine. A lovely rendition of one of my favourite songs.

1972 Grateful Dead – China Cat Sunflower. This is what I used to imagine that all festivals were like. After some decades of disappointment, I was forced to conclude that they are not like this at all.

I find it difficult to get past his serial infidelity while his wife was undergoing cancer treatment.

(I know that was before 2019. I just don’t think that there’s anything else anyone needs to know about him in […]

My opinion has not changed: Corbyn is a thin-skinned thicko with a hard-on for violent extremists and anti-British authoritarians abroad. His election as leader was a catastrophe, driven by sentiment – in a sense, […]

Fair point.

It was quite good, in fact: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/06/labour-local-elections-results-analysis

The well known “feel good alt-rock band”? (the description on iplayer)

Yes, they are. Apart from anything else, they are recovering from the Corbyn Catastrophe, which was by no means a certainty.

There is a difference between “a socialist party you could vote for” and a party capable of winning a majority and forming a government. I’m not a great fan of principles that – like my mother-in-law’s best china […]

Between that and the Murdoch divorce I’m just not sure I can believe in anything any more.