Reg Prentice was earlier and defected in the opposite direction. Also, critically, he became MP for a different constituency once with his new party.
But your question is right to be asked. Few political […]

The important matter is keeping them hidden from wannabe Liz Truss.

One thing that hits my red buttons is when he pronounces that he is ‘drawing a line under’ this that or the other and considers the matter closed.

We’ll £ucking decide whether it’s closed, not you pal.

Possibly preceding becoming a rolling stone.

I am now trying to unthink that concept. Or was it Unthank it?

*coughs* ‘Not many British folk singers and dancers get togged up to perform…’

I think you’ll find …

It was your brother who could play blow football with his back passage, n’est-ce pas?

Oooh, I’m going to enjoy this thread, though I fear I will have little to contribute. My ability to polska was one of the casualties of Covid. You can mazurk and waltz and bourree on your own, albeit […]

Alas, I may not comment. This means, of course, that I hardly dare risk reading this thread, in case I should have to stifle a rant in reply – though you’re all doing very, very well so far (pats Afterword on the […]

Paintball’s Coming Home

Vocalist Humphrey Flaubert. What a great name in it’s own right!

‘I can’t get Bouncing Babies by the Teardrop Explodes’, by the Freshies.

Meanwhile, the Captain has form…

Lick my Decals off Baby
I wanna find me a Woman that’ll hold my Big Toe till I have to go […]

i) The Slow Train, Flanders and Swann
ii) Blockbuster, Sweet
iii) The Musical Box, Genesis
iv) Black Lake and the Duck, Jon Swayne of Blowzabella. Live, the dancefloor is inhaling and exhaling to the pace of a […]

oh, I’m rather fond of it, though I do recall it driving one housemate berserk, long before aforementioned years took their toll.

But echoing comments above, Exposure, title track’n’all, and Here Comes the […]

The evening was spent in good company – perhaps 50 of us – in the great hall of a castle in Herefordshire, dancing to our own singing and playing. Gavottes, polskas, mazurkas, waltzes, bourrees, all in the folk […]

BEEN/SEEN/HEARD : Singing in Sheffield with Fay Hield, Rowan Rheingans, Jess Arrowsmith and Nancy Kerr and lots of people in the pub.
Chester Folk Festival : Mainly about the singing and dancing again, and none […]

It will come as no surprise to you that that lyric was in my mind as I posted. If I ever meet someone by the name of Medlicott, I will probably self-combust.

Oh well done. I thought I’d be the only one tiddly pomming in my head to Chris Wood.

Ah. The punchline to one of my favourite jokes. “Piers Morgan twice”.

Dorothy Parker on being told of the death of Pres Calvin Coolidge : ‘How can they tell?’