Sunday, 1 June 2025

faulty smart meters

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Thursday, 24 April 2025

precious moments

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"So she tells him she must go out for the evening to comfort an old friend who's feelin' down.." - Eagles, Lyin' Eye...
Thursday, 10 April 2025

michael portillo’s gastric juices

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While you can say something in 27 words, you can’t even begin to try saying everything – to strive for the achievement of such a balance may...
Tuesday, 1 April 2025

kate bush's 'wuthering heights': some context

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It's great that Kate Bush has been building a whole new fanbase amongst the under-30s in recent years, helped by the use of 'Runnin...
Monday, 13 January 2025

yesterday in working class history

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On 12 January 1989, the punk subculture was identified as the primary problem in a "youth analysis" produced by the East German (...
Monday, 6 January 2025

fifty years ago today (a spasm of technophobic and psychotic violence)

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During the (in)famous first few moments of this series, we meet Nicky, aged fourteen, doing her homework at the kitchen table. Mum and Dad ...
Thursday, 14 November 2024

histories

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Some of the books I've enjoyed the most in recent years have been history books with significant sociological content.  These have inclu...
Friday, 23 August 2024

space merchants (recent & current reading)

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  Margaret Renn’s ‘ Paul Foot: A Life in Politics ’ (out last month from Verso) narrates the life of this celebrated figure from a family wh...
Tuesday, 23 July 2024

burnham beach amusements

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Though the Long Poem Magazine - that most Ronseal * of UK literary magazines - didn't want this homage to Matthew Arnold's ' D...