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congratulations to Mr Nuttall, I see from his bio that he is now the MP for Stoke Central

same old lib dems, lying for the tories

Top tip: just buy anything that says Pressure Sounds on it.

So, as I suspected the Hoxton show of 'Station Breaks' was very much not for me. As it happens, it wasn't for anyone. They didn't get out of Heathrow. Their instruments went missing and it appears they kicked off in such a big way about it that they were 'detained' overnight and put back on a plane to americaland the next morning. My missus spent an evening watching and listening to the support act filling in for 3 hours. Apparently he resorted to requests and half remembered Johnny Cash covers (set list: 'something about a train, and then another one about a train, and then that one you like'). Part of me wishes I'd witnessed it. But I had already made my excuses by 9 / 9:30pm and was sat in the cafe across the square with endless coffee and a ska CD playing on their epic sound system. obligatory gig photo:

any opportunity...

managed to boost their income with some Sun Betting sponsorship SunBets offered 8/1 on the fat pig reserve goalie eating a pie during the game FA should fine them their income from the game

does anyone know how she likes her doughnuts?

OT, but yes I'm on Virgin and it appears fine. just did a ping and got 53 which is slightly annoying as Xela had 54 tbh, it's biggest selling point is that it's not Sky

the musical equivalent of shitting in a jiffy bag he's an absolute blind spot for me I'm afraid, beyond blind spot, kryptonshite

At first when I was listening to Dylan I was afraid I would die. After about twenty minutes of it, I was afraid I wouldn't.

plucky little part time Sutton United with a total playing budget of just £10,000 a week ten grand a week playing budget gets you 17th place in the fifth tier - madness, madness only surpassed by our own spending at Villa although, in fairness their wikipedia page currently reads:

Steve Hewlett I'm not ordinarily keen on the media reporting dead media 'types' but I feel this is an exception. For anyone that has been following it on Radio 4, Steve has been giving a radio diary of sorts of his illness and treatment. I've been following it on the pm slot with Eddie Mair. It came over as very honest, with a touch of humour. He died on Monday, whilst listening to Bob Dylan. A lesson for all of us there.

oh yesss ...and now we're off on a Super Furry diversion for an hour good prompt that man

little tip for ya, I had to introduce myself to my new team recently I simply did a power point that explained my hobby was keeping a good work life balance I think it went down quite well

it's true that many politicians do genuinely care, but it is unfortunate that for every campaigner, there's a career arsehole that's seen politics as an easy way of being famous and feeling important whilst jockeying in to a position to make some money the sort of person that would write pro and anti brexit articles and then wait to see which way the wind blows

Nixon came to power in '69 on a programme of undoing national programmes, de-federalising much country wide legislation and devolving power away from Washington and the political 'bubble'. He came to power on a promise to end the Vietnamese war. Five years later they were still in Vietnam but had also bombed Cambodia and Laos. The rise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge has direct links to Nixon's Vietnam policy. He sought to pursue a new friendship with Maoist China. On the principle of my enemy's enemy is my friend, he decided being friendly with China would be a good move in the cold war against the Soviets. He set up the Nixon Doctrine of undermining socialist states and secretly funding anti russian groups. Having said that, he also visited the soviet block 4 times between '69 and '74. Nixon didn't like the '71 election result in Chile. Sure enough, money and guns found their way to 'freedom fighters' and kidnappers and we ended up with the darling of a man, General Pinochet. When Nixon intervened in the Yom Kippur arab / Israeli war, the consequence was a stronger Israel and an OPEC oil price hike that lead to the 1973 oil crisis. There was widespread segregation, there were race riots, abortion was illegal, gay marriage was illegal. Oh yeah, then there was Watergate. That's a very one sided account of Nixon's bad side. But compare that record with Trump rather than the Trump / Hitler comparisons.

There's potentially a very long way to go with Trump watching and commentating. We need some context. If he bans abortion, well 'all' he's done there is return the legislation to where it was in the 1970's. If he bans gay marriage, well that's a return to....2015. As for his criticism of the media, well the U.S. media makes ours look bland, boring and balanced. Just watch some of CNN's content for american consumption. Everything is just liberal opinion pieces with overboard shock expressions being pulled by the anchors. The level of acting from news 'readers' in the states is right up there with the silent movies. It's ridiculous. We have nothing like the bias and drama, yet we are trying to control our media with new watchdogs. If we're already shouting Hitler stuff, it's all going to burn out by June with nowhere left to go, no higher octave to scream. If he invades a few countries and kills some people overseas he'll be up there with every previous U.S. president. Agent orange, the Contras, the road to Basra, Libya. These were not done on Trump's watch. If he stops illegal immigration is that truly something worthy of a 1930's comparison? It's not, of its self, a rotten aim to have. The guy is horrible, he's a pussy grabbing man child. Give the guy a bit more time and rope.

Caught lying about helping a charity: indie What kind of person lies about losing close friends at Hillsborough and lies about helping a charity? The man needs some sort of counselling or medical attention. I can't even be rude about him right now, he has to have some sort of condition.

Lolley having a decent game against Man City. Remember people saying Villa should sign him and being batted down by others saying we can't be sentimental, we're too big a team in too important a league for that sort of gesture. Expensive talent over heart, was the argument.

It would be hilarious if only it wasn't real people's livelihoods and futures at stake.

urrmm some american blokes playing Hoxton Bar and Kitchen next Tuesday night. Station Breaks. I have a feeling I could be the only bloke in the audience so might bow out and go exploring. I might just stand outside for the duration, tutting at hipsters.

quite telling that Gorka repeated a couple of times that they wouldn't use traditional media to get their message across to the 'audience'

big chunks of the press conf on BBC 2 Newsnight now already funny 30 seconds in