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Fool me just once more? Sure, for old time’s sake.
Sadly, being ambivalent often achieves nothing. And I was completely disinterested in the upcoming Scottish elections. Then serendipity intervened. On the same day as I received my postal vote, the Labour candidate came to my door. His pitch, wisely, was … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Alliance to Liberate Scotland, Boris Johnson, Captivity, Catch 22, Covid, Independence, Independence for Scotland Party, Independent Green Voice, Josef Fritzl, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Lord of Darkness, Morgan McSweeney, Peter Mandleson, Pro-plutocratic, Prostate gland, Reform, Reform UK, Sacked Civil Servants, Scotland, Scottish Christian Party, Scottish Common Party, Scottish Conservatives, Scottish Family Party, Scottish Greens, Scottish Labour, Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Socialist Party, Someone has to live in Giffnock, Stockholm Syndrome, The SNP, UKIP, Unionists, Workers Party of Britain, Zionist Nu-Labour adults
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The Premier League Preview 2022/23
We’re fast approaching the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Yeah, psyched for it. Remember when Qatar was awarded it? The world was very different back in 2010. Crappy 3G smartphones. Alex Ferguson was still managing Manchester United. Prince and Leonard Cohen … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged Abu Dhabi, Andy Carroll, Antonio Conte, Arsenal, Aston Villa, £100m Gucci ambassador, Bernardo Silva, Boris Johnson, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton & Hove Albion, Burnley, Championship, Chelsea, Christine Hamilton, Clickbaitism, Covid, Cristiano Ronaldo, Crystal Palace, Darwin Nunez, Donald Trump was just a reality TV cunt in 2010, Dover, Erik Ten Hag, Erling Haaland, Everton, Farhad Moshiri, Fletching, Frank Lampard, Frenkie De Jong, Fulham, Gabriel Jesus, Gammon-Tory Brexit, German substitute teacher, Granit Xhaka, Groundhog Day, Jackson Pollock, Jurgen Klopp, Kylie Jenner, Latvia, Leeds United, Leicester City, Leonard Cohen, Liverpool, Liz "cheese" Truss, Manchester City, Manchester United, Mikel Arteta, Moldova, Moriarty, Negativity, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Pegging, Peter Oborne, Prince, Prince Andrew being a teflon nonce, Qatar 2022 World Cup, Raheem Sterling, Real Madrid, Richarlison, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Southampton, Thomas Tuchel, Thursday night wankerdom, Top Four Trophy Twattery, Tottenham Hotspur, Ukraine, West Ham United, West London, Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2021
Amidst the threat of yet another lockdown, cancelled Christmas parties, the prospect of me spending my first Christmas ever alone and potentially no football on Boxing Day (which is a defacto referendum on whether greed for the few is more … Continue reading
Posted in Essential Listening
Tagged Aphex Twin, B12, Bandcamp, Berlin, Blade Runner, Bodytronixxx, Booka Shade, Boxing Day, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Can, Covid, DJ Sprinkles, Early Transmissions 1991-95, Easy To Build Hard To Destroy, Essential Listening, Floating Points, Gage, Gayest Tits & Greyest Shits: 1998-2017 12 Inches & One-Offs, Gnod, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, LFO, LGHTR KRU: Nite Mode Vol.1, Live In Stuttgart '75, London Symphony Orchestra, Merry Christmas, Michael Karoli, Midtown 120 Blues, MMM (Errorsmith & Fiedel), On The Edge, Pharaoh Sanders, Pink Floyd, Planet Love Vol. 1, Pool, Promises, Skee Mask, Soulseek, Spacemen 3, Spirtualised, Squarepusher, SS Hacienda, Steve Jobs is scum to us audiophiles, Stockhausen, Sun City Girls, Tago Mago, Tangerine Dream, Terre Thaemlitz, Tresor 30, Underground Resistance, Vaporwave, wearing a garish shell suit while on acid and ecstasy, Will Long
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My wee Black Friday hypocrisy
So I received Black Friday emails titled ‘check out our great Black Friday discounts’ in early November this year. What’s more grating, the slow creep of Black Friday becoming a month long event, or the Christmas fanatics who start counting … Continue reading
Posted in Odds & Ends
Tagged Anti-consumerism, Black Friday, Bonkers Italian man, Christmas tat in early autumn, Covid, Diversity, Egalitarianism, Electric pepper grinder - USB rechargeable botches!, Email circulars can get tae fuck, Hypocrite, Idealism, Inclusion, Junk mail, Mellowed, Narcissism, Obese cat versus the cat flap, Protect the NHS - shop online, Small print semantics, Socialism, Stay at home - avoid crush injuries, The Art Of Easing, Trotskyist conviction, Veganism, Yearly Sony OLED ballers
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Sons Of Anarchy is perfect background TV
Let me state right away that Sons Of Anarchy isn’t terrible, just flawed. Partly it’s a victim of heightened expectations, which explain why I tried it to begin with. I saw it regularly mentioned alongside the gold standard of television … Continue reading
Posted in TV
Tagged Baltimore, Basil Exposition, Better Call Saul, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan and Danny Dyer in the same paragraph!, Breaking Bad, California, Covid, Danny Dyer, FBI, Gus Fring, IRA, Katey Sagal, Mad Men, Married With Children, MC, Michael K Williams, Mommie Dearest, Netflix, Omar Little, Roger Sterling, Ron Pearlman, Shakespearian delivery, Shampoo, Sons Of Anarchy, Stockholm Syndrome, The Sopranos, The Wire, TV, Warren Beaty
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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