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This is in a country in which I saw a sign in a DC hotel bathroom warning me that showering can be dangerous and offering safety tips.

La Femme are pretty good. Saw them at Somerset House last year

The Seine is beautiful but it's being asked to do way too much heavy lifting to make this watchable.

Seeing as we are discussing music from Mali I will throw in Fatoumata Diawara, particularly her first album, Fatou. I saw her at the Roundhouse just before Covid broke and she was superb. There is a Damon A connection here as well as he joined her on stage.

I think amateur club Calais getting to the French cup final in 2000 is worth a mention.

My daughter's student house in Colcheste, had a rat a few years ago and they called a pest control company. Being the nearest parent (always a mistake) I was called to locate and bury the corpse. I felt sorry for the poor thing which had crawled into a Tesco 'Bag for Life' to die and was a...

The irony is that London received much less investment from EU structural funds than other parts of the UK with lower levels of economic performance because it was assessed as lower priority. For many areas, under the Tories, it was pretty much the only infrastructure investment they...

Brazil 70 were probably the best but West Germany in 72 were excellent and in a different league to Ramsey's team. It should have been a massive wake-up call but the people that mattered carried on sleepwalking. The rest of us got used to seeing major tournaments without England.

I have a very personal issue with magpies from when I lived in Canberra as a child and couldn't go in the garden in nesting season without being swooped and had to fend them off with an umbrella when I walked to school. I was told that if I stared them out they would back off but I was never...

Just the one. England v Northern Ireland. Euro qualifier 1979.

Same here. He is utterly repulsive and the polls have shown that he could lose heavily.

As a cancer patient I have been subjected to helpful advice on alternative treatments on numerous occasions. Dog worming tablets were the worst example. It worries and angers me that there is so much of this crap being peddled to vulnerable people. Alternative medicine that is clinically...

I think you're right. Farage will run a mile from anything that looks like work or accountability. He is a thin-skinned perpetual victim. I am hoping that the scrutiny he is getting, although far from as robust as it should be, is showing what a drama queen he is.

When I was a student around 81 the Tory students responded to the slogan 'Abortion, a woman's right to choose' with 'Rape, a man's right to choose' I am sure a fair few Tory members would still guffaw at that now. I just hope they have the worst night of their lives on Thursday.

Politicians saying 'what I am hearing on the doorsteps is....' and any use of the term 'silent majority'.

Basking shark. Just swim around all day with my mouth wide open as food flows in.

I ran a course at Walthamstow Public Library a few years back. It was next to the market and all the market traders came into the one small toilet to have their morning dump. Horrific. Also remember going in the aluminium urinals at Priestfield which were designed for maximum splashback...

Mullery v1 for me. That period completely changed my perception of the Albion as a club and what we could achieve. I was tempted to vote for RDZ for the European tour as it was probably the single greatest achievement of my lifetime.

So, someone who built his entire political career around his country’s right to self-determination free from the imaginary control of other countries or organisations doesn’t think that another country should have the same rights when faced with a real threat, not just to its borders and...

Still touring. I saw them at the Jazz Café last year.