Sad news indeed. RIP.
My first gig ever was Hawkwind at Worthing Assembly Hall, and to this day, their live album from 1973, Space Ritual, remains one of my favourites albums ever; tracks like Master of the Universe, Brainstorm, and Lord of Light are absolutely brilliant, and I still love...
I recall when Marcus Rashford was promoting his 'free school meals in the holidays' last year, Daily Mail readers with their customary snobbery and snidey sneering were screaming "If people can't afford to feed their kids, they shoudn't have them. Why should my hard-earned taxes feed their...
Seems that many Tory MPs have little to offer these days except derogatory comments, insults, name-calling and applying pejorative labels to people - Braverman's recent "Guardian-reading, tofu-eating, Wokerati" being a good example.
Of course, whenever anyone calls these people out for their...
Yes, and also Ringleader of the Tormentors.
But in the last decade or so, he really has become an obnoxious ultra-Right-wing racist bore; a garrulous Gammon. The Oscar Wilde-style humour and bon mots of his early career - when interviews with him were both intelligent and often hilarious - have...
Not saying that all these dogs are aggressive or dangerous, or that everyone who owns one is irresponsible (as posters above have testified) but at the risk of being called a snob, these dogs especially do seem to be the dog of choice for aggressive or violent blokes and wannabe Gangstas who...
Neo-liberal economics co-exists with Right-wing authoritarian politics and social policies as the Tories have shown over recent years.
Economically - Free-markets, slavish subservience to the needs or demands of big business, priority of maximising share-holder value (even if it means making...