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First band I ever saw live; Worthing Town Hall - sadly, without Stacia.

One of my fave bands - their version of the Beatles' 'Get Back' is brilliantly bonkers! Saw them at the Union Chapel, Islington, in the 1990s.

Absolutely love this song!

Certainly a factor, but surely more important is simply the way that corporate and boardroom salaries have sky-rocketed in the last 10-20 years, while pay for ordinary people has stagnated. In 1980, CEOs of Britain's largest companies were paid about 40 x as much as ordinary workers (and...

When I bought my first flat in the late 1990s, I was offered a 125% mortgage! Totally irresponsible, and I turned it down.

Oh, but it really does. When house prices were £80,000, someone earning £25,000 could get a mortgage (3-4 x salary). Today, if the same property is £250,000, but a person's salary is still £25,000, they would need a mortgage @ 10 x their salary; how many building societies would lend so much...

But a generation or two ago, much lower property prices and thus smaller deposits meant that many young people might be able to save-up by living at home for a couple of years. Today, they'd probably need to live at home for 10-15 years to save a deposit, given how much property prices have...

Tragically, I don't think it ever will for a lot of these people. However bad things continue to get, the Tory sycophants will continue blaming the BBC, senior civil servants, Leftie lawyers, the 'vindictive' EU, the 'obstructive' House of Lords', people in dinghies in the English Channel...

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Two more of their footie-related gems:

They have improved enormously since the early days, when they sounded like they were playing Woolworths guitars. Musically now, they're really tight. They've also got a new guitarist, which has helped. Saw them in Bristol two years ago (just before the first lockdown), and it was one of the...

One of my all-time fave bands - I think Nigel Blackwell is a lyrical genius. What's struck me about the last two albums is that amidst the customary satire and wry mocking of ex-TV stars, retired footballers and Z-list celebrities, are the melancholy songs about approaching mortality and the...

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Have greatly admired John Simm ever since I saw him in the BBC drama The Lakes in the late 1990s, and then in Life on Mars. He's also always seemed like a really decent, down-to-earth, guy in interviews.

The attitude to civil servants displayed by Rees-Smugg (and the Daily Mail - the Tories' Pravda) is yet more Tory hypocrisy - for the last 30 years or more, they've preached 'labour market flexibility', yet when a group of workers want some flexibility, the Tories order them back to the office...

A home game we ought to win - so we won’t! A 2-2 draw.

I love their albums and singles up to Bohemian Rhapsody, but after that, they steadily became the Freddie Mercury band playing radio-friendly dross to stadiums. I find it difficult to hear their 1980s material and believe that this was the same band that produced gems such as Keep Yourself...

Morrissey John Lydon Ricky Gervais Tony Parsons James Corden John Cleese Tony Blair