Great article here, including this beauty:
"Boris Johnson is, as ever, his own tragic Churchill tribute act. There was, to his great regret, no darkest hour waiting for him, so he switched off the lights himself."
Cracker...
Pretty pink fairy - used to go under the ID Das Reich, hence the DR signature. They chose to name themselves after the notorious and murderous 2nd SS Panzer Division. Big supporter of Brexit.
The division massacred 642 French civilians in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane on 10 June 1944 in the...
Not trying to be an edgelord or anything, but a modest addition of horseradish sauce to a peanut butter sandwich, or indeed to peanut butter on toast, adds a certain piquancy that works wonders. You have the wonderful, almost bland comfort of the (crunchy) peanut butter, with the delicate tang...
Ian Dale, who chaired 10 of the Tory Party hustings, was interviewed on Radio 4 yesterday and said that Hunt attracted almost all of the previously undecided voters that he spoke to, whereas he didn't find a single one who went for Johnson.
Make of that what you will, I still think they're a...
"Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'... must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees...
The same people, so rabidly indignant at UK membership of the EU, are jumping up and down in pleasure as Donald Trump humiliates and demeans the UK and its institutions. I get that some leave supporters don’t like mainland Europe and don’t want to be a part of the EU project. But to then...
This is absolutely ace; 80s Soviet Synthpop. Great song, great sound, great voice, miserable audience, and a band member who clearly didn't get the memo!
It's become a new favourite of mine.
Молчат Дома (Molchat Doma) - Этажи
Ace 80's sounding coldwave / darkwave / post-punk / synth pop from Minsk, Belarus. Already something of a minor classic.
Over on TWO it's the usual picture of despair as the fantastic charts from earlier have been replaced by ECM output bringing in milder conditions.
From paroxysms of joy to teeth gnashing disappointment in an afternoon. It's quite something to observe!