Reflecting , just to have seen live and been around almost all of the wonderful women that came through at that time is enough in itself.

In which case a Shag Marry Avoid of the punk years is in order 😊

Casting my mind back to views of female friends at that time it went something like Idol - Shag , Sting - Marry , Lydon - avoid .

I think Billy was always looked on as a cartoon character, even early on. Always reminded me of Dick Emery’s skinhead

🔴 14 Government Reforms the Media Has Largely Ignored Over Recent Weeks

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements. Some of that is understandable. But not all of it.
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Of course there were no Oxford spies at all. Not one 🤔

I’m not sure I breathed throughout the whole programme.

Even after graduating from university, people who grew up in poverty face significant pay gaps when compared with their more affluent peers.

Anna Stansbury explains 👇

Graffiti reads: IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL WANT TO BE ANONYMOUS FOR FIFTEEN OUTES

Morning Bluesky.

Aigburth is solid white middle class so an indicator of where that vote is atm

The remark came from a group of county councillors who came through the union route so it stuck in my mind . Also clear that the gay community has thrived in the years since ( good for them) but mining communities quite the opposite.

Reminiscing about the strike with ex striking miners from my valley in the years following they said they loved the lesbians because they put the work in but thought the gay men were just there for the pose.

Judging by watching the Sky coverage it looks like something around an hour gap. Difficult to know with any certainty because the level of chaos looked unusual. The successful candidate should do media after the RO announces the result not before . Poor form

Sounds like the declaration was delayed in order to give time for Polanski to get there to mop up the media attention. Media treated preferentially to the people who actually voted and the staff who run elections many of whom will have been awake going on 24 hrs

William Morris as well ❤️

She was a class act. Saw a lot of her through work in the 90s when she was an MEP. Decent and gracious.

Yes and yes

Glenys worshipped Joan

Music knows the quickest way to the soul

I don’t think I could tbh. Saying that I have re read Ellroy’s LA Quartet so who knows

Not an excuse but the pass was fast ( as it had to be ) but lifted so it bounced at speed about couple of feet before he connected. This is why it ricocheted upward. Passer bears some responsibility for me

Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill , Dominic Cummings , Morgan McSweeney . Anyone notice the pattern yet ??

His Polish soul often had the last word

I said in my late Dad’s eulogy to a packed chapel that we are only a fraction of the people he had known him.

Comparisons to Profumo obvious from the start but getting stronger every week

The similarities between Epstein and Profumo merit far more attention

Lev Vygotsky , patron saint of Scandinavian education systems .

A couple of us bumped into our ex Head of Maths. Nice chap , double first from Cambridge, king of sarcasm , never violent. Became headteacher . We agreed to tell him what lads thought of teachers and he agreed to be honest about his ex colleagues. Except the Chemistry teacher , just shook his head

We had a chemistry teacher who would cane boys with a Bunsen burner rubber hose and then retreat to the lab ante room to ‘compose’ himself for a few minutes . Endless similar stories I’m afraid

Early Japan. When they supported Blue Oyster Cult