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The People Versus @ The Bullingdon (Oxford) 2022-11-04
I’m sharing this excellent and enthusiastic review from music blogger Mylene and the Class of last Friday’s Oxford gig by my daughter Alice’s band The People Versus.
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Spotify serendipity
The days where artists could make a decent living in the second division are probably gone.
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Stop the lazy bad guy signalling
Hardly his fault, then, but he’s ugly, so he must be the bad guy, right?
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Survey monkeys
Of course, my dentist might be annoyed by the facetious reply, but hey, what are they going to do about it? Oh…
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Votes for Members
Imagine what the press would make of such behaviour in a trade union strike ballot.
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Let Me Take You Down…
About March 1970, I heard a languid, dreamy song one Sunday morning on Kenny Everett’s radio show.
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Le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof: part 2 – The Large Wynnstay Collider
Would you mind awfully taking a DNA test for me, to give a definitive answer? I’ll pay for it, and I promise I won’t try to claim your castle.
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Two visits to the Apollo Theater, Harlem
Billy greeted me like an old friend, although I’m pretty sure I remembered him better than he remembered me.
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The worst thing about Debbie
Now I’m not comparing this to the Dreyfus affair or the Birmingham Six, but I do think…
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“A quarter of my life is almost past”
All being well here, I certainly intend to raise a glass to him on 17th March 2034.
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Le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof: part 1
When I shared this rumour of our aristocratic ancestry with my daughter Rachel, she was initially excited, picturing her 4 x great grandfather as Colin Firth playing Mr Darcy. Less so after her first seconds of research uncovered le gros commandant Whof Whof Whof.
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Medal Going Home
…I was left with the impression that the government had regarded the recipients not as individuals but as a homogeneous, expendable mass.
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