New Order are a good deal better live now than they were in the recording prime, mostly because Bernard has overcome his front man nerves, so doesn't have to be blind drunk to perform.

They'll never really be brilliant live, but they're certainly better than they were.

Try and get hold of her book "There's a German Just Behind Me" if you can find one for less than £££.

It makes for great reading. V relevant to my interests, of course

Innit, tho

Much like the team's performance.

I'm two hops away from Nicolae Ceaușescu.

This shouldn't be enough to put me in front of a firing squad.

An early victim of homoeopathy.

2006, I see

I think it lasted until Lenskagate

Oh, Galloway was the absolute darling of the left after he testified, pugnaciously, to Congress in the noughties.

I knew he was a wrong 'un ever since the mid-90s when I read his book about Ceausescu, which was a disgusting apologia for Iliescu, the thug who replaced him.

Who else? Benn, Skinner, Scargill. Even Galloway for a while.

The Sisters of Mercy, 82/83; God damn!

No other band was fit to polish their winkle-pickers.

(Please don't say 'The Fall' or there will be strong words had)

Definitely the best kind of late renaissance

Arsene Wenger's constant refrain of "I didn't see it" was the gateway drug.

Why didn't he take the penalty?

Reagan's final speech as President is an extraordinary thing. A none-more-woke love letter to immigration.

youtu.be/2R8QxCD6ir8?...

“…no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory party [...] So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin.”

Nye Bevan

No; *you* shut up.