Steve Miller
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I am not one half of the problem.
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And there it is...
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
And there it is...
Fascinating BBC doc from 1970 about the word of retail focussing on up and coming supermarket Tesco and a trad high street fixture - WHSmith. Oh for bookshop shelves that were as full as the ones in this show. youtu.be/qiSou0ndgxA
1970: The Serious Business of Shopping | Tuesday Documentary: The Retail Game | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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December 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Fascinating BBC doc from 1970 about the word of retail focussing on up and coming supermarket Tesco and a trad high street fixture - WHSmith. Oh for bookshop shelves that were as full as the ones in this show. youtu.be/qiSou0ndgxA
I love Christmas - it’s the only time of year you can scoff a crate of Easy Peelers and claim it’s “tradition”
December 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I love Christmas - it’s the only time of year you can scoff a crate of Easy Peelers and claim it’s “tradition”
Sad to see this news - I remember enjoying their LP very much when I stumbled across it back in the day and though they were well regarded, I don’t think they really got the credit they were due. There’s a track or two linked in this piece.
pitchfork.com/news/joseph-...
pitchfork.com/news/joseph-...
Joseph Byrd, United States of America Bandleader, Dies at 87
The experimental composer brought electronic sound and radical ideas into the psych-rock genre
pitchfork.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Sad to see this news - I remember enjoying their LP very much when I stumbled across it back in the day and though they were well regarded, I don’t think they really got the credit they were due. There’s a track or two linked in this piece.
pitchfork.com/news/joseph-...
pitchfork.com/news/joseph-...
There’s not a Talk Talk song that I don’t love, but every time I hear “Call In the Night Boy”, I think it’s actually a song about a chap called Colin…
youtu.be/bQbobt23djQ
youtu.be/bQbobt23djQ
December 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
There’s not a Talk Talk song that I don’t love, but every time I hear “Call In the Night Boy”, I think it’s actually a song about a chap called Colin…
youtu.be/bQbobt23djQ
youtu.be/bQbobt23djQ
Dunno what radio is on at the blood donor place today but we’ve got ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart” by Saint Étienne now five minutes after Edie Brickell. I assume somebody is rebelling against the normal Christmas music.
December 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Dunno what radio is on at the blood donor place today but we’ve got ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart” by Saint Étienne now five minutes after Edie Brickell. I assume somebody is rebelling against the normal Christmas music.
Blood Donor today - I’ve had the text telling me to drink loads of water - just hope that I don’t get the one about my appt being cancelled at short notice as well for the 3rd time running
December 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Blood Donor today - I’ve had the text telling me to drink loads of water - just hope that I don’t get the one about my appt being cancelled at short notice as well for the 3rd time running
I’m 12th out of 13 in my work Fantasy League and I’ve just noted that all 11 teams above me have Haaland in their side. As I said to somebody last week, I find that all rather unimaginative (as I make second to last my own)
December 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I’m 12th out of 13 in my work Fantasy League and I’ve just noted that all 11 teams above me have Haaland in their side. As I said to somebody last week, I find that all rather unimaginative (as I make second to last my own)
I was surprised by this fire-making news because I thought nothing ever happened in Barnham - but it turns out there’s another Barnham and it’s not the one I thought of. Panic over.
December 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I was surprised by this fire-making news because I thought nothing ever happened in Barnham - but it turns out there’s another Barnham and it’s not the one I thought of. Panic over.
“Alexa”, I said. “Play Sunday Morning”
So it did, by Mar00n Five. This is what’s wrong with technology. Bah.
So it did, by Mar00n Five. This is what’s wrong with technology. Bah.
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Alexa”, I said. “Play Sunday Morning”
So it did, by Mar00n Five. This is what’s wrong with technology. Bah.
So it did, by Mar00n Five. This is what’s wrong with technology. Bah.
I’m not saying the Council never cleans the roads / kerbs, but I spent 20 mins today scraping the road outside our house, and this is what I got …
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I’m not saying the Council never cleans the roads / kerbs, but I spent 20 mins today scraping the road outside our house, and this is what I got …
Another one of those calls that looks like it’s coming from a UK mobile but when you answer it, you hear an automated message and the words “Indeed Human Resources” - I doubt it’s going to end up in a job opportunity for me.
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Another one of those calls that looks like it’s coming from a UK mobile but when you answer it, you hear an automated message and the words “Indeed Human Resources” - I doubt it’s going to end up in a job opportunity for me.
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Everyone should make their plans to survive a Reform government. Which for some of us will be harder than others. But if your first instinct is "collude" I hope you don't survive and I'll do my best to make sure you don't.
November 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Everyone should make their plans to survive a Reform government. Which for some of us will be harder than others. But if your first instinct is "collude" I hope you don't survive and I'll do my best to make sure you don't.
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The Best Album of 1989 is
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The Best Album of 1989 is
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
Pixies, DOOLITTLE
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I can remember when it was a scandal if the 18 weeks wait figure dropped below 95%. It was only about 10-12 years ago.
The collapse in NHS performance under the last government was truly staggering, and went well beyond the pandemic.
The collapse in NHS performance under the last government was truly staggering, and went well beyond the pandemic.
New NHS England stats, via NHS Confederation:
"The total waiting list for procedures and appointments has dropped to 7.39 million in September, down from 7.41 million in August.
"The proportion of people waiting less than 18 weeks for care stood at 61.8% in September, up from 61.0% in August."
"The total waiting list for procedures and appointments has dropped to 7.39 million in September, down from 7.41 million in August.
"The proportion of people waiting less than 18 weeks for care stood at 61.8% in September, up from 61.0% in August."
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I can remember when it was a scandal if the 18 weeks wait figure dropped below 95%. It was only about 10-12 years ago.
The collapse in NHS performance under the last government was truly staggering, and went well beyond the pandemic.
The collapse in NHS performance under the last government was truly staggering, and went well beyond the pandemic.
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The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
We’re trying to see if we can watch “Angel Falls Christmas” every year as part of a terrible new Christmas tradition…
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We’re trying to see if we can watch “Angel Falls Christmas” every year as part of a terrible new Christmas tradition…
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Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
Vic Reeves Big Night Out - 30 April 1989
YouTube video by Peter Brooke Turner
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
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If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
100% this - though please forgive me a mention of “Amateur”
Someone might read this and say "Hey, Where is Guys Like Me? Where is It's Not, where is You Do? Where is Freeway? Where is Little Bombs" But I say, Hey, there are enough amazing Aimee Mann songs to go around because the woman can do no wrong.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked!
Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album I’m With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
100% this - though please forgive me a mention of “Amateur”
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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
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Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt
1 episode to go …
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1 episode to go …