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Saturday, 30 March 2013

Introducing to those who’ve never heard of him one Johnny Winter (before he pops his clogs - he’s not that young anymore). I’m also rather intrigued as to what wars North Korea has been fighting to allow its generals to award themselves so many medals. After that just a few bits and pieces of the usual shite

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Here’s a song I’m sure many of you know, but might well be unfamiliar with this version. Give it a listen. As far as I’m concerned he does t...
Friday, 29 March 2013

Sorry to say this but: beware conspiracy theorists (or at least intemperate bloggers). And a spot of Britain’s national sport: Teasing The French. I’m sure our Gallic cousins have a useful word for ‘teasing’ which I could employ here just to show off, but, sadly, I don’t know it

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All the following notwithstanding, I can’t resist posting a picture which has come my way of the latest euro bank note being issued in Cypru...
Wednesday, 20 March 2013

How not to do it: the EU shows us how. And I repeat my heartfelt plea: lay off the Germans, it’s not their fault. Britain’s one and only Ronnie Biggs waves farewell, and why global warming really frightens me

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If someone somewhere has written a textbook on how make damn sure a bad situation becomes a lot worse and could well end in disaster sooner ...
Saturday, 16 March 2013

The Cry Of Love, Jimi Hendrix’s last bona fide studio album, and I are finally re-united after close on 30 years. What else could someone like you reduced to reading The Blogs Of Others care to hear more? And the Jesuits are the ones for me (if and when)

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I’ll be adding more to this entry tomorrow, but I just wanted to record that today has arrived courtesy of whoever I bought it from an album...
Wednesday, 13 March 2013

A lovely version of Autumn Leaves, one of my favourite tunes, courtesy of a guitarist called Ryan Stewart of whom I know nothing

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Not written here for a while and don’t at the moment have much to say, but just to keep you all ticking over, here’s a video of one of my ...
Monday, 4 March 2013

Forget UKIP, many economists in Germany now want an alternative to the euro freaks, too

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The big news here in Britain for about five minutes last week was that at a by-election in Hampshire, the anti-EU party UKIP came second, be...
Saturday, 23 February 2013

Why sound is just a little more important than you might think in film

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After doing the comparative bit with Leon Russell’s Song For You, I thought I might do something similar but for a different reason. W...
Friday, 22 February 2013

Fingers are being crossed in Paris and Berlin that The Buffoon is not back - some hope given a decent but dull opponent. In Spain Rajoy promises to chop off his own hand, while in Athens the Greeks learn to swim

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Well, all good thing must come to an end, and Italy’s recent resurgence in the credibility stakes could well breath its last in two days. Th...
Monday, 18 February 2013

Some of tomorrow's TV highlights here in Old Blighty: can you wait?

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I do so hate to be thought a party-pooper or a misery guts, but I am beginning to wonder about the sanity of my fellow countrymen, or at l...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013

History is made as British Prime Minister gets Pope's go-ahead to marry his guinea pig. And Queen sensationally found hiding in Leicester car park

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Well, the cat’s is out of the bag: David Cameron has pulled it off. He has persuaded the House of Commons to allow a man to marry another ma...