Phil Harrison

He has a face that could only represent Chelsea or Manchester United.

Look at this brilliant kid.

The 100,000 Person Problem ...and the eight friends solution.

OK listen not even NEAR to unpacking what happened last weekend, but here's a brain dump and, yes, another.... ....mmmmmmmanifesto. 🥳 Please give it a read, share, all the rest. Get involved. joemuggs.substack.com/p/the-100000...

It is a form of hoarding but it's also a form of remembering. And that's worth quite a lot as you get older and your memory gets a bit more unreliable!

I think I'd also feel deeply morally compromised by using Spotify (I don't). And the general, enshittified end point of relying solely on subscription services is that you'll end up paying repeatedly for access to things you imagined you already owned.

How the right-wing British press became Trump’s trumpet Fleet Street is happy to ignore the real history of transatlantic relations to score points against Keir Starmer

Churchill would have been appalled by a figure like Trump. But some journalists have convinced themselves that Starmer is to blame for this hiccup in the “special relationship” app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72649/...

Interesting little thread.
I just couldn't do this, unless it was literally a last financial resort. I know lots of people binned physical media a while ago. But I love my tottering piles of vinyl and CDs. I even continue to add to them! It's like a musical autobiography.

Yes. Keeping shtum about very obviously terrible people for the sake of an easy life is exactly the kind of rank cowardice that Jesus would have applauded.

Yeah, I realise I've made it sound like she's died or something! I'm sure she is.

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

If, like me, you love Steve Albini's production work *and* love the Fugazi album In on the Killtaker, this will be of great interest.
For some weird reason, they don't quite work for me. It's like crossing the streams or something! A real alt-rock curio though.
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Perfect example of why everyone hates tech people. Perpetually aggrieved self righteous douchebags who cant even take the lightest ribbing of their unwarranted sense of self importance lol

Look, the BBC's Charter Renewal consultation closes on Tuesday. It's got some bastard tricky questions but you don't have to answer them all, and if you're not a stupid right-wing cunt there's some very handy advice from the British Broadcasting Challenge.

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It's actually what the Tories always used to be infuriatingly good at. The performance of civility and community. Giving the appearance of benign, small 'c' conservatism. The symbolism of fixing a church roof would have mattered to Thatcher or Major. That's why they got away with the horrible stuff.

This reminds of that time she disparaged the Lib Dems as 'people who fix their local church roof...so people like them'.
Well duh, Kemi. People who are well-meaning and community-minded *do* tend to be popular. That's why everybody hates you.

I love this clip. Betty Boo was fantastic.

This is a pattern I've observed among a lot of people. In my teens and 20s, I read nothing but fiction. There was a crossover point in my mid 30s and I read very little fiction now. I should probably read more, to be honest.

The banality of evil.
Members of this administration will need to see jail time.
That's the only way any kind of redemption will be found (assuming we all get out of this presidency alive...)

To be mildly, guardedly optimistic for a moment, I feel like this kind of stuff could easily backfire on Farage.
No one likes Starmer. But British people REALLY don't like Trump. Even most Reform supporters don't like Trump.

She's amazing and slightly terrifying!

I'm always fascinated by the lower reaches of lists like this, having been involved in the creation of a few.
For example, someone (probably just one person) will have looked at the musical output of 1989 and thought "Yep. Have I Told You Lately? by Van Morrison absolutely *has* to be in there..."

Another bonkers video. As close as we'll ever get to knowing what it would be like to be beaten up by Aldous Harding inside a giant bin.

I don't doubt his motives - I'm sure he's a nice guy.
But they aren't the only struggling club/town in the lower reaches of British football with a compelling hard luck story and their 'rags to riches' narrative will have come at the expense of other, equally deserving clubs/towns.

Got to say, the Wrexham story (and associated 'romance') leaves me completely cold. Just because Ryan Reynolds is a more appealing character than Roman Abramovich doesn't mean what they're doing is any more competitively valid.

Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour | Stella Creasy We must get back to the party’s roots before it is too late. That means embracing difference, rejecting division – and fighting for opportunities for all, says MP for Walthamstow, Stella Creasy

"It is not the U-turns or the hardline immigration laws that trouble this government most – it’s the lack of gravitational pull towards social justice"
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Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

I'm looking forward to Spurs trying to get the EFL to move their home game against Lincoln because Beyoncé is doing three nights at their stadium.

He's brilliant isn't he? So hope he doesn't go to ManU as rumoured.

This is crazy!