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He's a credit to our name.

Calling it a day after Alan Wilder's departure avoids the diminishing returns of subsequent albums and David Gahan getting increasingly growly.

Depeche Mode

RIP Country Joe McDonald. This was on one of my dad's 'car tapes'.

Some centrists are invested in the illusion of "standing up to Trump" for now. But yes, ultimately it will end up pleasing very few people.

I think one of the special features of the frothing madness is the pretense that we are keeping out of the war whereas, since we're allowing the US to use our bases for "defensive actions", we clearly are involved. It has been invited to a degree by Labour's fudged response.

Text from the US military paper Stars and Stripes: "So far, the United Kingdom is the first, and only, European country to openly allow the United States to use its bases in the bombing campaign against Iran that the U.S. and Israel began Feb. 28. Tehran has responded by firing missiles and drones at countries and U.S. military installations in the Middle East."

UK media: Starmer stood up to Trump!

US military press:

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

Yeah I see what you're saying

No it didn't appeal, precisely because it seemed like it was riding on BB's coattails

It's been a while since I watched it but since White eventually outsmarts Fring I think it still fits the critique. I'm not trying to defend the piece at all costs by the way! But I don't feel that it's undone by Fring

As the writer says, though, "The point (of the critique) isn't that the show is unrealistic or hard to believe"

You're welcome! Even if you don't agree or enjoy BB regardless, "He still drives the car the show is trying to sell you" is preferable to 'series featuring amoral characters is amoral'-level analysis

"Which disbeliefs are viewers asked to suspend, and which ideologies are they encouraged to retain?" are always good questions

The White Market Breaking Bad’s “dark” narrative of a man’s embrace of greed, power, and evil cloaks its fundamental endorsement of racial hygiene

A reminder that interesting critiques of Breaking Bad are possible thenewinquiry.com/the-white-ma...

Because Farage's antisemitism is the 'good' kind, that doesn't threaten UK foreign policy objectives. As for Polanski, he's not the 'right' kind of Jewish person and his foreign policy objectives are the 'real' antisemitism we should worry about.

I know!

Inner sleeve of Microdisney's In The World EP with a handwritten message 'Happy Birthday Hannah, all my love always, Adrian xx'

I hope Hannah did have a happy birthday

Two French labels taking over Spanners next week on consecutive nights (frustratingly I can't attend either): Wabi Sabi on Thur with Mélodie Blaison, Kate Carr and Beachers, and Les Disques Omnison on Friday with Orion Music Workshop, Shelter, Jeanne Gorisse and Oda Fiasco Bravo www.spanners.club

TOP YouTube video by 3010 - Topic

Some dreamy stuff on French rapper & beatmaker 3010's new album www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Px...

straightforwardly, unambiguously evil shit

None of this sounds anything like the album

Bit more Team 2 with me spanking the plank:

Team 2:

We split into two teams for last night's album launch. Team 1:

Photo of two Concrete Gazebo 'Acid Heath' tapes

And there are tapes!

Acid Heath, by Concrete Gazebo 6 track album

NX Records very kindly agreed to release an album of Concrete Gazebo's murky jams, it's called Acid Heath and it's out today for #BandcampFriday concretegazebo.bandcamp.com/album/acid-h...

This is very good. But we're still pretending that we're not involved in the war, when the US is using UK bases.

Greens deputy leader calls for apology from Starmer over false claims that led to death threats Mothin Ali fears for his life after anti-war protest was wrongly described as being in support of Iranian regime

Starmer backing the false claim at PMQs that the Deputy Leader of the Greens protested in support of the Ayatollah should really be a bigger deal imo

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I click through to the next slide of my presentation. "The first thing to know is that everybody who votes for us is scum," I say. "The only real people are the ones who hate everything in our manifesto." The audience whoops and cheers. Someone calls me a genius