OK, you’ve had some #savileweek, some housing disaster, some ISIS. Here’s your unicorn-chaser. If that doesn’t work, try this: they play “Salsoul Nugget” about 1.30.xx in and then dig into Aretha Franklin records.
Read More non-thursday music postSimon Hattenstone interviews Gordon Brown and thank God turns off his faux-naif shtick for a once or so. Brown: Going it alone, while still using the pound? “Instead of creating the levers of power for an independent Scotland, the SNP is suggesting a voluntary neo-colonial relationship with the rest of Britain. Scotland wouldn’t have any…
Read More Voluntary neo-colonialHere’s a description of ISIS moving into new territory. “They are ready to die, willingly. They are not afraid of anything,” said Capt. Iyad Shamsi, who witnessed the Islamists’ walkover in June in Abu Kamal, Euphrates river town on Syria’s eastern border with Iraq. But it, as the McClatchy reporter says, was a walkover. “They…
Read More ISIS strengths and weaknesses in one articleAditya Chakrabortty reports on the London Borough of Enfield’s housing department, under siege by the forces of Iain Duncan Smith. It looks like everything the bedroom tax critics thought might happen is happening, with the exception of the buy-to-let bandits going over the edge. Actually, that might be happening as well, but it’s hard to…
Read More The simple plan goes into action