It’s more fun than “Heroes”
open.spotify.com/track/4qm… #NowPlaying
When one of the government says “we’re following the science” I keep thinking of the Peter Pan song “we’re following the leader”
#TodayILearned that the House of Commons' Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle is the son of Doug Hoyle.
Doug Hoyle beat Roy Jenkins in the Warrington by-election in 1981, at the height of SDP-mania
Via @MattChorley in The Times
They are discussing Black Market Hair-Do’s on @BBCRadio2
Didn’t they do a session for John Peel?
#JeremyVine
I looked this up earlier.
It’s quite a contrast
White rabbits
‘She never had a voice’: Dawn Sturgess’s parents hope TV drama will set record straight
Several years after they invented smart phoned, I STILL feel uncomfortable saying ‘app’ rather than ‘application’
#GrumpyOldManTweet
Last day to do the Salisbury survey
#TodayILearned that “100 years ago, the average UK citizen consumed less than 3 hours of story per week, mostly in a communal setting. Today the same citizen consumes more than 40 hours of story but gets the majority via screen, often on their own.” salisbury2020.com/event/wha…
“The now suspicious Wiechers checked Cummings’ blog on the Wayback Machine, a digital library that tracks changes to billions of web pages.
It showed Cummings had added the reference to coronaviruses between 9 April and 3 May 2020.”
A member of the government helping a chum avoid the rules
How unusual
Was reminded, listening to this, that Grant Schapps, Secretary of State for Transport, is a cousin of Mick Jones, lead guitar and song writer if The Clash
It sounds like they get on
“It’s normal for a prime minister to appear before the liaison committee at least three times a year.
This was the first time Boris Johnson had bothered to turn up in more than 10 months.
And you could see why”
I’ve read how affected people were by Bowie doing Starman on Top of the Pops
This seems a bit odd given T Rex, Glitter and Slade already been on….but anyway, this would have been my Bowie/TotP moment
Very un-TotP.
Punk, but not punky.
And very cool
‘W’ could easily have been for Jackie Wilson
One of the things I quite like about this daft exercise is that it’s made me think about the different ways I’ve used and consumed music over the years
I love Jackie Wilson’s music but I didn’t see him when I was 16 and get the mail train home, or miss the first song because I was drunk, and arguing about politics, or…
This is Wasted Youth
RT @ListenToAlfred: Alfred is sad to hear that #Dorset’s Wessex FM and #Salisbury’s Spire FM will be closing, replaced by a quasi-national…
RT @drewsonix: The loss of Spire FM - a unique radio brand born in #Salisbury - will be a blow to the city as local lives and businesses re…