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It's probably Fatboy Slim. Who I like, but I'm not sure about him being our patron saint.

They say with great albums you notice something new each time. Well, 31 years after hearing "Dog Man Star" for the first time, I could hear a conversation where Ed Buller and Brett Anderson, coked off their tits, are going "and for the outro we should have a group of kids singing the chorus...

Credit where it's due. I could say something uncharitable about his bosses and the blind eyes he's turned to this sort of thing over the course of his career, but I guess there's only so much he can do, and even this is a lot further than most people in football would be prepared to go.

Today on Bluesky the edgy leftists are on a “fraudulently stealing £10,000 from someone is fine actually and quite funny.” I know they’re not the enemy but fuck me this can be tiresome sometimes.

An ancient industry that has dominated the culture of large parts of the country for centuries, and which helps provide the food we eat, is important for lots of reasons and "lol, there are more people working in yoga" isn't the dunk some people think it is.

that guy murdered jo cox and labour have rewarded him with everything he wanted

An isthmus of sex on TV. We’re back to Electric Six again.

Probably High Fidelity - I read it around the time I was leaving university and it made me feel like the adult world was empty and meaningless because I identified way too much with the protagonist.

Island of strangers. Fuck me.

I reckon we’re about 18 months away from Labour proposing national service to cover the gaps in social care that were previously covered by immigration.

the reason i'm being so defensive, HONEY, is because that's what wins championships

actually being **serious** about immigration would require addressing questions like "how do we sustain the economy with a declining population?". Or even "what moral duty do we bear to refugees from the consequences of wars we supported?". the columnist wants to be *unserious* about immigration

Slightly worried by the visceral hatred I’m feeling towards a man who did badly on The Chase. Maybe I am a latent Nazi after all.