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Ame Caline/Soul Coaxing just came on the radio. Reminds me of a time when all I cared about was watching Batman and reading Beano. The world is such a different place now.

RIP Paddy Hill

48 years ago today, I bought Anarchy In The UK by the Sex Pistols. It changed my life forever.

youtu.be/pScdRKsGFr0?... a timely reminder that we must oppose the rise of the far right

Absolutely brilliant news

The Mail not giving its (admittedly stupid) readers the full picture? Goodness me!

Day eight - The Lives of Others (2006) early 80s pre collapse of wall, Berlin. A playwright is under surveillance from the Stasi for reasons which are not immediately obvious. After an article puts him in danger an unlikely source saves the day. The last four words of script are so beautifully apt.

Day seven - American Graffiti 1973- it’s 1962 and the last night before a bunch of young friends head off to college and adulthood. The whole drama unfolds to the backdrop of perhaps the greatest movie soundtrack of all time. Look out for a young Harrison Ford in a supporting role

Day six - Life is Beautiful (1997) - Italy, 1944. Italian Jews are sent to a concentration camp, including Guido, his wife Dora and four year old son, Giosue. So as not to scare his son with the horrors they now face, Guido tells him it’s a game and they can win a tank,which they do but at what cost

Linda McMahon - education secretary. What next? Undertaker minister for the undead? Haku replacing the US armed forces?

Day Five - Persian Lessons (2020) - Gilles, a young Jewish man agrees to teach the deputy commandant of a concentration camp to speak Persian so he can open a restaurant in Tehran after the war. The only problem is Gilles does not speak Persian. Another film with a breathtakingly poignant ending.

Day Four - Duck Soup (1933) - the politically unstable country of Freedonia is made even more chaotic by the installation of Rufus T Firefly as leader. Neighbouring Sylvania sends two spies to infiltrate the government, resulting in war! ‘All God’s chillun’ got guns, indeed!

You don’t see arch-Brexiteer Clarkson thumping this particular tub do you?