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Trained as an historian. Worked in charities, philanthropy and education. I now play old blues and folk songs on guitar and guitjo in North East England. Unlikely to respond to DMs.
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Why are we indulging the owners of dangerous animals? It is ridiculous. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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His mind is certainly boggled.

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It must have been lovely for anyone who knew this guy to see the item on today's BBC breakfast show where a woman defends them to a guy whose kid got bit by one and he got asked to pat the fucking thing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Why is the BBC on a mission to defend dogs? 11,000 people get bit, but they cannot focus on that because one owner says their XL Bully is lovely etc.

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The Plains of Waterloo. It's rather a sinister song, but I fear a realistic one, about the exploitation of grief. Anyway that's my take, and this is my flatpicked version: on.soundcloud.com/TDd2WXMoFDqm...

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I spent today cleaning up my bikes. Both date from the mid-1980s, both have been rebuilt by me several times using bits of other bikes. Both have a mechanical elegance I can't detect in alienating modern bikes with complex indexed gearing and cassette gears etc.

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What did for McCarthy was when people just decided not to put up with his nonsense anymore. We aren't there yet.

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So tricky when easy lies hit hard reality... but don't worry JD can just say it didn't happen

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Oh yes, Justin, you're a victim here too. Sorry, diddums etc etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A song I wrote after my father died about my great uncle who was killed in the war. No one ever spoke about him, but his shadow was long and I thought he merited an epitaph: on.soundcloud.com/TeLsBsE3CCy5...

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@robb51.bsky.social Thanks for following. My claim to fame is I met one of the officers involved in the Zeebrugge raid. I believe it was the last time cutlasses were used!

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“When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, ‘Why can’t I do anything I want to do?” - Carole King Photos: Sony Music Archives RCA Studios 1959

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Lucille Bogan is mainly remembered for her obscene recordings. But leaving them aside, she was a hell of a gritty blues singer: youtu.be/-8fMXBgOQwQ?...

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John McDonnell

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