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On another day I could have picked many of those.

Absolutely impossible to come up with a top 10, but: Love will tear us apart - Joy Division There is a light that never goes out - Smiths Pounding - Doves Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana Beatles and the Stones - House of love Echo Beach - Martha and the muffins Uncertain smile - The The Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the commotions Lovesong - The Cure Bonny - Prefab Sprout

I've been to several as a chaperone and they've all been face to face, but I suspect that's not always the case. They don't go easy on people in my experience, and don't roll over when challenged. The number of successful claims does surprise me.

Yep, it needs looking at, but properly. What irritates me is people getting PiP based on a points system, but to meet one aspect of independence. If that, for example, is to get to/from work but they cease to work (or need to pay to get there) then the PiP should go irrespective of whether they've got the points. The points test is quite a tough threshold though, so I'm staggered so many people get it.

Where we agree is re need, not timing. The climb down just highlights their lack of authority, but doing nothing is better than a half cocked 2 tier system which was a daft compromise.

Always a great festival though, whoever is playing. You can have a great time without going near the main stage or the big top. Some of my best days there have been spent in and out of The River Stage, Cirque de Quirk, Electro Love, Hipshaker, the music bars, etc. Brilliant festival.

I think you're a tad out of touch with popular thinking on this. 7/10/23 was on 7/10/23. A wee bit has happend since then.

Bless him. If the US subsidies them, there's a slim chance they may sell a few I suppose.

Blimey, that's an impressive bit of kit, and why not. There's nothing wrong with buying an album for 1 track - any excuse to buy more! My thing is vinyl which is a big cash reducer.

Some good stuff in there. I hadn't realised Gomez had covered Wichita Lineman. Just listened to it and it's brilliant. Cheers.

The owner isn't shite, but the people he has hired have been. He's clearly committed to to the club, and has put the cash in. He hasn't run down the academy, made mass redundancies, pissed off the football world, said outrageous things, failed to pay wages, etc. He's done nothing that shit owners so.

It doesn't tick any box on a proper interpretation. It also doesn't tick any box under the public order act. The proposed victims, as Benji highlights, are an institution, and in a foreign jurisdiction. As stupid as his rant was, it's hard to see which crime box it ticks. Like you say, there may be a liberal interpretation of the law though to prove the PM's point.

You sound like Soggy. Who are the Starmer supporters you complain of? Anyways, I agree. The proposed 2 tier system is absurd. Hopefully it gets voted down.

Quality

Scrap the green push and I'm all for that. Whatever labour do or don't do, they need to pick the left, right or middle lane, and stop doing an unpopular version of populism.