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The Ideal Woman: How autocrats built the archetype.

This special series draws on CORRECTIV.Exile’s network of journalists and professionals remains under pressure to document how authoritarian leaders are learning from one another and accelerating demo...

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Accept/Regret by Brown. I made a music video for my son's band using bits from one of his favourite films when he was wee. Warner Bros. of course own the Iron Giant copyright, so it isn't official - just for fun. #WSocialRadio #Music #IronGiant

The Iron Giant - entire movie in a 5 minute edit!

YouTube video by Jared Brown

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One in Ten by UB40. A UB40 was the form you had to fill in to claim unemployment benefit - unemployment benefit 40. One in ten was the employment rate at the time. This was on the car tape my sister and I recorded for the family holiday to Wales - this week in August 1981. #WSocialRadio #Music #WMRC

UB40 - One In Ten (1981) (HD)

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Alphaville: Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1965. Yesterday - eu.pe/0MmUn - I said Agnès Varda was Nouvelle Vague without the 'big I am' of Godard. I even had the gall to 'Godard-Schmodard' him. I was being silly. Godard was a genius and Alphaville is my favourite film. #WSocialFilm #film #filmfrancais

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I think it is less likely that Musk will see a permanent manned base on Mars in his lifetime, than that we will be essentially trapped on Earth due to Kessler Syndrome due in no small measure to SpaceX's own blasé attitude to space debris. #Alanis

SpaceX rocket about to crash into the moon in unintentional collision

Piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket weighing four tonnes will hit the lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles per hour

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If they pander to the whims of fascists what does that make them? If we continue to support those who pander to fascists through our use of their services, what does it make us? #WSocial and eurosky needed now more than ever. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Elon Musk’s X latest to block Saudi dissident accounts inside kingdom

Exclusive: More than 60 accounts on X have been made unavailable in Saudi Arabia, after similar action on Snapchat and Facebook

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Reasons to be cheerful (part 3) by Ian Dury and The Blockheads. UK No. 3 this week in 1979. Part Oscar Wilde, part Johnny Rotten and part Max Wall, Dury was an artist, writer, teacher and all round genius who died too soon. He had some banging pop hits too, of which... #WSocialRadio #Music

Ian Dury and The Blockheads – Reasons To Be Cheerful, Pt. 3 (Official 4K Music Video)

YouTube video by Ian Dury & The Blockheads

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The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature. Victor Mair (Ed.) - Columbia Uni. Press, 1994. A real trove from the American sinologist and linguist. When I read this book 20 years ago, I spent as much time taking notes as reading. A fantastic tome. #WSocialBooks #Books #Narrating

The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature by Victor H. Mair | Foyles

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Hej @wsocial.eu I notice that dailymotion.com (French) and rushes.cc (UK) videos do not play 'on page' as YouTube (US) and Vimeo (US) videos do. Should we not support our European brethren and sistren and furnish them with a delightful on page play button too?

Cléo de 5 à 7 - Agnès Varda, 1962. A film about a woman awaiting the result of a cancer screening? The genius of Varda raises it to the uppermost of film history. Nouvelle Vague without, as we said in the 90s, the 'big I am'. Godard schmodard. I'm starting a new hashtag #WSocialFilm - jump in.

Cleo from 5 to 7 / Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) - Trailer - Vidéo Dailymotion

Directed by : Agnès Varda Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 30 min French release: 11/04/1962 Production year: 1961 Cleo, a young and pretty singer, waits for the results of medical tests. From super...

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Everything must go by The Manic Street Preachers. On the radio and in the UK charts 20 years ago this week. Ah, 'the Manics' - one of the few bands that upon hearing them, I thought, I will listen to them until I croak. To this day they still set up a mic for Richey. #WSocialRadio

Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go (Official Video)

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Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. Penguin Australia, 1967. A group of upper-class schoolgirls vanish without a trace on an Outback picnic in 1900. Lindsay's languid, spooky, dreamy, mysterious tale of woe and wha'? A must read, frankly. #WSocialBooks

Picnic At Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay | Foyles

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The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. London, Blackfriars Theatre, 1613. A Jacobean tragedy sans pareil with a body count to make Midsommar Murders look like a trifle. Themes - the patriarchal oppression of women; corruption and power, violence revenge and madness. A masterpiece. #WSocialBooks

The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster, Michael Neill | Foyles

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On this day in 1975 - yes 51 entire years ago - The Stylistics were UK no.1 with this stone cold classic. Nice timing of the sweeping shot of New York ending on Russell Thompkins' opening line. #WSocialRadio song of the day.

I Can't Give You Anything - The Stylistics (1975) HD

YouTube video by PS César

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Neuromancer by William Gibson. New York, Ace Books, 1984. Gibson's Cyberpunk opus that introduced many of the concepts familiar from the genre today. It's a bit Matrix, a bit Blade Runner, a bit noir-ish. It changed sci-fi. A true great. #WSocialBooks #BookoftheDay eu.pe/sLR6H

Neuromancer by William Gibson | Foyles

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If I didn't know any better I would say that it's almost like there are separate sets of rules for the haves and for the have nots.

‘It’s all right for them’: private schools and golf courses stay green despite England’s hosepipe bans

As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays

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July 1981. Amidst widespread rioting across the UK, army snipers shooting teens in NI and Charles and Diana getting hitched at St. Pauls in London, Coventry's finest, The Specials, reached the no.1 spot with this classic, perfectly capturing the zeitgeist. #WSocialRadio

The Specials - Ghost Town [Official HD Remastered Video]

YouTube video by TheSpecialsOfficVEVO

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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Infantino is going to get spanked by his daddy for letting this golden goose slip through his orange fingers.

Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

Uefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup

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I had a Saturday job in the petrol station on Cramer's forecourt in 1984. The boss at Cramer's back then was a big beardy fella with a metal prosthetic hand. The local kids were always a bit wary of him - blame Capt. Hook I suppose. He turned out to be a really friendly geezer. #Bushey #Watford

'Heartbroken' garage breaks silence after huge fire

A much-loved car business has said it is "heartbroken" in its first public statement since a huge fire ripped through its garage.

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France is slowly embracing older workers, driven in part by pension reform

France is slowly embracing older workers, driven in part by pension reform

With the employment rate among 60–64 year olds set to quadruple between 2001 and 2025 in the country, the proportion of working people in this age group has reached its highest level in half a century.

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Yes - sanctions, tariffs, boycotts, embargoes. You name it, we should withhold it.

Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst

The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course, says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst

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Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger. First published. Köln University, 1486. At one point the text says, "the following should not be read aloud unless you wish to summon the devil". Reader, I narrated it rather nervously. #wsocialbooks #wbooks eu.pe/tOzim

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A couple of blue plaques from Brighton celebrating the classic mod film Quadrophenia and the Indian jack of all intellectual trades Rabindranath Tagore.

Put on your Joe Bloggs baggy jeans and your cagoule. Dig out that bucket hat. Step into those mingin' BK trainers. Adopt the devil-may-care, monkey-with-an-asbo attitude of mid 90s Liam and enjoy this banger - no.5 on this day in 1990. #WSocialRadio

The Soup Dragons - I'm Free (Official Video)

YouTube video by TheSoupDragonsVEVO

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Image on the edge : the margins of medieval art by Michael Camille. Published - Harvard Uni Press, 1993. "lascivious apes, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs" This book has them all. eu.pe/pBhQE #wsocialbooks #wbooks

The lot of an audiobook narrator is not all all Jackie Collins and Jeffrey Archer. Sometimes it is a 1000 page pharmacology textbook which can be, let us say, rather dry. Happy Thursday all. on.soundcloud.com/25kpl6jhwYFw...

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Listen to ault04FD by Mondobongo #np on #SoundCloud

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No.3 in the UK chart this week in 1982 - Yazoo, Don't Go. Incredible song. Alison Moyet - what a voice! Vince Clark - what a hairstyle! Come on people give us a song - don't be left on the platform when the #WSocialRadio express leaves the station or some other illogical analogy.

Yazoo - Don't Go (Official HD Video)

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Indian Art by Partha Mitter. Published: OUP Oxford, 2001. I read this around 25 years ago and still return to it. I've read Cormack's Byzantine Art and Mary Beard's Classical Art also from the same Ox. Hist. of Art series. Highly recommended. eu.pe/pmIII #wsocialbooks #wbooks #summerreading

When it reaches the point where you have to have a sign telling people not to poo in public, you realise that society has arrived at a place rather peculiar. #BeautifulHemelHempstead