I am coming to the conclusion that this might be the greatest book ever written in the English language.
Michael Glasper
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Freedom Radio ace, Prime Minister designate of Estonia, betting tout.
Lovely to see Charlie Hawtrey on Have I Got News For You.
Going to write a thesis on how this was the greatest cultural juxtaposition of the 1980s.
The mighty Len Deighton has passed away aged 97. What a writer and what a man. My bookshelf here speaks for my love of him.
Good Bye Lenin! is on Prime! Do yourself a massive favour if you've never seen it.
If Spurs turn that around in the second leg, it'll be the greatest Tudor comeback since Henry VII landed at Milford Haven in 1485.
There was a 1987 episode of Wogan on BBC4 tonight featuring Jenny Agutter, Laurie Lee and this guy. Culturally, 1987 feels like a million years ago.
"Good birthday?" "Pretty quiet." "You do much?" "Ten hours in a police station."
Watched Palin twice this week and realised that when he goes that's the real ravens leaving the Tower of London moment.
Listening to No Jacket Required. Can honestly say that due to inherent prejudices, I've never listened to it before. It's pretty good, as it goes.
When Jeremy Corbyn and his missus go on holiday to Greece.
When Lord Sugar cracks a joke on The Apprentice.
Reading a biography of Brezhnev. The caption for this 1971 photo is 'I look like Alain Delon'.
Hitler having a copy of the Beveridge Report in the bunker is a lovely bit of trivia.
This is like that time when Henry Tudor landed at Milford Haven and explained that he simply wanted to join Richard III's cabinet for the greater good of the country.
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...
Tidligere forsvarssjef om Trumps USA: – Neo-fascistisk bananrepublikk (+)
Tidligere forsvarssjef Sverre Diesen mener USA er blitt «en normløs og fiendtlig innstilt stormakt», og advarer samtidig mot å feste vår lit til Europa. Harald Sunde mener det haster med en plan B.
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"l no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
Listened to Bob Monkhouse's Desert Island Discs episode again. He picked this, which I had forgotten about entirely. Fucking incredible. open.spotify.com/track/20U4KB...
Ain't She Sweet
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