You liberated the boy I never rated
and now he's throwing discus for Liverpool and Widnes

Didn't like the film but Seu Jorge in the movie is my life's ambition - sitting on the bow of a ship playing early Bowie songs on my acoustic guitar all day.

Son got his first Viz annual, bought for him by my best mate. Feeling quite emotional as my boy hits all these rites of passage. Merry Christmas everyone

Harry Haddock

Annual reminder that the greatest bass line in music history appears on this festive banger youtu.be/WYLf5Jwb9Gs?si…

Every single year I hate this guy even more.

You had to be there in 2004, but that intro segueing into the main body was unreal.

Never seen this, had no idea he appeared in Pebble Mill.

'what [the West] cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, it is the crime against the white man & the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs, the Indians & the blacks of Africa' - Aimé Césaire

Absolutely smack bang in the feels every time.

Incredible. Ajax out the cup beaten by a non league side

OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
After full consideration of today's EU ruling, I will not be joining a European Super league.

21/12/73 After heaping affection on Zhu De, Mao says of Deng Xiaoping 'I like him. Some are a little afraid of him' and announces Deng's new jobs.

Headlines from 1931

The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce

As promised, here's my graph of GB station (re)openings since WW2... I have excluded relocations or brief (less than ten year) closures. Stations no longer open are also excluded.

The success of BR sectorisation and devolution is pretty stark. As is the failure of privatisation.

Absolutely desperate to be on the receiving end of that sweet sweet antisemitism.