Music
Sounds
Fight Like Apes have called it a day, due to financial reasons. Spotify doesn’t cut it! Such a shame, they were a great fun band. One final set of gigs, ending in Whelans on Dec 9th. Would love to go! Here’s their statement, emphasis mine: Stick a fork in us, we’re done. We’ve been quiet […]
Dublin
Photography
Taken while cycling in to town yesterday, a beautiful Lá Samhna.
Government
Internets
Just for Laughs
Brexit negotiations going well. pic.twitter.com/CsNxYjmIk9 — Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) October 23, 2016 Teehee.
Sounds
Delightfully old school bands. Pixies have a new album out, as do Warpaint and Yello.
Arts
Middle East
This is the song of the East Gate Warden When he locks the great gate and smokes in his garden. Postern of Fate, the Desert Gate, Disaster’s Cavern, Fort of Fear, The Portal of Bagdad am I, and Doorway of Diarbekir. The Persian Dawn with new desires may net the flushing mountain spires: But my […]
Do Not Adjust Your Set
People
Politics
UK
Fascinating, unguarded comments from Kenneth Clarke and Michael Rifkind on camera in Sky’s studios. Very unfair, and a serious breach of trust, if they weren’t informed that the cameras were rolling. Ken Clarke and Malcolm Rifkind filmed in Sky News Westminster studio making remarks about Tory leadership candidates https://t.co/SywJXdMvH6 — Sky News (@SkyNews) July 5, […]
Just for Laughs
The Press
“What if columnists wrote about the U.K. the way they do about the Middle East?” asks Karl Sharro in The Atlantic. It’s quite well done, he elicits opinions from two ‘representative’ members of the ‘locale’ in question and draws a picture based on something that happened thousands of years previously, happily mixing in the local […]