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Yeah Noel joined the likes of Eddie Izzard, Mick Hucknall and Piers Morgan at a No. 10 shindig

I always find 'first videos' interesting in that often the pop star in question hasn't yet 100% honed their visual persona yet. You can see it in 'Baby One More Time' or 'Supersonic', and you can see it here too.

This has been on regular rotation at The Gym Group now for some time.

Yeah, that's fair - the likes of Sleeper obviously fall into that category. I just don't think there was that many Scotsmen. What indie bands had, largely for the first time, was the possibility of being A or B playlisted on Radio 1 and having a Top 10 hit - and then having a successful album...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/04/change-uk-poised-to-lose-at-least-half-its-mps-heidi-allen-chuka-umunna-lib-dems So it looks like Chuka Umunna will just defect to the Lib Dems. I'm pretty sure he's fucked if he tries to run in Streatham again, but he might be able to find a...

Yeah I always liked that one despite myself.

Not disagreeing, but worth noting that the Boo Radleys did follow up their 'Wake up!' album with 'C'mon Kids', which is vaguely seminal and considered to be decent psychadelic rock by some. And K**a S***er certainly aspired to be psychadelic. I'm just saying! (Edit: Ah yes, The Verve. Good shout).

Some random thoughts: MTV Europe giving way on Sky to MTV UK in 1997 was a pivotal moment. And I think this was heavily attributable to the second album success of Oasis really more than anything else. I think there's a qualitative difference between 'Noelrock' and 'Britpop', the latter of...

I was not suggesting a coalition between Labour and BXP necessarily. The BXP is itself a coalition right now, to some extent. Once the election is over, the die may to an extent be cast and who knows whether they will be held together by Farage. I doubt Corbyn will be as precious as you think...

I'm no Corbyn fan, but I think he's right to be cautious re: Brexit. Right now, we are in an unprecedented situation and simply rushing to a 2nd Referendum position before proper detailed data modelling/analysis has been attempted is not sensible. Bear also this in mind. In a minority...

Scott Adams also used 'persuasion' to get his current ex-model girlfriend.

Well Adams has long had a sideline in 'just asking questions' on his blog about various right-wing talking points. It was when he started praising Trump's persuasion skills and stated he thought he'd win the election (though he didn't say that he supported Trump, at least not at this stage) that...

Yes. Scott Adams has an interesting term he uses to describe the normies: 'word-thinker'

It's funny I had a weird premonition of something like that being brought up. I'm wary of taking the bait and going over old ground in the context of 2019. I'm pretty sure I said some things which are tonally off, but my recollection is one or two people were being ahistorical, unrealistic and...

Dude......that was a long time ago.

Best price with the bookies on most seats for the Brexit Party at the next election is 7/1 - with equates to about an 11% chance (factoring in a profit margin). If we go into a GE without Brexit having happened, expect those odds to significantly come in. 2 of the bookies offer 2/1 on Farage...

Well Farage and the like are largely tools of higher paleoconservative elites (and perhaps Russia lol). The power distribution is largely a bit more diffuse; it's a little bit less about control and micromanagement - it's a little less about means, and a little more about ends. So a wider field...

It depends on what kind of 'analysis' you do. Mostly what I've seen on Twitter is barbs about how Everton really won the Premier League and the UK actually won the Eurovision Song Contest. Many of the Brexit Party followers have a pretty creative grip on reality. It's the Karl Rove notion of...

So I went away for 2 months in late March to get away from the Brexit bollocks, and I come back to The Brexit Party and.......this.

Yeah kinda, but this was at Central World Mall and the price discrepancies aren't always quite what you'd think for non-Thai food. Mostly I ate Thai style curry from street guys or the cheaper food courts. Yeah fair enough, I do just kinda feel that Japanese curry can be largely replicated by...