Back To The Barbican Me and that Swiss Adam  bloke are currently engaged in a fiercely fought game of Japanese psych band tag (although he may not know that yet)...

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Pun Fun 5: The Theme Hello, Pun People! We are back with a fifth instalment of this feast of fun, timed to help those of you who celebrate Easter to retrieve you...

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An astonishing tale that escalates with a killer final line

Competitive Wailing I was leafing through the latest issue of Uncut the other day. When I reached the last page there was Ziggy Marley telling us all about his...

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Pity The Fools In the wise words of Kevin Coyne, the world is full of fools - and never more so than at this time of year. Here are just a few of them. A p...

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Lucas In London My live music experiences this month have been mostly Brazilian. After Nyron Higor and the gang in Brussels in the middle of the month, las...

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Decline in migratory fish populations prompts fight for protection The UN assessment of the state of migratory freshwater fish revealed an 81% decline in the last 50 years.

BBC News - Decline in migratory fish populations prompts fight for protection - BBC News
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In the notes app on my phone I have a huge list of what I believe would make excellent band names. I also have one for song titles. I'm not in a band nor am I a musician.

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

Early estimates of the London march against the far right today range from 50k [early police rough estimate] to several hundred thousand ['Together alliance' organisers] - Guardian
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HD | Sheeba - Horoscopes | Ireland 1981 - Eurovision Song Contest YouTube video by VisionOfEuro

You're a star. New in the Irish charts this week in March 1981: Ireland's best-ever Eurovision song www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH4h...

Didn’t want to get affected like this giving evidence. Caught me by surprise. We all lost so much. We have to act on the inquiry’s recommendations. We have to be better now, so that we can be better next time.

Oceanic Consistency On Wednesday evening I was inside the Japanese Embassy in London's swinging Piccadilly. I can't say why but hopefully the Cadbury's Milk Tra...

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Farage poses as a patriot. But his Iran U-turn shows the truth The bitter irony is that this war may end up driving more disgruntled voters into his arms

Nathan Gill, the Welsh politician jailed in September for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, was a senior figure in three of Farage’s parties inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

Elyse In The Fields According to my search function it is 13 years since Elyse Weinberg last appeared on these pages. As many of you weren't even born then it i...

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Ernie's El Dorado Pt 15 - Mexico Normally I open each episode of our tour of the Americas by telling you a bit about the country we are visiting. But I am going to assume th...

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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

The US is no longer a democracy. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Words Of The Prophet We haven't had any reggae here recently other than of the Mandatory American variety, so we have recruited the late great Michael Prophet to...

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Annie And The Boys I am delighted to be able to bring you news of an old friend of the blog, Annie Dressner.  When Annie first featured on these pages way back...

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europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

A Bit Of Brazil In Brussels Last Wednesday night I paid what has become my traditional annual visit to the Witloof Bar in Brussels. It is tucked away in the basement of...

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Something For The Ladies It was International Women's Day on Sunday. I don't work weekends and I had urgent pun-based business to deal with yesterday so this is the ...

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Pun Fun 4: The Results Ladies and gentlemen, we have another winner! Topping the Body Parts chart is... George with "Penis In Furs" Previous votes have been pretty...

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FFS

Total charisma bypass #totp

All In A Good Caucasus Apologies for the terrible pun in the title. While on the subject, a quick reminder to anyone who wishes to vote on Pun Fun 4 but hasn't ye...

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Nathan Gill

I've had a number of years to get used to people walking around talking to invisible people on hands-free phones, but I don't think it will ever not look weird. There is always a brief moment where I have to figure out if they are mentally ill or something.

Made it even harder to get a human in customer service. Poluted the internet with slop while also starving it of traffic. Encouaged death and murder. Further corrupted my industry. Contracted people in developing countries to cheap and traumatic work. Took work from writers/artists. Annoyed me.

A Trip On A Train We have a couple of new records for you today. The first is "Tried To Do's", the new album by Trippers & Askers . That is the nom de plume o...

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We really should stop putting idiots in charge of things