Thursday, March 10, 2022

THURSDAY BACKTRACK: Music and news from 60 years ago - week ending 10 March 1962

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  At #2 is Cliff Richard with 'Wonderful Land' : Giles cartoon for this week: RCP reports on links between smoking and diseases (see...
Monday, March 07, 2022

Are we a liberal democracy? by Sackerson

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In the New Yorker interview https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine referenced ...
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Saturday, March 05, 2022

Glass hearts: the danger to our liberal culture, by Sackerson

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A young female student is tearing down community posters from a ‘Lennon wall’ and meticulously picking off the shreds that remain. She is ...
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Friday, March 04, 2022

FRIDAY MUSIC: Roy Orbison, by JD

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Roy Orbison had one of the most easily identifiable and unique voices in popular music but tragically died far too young at the age of 52 in...
Thursday, March 03, 2022

THURSDAY BACKTRACK: Music and news from 60 years ago - week ending 3 March 1962

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At #3 is Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen with 'March of the Siamese Childen' : Giles cartoon for this week: IRA Ceasefire (see 26 Februar...
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

The dead dead tree press, by Sackerson

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How well informed would we be if we had only major newspapers and TV stations to go on? I’ll accept that there is much misinformation onli...
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Monday, February 28, 2022

Five fine things found on Facebook (5)

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From 1907    Source How four British migrations defined America   Link to article Incredible ultraviolet shot of Saturn by Hubble!   Photo c...