DJ Punctum
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"Modern medicine is not a line where you left your fossils." Married to an American so watch it. Co-author of the now completed Then Play Long blog (https://nobilliards.blogspot.com).
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The last "new" pop song my mum liked.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The last "new" pop song my mum liked.
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OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
OTD 48 years ago Jane Suck and I wrote the post punk electronica manifesto New Musick in Sounds. I’m still very proud of this: we caught something in our fevered queer brains. Note the very early (the first?) use of the term post punk. Articles included Kraftwerk, Eno, Devo, TG, the Residents, Ubu
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A word to the Wise... Ernie Wise would have been 100 today. Photographed with Glenda Jackson and Eric Morecambe on 7 December 1971 by Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A word to the Wise... Ernie Wise would have been 100 today. Photographed with Glenda Jackson and Eric Morecambe on 7 December 1971 by Don Smith for @radiotimes.bsky.social.
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It has been necessary for at least a decade, but Austrian School economics has somehow dominated a lot of decision making via an opaque interplay between media, politicians, so-called think tanks, foreign influencers, and the super rich. No one gets a word in, until now (you're doing well).
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It has been necessary for at least a decade, but Austrian School economics has somehow dominated a lot of decision making via an opaque interplay between media, politicians, so-called think tanks, foreign influencers, and the super rich. No one gets a word in, until now (you're doing well).
This is quite a good EoY albums list, for those who still care about such things; Time Out's top 25, and while it contains over-obvious things I would kick out, it also veers agreeably away from the straight and narrow:
www.timeout.com/music/the-25...
www.timeout.com/music/the-25...
The 25 best albums of 2025
The year’s top releases, chosen by Time Out editors, writers and contributors.
www.timeout.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
This is quite a good EoY albums list, for those who still care about such things; Time Out's top 25, and while it contains over-obvious things I would kick out, it also veers agreeably away from the straight and narrow:
www.timeout.com/music/the-25...
www.timeout.com/music/the-25...
That Virgin album she put out this year is the business. Much more inventive and creative than the ones we're all expected to worship.
Now I've heard there was a secret chord that Lorde played, and it pleased David.
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
That Virgin album she put out this year is the business. Much more inventive and creative than the ones we're all expected to worship.
Bought In The Wee Small Hours on CD from HMV in Cornmarket in the late nineties for a fiver. It's done me all right and it's the same music. Not long to go now, folks; don't waste whatever time you have left.
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Bought In The Wee Small Hours on CD from HMV in Cornmarket in the late nineties for a fiver. It's done me all right and it's the same music. Not long to go now, folks; don't waste whatever time you have left.
'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
I wrote about that album on my shortlived Ogun Records blog in February. So far 76 people have read it. That's why it was shortlived.
Always nice to find an OG Ogun in the wild. A hidden gem in the vocal jazz section at Newcastle’s Beatdown. Jaimie Cullum it ain’t!
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I wrote about that album on my shortlived Ogun Records blog in February. So far 76 people have read it. That's why it was shortlived.
Guardian Opinion | Jacinda Ardern's Covid policy for New Zealand was the correct and most successful approach. But her refusal to exempt fascists from wearing masks marks her down as a failure.
By Gaby Hinsliff
By Gaby Hinsliff
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Guardian Opinion | Jacinda Ardern's Covid policy for New Zealand was the correct and most successful approach. But her refusal to exempt fascists from wearing masks marks her down as a failure.
By Gaby Hinsliff
By Gaby Hinsliff
I'd rather not watch, thanks. I think the people of Britain have had more than enough of scripted quips. Pull the entire edifice down and go back to proper socialists versus capitalists, you knew where you were etc.
Watch as Rachel Reeves brands Greens leader Zack Polanski a 'keen hypnotherapist'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
🗣️ 'The only things getting bigger under his approach would be the deficit and the rise of inflation'
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I'd rather not watch, thanks. I think the people of Britain have had more than enough of scripted quips. Pull the entire edifice down and go back to proper socialists versus capitalists, you knew where you were etc.
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RIP Jack Shepherd. A very fine actor indeed.
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
RIP Jack Shepherd. A very fine actor indeed.
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In which I dissect the 2022 Best Actor race: the worst winner in this category in years vs the most deserving nominee in years. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/m...
My Alternative Oscars: Best Actor 2022
The nominees: Austin Butler – Elvis Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin Brendan Fraser – The Whale Paul Mescal – Aftersun Bill Nighy – Living The worst acting wi…
humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In which I dissect the 2022 Best Actor race: the worst winner in this category in years vs the most deserving nominee in years. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/m...
#NowPlaying and it really is as good as everybody's saying it is, unlike certain other recent albums I could mention:
open.spotify.com/album/0yBlUg...
open.spotify.com/album/0yBlUg...
Cabin In The Sky
open.spotify.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
#NowPlaying and it really is as good as everybody's saying it is, unlike certain other recent albums I could mention:
open.spotify.com/album/0yBlUg...
open.spotify.com/album/0yBlUg...
Let's confine lists to being aids to shopping, and rankings to the Army, eh?
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Let's confine lists to being aids to shopping, and rankings to the Army, eh?
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The first - splendid! - reviews of Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia have started arriving:
Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia
Review by Victoria Best
The telenovela is a uniquely Latin American creation. It began as the radionovela, a drama told in episodes of 15 minutes that was broadcast during the daytime as enter
shinynewbooks.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The first - splendid! - reviews of Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia have started arriving:
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Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
What a delightful day out we had for our eighteenth wedding anniversary today. Just goes to show that London still possesses that magic - you have to work slightly harder to find it these days, but it is still there.
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
What a delightful day out we had for our eighteenth wedding anniversary today. Just goes to show that London still possesses that magic - you have to work slightly harder to find it these days, but it is still there.
UK album chart early midweeks (no stats yet) and technically the number one is an E.P. but anyway:
1 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time
2 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of
3 Olly Murs - Knees Up
4 The Beatles - Anthology 4
5 Madness - Hit Parade
1 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time
2 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of
3 Olly Murs - Knees Up
4 The Beatles - Anthology 4
5 Madness - Hit Parade
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
UK album chart early midweeks (no stats yet) and technically the number one is an E.P. but anyway:
1 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time
2 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of
3 Olly Murs - Knees Up
4 The Beatles - Anthology 4
5 Madness - Hit Parade
1 Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD - One More Time
2 James - Nothing But Love: The Definitive Best Of
3 Olly Murs - Knees Up
4 The Beatles - Anthology 4
5 Madness - Hit Parade
What a pity Haircut 100 only recorded one song, as oldies radio would have you believe.
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
What a pity Haircut 100 only recorded one song, as oldies radio would have you believe.
The smiling future versus the snarling recent past. No contest.
Kuenssberg and Polanski face off over who runs the UK
flip.it/DP0zmA
Didn't watch it, but have heard how brilliant Zack was - as we all knew he would!
#GreenSurge 💚
flip.it/DP0zmA
Didn't watch it, but have heard how brilliant Zack was - as we all knew he would!
#GreenSurge 💚
Kuenssberg and Polanski face off over who runs the UK
Zack Polanski and Kuenssberg went face to face, and finally a politician asked why Britain is at the mercy of unelected financial traders
flip.it
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The smiling future versus the snarling recent past. No contest.
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How to make the front pages without taking Russian bribes or being performatively cruel to desperate people.
Make hope normal again!
Make hope normal again!
Things move quickly in politics. The idea of a Sunday broadsheet dedicating it's entire front page to @greenparty.org.uk is huge, and let's be honest, a sign of changing times.
People are sitting up and noticing @zackpolanski.bsky.social
join.greenparty.org.uk
People are sitting up and noticing @zackpolanski.bsky.social
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
How to make the front pages without taking Russian bribes or being performatively cruel to desperate people.
Make hope normal again!
Make hope normal again!
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This week’s listening.
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This week’s listening.