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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 7m

#DavidsMonthofMusic
#MusicChallenge

Day 12: "How, why, or which in the title"

Surely near to the top of any list of bands who were criminally overlooked.

Jellyfish - That Is Why

Jellyfish - That Is Why

YouTube video by JellyfishVEVO

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 16m

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Day 12 - Spain

New Day - Hush

Band features Amparo Llanos and Samuel Titos from Spanish alt-rock royalty Dover.

New Day - Hush (Official video)

YouTube video by Mushroom Pillow

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2h

A Home Office study concluded that 70% of shoplifting was linked to addiction.
It's usually better to treat the underlying cause of problems. Get our drug policy right: decriminalise possession and treat addicts as people who are ill rather than criminals. Solution over retribution.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 5h

The only way that any difficult task is acheived is by making a start.
The first thing Starmer should do is to make a very clear and unambiguous statement saying that leaving was an egregious error and that the intention is to look to rejoin. Ignore the far-right who are at peak support already.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 1d

#DavidsMonthofMusic
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Day 11: "A non-primary colour in the title"

The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes

The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes

YouTube video by ThePoguesOfficial

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 1d

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Day 11: Portugal

Virgem Suta - Maria Alice

Virgem Suta - Maria Alice

YouTube video by VirgemSutaVEVO

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 1d

Farage: “Have you ever been let down by a person? Have you been let down and betrayed?”

Quite. And let's face it, who hasn't had a friend caught spying for an enemy nation?

Any suggestion that the far-right Reform UK Ltd has a high proportion of dodgy types is both scurrilous and thoroughly untrue

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 1d

Mildly interesting electoral history to the ward.
Pretty solidly Lib Dem until 2019 when the Conservatives took it unopposed. Tories held it comfortably in 2023 with the Libs tailed off in 3rd.
The Greens have half a dozen councillors on Wychavon so no surprise to see them do okay first time here.

poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 1d

As things stand (and I know that it's one heck of a long way out just now), I expect to see a lot of this- split votes between Labour / Green / Lib Dem and RUK sneaking in at the next GE. A function of Labour's rightward social shift and consequent loss of loan votes.
Did anyone say "PR"?

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 1d

It's definitely well worth a listen if you get the chance. Standout track for me is probably "The English Motorway System".

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 1d

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Day 10: Greece

Daphne and the Fuzz - Burn Down Your House

Daphne and the Fuzz - Burn Down Your House (Official Video)

YouTube video by InnerEarRec

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 1d

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Day 10: "An album title track"

Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life

Black Box Recorder- The Facts of Life (Official Video)

YouTube video by One Little Independent Records

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2d

There's long way to go and four years before the last election, polls showed the Tories on 42% of the vote and the Brexit Party (as was) on 1%.
There is clearly a case for either PR (won't happen under Starmer) or some sort of progressive alliance involving Greens, Libs, SNP, and PC.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2d

If it was a plot to wipe out half the world's population then it was a truly dismal fail.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2d

These numbers give little reason to celebrate - if replicated (and of course they won't be - far too early) in a GE, we get a far-right government with an absolutely stonking majority that can do whatever it likes. Will the last decent person to leave Britain please turn out the lights.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2d

Completely agreed that this needs to change in much of the UK - though pockets of discussion do still exist!

And as a fellow "Catholic Atheist", I know exactly what you mean.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2d

TBF, he signalled his conversion to being a true believer in Boris Johnson's Hard Brexit some time before the last GE.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2d

Education is important, but so is what happens at home. I'm in my 40s now, but remember Sundays when I was quite young-various broadsheets on the dining table and read together as a family, with my Dad asking me about the news and usually arguing a counterpoint. Probably not replicated much in 2025.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps, though those people are the same nationalist idiots that every country has, and whom many people would like to see bugger off anywhere else!
Only 44% of the population voted Leave and polling suggests that most consider it a grave error. FPTP restricts voting options and skews results.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2d

No-mark Nuttall's still around then?
I thought his career in politics had gone the same way as his "stint in professional football" or his "PHD".

Paul Nuttall Is a Pub Fantasist Politician

And therefore the perfect figurehead for our times.

www.vice.com

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 2d

Hope he's not taking security tips.

The Aadhaar Card: Cybersecurity Issues with India's Biometric Experiment - The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

India was one of the fastest growing economies in the world in 2018, behind only Ghana and Ethiopia.[1] Despite this huge growth potential, a significant portion of India’s 1.1 billion

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 3d

And the Swiss system is entirely optional.
Of course, that simply wouldn't do for authoritarians like Starmer or his Blue Labour puppeteers.

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 3d

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Day 9: By a fictional or virtual band.

Bob Roberts - Wall Street Rap

Watching the excellent Tim Robbins film Bob Roberts back in the 90s, it seemed like a super clever satire that couldn't possibly ever come true in any way shape or form...

Bob Roberts Wall Street Rap

YouTube video by marcbranches

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 3d

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Day 9: UK

Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander

Perhaps an even more accurate "State of the Nation" than it was when it was released over 30 years ago.

Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander

YouTube video by PopWillEatItselfVEVO

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poshbloke @poshbloke.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed, the vote of a minority of the population stripped us of many of our rights, our freedoms, and our identity as Europeans against our will. Nobody aged 26 or younger has had any say in this whatsoever and yet still are forced to live with the consequences.

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