My point here is not that crime, racism, terrorism, pollution etc were all worse in the 70s but that the period 1973-77 in particular was one of crisis, paranoia and hysteria. People were talking about Britain going bankrupt or collapsing into dictatorship. There was a national nervous breakdown

Entering my Bond fanfic era, it’s what all the other writers since Ian Flemings death have done

Let me write it: a rough looking amnesiac is pulled out of some wreckage by fishermen, he has disturbing dreams where he’s in naval submarines, an amphibious car, in space fighting a man with metal teeth. After a few months living with the fisherman in Hokkaido, British intelligence knock his door…

Howard Carter at the Tomb of King Tut, 1922:

Isn’t Blobby a bit overqualified?

Do you live at the Elliot Bay Towers, Seattle, by any chance?

youtu.be/BvWefB4NGGI?... his second best outtake

True!

Excellent

I did not know these monthly Apple Music replays exist!

No, actually it’s called blackmail

Me dealing with utility companies