“Words and Music by Charles Chaplin”

Yes, he was a musician & composer as well. I’m sure that I saw early Chaplin’s shorts on television from an early age but the comedy series Blackadder had an episode that skewered Chaplin as being talent-free (although he got his revenge at the end) and that might have kept me at arm’s length for…

Playlist Treasure: Eighteen

Paul Mauriat: Love Is Blue (1968):An instrumental hit, taken from a Eurovision entry for Luxembourg that came fourth. This kind of 06s easy listening/lounge music might be some of my favourite stuff of all: Vicky: L’amour Est Bleu (1967):The original. Fourth place. Lost to Sandie Shaw’s Like A Puppet On A String but was a…

If Labour Don’t Do This, They’re Wasting Your Time

Quick, clear, easy explanation on how the Conservatives can be kicked out at the next election, whenever it comes. The Tories have a ‘hard floor’ of high thirties/low forties in polling whereas Labour only reaches that on a good day. The Conservatives have got mass vaccinations and economic improvement and normality still to arrive as…

Christopher Hedges Gets It. He Understands Perfectly.

Many, almost all, of what passes for a US left does not. Above is Hedges speaking to comedian Jimmy Dore (who along with football player Justin Jackson and a few others was behind #ForceTheVote as wanker “progressives” did nothing, roadblocked it or even mocked those trying to extract universal healthcare). Hedges’ critique is essentially Dore’s…

Good and Bad Analysis From The Analysis-News

The whole 35 minutes is interesting but the opening Paul Jay four and a quarter minute monologue hits some points which do pass the smell test. Mitch McConnell, Lindsay Graham and Vice-President Mike Pence laid a trap for the short-fingered orange man. The Capitol police, who answer to Congress and McConnell, were specifically not put…

Playlist Treasure: Seventeen

Stereo MCs: Deep, Down and Dirty: Kongos: Come With Me Now:All the sons of John Kongos, who did the awesome original version of Happy Mondays’ Step On. The Chambers Brothers: Time Has Come Today: That song that sounds like the Rolling Stones but isn’t, but is seemingly in every Hollywood film set in the 1960s….