To cut through all the whataboutery, how about this as a base criteria? There shouldn’t be a World Cup anywhere that wouldn’t hold a Women’s World Cup.
Stuart Maconie
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- Well done you odious self important babies. You’ve actually made me ashamed to be British. I would swop every last one of you for one of those talented hardworking young musiciansBrexit Party MEPs turn their backs as the EU's anthem, Ode to Joy, is played as they take their seats in the new European Parliament [tap to expand] bbc.in/2J4erRj
00:00 - Ah, 5 Live trotting out the standard BBC news 70s line again. ‘Grim decade...appalling music’. Oh yes. Workers rights, good social housing, Abba, Chic, Bowie, Stevie, Sabbath, disco, punk, prog. How they must have ached for zero hours contracts, Ed Sheeran and Katy Perry
- I have some expertise in this regard. So I feel I can say that a man who sits on his arse all day talking into a microphone who then lectures folk about ‘work’ has one brass neckNick Ferrari had this message for companies who are keeping their employees working from home all year: "This country is broke and we have to get it moving again. That's not going to happen with you in your jim-jams, not doing anything all day." @NickFerrariLBC | #WFH
00:00 - No northerner of 80s vintage can ever cross a Blackpool tramway without thinking of 'Alan Bradley' with a chill
- Cardiff. I like a city that puts statues up to the right kind of people
- Loving the genuine fear, ignorance, entitlement, straw man arguments, impotent whataboutery and intellectually bankrupt harrumphing about the kids strike yesterday. I’d rather give a bright 16 year old the vote than every Toby, Giles and sodding Jeremy in the broadsheets
- Can we not just have Ian Hislop as Prime Minister?This is a joy to watch. Ian Hislop, full-throttle, absolutely shredding Jake Berry on Peston. Hislop doesn’t give an inch and talks at Berry the way Tory MPs hate and just can’t cope with (“You can’t just talk nonsense and not be interrupted!”). Superb. x.com/BestForBritain…
- Getting really tired now of privately educated media types who’ve had a lifetime of advantages telling working class kids that all this will teach them ‘resilience’ and make them ‘tougher’
- And so the mask slips. As long as you smile sweetly and don't complain you'll get your little claps and rainbows. But the minute you organise, unionise and talk back, people like this show their true colours.Tonight thousands of teachers will clap for the NHS. Time for teachers to show the same bravery! The risk in schools is nothing like the risk in hospitals. Millions of children now need teachers to step up.
- Just put telly on for the bongs. BBC 1 Craig David, BBC 2 The Stereophonics. 1995 is going to be amazing!
- Give Peter Jackson the Downing Street parties footage
- Always ‘amuses’ me when fans of plodding two chord rock describe Burt Bacharach’s richly nuanced and layered music as ‘easy listening’
