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I didn't watch the debate but this is a great example of how Starmer's (Morgan McSweeney's) Labour have, by refusing to present an alternative vision, allowed Tory ideology and political framing to pass into uncontested commonsense, thereby totally constraining themselves from actual enacting an alternative program in government
Julie Etchingham opened the debate by saying it was about what Sunak/Starmer are offering us when "we know the finances are impossibly tight."
The debate over whether 10th place is in the top half of a 20-team league has been going on for ten hours and shows no signs of stopping pic.twitter.com/zprATFchbB
The power v righteousness dichotomy is a useful framing for the labour right who like to present themselves as pragmatic and grown up, as opposed the left who are niave and idealistic.
This is nonsense. The reality is that the labour right are not pragmatic but desire power for it's own sake (and for the access it provides their future careers on company boards), but as we're about to find out, getting into government with neither a policy platform or a mandate to actually do anything, having not presented a vision for anything (as a consequence of not actually having a vision for anything) means that you have very little room for maneuver and are not able to fix anything.
I suspect we're about to witness something quite unusual: an enormous landslide followed by an enormously unpopular term in office. Which probably says a lot about the state of British politics.
As a parent to two young kids, I constantly have irritating kids TV jingles playing in my head, such as the theme music to the appalling True And The Rainbow Kingdom. I basically live in hell.
Re Mazzy Star in the OP, also a big fan. They used Five String Serenade, another beautiful song, really well in End Of The F**king World a few years back
This came out around the time my first daughter was born (Hope Sandoval being the singer in Mazzy Star), and my wife and I were big fans. It was playing one evening when I was changing my daughter's bombsite of a nappy, trying to wipe baby poop out of all the folds at the tops of her legs etc, and I started singing "It's all in your grooves". So it now reminds me of my daughter. I have a pair of turntables and on father's day last year she (well - my wife, acting on her behalf) bought me a headphone stand with "It's all in the groove" engraved.
I've always thought there was an Ilias Chair song somewhere in the Arctic Monkeys "Don’t Sit Down ’Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair", especially season gone when it looked like we could go down.
"We won't go down cause of Ilias Chair", that sort of thing.
Like others, basically impossible to name my favourite band or artist, but would have said Pixies at one point. This wouldn't be my favourite song or album of theirs, but given the sad passing of Steve Albini thought it should be something from this album
This is probably my favourite pixies song. It's absolutely perfect.
Unsurprisingly, that variance (between points won in the evening vs afternoon) was the highest in the division this season. Evenings here are defined as any KO after 5pm. Loftus Road is a different energy under the lights…#QPRpic.twitter.com/oioiU9mFcc
Could be a fair few more nights under the lights to come next season, given the funkier kick off times which we’ll need to get used to. Be interesting to see if this continues #QPRpic.twitter.com/2IWDTXfyM2
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