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Culture Editor of Tribune (also writer for The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Quietus, The Face, Jacobin & more.)
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Some news: pleased, honoured and excited to say that I am the new Culture Editor of
@tribunemagazine
, and this Spring issue is my first in the role. (1/?)
Our latest issue, ‘Civil War Without Guns,’ is out soon.
Arthur Scargill, Seumas Milne, David Peace and more explore the social fabric that fought and sustained the miners’ strike, what we lost in defeat, and how we rebuild.
Full year of print for £10:
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really hate that the manner of Kirsty MacColl’s death, 22 yrs today, has become a recurring twitter gag. One of Mexico’s richest families speed thru restricted waters, pay a kid to take the rap & rig the system. Jean MacColl dies fighting for the truth about her daughter. Awful.
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Just Morrissey there, wearing an actual fucking For Britain badge
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A triumph of satire, chaotic genre-splicing and LGBTQ+ solidarity for the Succession era.
Reviewed
@rinasawayama
at Manchester Albert Hall last night for
@guardianmusic
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we are born, we get married, we divorce, we die. But somewhere along the way, if you are lucky, you get to loiter around Preston bus station on a cold, bright December day.
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Gorilla and Deaf - 600 cap, 260 cap - aren't just crucial for Manchester but touring acts more generally and I've no idea what fills that gap, or quite how big a gap we'll have by the end of this. Horrific for those who have lost their jobs after months of stress and uncertainty.
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“I’m grateful to be able to live”
spoke to
@ryleywalker
for
@guardian
about the last couple of years in his life and how that shaped his stunning latest record Course in Fable
(cw: suicide, addiction)
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Blackburn was one of Europe’s largest, earliest and most innovative dance scenes - so why did Madchester get all of the credit? And why is their story only now being told?
Me for
@guardianmusic
with new, unreleased images.
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It's 30 years since Dennis Potter died. So why is his work increasingly hard to find and forgotten?
I wrote about a complex and daring working-class writer + spoke to Potter archivist and expert John R Cook in a two-for-one
@tribunemagazine
feature
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new: this month, the Royle Family turns 25. For
@tribunemagazine
I wrote a (long) piece on Caroline Aherne, 1974's The Family, Mike Leigh, Half The World Away, Tony Blair, Wythenshawe and working-class life on screen.
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how's your Friday going? I've just found out that a big invoice already a few weeks overdue has been wrongly paid to veteran BBC war correspondent Fergal Keane
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interesting to read that nothing happened in the Labour Party around arts policy between 2015 and 2019, nobody spoke about every child deserving the chance to learn an instrument, you weren’t there, it didn’t happen
I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – it gives me hope | Charlotte Higgins
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I bore myself with this but in all the BBC centenary stuff I haven’t seen the words Jonathan Meades once. It’s insane that you can make dozens of v Reithian films for them - across more time and with wider scope than the venerated Adam Curtis - and not even be an afterthought
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and whilst Ewan MacColl is popularly remembered more kindly than he warrants, the internationalism and solidarity of Jean MacColl following her daughter’s death is far more convincing and inspiring imo
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wrote about Denise Johnson for
@guardianmusic
and her role in shaping dance history - plus a lovely testimonial from
@Johnny_Marr
on his friend and collaborator
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why was Joe Biden in Gail Platt's house when he got the results tho
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I'm not fully convinced that "Nadine Shah's too expensive" is the get-out you think it is for never having any women on your tour
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RIP Sarah Harding. Girls Aloud had one of the best imperial phases in pop.
Killer quote from Nadine Coyle in 2004: "I've heard a Babyshambles album and was like, what am I listening to? We could make a record that sounded like that, but could he make one that sounded like us?"
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Absolute solidarity with all Northern Rail staff who have walked out at Manchester Victoria.
The workforce are being made the human shield of an entirely failed private system - this isn’t academic, it’s damaging the lives and mental health of those who work there.
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hiya
@Ticketmaster
can u remind me quite why Tom Meighan’s return to music is so “unexpected”?
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XTC's Andy Partridge is entering his "withdrawal years."
In a now rare career spanning interview, I spoke to a brilliant - and complicated - hero of English songwriting, and went to the 2022 XTC fan convention, for
@guardianmusic
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thinking this week about Sheila Blanco, and those who still want justice for Mark Blanco, while Doherty gets to rehabilitate his reputation with nice broadsheet profiles and live events.
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@afneil
respect and admire your concerns about people of colour being badly lit and fading into the background, a true ally x
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sounds fucking good with Eno/Byrne backing it though
It's okay everyone, the world's favourite televangelist Kenneth Copeland has got involved in the
#coronavirus
crisis
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Today marks a decade since Jimmy Savile died a national hero.
The NHS and the BBC have all faced enquiries - but not the British establishment. Me for
@tribunemagazine
on the links between Savile, the Conservative party, the monarchy & the police.
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farewell to Mystic Meg, who first and foremost was an East Lancashire occult success story, taught astrology, tarot and general clairvoyance by her Russian great-grandmother in a terraced house in Accrington during the immediate post-war years. RIP.
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@drjonty
@MatthewModine
it’s in reverse but I really like that John Savident appears in A Clockwork Orange, I say, I say our Ashley I really like that John Savident appears in A Clockwork Orange
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@Alex_Niven
day 1 of a Starmer government and all the same people will be making a the same arguments about the need for caution to ensure a “historic 2nd term”
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In my Guardian debut (!), I went to space (*Stockport) with dayl-glo futurists
@TheOrielles
to find out about gong baths, entering the music industry young and their cosmic second album on
@heavenlyrecs
‘Disco Volador’
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Last night, Robbie Williams unveiled his autobiographical, career-spanning XXV arena show.
I wrote about the show and what Robbie teaches us about English masculinity for
@TheQuietus
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get yrself someone who looks at you the way that a BBC staffed almost entirely by former Britpop figures looks at the history of Britpop
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bonus ball: Stewart Lee also told me about being sat behind Jonathan Meades on an EasyJet flight to Florence around 2000 - they didn’t speak, but walking down off the plane Meades theatrically sighed “ughhh, civilisation” to no one in particular.
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A Grand Don't Come For Free by The Streets is 20.
For
@theQuietus
I wrote about Mike Skinner, songwriting guru Sheila Davis, Paul Gilroy's 'convivial culture', Britpop and Peter Mandelson (who came back from it, man.)
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"Ecstasy? It just wasn’t my thing. Lager? Yes. I can drink as much of that as the next person."
I spoke to
@AndyBurnhamGM
about the thirteen albums that have soundtracked his life for
@theQuietus
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nearly £1 mil for Secret Cinema - whose business literally cannot generate new talent - and nothing for Manchester’s Frog & Bucket is fucking appalling
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10,000 people were involved in the acid house parties in Blackburn between 1988-1991 and Flashback - which has launched today - is an attempt to create a proper archive for their testimonies.
The first oral histories and images are absolutely fantastic >
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For Britain's economic policy document (which is pretty extreme Randian free market neoliberalism, nice one Moz) literally comes with a foreword by Godfrey 'Bongo Bongo Land' Bloom
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after the revolution, all pubs will have a large framed image of Kevin Rowland like the Golden Lion in Tod
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now free to read! my feature in
@tribunemagazine
on the complicated legacy of Phoenix Nights and class in British comedy
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was a bitch about the street WhatsApp group until I got stuck in my own bathroom the other night. Door locked, lock handle itself broke. Rang 999, told me to phone my landlord (lol). Bloke called Kenny was there in minutes, in his dressing gown, with a powerdrill.
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Out today
@shindigmagazine
.
Epic Soundtracks’ - formerly of Swell Maps - album ‘Rise Above’ from 1992, was a baroque pop masterpiece that sank without trace. Five years later, he would be found dead in circumstances that remain mysterious to this day. (1/2)
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New from me for
@TheFaceMagazine
(!)
A long read on my hometown of Blackburn and the untold story of the town's cultural fightback and the people who are making it happen. With photography from the incredible Juan Ortiz.
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Stewart Lee's KING ROCKER, premiering on telly this weekend, is absolutely terrific and it was my privilege to speak to him for
@HUCKmagazine
about the film, outsider art and the BBC
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appalling news about Dudley’s wonky The Crooked House pub, site of the opening sequence of Meades’ Get High
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in my first piece for
@tribunemagazine
I wrote about Our Friends in the North at 25 - a secret history of post-war Britain and grim prophecy of the country we live in now
'Our Friends in the North' turns 25 this year. The show dealt with the institutions of British society with a rare honesty – and opened the eyes of many to the deep ties between politicians, the police and the press.
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Cos a load of bona fide poshos running a club night called Poundland is absolutely well funny! Next decade’s going to be sick.
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Ten years since the tragic passing of Trish Keenan, who I find incredibly inspiring, and whose music continues to mean loads to me. This version of America's Boy - found via the very good Broadcast FB group - is absolutely 100% what it's all about
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If you went into Manchester city centre during the last decade, there’s a good chance you saw or heard The Piccadilly Rats.
Ahead of a film about the street musicians, I wrote for
@guardian
about the Rats, austerity, addiction & a changing Manchester.
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the one who still has questions to answer over the death of Mark Blanco, who stepped over his body and didn’t phone the police
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wrote about how TV fell out of love with music - on the week that Channel 4 pulled the plug on its five remaining music channels - and where the music video might be found today for
@guardianmusic
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as XTC’s in-plain-sight masterpiece turns 40, I wrote about English Settlement - and Andy Partridge vs the Music Industry - for
@thequietus
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worth remembering next time you watch a BBC2 documentary providing a gentle new variation on the Br*tpop story that Broadcast & Stereolab are infinitely more influential on modern guitar music (not hard innit) and there's no film, no book, no telly programme about them
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all other press shots than this XTC one should go home and pack up right away
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Paul Morley has spent the last ten years working on a 600 page biography of Tony Wilson for
@FaberBooks
. It's finally out this month.
For
@TheQuietus
I had a (long) conversation with Morley about the very complicated life of Tony Wilson.
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the BBC's new Hacienda documentary is lazy, tokenistic and simply terrible broadcasting.
I reviewed The Hacienda: The Club That Changed Britain for
@NewStatesman
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@NadineDorries
Your response to someone bravely pointing out their experience of anti-Muslim abuse is to link them to and ask them to apologise for grooming gangs? Absolutely gross
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remembering Tony Wilson for perhaps his most important and underrated legacy; an early mentor and inspiration to the young Richard Madeley
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Across three albums in the early 00s - reissued today on
@Dominorecordco
- Max Tundra laid down the foundations for what would become hyperpop.
And he did it by digging into the English prog maximalist tradition.
Me for
@theQuietus
on a true cult hero.
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why does the right hand side of this pic look like they’re about to drop the hottest sprechgesang 6Music B-listed track of 2022
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two short years after pleading guilty to sustained domestic violence, and there's Tom Meighan already welcomed back into the fold with cushty Noel Gallagher support slots. It's risible.
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the details were horrific - caught on video, undeniable - and since then Meighan has minimised what happened, showed no serious contrition and pivoted immediately to doing 'it was a moment of madness' puff pieces. The conviction was barely 18 months ago.
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20 years ago, Sex Lives Of The Potato Men became one of the most controversial and worst-reviewed films ever, and changed the UK film industry. It also starred Adrian Chiles.
For
@theguardian
I looked at a very Blair's Britain controversy.
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wrote about The Star and Garter and the devastating loss of Andy Martin for
@ManchesterMill
, speaking to those who knew him and who love his brilliant venue.
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"I don’t like the mainstream a lot, it’s disgusting and I don’t want to be associated with it"
Over at
@ClashMagazine
I spoke with
@fit_as_fuc
of
@sleafordmods
about violence, Jeremy Corbyn, bands that sound like Sleaford Mods, and Mark E Smith. Read ↓
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Scouting for Girls being above Sophie Ellis Bextor is a symptom of a country gone sick beyond repair
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Eden Young, a gifted & rising pop culture commentator for Polyester mag known to many from working behind the bar at Pev, tragically died in Madrid last week. Please donate, if you can, to help bring her body home. Thoughts are with friends who loved her.
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something legitimately fascinating about how Suede end up performing on the same bill as the Conservative Prime Minister under whom they released their first three records
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new from me for
@TheFaceMagazine
Just what is going on around the White Hotel, & why is Kanye suddenly interested? As Space Afrika release their excellent new album, I profiled the scene around them, Blackhaine, CURRENTMOODGIRL, Rainy Miller & more.
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rare good news - BBC Radio Lancashire’s 35+ years running leftfield music show On The Wire appears to be returning on Easter Sunday (of course) after being very apruptly cancelled by the BBC this time last year when Covid hit
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pissed someone off in the Chorlton fb group who’s been DMing me calling me a “puff” and tbf this line has completely owned me, genuinely brilliant
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Joe Lycett tried to warn us about this and there was a week long debate amongst Zone 1 blowhards that he had desecrated the sacred art of political punditry
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public service announcement for those who observe that Pet Shop Boys' 1991 Performance live film (well, an abridged version, sadly) is on BBC4 tonight at 9.30PM
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such a brave and lovely statement from a hero. Manchester's music history is largely dominated by older names that have disgraced themselves in public for years. The outlier is Jez Kerr and ACR, who continue to do bold, exciting work with a spirit that's evident in that message.
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RIP Kirsty MacColl, you would have loved Prioritise Pleasure (sincerely held belief!)
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I don't think it's massively surprising that Nick Cave - who I like a great deal - is attending the Coronation and, if you look, it's pretty consistent with his worldview. Wrote about this for
@NewStatesman
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final shift today after 1yr of Covid swabbing/community outreach/track&trace calls today - despite flaws and maddening govt policy (will never ever forget working post-xmas week) it’s been favourite job I’ve ever had (not hard) and very much my “during the war” for time to come
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my first appearance for
@NME
covering Wednesday’s
#WeMakeEvents
march in Manchester.
The £1.57bn is not reaching the crew workers, engineers and venue staff on the ground - many now facing unemployment or leaving the sector - and the govt needs to act
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now online for free!
My long
@sleafordmods
cover feature for
@LoudAndQuietMag
- we walk around Nottingham and discuss Spare Ribs, their skint origins, addiction, recovery and what their ongoing feud with Idles really means.
Read ↓ ↓ ↓
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the battle of the Dylanologists!! Went to watch Bob Dylan last night at the Palladium and wrote about the voices pushing for a more diverse Dylanology, for
@NewStatesman
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great to be writing for the first time for
@Jacobin
in their new special crime issue (so much good stuff in this one too).
From 1950s basement jazz bars to Form 696's racist clampdown on grime, I wrote about when UK police come for music cultures.
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Like hundreds of others, was excited about attending, and speaking at, the XTC fan convention.
@SwindonCouncil
have made the insane decision to cancel the Fri/Sat event at Swindon STEAM due to Monday's state funeral. Urging the council to reconsider or provide any justification.
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indulge me for a min: aged 12/13, getting extremely into Franz Ferdinand was the big bang of my early years in ways that extended way beyond simply music. As such, it was extremely nice to repay a childhood debt and work as Lead Researcher on this terrific four-part podcast.
Our new four-part podcast series
#WordsSoLeisured
narrated by
@Rose_Matafeo
is out now.
Listen to it here:
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"
@sparksofficial
were a band that had always implicitly taunted rockist convention with their literacy, their camp, their anti-machismo. "No.1 in Heaven", however, makes that critique explicit, offering glorious counter-revolution."
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the generation who took the flak for austerity as kids - and who made the worst sacrifices during Covid - are voting for the first time this week - so why are their voices not being heard?
For
@TheFaceMagazine
I spoke to first-time voters in Bury.
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was hard sold this listening to an episode of Backlisted earlier this year but had to give up hope after seeing the often triple digit price tag. Until today…
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Kay Carroll, who passed at the weekend, is one of the real heroes of the Fall.
For
@thequietus
I spoke to ex-members & friends about how Kay Carroll masterminded a coup to turn the Fall from democracy to dictatorship, and changed British music forever.
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which editor will be brave enough to commission 4000 words on the 2006 BBC3 Manchester Passion, where Tim Booth's Jesus gets crucified by Keith Allen outside Selfridges. A big deal if you were 13 and yr only interests were Christ and Madchester Classics™
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This is extremely sad news - I think Isaac Wood is a hugely singular and brilliant talent, I hope him and the band are all getting the support they need.
We have some news to share concerning the future of the band. Please read on for information on upcoming shows, but it seems right to pass on this message from Isaac first
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English politicians love the flex of “the country of Shakespeare, the Beatles and Harry Potter” but I was at a Hungarian wedding last night and two separate people brought up the topic of Mr Bean
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the chazzers are back open, full DAKS Made in England suit £8!!!
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