A music critic on one of the rags back in the day said Oasis were a good Beatles tribute band on a good day and a good Slade tribute band on a bad day....
Neither of the previous Wars quoted would have changed the world significantly.
WWII was just that, a WORLD War across the whole globe, it killed tens of millions and left the World in a totally new place.
Did you grow up in the Cold War when Brezhnev was running the Warsaw Pact?
We...
Shame on NSC...
My Grandad fought in France in 1940 in the Cheshire Regiment, was evacuated at Dunkirk and ended up in Italy via North Africa in 1945. I never met him, clearly suffering with PTSD he took to drink and walked out on my Grandmum and two children a few years later, where he died...
Reservoir Dogs - amoral brutality throughout - a quite chilling portrait of how some people 'live' their lives.
Could never listen to Steelers Wheel in the same way after watching the torture scene..
Cooke is based upon his TV Series America.
I am finding it it difficult to plough through the Rory Stewart book, probably because it confirms all my views about politics.
Three at the minute, still ploughing through Alistair Cooke's America,. Bought (good face for radio) Rory Stewart's Parliament dairy Politics on the Edge (a bit turgid and it is clear who the hero of the tale is) and found the marvellous Robert Harris fantasy Archangel in the spare bedroom so...
Carney knows a hundred per cent more about economics than the orange faced clown over the border.
Hope we start buying Canadian goods and services and tell the USA to f*** off...