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„These are a few of my favourite things“
(posted 21.05.2024)
https://www.private-eye.co.uk/
This is the online minimal version, of what now amounts to be the
UK’s Favourite News & Current-Affairs Magazine. The
regular podcasts (Page 94) are well worth listening to, as is reading
the actual hand-held ‚fortnightly printed edition‘ too of course. I‘ve
personally been a happy regular reader & subscriber for well over
which gets played in my house daily, and from which I
literally learn something new & interesting all the time, plus
BBC aka Auntie’s Archives, are seemingly endless – Hooray!
https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097
The ‚Official German Government line of the day‘ can be
found here, with some really excellent World Class
Reporting (In English + 28 other languages too)
https://c.gmx.net/@678899628275400745/PwDxnemSQOXJKBPH0aOpnA
and privelege to work on, just a few short years ago.
https://www.latw.org/
Some fine World Class plays & theatre works to enjoy from
Sunny downtown LA no less.
Posted 21.05.2024
Here are some of my early music attempts, to just be taken as they are ie 100% original
Dejavue - Link (2003)
For Susie – Link
Written 1996 – Recorded – 2003 – Aired 2024
Nemo's – Link (2003)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/b95uyf6he9vdy1d968w9e/nemos.mp3?rlkey=lytlde1lxzmufwz0th5yewz3a&dl=0
To God and Berlin – Link (2003)
Spreading All Over The World This Feeling – Link (2003)
Retrack – Link (2003)
Woke Up 'Woke' This Moaning – Link (2003)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x5m4h9eir3fii5cy0oqfc/wokeup.mp3?rlkey=tzyr4kxxviw5gca12q6jh1bx9&dl=0
Rolled A J – Link (2003)
Prototype Person – Link (2003)
Glenn – Link (2003)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p1vwstd11u726ya145j7g/glenn.mp3?rlkey=ah9zx9fsm3cmitb0jjdu1rcg3&dl=0
Same old Rage – Link (2003)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/funxsd05w6qaiin1hlr0h/rage.mp3?rlkey=30l9i4k0rk2aehcev7749kph3&dl=0
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Bad Moon Rising – Link (CCR/2003)
Norwegian Wood – Link (Beatles/2003)
Impossibility – Link (1982 +)
Here’s a little number ‚wot i rote, way back in 1982 – „Impossibility“ Performed by „Winners Losers“ (West Berlin) Vocalist/Lead Guitar – Mr Allen Wills Esq - MIG Records
Lene – Link (2003 My song re-run by Mr Frank Champion )
Recorded at the well prestigeous East Wing Studio aka his garden shed up Sunny Hornchurch, now in well-earned retirement merrily supporting his favourite team, er, Liverpool, down an even more sunnierer, er, Saarfend – Cheers Mate!
Lene - (My own very wobbly guitar version - 2003) – Link
https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=7a14bbecf1d5a0e6e4c48e6b002df00e42bf9a8d
Favourite very old online Videos
Captain – Link
Although this clip is almost ancient, it’s still one of my most favouritist little scenes – „Full Steam Ahead Number 1“ Wotta Lark, eh!
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nhdgy4xlt82fstl87m7lz/PerfectKiss_1.mpg rlkey=2xm7ldehhonuuf6myw37tdvi2&dl=0
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Very early Heath Genius (Willy Rushton-esque too I tally)
Private Eye Letters – (issue 1607 Sept/Oct 2023)
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This is definately in my top 5 favourite cartoons of all time
A.Daley Esq
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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"
Oscar Wilde"Cripes!"
Some people eh! Nice and Loud Now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuEJfwhHiC8
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Just nasty EU Propaganda – Shurely?
Posted – 06.06.2024 - My first ever Eye Letter (to be actually published) way way back in June 2015 (issue 1393). I’m quite sure that the next up and coming Third Country British general election, will be far more professionally covered by HM Gutter Press & Co? - Hooray!
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Posted 08.06.24 - Private Eye Letters (issue 1520 - April/May 2020)
Posted 08.06.24 - Private Eye Letters (issue 1501 - July/Aug 2019)
Posted 08.06.24 – Private Eye - Pseudo Names (issue 1325 Oct/Nov 2012) - I’m cunningly stuck in the middle here being highly impotent – „Cripes!“
„If at first you don’t succeed – Cheat!“
„Omnes Blotto“
Only works properly when played quite loud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVW84hGLmek
„Brian and his toothpaste“ – Good Old Currant Bun
A tiny moment of lay inspiration (based on a briiliant original spoof by Vivian Stanshall of Bonzo’s Fame, many, many, many, moons afore) – Berlin 22.06.2024 – „Good Gwief“ https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=c5f6342fdf3518bc99a32340cd38a2a57bbdd6cd
PS: I've not given up my day job.
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Posted – 23.06.2024 – From the good old days (2005) of steam-powered answering machines that went on and on and on 24/7 – always turned down low. I’ve never actually owned a Smartphone and don’t intend to ever get one either – Hooray!
https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=2be38c2bd2b40a90985e03a9236151b2e9c712b9
https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=6dd85b60bee4d9facbca6c1599eccb0ff21c48a6
Don't you just miss them?
Never mind "Brown Sugar" & "High Ho Silver Lining" this is the Real Classic Party Maker - Hooray!
https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=146c377d64d8a1022415611d87b6092b72f89b23
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Exceptionally bad sketch from daft old git having fun – Part 1
New Orders 23.06.24 - Link
https://webmail.freenet.de/Cloud/?shareToken=ff888c6eaacbee0195df9071c86df94b395e8405
PS: As far as I’m aware this very rough short sketch (sic) is 100% original, I’ve certainly never seen it before? Obviously some great names like, Ronnie Barker, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear, George Cole, Sid James, David Jason, etc, etc, etc??? could do it far, far, greater justice of course – Honnist!
PPS: The snooty colonel could well be envisaged by the likes of John Cleese, Hatty Jaques, Stephen Fry, Penelope Keith, or even Arthur Lowe no less too, I tally. I’m sure AI will solve future such quandries in a jiffy, let’s face it, what they’ve never had, they’ll never miss – Cripes!
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Posted 25.06.24 -
Fun Fact: Already creating a democratic (sic) precedent long long afore, Sir Winston Churchill actually changed his solemn allegiance to different parties on four seperate occassions – Hooray!
Posted - 27.06.24
I fondly recall Mrs Chaudhry (Ceylonese Muslim), who taught us A Level English in 1970's East London/Essex, headscarf and all (never a dicky bird said either). I look on from here in Sunny EU Berlin and see all the great EU Teaching, etc, etc, talent that has been ousted from Third Country Britain via the great ignorant racist stupidity of Brexit.
So who knew Grand Master?
Posted – 11.07.24: Here in Sunny EU Berlin/Germany, we’re all very proud to be an integral part of this fantastic ‚fit for purpose‘ ESA Project. We will also soon be getting additional ‚temporary‘ US Nuclear Missiles on our soil as well, but that’s another story entirely
https://www.dw.com/en/europe-successfully-launches-ariane-6-rocket/a-69610737
Posted Friday the 12th of July - Here in Sunny EU Berlin, we much look forward to Sunday’s Euro Final. If Ingerlund win, it’ll be their first International Trophy since way back in the days of World Cup Willy and Wemberlee 1966. PS: At least there won’t be a nasty Russian ref/linesman this time either – Hooray!
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21.07.22
I’ve quite got to like this little number over the last 12 months or so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFVUpxmn0bs
Posted – 23.07.24
Amusing Fact from here in Sunny EU Berlin: Cpl Carpetchewer aka Adolf Hitler, actually had a problem in 1932 getting a, er, German Passport/ID Card. This Austrian foreigner had been jailed and had caused much ado, the Thüringen authorities in Erfurt didn’t take to him very kindly, Fancy! PS: As mentioned late last night on mainstream EU German Public TV, by a well-respected ex-Home Secretary/Interior Minister, with two highly eminent constitutional law professors, also both nodding in agreement.
Posted - 26.07.24
„Cripes!“ - Posted 28.07.24
Posted – 13.08.24: Just About As Good As It Gets – Hooray!
Having just returned from a mega foreign holiday with his missus & kids, he walks into the living room handcuffed. „Why have you got those on love?“ - The severely tanned copper replied „I accidentally nicked myself whils’t shaving“
Posted – 25.08.24 – „where’s me coat?“
Posted – 27.08.24 - 'Just a thought'
"Place Your Bets Folks"
Smart money says that the likelihood of that nice Mr Trump storming out of the first TV Duel with Kamala Harris next month in a tantrum, screaming ‚Foul Play‘ are at least 50/50 – Hooray! (You read it here first)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjuA_o6Jzyo
I'm pretty fond of this latest LA Offering at the moment - Posted - 29.08.24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raincoats 1970‘s - Hornsey College of Art being the base of their initial stage debuts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_Spex Indeed a next progression of Female Punk with Poly Styrene & Co, also getting well known by touring with the likes of The Clash, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/Typical-Girls-Zoe-Street-Howe/dp/1847727808 The Many faces of The Slits – Hooray!
https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/hans-a-plast This fairly unusal German Girl Punk Band at the time also got very much into the 1970‘s Zeitgeist, it really must be remembered that most women weren’t actually allowed to do anything at all, without their husband's (or father’s) consent – Cripes!
Posted
– 14.09.24 X 4
Posted – 07.10.24 – I really don’t know which flies by faster, the rockets, bombs, and bullets, or TIME itself? https://www.dw.com/en/update-israel-is-marking-the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-october-7-terror-attacks-as-its-military-continues-strikes-on-gaza-and-lebanon/live-70418927
Posted - 08.10.14 - And so, the master plot seemingly thickens? "They've survived attacks by the US, Israel and others, and are the only
one of various Iran-backed groups not to have suffered serious setbacks
over the past year. They're also considered a little "mad."" https://www.dw.com/en/will-yemens-iran-backed-houthis-play-bigger-role-in-the-middle-east-conflict/a-70428565
„The Lunatics are ‚still very much‘ on the Grass“
„I don’t know, I’m still really drunk at this time?“
Posted - 14.10.24 - Now this really is Good News - https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-jails-former-stasi-member-for-1974-murder/a-70488064
Posted - 16.10.24 - This is England - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm29gpl19x1o
World Cup Final 2026 in Sunny New Jersey!
So what odds would a proper kosher (sic) ‚Bookie‘ give Today, for an England – German (unified) Final then? Exactly 60 years after the West-Germany Wemberlee defeat, this one could well sport two brilliant German Head Coaches on each side (one being Jürgen Klopp no less) as well. Other Gambling niceties, could include, betting on a 4-2 Win (for either side) as well as guessing the nationality of the Ref/Linesman – Smart money says there wont be any Russians on the field – Hooray!
Posted - 09.11.24 - Most people can't even fucking remember what just happened last week of course - https://www.dw.com/en/just november-9-1938-pogroms-were-harbinger-of-nazi-brutality/a-46215163
Posted - 29.11.24 - "Nice Town" - https://www.dw.com/en/notre-dame-macron-takes-first-look-inside-rebuilt-cathedral/a-70916709
Posted – Friday The 13th of December 2024
Fun Fact
After the 20th of January 2025, the only person who’ll be able to say no to President Trump will be Melania
Posted
– 26.12.24 – I subscribe to the point of view that -
You Only Die Once -
Though Live for Every Second of Your Life!
„Mind Over Batter“
Our Viv (though neither Westwood nor Richards)
Posted – 07.01.25
Posted – 20.01.25 – https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/20/us/trump-inauguration-president - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/20/politics/executive-power-trump-comeback-analysis/index.html I find this brilliant track from Lou (originally the B-side of Wildside) to be most appropiate for Today (along with all of its highly negative connotations to boot naturally) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wxI4KK9ZYo
Posted - 30.01.25 - God! I fucking hate the endless missuse and clueless abuse of Religion, (sic) probably why I've always considered myself a devout Agnostic (not an Athiest) then, innit - https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-five-arrested-after-man-who-burned-quran-shot-dead/a-71454446
- Posted – 31.01.25 - Fun Fact – Exactly 5 years ago today Fatty Johnson simply independently announced that The UK had left the EU - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrynjz1glpo
- Back in The Real World – Brexit was officially ratified by The EU (all 27 members, which is what really actually counts) on, er, the 31st of March 2022 -
- https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/the-eu-uk-withdrawal-agreement/timeline-eu-uk-withdrawal-agreement/ „Cripes!“
- Posted - 03.02.25 - She's worth a hundred Donald Trumps of course - https://www.dw.com/en/rosa-parks-icon-of-the-us-civil-rights-movement/a-64532305
- Posted – 05.02.25 – 100% Lay (unchecked) Two-Pennyworth’s of comment from Sunny EU Berlin – ‚Call me Ishmael‘, but I’ve always been of the distinct impression that The Gaza Strip is Sovereign Egyptian Territory, period. For many, many, decades now, The U.S. has (unanimously) sent circa $1billion (at today’s rates) annually, to both Israel & Egypt to help ensure some semblence of stability (sic) in the region. This ‚Aid‘ was agreed by all political sides, and is now almost enshrined into Bi-Partisan US Law. Mr. Orange’s pathetic continual manic striving for clicks and attention, will in this case I fear, be very difficult to pull the con, as he’ll be, de facto swearing blind to his own people, plugging a situation that quite obviously simply isn’t the case (so what’s new there then?). And just how fickle and daft will the U.S. public allow itself to be taken for, and does anybody but Donald himself, really give a monkey’s shit ‚in the real world‘ anyway, I certainly don’t? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/us/politics/trump-gaza-strip-netanyahu.html
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Posted
– 06.02.25 – Wow! Hasn’t he got such really small hands?
Posted
– 07.02.25 – How so very Trump-Muskianesque
– „Crikey!“
- Posted – 10.02.25 – „Stop Press - Stop Press - Stop Press“ – President Trump reportedly sends in the FBI’s Finest Crack Special Agents Dana Scully & Fox Mulder to totally sort out the Greenland Problem before the weekend – Fact! - „You Believe, I Believe“ „Stop Press - Stop Press - Stop Press“
- Posted – 11.02.25 – But are large numbers of Third Country British voters (sic) really stupid enough, to take take Blighty down to even lower depths of self-destruction and general ‚don‘t give a fuck about anybody else’ mayhem? - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/08/nigel-farage-reform-uk-labour-conservatives
- Posted – 12.02.25 – Future Bigly millions of tonnes of seriously gopping cheap U.S. plastic-Trump-grub, being exported to ever-world-beating, er, Third Country Britain, clearly comes to mind here – Hooray!
- Posted – 14.02.25 – ‚Lynott’s Law‘ comes to mind once again „Don’t believe a Word!“ - https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-known-of-donald-trumps-peace-plan-for-ukraine/a-71598106
- Also posted – 14.02.25 – Affect an Irish accent (quality irrelevant) and then say the following line fairly fast, where you’ll magically change a normal request into a blatent question – „Wear the FOX Hat!“
- Posted 14.02.25 as well – JD’s (as opposed to DJ’s) incoherent rambling rant today in Munich ,can only in his guise as VPOTUS (sic) be narrowly excused for being an obvious raving bloody lunatic – Fact! - https://www.dw.com/en/msc-failed-ukraine-would-weaken-us-eu-warns/live-71599568 & https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c24728zpp70t - As they merrily opine in NYC "He's a couple of vouchers short of a pop-up toaster" -
- PS: Please refer to above bigly fine cartoon posted on 15.11.24
- Posted - 15.02.25 - "And Today We'll Be Looking Through The Rectangular Window" - https://www.dw.com/en/msc-2025-scholz-rejects-far-right-upholds-ukraine-support/live-71599568
- Posted
– 16.02.25 – What unforeseen disasterous event could possibly
make JD Vance become the most dangerous man on the planet overnight,
and would Saudi Arabia get the rap?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/europe-will-not-take-part-in-us-russia-talks-ukraine-kellogg
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- Posted – 18.02.25 – As any serious observer of things Third Country British will be acutely aware, the very large elephant currently in the room, is the salient fact that the UK now has the very lowest Army numbers (including jolly weekenders) since the, er, Napoleonic Wars – But who knew, besides those mentioned-afore that is? „Cripes!“ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/17/pm-does-not-rule-out-vote-on-ukraine-peacekeeping-role-for-uk-troops
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- Also posted – 18.02.25 – Watching an interview (sic) of Trump’s ‚Ukraine Peace‘ Team in Saudi Arabia earlier, here in Sunny EU Berlin, one really got the distinct impression that they were simply trying to outdo each other on the brown-nosing Donald stakes, it was simply quite pathetic vacuous pap, period – Smart money says Putin will ignore all, and simply carry on doing what he’s been doing all along – Mr Orange is 100% REAL WORLD irellevant outside of his little comfort bubble- https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-knows-he-can-do-whatever-he-wants/
- Posted – 19.02.25 – By all accounts the US First Lady is rather fond of this finely-penned track at the moment – Fancy! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=915zXRLgirM
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- Posted – 20.02.25 – So I wonder if it would be possible for an obviously crazed contemporary U.S. Charlatan, to simply con his way to the very highest office in the land these days too then? (twice even). PS: Issue 357 is the very first of my now 50-year-old-Eye-collection – Fancy!
Posted
– 21.02.25 – „It’s
the New Cowboy in Town – Hooray!“- PPS: EU Germany’s Foreign Minister at the time, Joschka Fischer (Greens) was the only one brave enough to tell him openly to his face, that the lousy Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) LIE/poor excuse to go to war in Iraq, was a Total Sham – As was all proven to be totally correct later of course Fancy!
- NB: Correction: Rumsfeld was naturally George Walker Bush’s ‚sneering little Lackey‘ not Lacky
- Posted – 25.02.25 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4A5XuMz_Tw & https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/23/donald-trump-makes-ukraine-an-offer-it-cant-refuse
- Also posted - 03.03.25
- Posted - 04.03.25 - The New Normal - https://www.dw.com/en/germany-reviews-us-ties-after-zelenskyy-trump-clash/a-71815496
Posted – 28.02.25 – So not because "Harry has already suffered enough by being married to that horrible woman Meghan" then? As recently loudly opined by Mr. Orange
Posted - 01.03.25 - MAGA just keeps on giving - Hooray! - https://www.dw.com/en/europe-loudly-states-support-for-ukraine-quietly-eyes-trump/a-71790839
- Posted - 06.03.25 - "Read All About it - Get Your FACTS Here!"- https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-where-was-trump-wrong-in-his-congress-speech/a-71834997
Posted – 09.03.25 – FUN FACTS – Not one single member of Trump's immediate family drive's an American car, they all much prefer Mercedes Benz and BMW – So who doesn't? PS: In South Carolina, BMW boasts its very largest factory, it’s also the largest de facto exporter of, er, cars Made in America – Fancy! So who remembers his well-posy Convertible Roller then?
Posted - 10.03.25 - Trump and Intelligence in the same sentence almost seems Oxymoronic - https://www.dw.com/en/us-just-about-ends-intelligence-freeze-with-ukraine/live-71872487-
Posted – 11.03.25 – A very well written and concise report I tally. PS: As obviously very few people actually look at this Blog, I've decided to post this one slightly earlier than I normally would, (due to both the timing and its high quality)Posted - 12.03.25 - "Do Bears Shit in The Woods?" - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/12/business/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum & https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/mar/12/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminium-aluminum-global-europe-business-live - Posted - 14.03.25 - The Answer of Course, is, er, Nobody! https://www.dw.com/en/who-will-win-the-eu-us-trade-war/a-71911655
- Posted - 15.03.25 - Might as well just chuck them all out then! - https://www.dw.com/en/us-expels-south-africas-ambassador-saying-he-hates-trump/a-7192897
- Posted - 16.03.25 - So no surprises there then - https://www.dw.com/en/germany-debates-issue-of-nuclear-weapons/a-71924424
Posted – 20.03.25 as well – So when will Dr Strangelove Jnr aka Our Elon, get Mr Orange to order JD to bigly tell the world, that 'The Land of the Very Dim and Feckless' will quite soon be totally leaving NATO to its own devices, then? PS: Cunning Plan B = Be mates with well chummy Putin to keep those pesky Chinese in check - FACT
Posted - 25.03.25 - So who in their right mind, will want to trust this ever-Motley Crew with serious national state secrets then? - https://www.dw.com/en/signal-group-chat-had-us-plans-for-yemen-attack/a-72023690
Posted - 03.04.25 - No Logic Known? https://www.dw.com/en/eu-says-consequences-of-trump-tariffs-will-be-dire/live-72122323
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