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Music Monday 5 New Releases: This Week's Must-Listen Tracks

This week brings a fresh wave of music from both established and upcoming artists. We've got dance-worthy tracks, heart-wrenching ballads, and even a touch of Halloween spirit. Let's dive into what you should be listening to this week. LLOREN captures the raw, transformative energy of chasing dreams in the heart of LA with new single! Lloren has definitely set something of a scene here, and it's not one that requires visuals, just your ears. Last Star gradually builds itself up layer by layer before finally giving it the all. A great song, already looking forward to the video Listen - Last Star in LA https://open.spotify.com/track/6py2lyAW3CFq1CIbfY4tEX?si=26883202c5db453e Live out all that you are with Veronica D'Souza's interpretive dance video for "Peaches In My Halo" Whilst I wouldn't go as to say that it oozes originality what I will say is that it makes great reference to the Tarantino classic Kill Bill and works by Kate Bush. I will say that it's outside the box thinking which I enjoy Watch - Peaches In My Halo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6vnNDiS8yE Phil Mac serves up a menacing new Halloween hip-hop banger, 'Shiftin'! Certainly, something of an after dark feel to it and Phil just tells it like is and doesn't do the softly softly touch which I like. Now I don't mind strong language in music provided it's not for the sake of it but rather as an expressive release. Decent tune Listen - Shiftin https://open.spotify.com/track/3m34ZTeBAkUehlLB8F4Cqf?si=495e3e5c99654756 Beans on Toast - Releases New Single: "Why?" Beans on Toast basically asks the question which occasionally we ask ourselves if we've nothing else going on; why are we here, what was here before us and what life actually means (probably not 42 if you're a Hitchhiker fan). A nice little comical song with some entertainment to it New Album 'Wild Goose Chasers' Coming 1 Dec STREAM ON ALL SERVICES HERE 'WILD GOOSE CHASERS' OUT 1 DECEMBER, VIA BOT MUSIC PRE-SAVE 'WILD GOOSE CHASERS' TOUR 2024/25 2024 Special guests Dillon Warmek and Sorrel Nation in support. - 13/11 STOKE ON TRENT Sugarmill - 14/11 WREXHAM The Rockin' Chair - 15/11 BIRKENHEAD Future Yard - 16/11 PONTEFRACT Northern Social - 17/11 HALIFAX The Grayston Unity (SOLD OUT) - 19/11 YORK The Crescent - 20/11 WHITBY Whitby Brewery (SOLD OUT) - 21/11 HARTLEPOOL The Studio - 22/11 STIRLING Tolbooth - 23/11 DUMFRIES The Venue - 24/11 BOLTON The Ramp - 26/11 SCUNTHORPE Café Indie - 27/11 NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre - 28/11 CHELMSFORD Hotbox (SOLD OUT) ** 01/12 MARGATE Olby's - LAUNCH SHOW ** - 03/12 ALDERSHOT West End Centre - 04/12 ST ALBANS The Horn - 05/12 MILTON KEYNES MK11 - 06/12 SHREWSBURY Albert's Shed - 07/12 LICHFIELD Lichfield Guildhall - 08/12 LEICESTER International Arts Centre - 10/12 TOTNES The Barrel House Ballroom - 11/12 FALMOUTH The Cornish Bank - 12/12 BARNSTAPLE JCT27 - 13/12 GLASTONBURY The King Arthur - 14/12 SHOREHAM Ropetackle 2025 - 12/3 LIVERPOOL The Cavern Club - 13/3 MANCHESTER Band on the Wall - 14/3 KENDAL Brewery Arts - 15/3 NEWCASTLE The Grove - 16/3 EDINBURGH The Voodoo Rooms - 18/3 SHEFFIELD The Leadmill - 19/3 NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms - 20/3 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club - 21/3 CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach - 22/3 BRISTOL Bristol Beacon - 23/3 PLYMOUTH The Junction - 25/3 SOUTHAMPTON The Joiners - 26/3 BIRMINGHAM Castle & Falcon - 27/3 COLCHESTER Colchester Arts Centre - 28/3 CAMBRIDGE The Junction - 29/3 LONDON The Dome JOHNNY LLOYD - new single "If You Love Them..." and solo Punchline I've said it before and I'll say it again, though they're full of emotions like sadness songs about heart break are just incredible as they're honest the artist wears their heart on their sleeve. Johnny reminisces about lost love in this strong acoustic number STREAM HERE 'PUNCHLINE' OUT 31 JANUARY 2025, VIA XTRA MILE RECORDINGS PRE-ORDER HERE For more updates on letest music visit here LLOREN captures the raw, transformative energy of chasing dreams in the heart of LA with new single! Live out all that you are with Veronica D'Souza's interpretive dance video for "Peaches In My Halo" Phil Mac serves up a menacing new Halloween hip-hop banger, 'Shiftin'! Beans on Toast - Releases New Single: "Why?" 2024 2025 JOHNNY LLOYD - new single "If You Love Them..." and solo Punchline Read the full article

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usafphantom2 · 2 years ago

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☝️ near misses through skilful handling and returned to Dover.

At around 13:00, nine Defiants of 141 Squadron were bounced by 16 Bf109s of JG51 near Folkestone. The crews were inexperienced, having only arrived from Scotland a few days earlier, and failed to spot the Messerschmitts attacking from ‘up sun’. Five of the Defiants were quickly dispatched, with the others only able to escape after the intervention of Hurricanes from 111 Squadron. Only one man, pilot John Gard’ner, survived from these aircraft, having fought his way clear from the sinking wreckage after ditching. One of the remaining 4 Defiants crashed after its engine failed and was written off; the gunner had bailed out over the Channel and was posted missing . Shortly afterwards, the decimated 141 Squadron was posted back to Scotland.

At 14:30, Hurricanes of 43 Squadron tangled with Bf109s of JG27 off Selsey Bill, losing two of their number. The final attack of the day was a raid by Dornier 17s of KG2 and Ju87s of StG1 on Dover harbour at 16:00, which damaged several vessels and the dockyard facilities. RAF fighters engaged, only to be met by escorting Bf109s, which shot down a Hurricane and damaged two Spitfires, though two of the 109s were also hit.

An unusual victim of British defences that night was a Focke-Wulf 200 Condor of KG40 on a minelaying sortie, shot down by AA fire from coastal batteries just before midnight between Hartlepool and Sunderland. Only two crewmen survived to be taken prisoner.

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ojcobsessed · 2 years ago

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FYI, Jenna Louise Coleman is starring in a play that begins previews in London in a month and runs through Marchh 2023, so either her role isn't very big in the new film, or the film itself isn't a big deal. Maybe it's a short film? I just don't see how she has time to do both.

yes the play is a west end production starring her and aidan turner called lemons lemons lemons lemons lemons or simply "the lemons play." it goes into previews in just 2 weeks in london and is currently in rehearsals.

to clarify, the film oliver is working on with jenna right now is not a short film, its casting notices are all describing it as a full length feature film, with production dates through the end of january.

jenna has second billing in the film, so it is a significant role. the person who told me this says they believe oliver has first billing and is the star of the film, but wasn't 100% sure.

wrt jenna's schedule one of several scenarios is possible here:

1. jenna has already filmed all her scenes for the film known as "jackdaw" note this is probably not the final title. but the film had been in production for at least 3 weeks prior to the holiday break which according to costar thomas turgoose's instagram stories went on right up until dec 22 or 23.

imo this is the most likely scenario: jamie front loaded all of jenna's scenes in the production schedulein order to accommodate her rehearsal schedule for the play.

2. as the film is scheduled to wrap at the end of january, jenna may be burning the candle at both ends this month dividing her time between beginning the play and shooting her last scenes in the film.

the reason i think this is less likely than scenario 1 is because the film locations are in the hartlepool area over 5 hours drive away from london. however with the use of an understudy one or two days a week in the play which would be the normal thing anyway, she could still be working on the film on her days off from the play.

3. jenna is a literal time traveller and uses portals in time and space to do both at the same time ; )

@oswincoleman and anyone else who keeps better track of jenna's comings and goings please feel free to chime in!

#oliver jackson-cohen #oliver jackson cohen #jackdaw #jenna coleman #jenna louise coleman

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shattered-glow · 5 years ago

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Today is the 1 year AO3 anniversary of Slow Show by @mia-ugly. I am beyond grateful that this experience (and it is an experience) has existed in my life for a year and felt it needed commemorating. 🎂

I’m not a creator but I made this playlist for me, so I could take the fic with me, have it with my eyes closed, while driving -- you get it. Today seems like an appropriate day to share it.

It’s a. It’s a lot. Excessive you might even say. Tumblr will only give you the first 100 songs in this, so, Spotify will fulfill you (or overwhelm you). If you hit my username on the playlist, there are separate playlists for each chapter.

This is also on Apple Music, if that’s your jam, just hit me up and I’ll send you the link.

🎉 Happy Slow Show Day!! 🎉

13 pages of track-lists and excerpts below the cut. Godspeed! 💙

Key:

Songs from Mia’s soundtrack

Songs from the Fic

--Title--

Slow Show – The National

--Prequel--

Loverman – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Devils – Say Hi

--Chapter 1--

Here I Go Again – Whitesnake

bad guy – Billie Eilish

-trash a set and shag your husband

Something About You (ODESZA Remix) – Hayden James

-what it would take for Avery Fell to let his guard down

A Little Wicked – Valerie Broussard

-The handkerchief in his hand is now stained purple

You Light Me Up In the Dark – The Hounds Below

-His hair catches the light like a halo, making him look more of an angel than ever.

Lazarus – David Bowie

-This could be a problem

--Chapter 2--

Unsteady – X Ambassadors

-much easier than talking about the way his heartbeat is still racing

Heart of a Dog – The Kills

-Call me darling again.

The Twilight Hour - Still Corners

-Looked across the set and thought, Ah fuck me. I’m in love with him.

God’s Mistake – Tears for Fears

-Avery: He’s closed his eyes again, mouth going flat and still.

Lounge Act – Nirvana

-Tell her all the terrible things I want to do to her husband

Transatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie

-There’s a strange urgency tonight, though, and Crowley can guess why.

Do I Wanna Know? – Arctic Monkeys

-What could it hurt?

Clueless – The Marias

-“Better - yeah. ‘S late.”

Motel – Meg Myers

-The hotel room is another disaster

--Chapter 3--

Alone in a Room – Asking Alexandria

-“I’m having a moment here!”

Since You’ve Been Around – Rosie Thomas

-makes Crowley feel like he can breathe again

Home Again – The Disco Biscuits

-It’s starting to feel like home again

Every Other Freckle – alt-J

-Perfect. Ridiculous and impossible and perfect.

Something For the Longing – The Orchids

As Far As I Can See – Phantogram

-it’s been a really, really long time

Sinister Kid – The Black Keys

-“Mothering buggering shit-”

All These Things That I’ve Done – The Killers

-Crowley fists one of his hands against his forehead, shuts his eyes tightly.

--Chapter 4--

I Like Me Better – Lauv

-I liked the outline of your face under the stagelights

I Do This for You (ft. Marlene) – Giorgio Moroder

-“Let me see what I can do. About your precious Hamlet.”

The Longing – Imelda May

-Avery POV: “Look at him like - like - you can’t let him see the way you look at him.”

Just a Man – Los Lobos

-Avery POV: like he’s being led into battle and not onto a set to do the job he loves

World In My Eyes – Depeche Mode

-wants to make that bastard purr

Tired (ft. Gavin James) – Alan Walker

-Let me be a magpie for you

Blow My Mind – The Benjamin Gate

-Avery: “I know you now.”

Breathe You in My Dreams – Trixie Whitley

-Crowley’s seen that expression on Avery’s face in his dreams

Love Me Like That (ft. Carly Rae Jepsen) – The Knocks

-What have I done to - oh. Oh. Right.

Like Real People Do - Hozier

-“Sure, angel, what- whatever.”

Clearly – Grace VanderWaal

-Crowley waits for the rest of the night.

Gwendel – PeelsDeen

-Az sits in the back seat, away from Crowley. Alone.

Now I’m In It – HAIM

-Avery POV: It’s a look like an open grave, a look like desire tempered with grief…

Flesh for Fantasy – Billy Idol

-Crowley isn’t lonely for the rest of the night

--Chapter 5 (Avery POV)--

Smalltown Boy – Rosborough

-1978, Hartlepool

Bright Horses – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

-1986, Newcastle Upon Tyne

The Runner – Foals

-1991, Bristol

Shock To Your System – Tegan and Sara

-Tracy: “Why d’you let them?”

Cracking Codes – Andrew Bird

-“Forever, of course. I’ll never -”

Colour me In – Damien Rice

-Their fingers - just touch. Slightly.

I’m Not in Love – 10cc

-Less to regret by not ever speaking of it.

--Chapter 6--

Electric Current – Lower Dens

-“I’ll let you know when you find it.”

Guess I Miss(ed) You – The Daylights

-Keep talking, keep him here a little while longer.

Reflecting Light – Sam Phillips

-“don’t meet his eyes like that, it looks like it’s a lead-in to a kiss”

King of Pain – The Police

-a good reminder of the kind of life he’s got to live

I Wanna Get Better – The Bleachers

-and Avery’s gaze is so gentle it hurts a bit

Feather – X Ambassadors

-Avery: “Someone has to”

Darker Side - Jonny Lang

-Avery: “Oh - good Lord.”

Firestone (Acoustic) – Conrad Sewell

-“Will you show me?”

Velvet Gloves and Spit - Timber Timbre

-“Anthony - ”

Wrong – Depeche Mode

-Avery: “I have to go.”

F**k it I love you – Lana Del Rey

-“Not your fault, angel”

--Chapter 7--

Somebody to Love – Queen

Heavenly – Cigarettes After Sex

-“I fucking still.”

Will Do - TV on the Radio

-“You too. I’ll see you there.”

Monster – Colours

-No wonder Avery ran off like a thief after a heist

Swallow My Pride – Ramones

-“I feel fucking ill about it.”

I Was Wrong - The Oh Hellos

-Avery: “I’m the one who has to apologize, not you.”

The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret – Queens of the Stone Age

-Avery: “Please don’t tell anyone”

Wait for Me – Kings of Leon

-Avery: “Right now, I’m just - a bit in pieces.”

Don’t Stay – X Ambassadors

-“You can - stay or leave or - whatever you like.”

The Moth - Aimee Mann

-Avery’s eyes meet his, and then it’s like a car accident

Red Door – Julien Baker

-“I can - I can wait longer.”

Can’t Pretend - Tom Odell

-“I wasn’t apologizing for that. This morning. I won’t.”

Come Down to Me – Saving Jane

-Avery: “You were wonderful”

Secret Smile – Semisonic

-And if sometimes he catches Az watching him between takes

I Want More - KALEO

-Az laces both of their hands together, stares at them.

I’m Gonna Do My Thing – Royal Deluxe

-“So don’t tell me what will hurt me. I know what hurts.”

--Chapter 8--

Perfect Day – Lou Reed

Remember to Breathe – Sturgil Simpson

-“You can’t sit in the car all night you absolute nightmare”

Wild Love (Acoustic) – James Bay

-The two of them stare at each other and then both look away awkwardly.

Seasons – Future Islands

-finally, fucking finally, he’s exactly where he wants to be

Closer – Tegan and Sara

-Avery: “if you like”

I Want All of You – The Verve Pipe

-“If you think I can survive this without looking at you -”

Use Me – Miguel

-whatever he sees in Crowley’s face makes him come to some sort of decision

So Much Love – Depeche Mode

-Love, he said love

Don’t Be Scared, I Love You – Bill Ryder-Jones

-I know you, Crowley wants to say, but doesn’t.

Become My Dream – Silya & The Sailors

-“Even if - anything, angel.”

I Belong In Your Arms – Chairlift

-For nearly two weeks it goes like this.

Faster - Matt Nathanson

-“You’re going to fucking kill me, angel -”

Come Together (feat. Sivu) – LAUREL

-In case you think they don’t wake up together

The High – Kelela

-Az has pulled a stool over to the edge of the tub

Just in Time – Valerie June

-Then Az’s hand is on his shoulder, turning him around.

I Can’t Take It – Tegan and Sara

-Avery: “Don’t rush, just - like this.”

Like This – Jake Scott

-Avery murmurs and it takes Crowley back to their first kiss

Terrible Love – The National

-Flinches away from him.

Help You Out - Emarosa

-And he nods.

--Chapter 9--

I Remember You – Ramones

-The first person Crowley loved was a liar.

Brighter Skies - Race Banyon

-As if they were cut with a jigsaw, as if they were meant to fit.

Not Tonight – Tegan and Sara

-When they reach the edge of the city, his hand slides out of Crowley’s.

As Sure as I Am – Crowded House

-So Crowley kisses him.

A Promise – Miriam Makeba

-And for awhile, he believed her.

Mistaken for Strangers – The National

-They’re only two small words, but they still make Crowley’s teeth ache.

Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye – Leonard Cohen

-“Good-“ Swallow, speak, leave.

The Fear – Pulp

-Crowley should have been smarter this time. He really should have been.

Take Me – Leela James

-“I’d like you to close your blinds.”

Whenever You Want It – Clare Maguire

-“What do we do now?”

At My Weakest – James Arthur

-“It will be.”

Komm zurück - Fotos

-For years and years and years, nothing did.

Come on Get Higher – Matt Nathanson

-their feet sliding in the tub

Lay Down – Sarah Proctor

-I want to wake up with you.

Sort Of - Ingrid Michaelson

-Why is my heart breaking?

Fairytale of New York – The Pogues

-Just pump that shit straight into his veins.

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? – Ella Fitzgerald

-Avery: “What do you think?”

We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together – The Velvet Underground

-“You want to grab dinner somewhere?”

Hiding – IAN SWEET

-Crowley stops walking. Looks at Az in the darkness.

Romance Dawn – Radkey

-A slice of light cuts through the darkness.

Crown of Love – Arcade Fire

-Crowley feels like the world has never been darker, and his heart will never stop beating

Devil’s Backbone – The Civil Wars

-He thought he was ready for this conversation, but at the sight of Az’s face, his throat has gotten too tight to speak.

Sinners – Lauren Aquilina

-“If this all goes down in flames, if it all falls apart - we can go off together.”

Please Forgive Me (Song of the Crow) – William Fitzsimmons

-Avery: “It’s over. I’m - I’m so sorry.”

Start a War – The National

-He twitches and trips and yet somehow manages to walk away without falling over.

Broken – Daley

-And this soft heartache was somehow the sharpest of them all.

--Chapter 10 (Avery POV)--

Daily Battles - Thom Yorke & Flea

-He tries to remember these things - but the background is still a chorus of beeping machines. There’s nowhere he can be but here.

Everybody Wants You - Red Hearse

-Go out and surround himself with people much more interesting and available than Avery. Better people, certainly.

A Thin Line – Blackchords

-But still - roads not taken, and other fun middle-aged spirals.

My Own Soul’s Warning - The Killers

-When was the last time someone asked Avery that? When was the last time he asked himself?

Who Am I - NEEDTOBREATHE

-I miss you. There. It didn’t hurt as much as he thought it would.

Wait for Me - Jack Curley

-What he wants to say is ‘don’t find someone else. Not yet. You and your black leather and your cut-glass profile: you’re gorgeous and God knows other people want you.’

Coming & Going – Amaal

-“Two ships passing in the night,” he says quietly. Then he takes a swallow of wine, lets it roll down his throat. “If you were here -”

Iron - Woodkid

-Crowley leaves him there, pressed against the wet brick wall. Crowley leaves him there. Crowley steps between Avery and a camera, and then leaves him.

The Greatest Bastard - Damien Rice

-He can’t be the person that kicks Crowley into the ashes again. He can’t hurt him like this, and Avery’s going to hurt him - he already has.

No Right to Love You – Rhys Lewis

-He deserves someone like - like Daniel. Deserves to be loved in the daylight.

If It’s Hurting You - Robbie Williams

-Time is a tricky business when you’re dying slowly; it skips like a flat stone on a quiet lake.

Happy For You – Gayle

-But surely - surely he’s allowed just this much. Just one message, just so Crowley knows that - that he’s happy for him. That Avery is so happy.

I See You (ICU) - Phoebe Bridgers

-When Avery sees Crowley on the red carpet, it feels like the sudden remembrance of a lovely dream.

Once In My Life - The Decemberists

-Crowley: “I know there’ve been some - hard times. That’s - that is what it is. But for me - it’s been a privilege. A dream. So.” He nods and nods and nods again. “Thank you.”

Coming Down - Dum Dum Girls

-Tracy: “But I wasn’t. I was hurting you. This whole time, Az.” She shakes her head, wiping frantically at tears that won’t stop falling. “He loves you.”

I Don’t Know Anything – Little Voice Cast

-He’s afraid of finding out that all this time - he was doing the wrong thing anyway. He’s afraid that Anthony Crowley will never talk to him again.

Sweet Sour - Band of Skulls

-"And you're fired"

Heart Attack - Devarrow

-The sun is still rising when Avery gets out of the car, closes the door behind him. Though some of the roads have changed, his feet still know the way down to the docks of his youth. He was never a sailor, but the shoreline is familiar as a childhood sweetheart, as a long lost love.

Landslide - Robyn Sherwell

-He’s alone, and he’s nearly fifty years old. He could get on a ship, he could throw himself into the sea. There’s no one holding him back anymore.

All I Can - Sharon van Etten

-And he knows. He knows.

--Chapter 11--

Salvation - The Strumbellas

- there’s a moment where he swears he sees a young idiot in black standing in the crowd. Red hair gelled up into spikes, black t-shirt full of holes and safety pins. A young man who has no idea how much he’s about to lose.

Soldier - Fleurie

-And he’s still fucking here.

Easier – Mansionair

-Then he gets the fuck above ground and he calls Beez (oh great, they’re his emotional-support-asshole now. That’s healthy).

Deep End – Holly Humberstone

-“I brought you cheese,” Beez says, and Crowley starts crying.

Falling Short – Lapsley

-For the next few days, he lets his stupid body do what it needs to do to keep himself upright.

Chariot (Stripped Version) - Gavin DeGraw

-Shit, this was a bad bad idea.

Quiet Light - The National

-There’s a text from Az later that night, and his name on Crowley’s phone makes him feel like jumping off a cliff.

All That We Had is Lost - Postiljonen

-He’s not allowed to be in love with that man anymore. Wasn’t ever, really.

Heal - Tom Odell

-It makes a rather hysterical laugh well out of his throat. Anthony fucking Crowley. You are still alive.

Let Me Go - HAIM

-Crowley tries to ignore the soft, injured expression on the other man’s face as he turns away.

A Beginning Song - The Decemberists

-“What’s more frightening than having a choice?”

The Spark - William Prince

-And he likes to think he would have just burned the world to ashes with the power of his love, would have said fuck everyone, I choose you – but who knows.

Sharp Scratch - The Slow Show

-So stupid, I know, and I’m - sorry, I still love you and I’m tryin’ to stop and I will I just - needed to tell you that. I’ll be fine. You’ll be fine. Just miss you.

Beautiful & Brutal – Plested

-Crowley moves without thinking. Falls like a stagelight, glass everywhere. He walks forward and is kissing Az before the door has even been pulled shut.

Bad Chemistry - Fake Shark

-“I’ve been - thinking about this -” Az says between darts of his tongue against Crowley’s overheated skin.

All We Do – Oh Wonder

-“But I - I love you. And I can’t - hide. It hurts too much.”

Broken Strings - James Morrison (ft Nelly Furtado)

-“I wouldn’t survive it. That way it was. I wouldn’t.”

Stole the Show – Parson James

-But even on their distant shores, Crowley and Az don’t stop looking at each other. It feels like an ending. Maybe it is one. Not a happy ending, but not a bad one either.

Level Up - Vienna Teng

-excerpt from Anthony Crowley: Out of the shadows, under the spotlight

The Wire (Alternate Version) – Patrick Droney

-Avery: “I’m rather in - in love with you.”

Sweet Thing - Van Morrison

-“You can stay at my place. If you like.”

Falling in Love - Cigarettes After Sex

-“I love you. I’ve missed you, and I love you, and I want you -”

Stay - Cat Power

-He watches the slow flicker of awareness in Avery’s blue eyes. The curve of his mouth into a shade of smile that Crowley’s never seen before.

Freedom - George Michael

-“To the world.”

--Chapter 12--

Banks - NEEDTOBREATHE

-What he wasn’t used to was bringing someone else down with him, and jail would be a bloody blessing compared to seeing Az grey-faced and staring out windows, or that one time Crowley’s pretty sure the man was crying in the bathroom, trying to swallow down the sound so that Crowley didn’t notice (he clenches his hands into fists just thinking about it).

Black Mambo - Glass Animals

-“It’ll have to be.” Crowley drops to his knees. “There’s a lot of ground to cover.”

Florets - Grace VanderWaal

-Crowley can let his fingers curl against Az’s palm, can watch him open as a flame, not caring who notices.

Sight of the Sun - fun.

-That this longing won’t destroy him, and won’t destroy Az either. It’s not a shovel for burying Crowley alive - it’s a spade for planting things.

Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground

-Az drops his hand onto Crowley’s knee (“What is this song? I rather like it.”).

Only Everything (Acoustic) – Quinn Lewis

-“It’s nice to have someone make it for you, right? Sometimes,” Crowley says softly, too much love in his throat and in his hands. It’s hard to breathe around it, especially when Avery is looking at him.

The Book of Love - The Magnetic Fields

-“You bought a cottage for us.” Crowley is an animal being taught to speak through scraps of meat and electric shocks. “This cottage.”

Say You’ll Be Mine – Christopher Cross

-Avery: “But if you wanted -” Fuck, there are tears in Avery’s eyes. “If you want. I’d like to call you my husband. I’d like to say ‘let me ask my husband,’ or ‘I brought my husband with me’ or ‘my husband won a BAFTA’.”

Anthem - Leonard Cohen

-Their broken edges match. And somehow, the light still shines through.

Precious Love – James Morrison

-When the light catches them both, they shine. And so do you. So do we.

Good Man (acoustic) - Josh Ritter

If you made it this far...wow, hi hello. So, this is ours and my musical exposure is limited, if you’ve got a better song for an excerpt, feel free to shoot it over, more than happy for this to be a living changeable thing. 🤡

#slow show #slow show playlist #tumblr html code after read more is some bullshit #it's fic for your ears

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jed-thomas · 4 years ago

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Ministers with and without Portfolios

When you want to demonstrate your sincerity, you write a letter.

The summer is nearing its summit and 1982 is disappearing in a confused fog. Somewhere, Micheal Foot opens up an envelope. An ambitious young candidate, recently selected in some leafy suburb of London, has written to him. You can feel the youth in his writing - and, regrettably, a palpable eagerness to impress. Nevertheless, there are some admirable phrases:

Socialism ultimately must appeal to the better minds of the people. You cannot do that if you are tainted overmuch with a pragmatic period in power.

For men like Foot, members of a modern British tradition, politics and oratory are not separable. Even the timbre of your voice comes into it. On some cold picket-line, at some bored union congress, or against the baying of the other half of the House, you have to fill the air and rouse the spirits. In so many ways, the tradition of British socialism is a poetic tradition.

Maybe, then, he spots it a mile away. A lack of inspiration, the absence of a real perspective. That faint sense of pantomime. Or otherwise, Michael Foot, soon to be an ex-leader of the Labour Party, dimly registers the writer’s display of party-loyalty and just puts the letter aside. This man had crashed the party’s vote-share in Beaconsfield. Tony Blair is saving face.

Last Friday, it was announced that the constituency of Hartlepool would return its first Conservative MP in 62 years. Labour’s vote-share crashed by 16%. Perhaps most astonishingly, the Conservative victory in Hartlepool is only the second time in 40 years that a party in government has taken a seat from their opposition.

In immediate response, Leader of the Opposition Keir Starmer MP moved to reorganise the Labour Party’s campaign office. Importantly, Deputy Leader Angela Rayner MP was removed from her position as Chair of the Labour Party, the position ultimately responsible for election campaigns. As the Deputy Leader is elected separately, Starmer’s decision has been criticised as an attempt to undermine the influence of a senior elected official. However, as the days have passed, Rayner has emerged with a new position - or, more accurately, a few new positions. Angela Rayner MP now shadows Michael Gove MP as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and occupies the newly-created, elegantly-titled office of Shadow Secretary for the Future of Work.

Former MP for Hartlepool and Minister without Portfolio under Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson has been named by sources within the party to Guardian columnist Owen Jones. According to Jones, Mandelson signed off the press strategy for Shadow Cabinet members following the result in his former constituency.

It’s raining in Stockport. The King Street bridge is abandoned. Looking at the slow river, she knows that she is a cliché, a tired punchline. And she knows that she’ll have to leave school. Other girls have done it, so she’ll get through it, too. But it’s an abrupt and unceremonious change to whatever path she was on before. 16 and pregnant. A joke. Then again, wasn’t this always the intended outcome, in one way or another? Cornered. It was going to be a long time before she understood that there was anything that could be done about that.

The wind takes a few of the leaflets out from under his armpit and scatters them all over the carpark of Oxted station. A favour, he thinks. It’s 8 in the morning, they’re all commuters. No-one’s taking them. As if some serious city lawyer is going to read about the future of proletarian resistance, let alone in a pamphlet handed to him by a spotty adolescent. East Surrey Young Socialists. He isn’t blind to the humour of that. Some preachy privately-educated Surrey boy. He had tried to explain that he’d gotten into Reigate fairly and squarely, that it’d only just started asking for fees in the last few years. Much to his chagrin, by the way. People around here don’t listen. If they did, they’d see that there was nothing to be scared of. But they’re closed off, rigid. It’s enough to make you want to pack it all in, honestly.

His father was staring out at the snow falling on the houses of Hampstead Garden in one of his attitudes of preparation. He had an abiding sense of danger, of impending calamity. Peter always attributed that to his religiosity. Eschatology. The End Times. “Have you compiled your application yet?” “Of course, Dad.” Peter knew the counterpoint melody. Your mother and I have worked too hard. He would say it like that because his mother is the real concerned party. Descendants of the Labour Party aristocracy are obsessed with elite education. He is pretty sure that he will get in. He’s clever, goes to a good grammar. And when he gets in, he is going to have fun, the sort of fun you can only have at a place like Oxford. Judgement Day is a long way off.

The Hampstead Garden Suburb was the brain-child of two idealist architects, Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker. The pair were disciples of the Arts and Crafts movement, an aesthetic philosophy with global reach that found particular purchase among British socialists; indeed, Unwin was a life-long and active member of various socialist organisations. Hampstead Garden was to be spacious, communal and open to all social classes. It was built on land purchased from Eton College by a wealthy patron. The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust Ltd., established in 1906, executed Parker and Unwin’s designs.

Peter Mandelson was born in 1953 to an advertising manager and the daughter of Herbert Morrison, the Leader of the House of Commons under Clement Attlee. He was raised in the Hampstead Garden Suburb, attended a local grammar school and then, studied at Oxford. As a teenager, he was a member of the Young Communist League. At university, he joined the Oxford University Labour Club.

As a veteran in public relations by the time of Tony Blair’s bid for leadership of the Labour Party in 1994, Mandelson, distrusted by trade union representatives within the party, played his part in the successful campaign in near anonymity, being referred to by staff only as “Bobby”. In his acceptance speech, Blair used the moniker when expressing gratitude to his campaign team. After running Blair’s successful general election campaign a few years later, Mandelson was appointed to the office of Minister without Portfolio, allowing him to attend Cabinet meetings without having any formal obligations. Critics have likened it to a sinecure. In 1998, Mandelson resigned from government, having failed to declare dealings with millionaire Cabinet colleague, Geoffrey Robinson. He is now a peer, happy to be part of the club.

Oxted is an incredibly old town. When William the Conqueror ordered a survey in 1086, Oxted had its various assets - hides, churches, ploughs - recorded. It remained a sleepy time-capsule until it was reached by the new railway system in 1884 and run-off trade from London began to bring money into the town. At the beginning of the last decade, it was the twentieth richest town in Britain by income.

Born to a nurse and a toolmaker in 1962, Keir Starmer was named for the first parliamentary leader of what would become the Labour Party, Keir Hardie. He attended a grammar school and was the first in his family to graduate from university, obtaining an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Leeds. As a result, he undertook postgraduate study at Oxford and became a barrister in 1987. During this time, he edited Socialist Alternative, a controversial magazine associated with various factions on the Marxist left.

Starmer is a relatively green politician, having only been selected as a candidate for Holborn and St. Pancras in 2014. The majority of his life has been spent working in the legal system. In 2010, Starmer successfully prosecuted 3 Labour MPs and a Conservative peer on charges of false accounting. In 2011, he encouraged the rapid prosecution of several rioters, sometimes on the testimony of undercover police officers. In 2012, Starmer brought a case against former Energy Secretary Chris Huhne which resulted in the only resignation of a Cabinet Minister over legal proceedings in British parliamentary history. In 2020, as Leader of the Opposition, Starmer ordered Labour MPs to abstain on the third reading of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, which granted undercover police officers full legal immunity for all actions undertaken on duty. Desperate to be heard, Starmer re-tweeted a Guardian column by Angela Rayner MP, adding: ‘We’ll make sure you know Labour is on your side.’

Stockport lies just south-east of the City of Manchester at the point where the Rivers Tame and Goyt become the Mersey. Although bisected by the feudal borders of the counties Cheshire and Lancashire, it belongs to a different epoch. Stockport is a town with almost 300 years of industrial history, home to one of the first mechanised silk factories in the entire British Isles. Surveying all of England for his 1845 history ‘The Condition of the English Working Class’, Friedrich Engels remarked that Stockport was ‘renowned as one of the duskiest, smokiest holes’ to be found in the industrial heartlands.

By the time Angela Rayner was born on a Stockport council estate in 1980, the country seemed eager to be free of this history. This eagerness sometimes manifested as a disdain for trade unionists and benefit claimants. Both of Rayner’s parents were eligible for benefits. And at 31, Angela Rayner was a senior official for the public-sector union Unison.

Having left school at 16 to raise her first son, she got her GCSEs by studying part-time at Stockport College, where she eventually qualified as a social care worker. At work, she clashed with management, discovering a flair for negotiation that would get her elected as a union steward. Finally, after years and years of confusion and uncertainty, someone was being made to answer.

#hartlepool #labour #boris johnson #peter mandelson #tony blair #angela rayner #keir starmer #conservative party #owen jones

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1828 Saturday 17 May

8 1/2 10 1/2

Breakfast about 9 1/2 or rather later - sat talking a little to Mrs. D- [Dalton] their butcher's bills have been £300 a year and £200 a year - vary very much - 11 servants, 8 women and 3 men - 1 hour or 1 1/2 hour packing - at breakfast Marianne and her nonsense calling me nanny she asked how I liked I said the name was certainly quite new to me and surprised but I was otherwise indifferent about it what a goose she is and I now rather dislike her - she told me yesterday she only painted to please her father her own happiness was to lie in bed reading a good novel - Sat a few minutes with Mr. D- [Dalton] in his study - a momentary take leave of Marianne and all the rest of the girls in her painting room - then sat with Mrs. D- [Dalton] she summed up what I said, they said in Paris I ought to buy for visiting next winter to £118 which she said would dress her for 2 years -

Left the party at 1 55/60 - IN- [Isabella Norcliffe] would see me off - we walked about - went into the church yard - off at 2 10/60 in the Telegraph (4 inside coach) for Durham - only one man inside besides myself, and he left us at Darlington, and I was alone the rest of the way - the footman took my liggage [sic] and the butler went to open me the coach door for which each got half a crown I have no intention returning to my friends at Croft or meeting them in July at Hartlepool as they wish me to do for a few days or as long as I can Marianne would teaze and not one of the rest would repay me - incurred a cross just after leaving Rushyford thinking of Pi [Mariana] -

Got to Darlington (and change horses) in 35 minutes, a nice town - neatly kept handsome looking church - a greek cross ∴ looking all of a heap - at the far end of the town, left, the 'Eldon main, Fire coal 7/6 a ton - line coal 6/8 a ton' - change horses at Rushyford, a singley-standing neat-looking splashed Inn 1/2 way between Darlington and Durham - here the road turns off westward to Bp. [Bishop] auckland which being about 10 miles from Durham may probably be about a mile from here? - flat, uninteresting drive from Croft to Rushyford, beyond this the range of limestone hill (right) begins to near a little, the country is more undulating - a little hill or 2 in the road, and patches of wood are to be seen, and the situation of Durham upon the Wear is picturesque - no sight of the city till within about a mile, descend the hill - the cathedral finely placed on a hill, and the city creeping down along its declivity at the foot of which runs the wear with a good bridge over it -

At 5 1/4 alighted at the 1/2 moon, an ale-house nearly opposite the Waterloo Inn or hotel which, the King's or Queen's head (I forget which) are called the best Inns in Durham - the former not good-enough-looking to strike me, or catch my attention in any way - sent off my luggage to another alehouse the hat and feather, close to the marketplace, and ordered my place to be taken for Sunderland (on purpose to see the bridge) at 6 -

Took a prettyish young woman with me from the Inn as guide to the cathedral - close by, the bp's [bishop's] palace built out of, and called the castle, the old tower (square with bevelled corners?) standing close to it, in the garden on grounds on a mound like Clifford's Tower, York - entrance to the palace a castle court by an old castle-gateway - fine-looking cathedral - plain exterior - 2 lowish-looking west towers and latern tower high above its neighbours - the present cathedral, said the woman who shewed it, built about 900 years ago - the 2 doors under the 2 west towers instead of opening outward, open into what is called St. Mary's Chapel, said to be part of the old, original church - a very fine specimen of 3 aisles of circular arches all the groinings of which finished in dog-tooth - here stands a large table tomb, the stone quite plain, said to be the tomb of 'St. Bede - this chapel is just fitted up with reading desk etc. for evening lectures - the deal of the benches, etc., not yet painted - only just done - last week - circular arches along the nave, chancel, and transepts - the most striking thing, all the pairs of columns dissimilar - 1 pair fluted straight - 2 or 3 pairs fluted in different patterns - spirally, and chequered - very odd effect - never saw anything like it before -

Very odd columns in the Durham Cathedral (Image Source)

Pavement of the nave not good - north door into the nave very bad - cloisters perfect - in - very good repair - behind the altar is the shrine of St. Cuthbert and behind this what they call the nine altars, a spacious chapel which, with its large middle window and 2 side windows finished outside in 3 gables? with 2 turret somehow at each outside gable, forms a singular sort of looking attachment to the main building as one looks at from without - the large stone covering St. Cuthbert's bones just behind the altar was removed the other day - the bones taken up, put into a common deal coffin, and reinterred in the same place as before - no fine monuments - 2 or 3 old ones of the lords Neville, killed in battle against the Scots - the woman said the singing was excellent and the organ one of the finest in England, much finer than that in York -

Dr. Prossers a good looking gothic house - the other building round the close (my guide called it the college) making no great appearance - the close like a long quadrangular court, too confined - the city (brick built) all up hill and down - saw not one good street - small poorish market place (market day) the most striking object in it, the pump, the well being covered over with a little massy round-topped building surmounted by a huge figure of Neptune with his trident-

At 6 5/60 took my seat by the old coachman (tho' I had my place inside) and left the inside to the market people such a coach, such tackling, and 4 such horses I never before saw in England - I wondered how and when we should get to Sunderland - said the coachman 'all where we are going is underminded' - strong symptoms of a coal country - rail-ways raised on the black shale, and here and there the smoke of an engine to be descried - Houghton-le-spring 1/2 way between Durham and Sunderland - a niceish good village - no 'squire - only the rector who has a low but handsome 2 storied gothic house approached by a handsome castle-like gateway - very good-looking church - the people talked of Houghton bank - It was by this, rising steeply from the village, that we crossed the great ridge of lime hill - about 2 years since they cut thro' the hill (3 or 4 hundred yards in length) the present road which is in the deepest part, they say, 15 yards deep - almost all was done by blasting - the sides perpendicular - no complaint of its being filled up with snow last winter - does not look more than 7 yards wide if so much - only just room for 2 carriages to pass comfortably - singular looking cleft as one saw it in the distance on approaching Houghton - no view of the sea till within 2 or 3 miles of Sunderland, tho' perhaps one ought to see it from the top of Houghton bank - brick or limestone buildings all the way - villages pretty good - the coachman pointed out where Wearmouth ended and Sunderland began - fine, broad, handsome long street - nothing like it in Durham -

Alighted at the George Inn at 7 10/60 - hearing that a coach would leave the Golden Lion at 8 1/2 in the morning for N.C. [Newcastle], went and took up my quarters there for the night - best Inn in Sunderland - no great appearance outside, but apparently plenty of room - got into a little sitting room by the door, with a roaring fire in it, hot as flames - tho' a little starved on entering, soon obliged to open the window - had tea immediately - not a muffin nor tea cake in the house, but not having eaten since breakfast at 9 1/2 made a hearty meal on dry toast and butter - market day, too, at Sunderland - the market held in the street, but the butchers stalls, all looked neat and well - went to my room at 9 1/2 - the chambermaid shewed me into a much smaller room than I had seen on entering said it was the undermaid the other was engaged I remonstrated said I was annoyed sent for the mistress she was out when would she up in the morning not till eleven sat up late made the woman change me into the next room which was however the same or no better than the other found the people took me for a nobody and I suspected on seeing the waiter last night and quietly resolved to make the best of it determining to save my money - Do not believe the bed was damp, but slept on my plaid and in my drawers and greatcoat - everything very clean - very fine day -

Letter this morning (about noon) from Mrs. Duffin, York, to say her nephew Matthew was elected to to Christ Church Oxford - all her father wished - read aloud to Mr. D- [Dalton] the kind messages to him and Mrs. D- [Dalton] to go to the Duffins when they want a bed in York etc. etc.

Croft to Darlington . 4 D- [Darlington] to Durham . 18 D- [Durham] to Sunderland . 13

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/10/0160 - SH:7/ML/E/10/0161

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Events 12.16

714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald while his wife Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom. 755 – An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China. 1431 – Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris. 1497 – Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River, where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. 1575 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5Mw  strikes Valdivia, Chile. 1598 – Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang: The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory. 1653 – English Interregnum: The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1689 – Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights. 1761 – Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kołobrzeg. 1773 – American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. 1777 – Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. [1] 1782 – British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah. 1811 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. 1838 – Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 1843 – The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O, was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton, discoverer of quaternions, in a letter on this date. 1850 – The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand. 1863 – American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: The Union's Army of the Cumberland routs and destroys the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee, ending its effectiveness as a combat unit. 1880 – Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire. 1882 – Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match. 1883 – Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel. 1903 – Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests. 1907 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. 1912 – First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli. 1914 – World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby. 1918 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919. 1920 – The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5Mw , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000. 1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. 1930 – Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana. 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again. 1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother. 1942 – The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest. 1947 – William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor. 1950 – Korean War: In response to China's Second Phase Offensive, U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a limited state of emergency. 1960 – A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground. 1965 – Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966. 1968 – Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain. 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India. 1971 – The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day. 1978 – Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression. 1979 – Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States. 1985 – Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family. 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés. 1989 – U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. 1991 – Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union. 2013 – A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured. 2014 – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.

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tonimarienotbutler-blog · 7 years ago

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30/09/18

So. It’s been a while since I really sat down and gathered my thoughts into writing. Think its time I update myself on what my current situation is lmao.

I’ve moved in with Kim and Ste. It’s actually a really nice house, it’s Kim’s parents’ house where she grew up. The kitchen’s really nice, and the bathroom, well everywhere really. It’s nice and big, unlike my room. I still need to speak to Ste about the rent situation anyway. When I first came Kim said 100 for me and then my share of the bills, which I thought was fair given that I've got the smallest amount of personal space.. Ste kicked up a fuss and I said we can just split it 3 ways. Just to keep the peace. But since he went on holiday and I slept in his bed (just to give my back a break from the fold up metal frame single shit mattress I've been sleeping on), I realised just how much more space he has than me and I don’t think it’s fair that I should pay an equal amount of rent anymore. So that one’s going to be awkward.

All I've done since I've moved in is clean, which I don’t mind at the moment given that I'm off work and constantly stoned and bored. I’m a freak after a joint, went for a wee earlier and decided to bleach the toilet and sink and wash everything down? Suppose it’s not a bad thing.

I’m waiting to start a job at a home care company for the elderly. It’s not the most desirable of jobs but it’s an easy one, I'll be constantly on the go, and the moneys there if I put the hours in. I reckon I could be a senior in a couple of months. Well that’s if I get on with the office staff, I already hate Danielle. She seemed nice at interview, and since she hadn’t introduced me to anyone else or told me who my line manager would be I asked to speak to her when I rang to change my address, she answered with “I've already told you I don’t have anything to do with the DBS I'll put you through to the girl now” and transferred me straight through to Claire. How fucking rude please? Jade said she might have just been busy but that doesn’t give her the right to speak to me in an irritated tone and not give me a second to say even anything to her?? Horrible woman. I won’t be covering any shifts for her that’s for sure!

I've got a college interview at 13:30 tomorrow. I say interview.. I know I'll get on the course it’s just the sign up and stuff. The course I applied for starts on 10/10/18 and I couldn’t be any more ready, I'm so bored of sitting on my arse all day or sleeping. I’ll lose so much weight as well. I’m ready for this. New name, new hair, single, ready to educate myself, new woman. I’m Toni Marie now, thanks to Jonny.

Ah Jonny. My little Jonny :( I do love him, so fucking much. He’s changed me so much as a person, gave me so much confidence and more than anything he really loved me, more than anything. Ugh. I hate knowing that I've broke his heart, I miss him too. So much. How am I supposed to forget about him when he licks it like that. He might have been a virgin when I first met him but he isn’t half a different man now, I mean wow he’s a good learner, or I'm a good teacher, whatever.

I’ve been a bit of a hoe lately. Gone on a mad one, so to say.. I’ve sucked a lads dick knowing fine well he has a lass and a kid and he might of broke up with her but he was going back. I’ve slept with a stranger from Hartlepool and 2 hours later gone back with all intentions of fucking another guy, he fannied out though. Left me with his Doyle of a mate. Don’t even want to get into that lmfao. Kyle Harcourt but with nice clothes.

I’ve been injecting myself with melanotan and a slimming jab that clearly states on the bottle not for human consumption, research only. Claire’s idea but still, wtf Toni? I must be mad. I think I've lost weight though, and I'm looking a nicer shade of caucasian.

Lets think, what else has been going on?

I need to print a cv off for the head of steam, 20 hours a week bar work, it’s at least something for now. Sick of waiting, and I might even like it. Kim said her and Ashley know the manager or owner or whatever, so there’s a good chance of me getting it.

I love living here. I didn’t realise until Dave pointed it out the other day but I am so much more happy in myself. I’m able to live freely and do what I want when I want, without fear of conflict or judgement, it’s mint. I feel at home. I feel like this is my little family. Ah blessed.

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Rewiring in Hartlepool

Rewiring In A Jiffy - Your Favourite Rewiring Solutions

We know rewiring can be hectic and troublesome. However, there are places where unless a rewiring is taking place, the place stays inaccessible. Say there is a godown. Now, it was built-in multiples of decades ago. Of course, there was no need for electrical plugs or outlets back then. However, to rebuild the place as a purposeful space, electrical appliances must be installed.

In such a manner, rewiring can include a lot of work and mess if not done properly. Leaving it to the experts can help you rewire the place. A place with bad electrical wiring can bring more harm than help. A lot of time, poor electricians use makeshift techniques and materials to fix up electrical joinings and lines. These are one main reasons for short circuits, fire, electric cutoff, phase burst etc.

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A lot of times if the wiring grows old by time, a rewiring can take place. Old wires mean lesser technologically advanced and lesser current flow. Also, they could be impure as well. Impure wires can both get your bills to increase as well as an increase in the potential risk of being damaged.

If you are planning for a house or property rewiring, opt for the professionals. Of course, until and unless you yourself are an expert in these sectors, ask for professional help. Handling loosely with electrical wirings can and will lead you to fatal results.

Rewiring is considered to be a safety movement. The more advancements you make, the safer and better it is. You should always try to hire professionals for work like this. Well, you should be careful enough before indulging into rewiring works for your property.

If you are from Hartlepool, and you wish to have a rewiring in Hartlepool, you can opt for professionals like CAJ electricals. You will find any kind of electrical service in their facility. Also, find rewiring services that are super safe and maintain the guidelines.

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brookstonalmanac · 3 years ago

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714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom. 755 – An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing, initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China. 1431 – Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris. 1497 – Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River at the southern tip of Africa, where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. 1575 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5Mw  strikes Valdivia, Chile. 1598 – Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang: The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory. 1653 – English Interregnum: The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. 1689 – Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights. 1761 – Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kołobrzeg. 1773 – American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. 1777 – Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1782 – British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah. 1811 – The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. 1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. 1838 – Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 1843 – The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O, was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton, discoverer of quaternions, in a letter on this date. 1850 – The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand. 1863 – American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: The Union's Army of the Cumberland routs and destroys the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee, ending its effectiveness as a combat unit. 1880 – Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire. 1882 – Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match. 1883 – Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel. 1905 – In Rugby Union, The "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park. 1912 – First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli. 1914 – World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby. 1920 – The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5Mw , rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000. 1942 – The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest. 1960 – A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground. 1968 – Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain. 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India. 1971 – The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day. 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés. 2013 – A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured. 2014 – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.

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ericfruits · 6 years ago

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Teesside bids to become Britain’s first free port

TEESSIDE WAS the future, once. In the 1950s Ridley Scott, then a student at the Northern School of Art in Hartlepool, would walk down to nearby Redcar, crossing a bridge over the steelworks on his way. The view of the area’s bustling chemical plants, roaring blast furnaces and booming seaport inspired the opening shots of Sir Ridley’s 1982 film, “Blade Runner”, set in a dystopian 2019.

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The future has arrived, and Teesside looks very different to the scenes Sir Ridley imagined. The industrial area around the mouth of the river Tees, where 40,000 people once worked, now employs just 3,300. Most of its buildings lie abandoned, including a blast furnace as tall as St Paul’s Cathedral that was closed in 2015.

Big plans are now afoot to reinvigorate the area. Last year a 4,500-acre industrial plot, rebranded as the South Tees Development Corporation, became Britain’s first “special economic area”, with the power directly to collect business rates on the site to fund land remediation work. More than £100m ($130m) of central-government grants have helped to redevelop the plot. Ben Houchen, the young Conservative mayor of the Tees Valley, says the next step is for the site to become a “free port”, with carve-outs from the national customs regime. The Treasury is considering the plan.

That too would be a first for Britain. Free ports and special economic areas are common elsewhere in the world. There were more than 4,000 in 2015; a report in 2008 estimated that up to 68m people worked in them. Simon Clarke, the Conservative MP for nearby Middlesbrough, raves about Jebel Ali, a free zone in Dubai through which a quarter of the emirate’s trade passes. A special economic zone near Hong Kong, set up in 1980, has been dubbed the “miracle of Shenzhen”. Policies tested there have spread to other Chinese cities. America launched “opportunity zones” in 2017, which do away with capital-gains tax for firms investing in poor areas.

The idea that Britain could copy these was outlined by Rishi Sunak, another local Tory MP, in a paper for the Centre for Policy Studies, a think-tank, shortly after the vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Mr Clarke and Mr Houchen argue that Britain should establish free ports nationwide, as a cure for long-term industrial decline and any trade friction caused by Brexit.

Companies are interested. Two metalworks firms have promised to build factories on the Teesside plot, helped by £14m from the central government to prepare the site. PMAC, a Yorkshire-based business, has signed a £250m deal to build a waste-to-energy plant there. And in November a consortium of six big energy companies announced plans to build a gas-powered energy plant, claiming it would be the first in the world to use carbon-capture technology on a large scale.

Economists tend to be sceptical of free ports. By design they create distortions. Cutting taxes in one place encourages firms to move there, but at a cost to other regions. “Enterprise zones”, British forerunners to special economic areas, were found mainly to attract relocating firms, rather than new ones.

Mr Houchen says Teesside can avoid this by focusing on industries without a large presence elsewhere in Britain. He claims the firms investing there would “come to Teesside or not to Britain at all”. That might not solve the problem. Economies operate in equilibrium, says Meredith Crowley, an economist at Cambridge University. A benefit offered to one firm causes relative harm to another. Firms operating in a free port could undercut those outside.

The policy becomes costly over time, as tax revenues are forgone. Special incentives may cut $3bn from Amazon’s tax bill at its new base in New York, which critics say it would have built in America without giveaways. The same idea may apply in Teesside. Chris McDonald of the Materials Processing Institute, a research and advisory firm based there, says that industrial companies need land, power, ports and people, all of which are abundant. As Mr Houchen says, “Once you get people here, they see the other benefits of the site and invest.” If you build it they will come—but they may have come anyway.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "Port in a storm"

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England: the forgotten nation that remade the politics of the UK

It so dominates the Union that Westminster thought it could ignore England’s distinct interests. But recent years have proven politicians ignore voters who identify as English more than British at their peril

Originally posted on the Prospect blog, 14.6.21

John Denham & Lawrence McKay

A thread of political Englishness runs through our nation’s momentous 21st-century upheavals: its first two decades opened with Labour dominance and ended with four Tory victories and the UK outside the EU. The same English power turned the relatively liberal conservatism of early 2016 into Boris Johnson’s “culture warring” party, and left Labour secure only in diverse and graduate-heavy areas of England. Englishness and, more specifically, a politicised Englishness with a strong sense of nation, national interest, democracy and sovereignty has been at the heart of every change.

Most people in England are both English and British to some degree, and it makes little sense to ask them to choose between the two. But most are happy to place themselves on a scale from “more English than British” or “equally English and British” to “more British than English.”

Back in 2001, the political differences between these groups were slight. The “more English” were somewhat more likely to vote Conservative, but this did not stop Labour leading in all three groups. In every subsequent general election, the Conservative share of the “more English” voters rose, from 40 per cent to reach an overwhelming 68 per cent in 2019.

The British Social Attitudes survey suggests the “more English” were becoming fewer in number over this same period, but Labour can take less comfort from that than it might because for the “equally English and British,” Conservative support also climbed steadily—with just one small blip—from 28 to 52 per cent. By 2019, Labour was reduced to one in five of the “more English” and one in three of the “equally English.” Only amongst the “more British” did Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour outpoll the Conservatives.

Even though voters don’t usually explain a Conservative preference by saying “it’s the English thing to do,” these trends really are about politics, not cultural identity. While many ideas of England may be tied up with landscape and literature, music and poetry, sport, history or national institutions, political Englishness is defined by its stance on contemporary issues, which increasingly includes governance.

The more people emphasise their English identity, the more they see England as a nation with political rights. They want English laws to be made only by English MPs, and many want a parliament for England. They see English interests that are distinct from those of the UK as a whole and want political parties to pursue them. UK devolution is seen as unfair to England, with Scotland getting more than its fair share of public spending.

During the 2019 election, the political English told pollsters that Brexit would strengthen England. For them, leaving the EU was more important than keeping Scotland in the Union. But worries about UK devolution and the belief that the EU had too much say over our affairs were entrenching long before Scotland’s 2014 referendum or anyone knew there would be a vote on Brexit. These strong views of nation, national interest, democracy and sovereignty generally command a majority of the “more English,” enjoy more support than opposition amongst the “equally English,” but are largely opposed by the “more British.”

The “more English” are more likely to be found outside the major cities. They are older, whiter, have more socially conservative values and are less likely to have been to university. Immigration has always been of more concern to them—although, contrary to common assertions about racism and xenophobia, the “more English” entered 2020 far more liberal on immigration than they had been in 2001, and only a dwindling minority believe you have to be white to English.

There are strong overlaps with the geographies, demographics and values that are often cited to explain political change, and indeed it is not only by voting for Corbyn that the “more British” have diverged markedly from the rest of England. But it was the aspirations of political Englishness that lit the fuse when their desire to deepen national sovereignty and democracy fused with worries about the impact of rapid immigration from eastern Europe and David Cameron’s government could not deliver on its promised controls. Brexit was of course about Britain, but it appealed most to those English who felt their own nation lost out in both the Union and in Europe. For them, “take back control” spoke to a powerful sense that deciding who “comes here” was an issue of national sovereignty.

From the early noughties to 2014, Ukip’s growing success had panicked Conservative backbenchers, emboldened Tory Eurosceptics and forced David Cameron to concede an EU referendum. In the 2014 EU elections, Ukip took 42 per cent of the votes of the “more English” but just 18 per cent of the “more British.” In the referendum itself, fully 70 per cent of the “more English” voted Leave, the “equally English” split 50:50 while 68 per cent of the “more British” voted Remain, a combination which—even with Scotland and Northern Ireland also breaking for Remain—was sufficient to take the whole of the UK out.

Both Brexit and the politics of nations faded in the 2017 election, but political Englishness re-asserted the importance of sovereignty as parliament descended into deadlock on the withdrawal bill. The newly formed Brexit Party topped the poll in the 2019 EU elections, taking 55 per cent of the “more English” against only 23 per cent of the “more British.” The scene was set for Johnson’s English triumph in the 2019 “Get Brexit Done” election. His remodelled Tories married English social conservatism with a “levelling-up” economic promise worth trying for people whose views and communities had long been ignored. His English coalition won again in Hartlepool last month, one of the most English and least British towns.

Paradoxically, the “more English” have exerted this extraordinary power over politics during two decades when they have been shrinking in number. The younger, more diverse and highly educated “more British” have just overtaken them. But with political Englishness widely shared amongst the “equally English,” its power will not fade just yet. Labour, the Lib Dems and Greens all fish in the same pool of the “more British.” Unless and until there is a progressive appeal to aspirations for democratic nationhood, perhaps within a reformed Union, the Conservatives will still speak most loudly to political Englishness. Meanwhile, those progressives amongst the “more British” who don’t want to reach out to the rest of England may find they are living under English Conservatism for a long time.

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