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@floboflo Forensic analysis of politics is dead on every platform. It's been replaced by 'sound-nibbles' & 'gotcha' moments. The media,of every stripe is chock full of imbeciles,or worse,plying an idiotic trade for a 10 second clip in what is left of the limelight. It's infuriating.

Having Tom Skinner on Question Time is like having um…Tom Skinner on Strictly.

@MalHay @brendangrady11 What you see around you is the creation of the Tories - natural lag between policy & effect hides the progress that Labour have made. Its not healthy to have trial by social media for any government - it creates a febrile atmosphere & stupid people draw the wrong conclusions

@brendangrady11 You need to step outside and look around you

I'm 78, I've seen many governments come & go over that time & never seen such a disastrous PM & government so totally out of their depth, sowing the seeds of division destroying our lives culture & country I just pray I live long enough to see a new light dawn on this country 🇬🇧

@MalHay Our PM ,& probably the last 4/5 have suffered greatly from media overexposure. I remember back to the first Wilson government,& they basically just got on with it,without a public outcry every 2.5 seconds - currently they spend more time on the back-foot than actually governing

@MissAlly_01 How could you Treet them like that?

I guessed orange, but it was chocolate. I guessed toffee, but it was peanut. I guessed strawberry, but it was coffee. I was wrong on so many Revels.

@james_xond Arcade- Boot Hill. Home- Pong.

Without telling me your age… what was the very FIRST video game you ever played?

@HenryRileyA6 @XMartinsMusicX You should. Beware of YouTube, because the quality if the live gigs in there is ultra dodgy. I saw them in a little club,supporting Kirk Brandon's Spear of Destiny. I think Derek played bass for Spear at some point ( but not that night- it was Craig Adams).

@sideeply @XMartinsMusicX I'll have to take a look into 'The Dark'. All the best SM recordings seemed to have Derek on bass. Such a stylish player.

early Simple Minds were a bit special 👏👏👏 Simple Minds - I Travel (1980) ▶️

@thatuapgirl Smiths S&V were always blue, their Chipsticks still are. M&S still use blue for all S&V. I can't remember whether Walkers were ever blue but I don't think so.

UK Folks. Salt and vinegar crisps used to be in the blue coloured packets. That’s the timeline I lived in. I remember when it changed to green. Who else lived this timeline with me?

@HenryRileyA6 @XMartinsMusicX Yep. A year or so ago I saw Derek do Simple Minds classics (& a few new tunes) with The Dark ,& not only was it a bass driven pumping sound but Derek sings better than Jim ever did. Tellingly, The Dark don't even have a guitarist. (or need one) Bass,Drums,Keys. Blistering....

@sideeply @XMartinsMusicX When Derek Forbes left, all the creativity also left.

@Bounce_BackLoan @LeeAndersonMP_ @reformparty_uk What? Like Moss Bros. Suits you sir. Doesn't fit, though.

@LeeAndersonMP_ @reformparty_uk It's like an older version of Bros.

Car Karaoke... Whilst driving to @reformparty_uk events to speak with my mate Terry this is how I relax before the show starts. Hope you enjoy and we may even take requests. This was on our way to Leeds on Tuesday. Lefty tears incoming 💧💧😭😭

@ManicMi87418204 @LeeAndersonMP_ @reformparty_uk I don't think so. I could hear howling, but no yap yap yapping.

@LeeAndersonMP_ @reformparty_uk Is June Slater in the back seat?

@anon_opin & yet How to be a ....Zillionaire is a corker.

There's never been a more glorious career-sabotaging album by a chart-topping pop artist than ABC's "Beauty Stab" in 1983, the follow-up to "The Lexicon Of Love".

@ArfurSmith You plank, should have called it a Balham Blini & you'd be a shoo in. It's all abaht the moniker, innit?

I sent in a picture to celebrity master chef of marmite on toast I made and they haven’t even replied!

@TomGallagher42 @DreyfusJames No thanks, I've just put one out.

@sideeply @DreyfusJames Needle nardle noo

BBC said ‘no’ to a documentary about perhaps the most influential comic & radio show of all time. Let that sink in…

@miradasurfs Yep,cool,dude. I think it's Tele time now! Twaannngggg!

@sideeply Ok cool. Makes sense. Thanks🤘

The day Fender gave The Beatles equipment- Along with Harrison’s rosewood Tele, Fender presented them with new silverface amps - three Twin Reverb combos and a Bassman stack-along with a Fender Rhodes Suitcase piano #guitarist

@AvonandsomerRob Here's the thing. My daughter (11) is a right live wire,& will create havoc at any opportunity ( in a reasonable way), but I take her to Costa and we sit,I have a double espresso & she has a 'babyccino' & whatever pastry she wants & it's the most peaceful ¾ hour of the week

When I pay £5 to sit in Costa for a bit if peace for half an hour with a coffee, I don't expect the place to be used as a creche by screaming kids. Should there be a minimum age for kids to be allowed into coffee chains? I'd suggest 5, and that's being generous..

@TomsPedalDemos Dunno about you, but I WANT to but it just doesn't sound good. It is a crying matter, for sure!

@sideeply Same here with the wah!!😫

It is now the Question of the day. You know you have one. Name A pedal you own, but don’t fully understand yet.

@hunkenjoyer @DeadsoundApp It's gotta be Jason, for me. Last week was the 13th anniversary of his passing. I play a Songs: Ohia tune every damn day. & Each time I pick up my guitar I play through "Soul" FIRST just because I can/must. I miss that guy.

@DeadsoundApp Gun to my head, I'm only allowed to pick one, you have to pull the trigger I'm sorry

The most beautiful studio album closer of all time is “Find the River” on REM’s Automatic for the People.” I would love to hear other candidates (while warning that they’ll likely be deemed incorrect).

@DeadsoundApp It's Joy Divisions 'Decades', from Closer , totally haunting & beautiful in a melancholy, heart wrenching way - but yes, Find the River is a very very close 2nd for me.