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Talk Talk - "My Foolish Friend" (1983) The London band had a hit with this in the year the wearing of seatbelts in vehicles became mandatory in the UK, the CD first went on sale in the UK, Aberdeen became the last team as of today to beat Real Madrid in a major European Final, people protested...

Linkin Park - "The Emptiness Machine" (2024) The Californian rockers are back following the suicide of Chester Bennington. New album, "From Zero", is released on 15th November

After the world's oldest surviving political party suffered its worse defeat in 200 years on 4th July, the Conservative and Unionist Party is now electing its new leader. Priti Patel has been knocked out in the first round. Kemi Badenoch is the favourite to win although Robert Jenrick leads...

I reckon a combination of the two is the most likely theory.

Queen Camilla toured the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust’s new Dyson Cancer Centre, that centralises most of its cancer services under one roof where up to 300 patients can be treated daily. The Queen, who is enjoying a high popularity rating, spoke with patients receiving...

King Charles III has hosted the Prime Minister Keir Starmer at Balmoral Castle in Crathie, Aberdeenshire. The Head of Government and his wife Victoria were invited to the British royal residence in Crathie by the Head of State. The Starmers arrived at Balmoral on Saturday and the PM and the...

Either Starmer has a worse case of Alzheimer's than America's "Labour" President or both Starmer and Biden are a bit dim.

Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer today accidentally called former PM Rishi Sunak "Prime Minister" five times during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons when MPs grill the PM. Prime Minister's Questions is a weekly tradition in the Commons in our democracy when the people's...

Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi ft Deep Purple's Glenn Hughes - "Dopamine" (2024) Iommi originally wanted to be Sabbath's drummer, but had to settle for being the guitarist instead. As a guitarist he was inspired by Hank Marvin and The Shadows and plays left handed. Ozzy Osbourne was Sabbath's...

The Rasmus - "Time to Burn" (2003)

James Cleverly - the Home Secretary on the day the Tories were demolished in the General Election - has launched his Tory leadership bid. The MP for Braintree, who is also an Army Reserve officer, does not believe that Prime Minister Keir Starmer will live up to his promise to spend 2.5% of GDP...

Robert Jenrick has launched his Tory leadership in London, saying he has a plan to fix "this great country". Jenrick: "We are a great country. It's not often we say this because it's not in the British nature to say it. But it does need repeating from time to time. Britain's contribution to the...

Former Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch launches her Conservative Party leadership bid in central London. Speaking at the launch of her Conservative leadership campaign, Ms Badenoch said the Tories will not win back trust of the British people by simply "pointing out how terrible Labour are."...

I don't drive cars. I drive man-ups and forklifts for a living.

I'm happy the way it is now. I work as an FLT operator on several different trucks on the 12pm-8pm shift. There are two other shifts: 8am to 4pm and 10pm to 6am. I'm happy and content with the shift I work, even though it's now starting to get dark when I come out of work at 8pm. I don't give a...

Former Home Secretary Priti Patel has called Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer some nasty names as she launched her bid to become the new Tory leader and future British PM as the Conservative Party - the world's oldest surviving political party - repairs itself after it suffered one of the...

Britain's Far Left Government wants to reduce the five day working week to a four day working week. To receive their full pay, the Labour Government say employees would still have to work their full hours but compressed into a shorter working week - something some workplaces already do. It is...

Would you rather take off from Earth on the Enterprise or on a rocket? For me, the Enterprise would be a doddle, but I don't fancy going to space on a rocket. I've seen the Challenger footage many times through my life.

I reckon it was Oasis and Bob Geldof who led to Hutchence doing himself him. Who can remember when Hutchence presented a Brit Award to Oasis in 1996 and Oasis attacked him? He topped himself the year after.

You need to look back to the era... In 1997 when the Australian band released that song they were seen as being Eighties and outdated, whereas Oasis were seen as being Nineties and trendy and modern and contemporary. It was a desperate and panicky move by INXS, just before Hutchence committed...