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Larry David confronts a tucked in videographer (played by Mike Castle)  about his sweater wearing tendencies in a season 11 episode of  Curb...

Simon Reynolds and Stephen Alexander    I.   Thank you for your remarks on a recent post entitled ' Destroy Success ' (7 Nov 2025), ...

A remembrance poppy [1]      One of the things I don't like about the poppy-wearing period in the UK [2] is that it has become overly p...

  And Still You Wear That Happy Face ...   (SA/2025) [1]     I.    Whilst totalitarian regimes do not enforce happiness and demand that citi...

Based on an original design by Jamie Reid (1979) [1]    I.    It's hard to believe that November next year is the 50th anniversary of th...

Uniq Poet and Bluesss:  Straight Outta Kathmandu (2019) They 'hip to the hop like a black man do ...'     I.    In one of D. H. Lawr...

  Kings Cross, dense with angels and histories,  there are cities beneath your pavements, cities behind your skies.  Let me see! [1]     I...

It is better to laugh at man from inside the Void,  than to weep for him without ...     I.    Regular readers will know that I've recen...

Fig. 1 Welcome to Harold Hill ... where even the local pub is in ruins Some readers might recall a post from 2016 in which I described the s...

  Cover of  Glamour UK  (2025)  Photo by Carly Scott [1]     The so-called  trans issue  - i.e., the debate surrounding transgender rights a...