Tag: France
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RC 384: Tender Silence of Night – Deep Dive #2
It has only taken me a year and a half to get around to the second Deep DIve (!) – I was going to put this out in a few months after the first Deep Dive but never got around to it. The catalyst for this bonus podcast was a new controller – the five…
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RC 383: Cha Cha Charles / House Proud
Royal Blood is in the air – from that band to musically eviscerating King Charles III and his Coronation with some Royalty Free Music, after we Cha Cha Cha our way around Eurovision, kick off Pride month and pay tribute to Tina Turner who sadly recently died. She was a legend. Disco, punk, hiphop, indie…
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London 1932 & England during World War 1 in colour
Not sure if it’s the music or the window into the London of nearly a century ago, but I find this really moving. There’s something I’ve said before about old footage like this of my city and a city I’ve known for a long time, but seeing it through the lens of the past that…
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RC 371: Don’t Truss it / Kings & Queens
Aka a Tale of Two Lizzes…. one Liz leaves as another arrives as I go away for a month and we get not only a new Prime Minister Liz Truss but a new monarch? So of course I have to start with God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols not Elgar – they cancelled the…
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Brexit Visa Chaos
Brexit has been a shit-show from the start – still waiting for the ‘Sunlit Uplands’ and all these benefits that were going to shower gold from the skies we were promised by Brexiteers and politicians. What I do have is suppliers I cannot buy from because of the VAT/Customs chaos of stupidly bringing in a…
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The Piggybank Papers
Great video about Mossack Fonseca and the tax EVASION* (no, not ‘avoidance’) scandal from Panama. Interesting thing though is that NO – read ZERO – North American people have been mentioned in the leaks so far. (video via Jez Biggs) Could this be something to do with where International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (who revealed…