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Monthly Archives: July, 2013

  • Beneath the paving stone, the plug. July 31, 2013

“Yeah, no I’m on Twitter … nah, it’s shit.”

  • RT @MGreenwoodWW: Labour will close Tory loopholes which allow developers to put up 'slums' mirror.co.uk/news/politics/… 3 hours ago
  • In uncharacteristically organised fashion, have had my hot takes on the political legacy of Britpop ready to go in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 5 hours ago
  • RT @shirleymush: Actually quite looking forward to Britpop musicians having to grudgingly make peace with Britpop era music journalists who… 5 hours ago
  • (Trying to write something on the Country and the City in Brexit rhetoric, for my sins.) 12 hours ago
  • Raymond Williams, on country pubs: "it is part of the ideology that the country is where you go on Sunday". Casuall… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 12 hours ago
  • RT @HPS_Vanessa: Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, the women behind #YourSlipIsShowing saw the alt-right threat coming. https://t… 16 hours ago
  • RT @byers90: You know, although the spectacle of a bunch of ageing right wing men lining up to have a pop at a teenaged climate change acti… 1 day ago

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