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Alan Stewart Carries A New World Here In His Heart

@LaikaAlan

4 years

When you want to open up a Siouxsie and the Banshees Chinese takeaway but you don’t want to be too obvious.

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Alan Stewart Carries A New World Here In His Heart

@LaikaAlan

2 years

Every year around this time of year I teach the First World War poets and every year I look on as remembrance day is steered further and further away from the messages of Wilfred Owen into some jingoistic performative display. Sickened by it, frankly.

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Case dismissed.

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3 years

I love this photo of a teenage Nick Cave watching The Saints.

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2 years

‘Unionise and collectively bargain’ curiously absent from this article.

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@stefmowords This is hilarious.

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3 years

Proud dad moment. My son got sent out of his English lesson today for calling for the abolition of the monarchy.

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8 months

Fully expecting an announcement that Cillian Murphy is to play Billy Mackenzie in ‘Associate’ - a fantastical biopic of Dundee’s favourite wailer.

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2 years

A few thoughts on Ian Curtis and Joy Division on the anniversary of his death. Those pictures of Ian Curtis on a work night out are probably just as true of him as any of the art he left behind.

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2 years

@patently @RMTunion This would be a great idea but it’s illegal in the uk. Fair play if you’re going to campaign to change the law though!

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10 months

WTF is this? It looks like marketing for a TV drama where Starmer plays an agent who repeatedly has to go back in time to make sure an alpaca dies in order to save the world from a deadly virus.

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3 years

My son at age 6 and 9. If you’re losing your mind at a John Lewis Home Insurance ad because a small boy is wearing a dress and causing havoc around the house it’s quite clear you weren’t a parent when Frozen came out. Grow up. The lot of you. Especially the GC crowd. Pricks.

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1 year

Absolutely mind blowing when you find out who Frances is talking about here.

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1 year

Let me see 4 albums from the 80s that you never get bored of hearing

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@Bevni81

1 year

Let me see 4 albums you love from the 80's that you never get bored of hearing. Post them on your twitter page…

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Rest in Power Tipsy. You were the best cat. X

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1 year

What's a great second album from a band or artist?

Chthönic Smïth

@Chthonic_attack

1 year

What's a great second album from a band or artist?

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4 years

@ProfBrianCox @optimalparmesan Why? Do you not have a core set of values?

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3 years

I still think this is probably the finest @memorialdevice tweet in existence. It has everything.

Memorial Device

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6 years

The MD list of random celebrity encounters: The singer David Slyvian. A rough pub near Euston Station. He absolutely battered us all at pool. Great company. Told us an unrepeatable anecdote about Shirley Bassey.

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Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ

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2 years

@EpochOfWhat He’s retweeting the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust you weapon. If, as your bio claims, you’re interested in ‘how toxic social media has become’ simply look in the mirror.

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5 months

Boo-fucking-hoo.

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2 years

Look how pleased Nick Cave is to meet me!

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6 years

Will Self staring out Mark Francois on #politicslive has made my day.

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3 years

@PedanticPerson @AyoCaesar Having worked at Waterstones in the run up to Christmas their account is more believable because frankly the last thing a retail worker wants to do when they’re that busy is start a contrived culture war argument with a random customer.

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Alan Stewart Carries A New World Here In His Heart

@LaikaAlan

5 months

Watched ‘Godzilla Minus One’ and was unprepared for the beautiful menswear on display. Second only to Warren Beatty’s ‘Reds’ in my list of favourite films where tailoring is a main character. What did you think @dieworkwear ?

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7 months

James Ball has written the worst paragraph you’ll read today.

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1 year

Fucking hell. Humbled.

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1 year

Number 10 Alan Stewart & all of our brilliant, inspirational teachers.

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2 years

@mountai11860984 Hi mountain man bunch of numbers. You’re wrong and an appalling person. Hope this helps.

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@markjenkinsonmp @WorkingtonCLP Here’s something more to your taste.

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1 year

@allforthanookie This last bit is basically David Cameron’s rationale for wanting to be PM.

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10 months

Je reste ma valise.

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10 months

No one has made four good consecutive studio albums., it's impossible

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4 years

@ScaryChildren He hasn’t been banned. I’m teaching him now to Year 8. The whole ‘anti-capitalism’ thing is about ER and BLM being discussed in PHSCE which is troubling. That’s the Orwellian aspect right there.

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3 months

My kid’s off to his first gig tonight. Travis Scott at Co-Op Live. It’s an important moment but he’s strangely reluctant to hear my reminiscences about Fields of the Nephilim at Norwich UEA in 1989.

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As a punk rock girl have you ever listened to Crass?

Steffi

@SteffiP4Liberty

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As a punk rock girl, this turns me off. Stop bringing politics into music!!

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Respect to the guy who shouted out ‘You Fucking Wanker!’ at Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross while he was being interviewed by Cathy Newman on Channel 4 News just now.

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@LaikaAlan

3 years

I’m not crying, you’re crying. RIP Kirsty MacColl x

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7 months

Said it before and will say it again but if, like Melanie Phillips, I’d been quoted approvingly in the manifesto of someone who murdered 77 people, mostly teenagers, then I would be too ashamed to ever show my face in public again.

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2 years

Seven years on and this is still the greatest toilet graffiti I have ever seen.

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2 years

Just in case anyone’s wondering- that tweet I sent to Lee Anderson about Les Dawson being a communist and buried with a copy of Lenin’s ‘State and Revolution’ was completely untrue. But if he can just make up any old nonsense then so can I.

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Nothing sums up my feelings around the current political situation in the UK better than every photo I have ever seen of the poet RS Thomas. Every facial expression a reflection of my own attitude.

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2 years

There’s an ‘i’ in ‘ruin’.

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5 months

Andrew Eldritch is 65 today.

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1 year

This person is talking about ‘The Masque of Anarchy’ by Percy Shelley. Now my criticism of it is that it’s a bit too long but Danielle here seems to hate it because she thinks it’s written by Jeremy Corbyn.

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7 months

Exceptional posting.

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2 years

@CoastKerry These days, if you don’t wear a poppy, you get arrested and thrown in jail.

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“I stole my sister’s boyfriend. It was all whirlwind, heat and flash. Within a week we’d killed my parents and hit the road.”

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1 year

@schneiderhome @alexnunns Did he actually say, “This is about big boy politics”? Utter clown.

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1 year

@OGAride Not a Floyd or Roger Waters fan but honestly- The Wall has been out for almost fifty years and if you don’t know what it’s about that’s your fault and maybe you should watch it first and try and clutch at straws later.

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2 years

Here’s a picture of Labour’s broad church as Twitter reacts to Owen Jones writing a mildly critical and largely irrefutable opinion piece on Sir Keir Starmer.

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Myself, my partner, my son and now my brother are all MD Alternative National Treasures. Is this a record?

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New MD Alternative National Treasures 🙏🏅 @DWill_Crackfilm @petethebroomman @Heshams @dralanwilson @mrmarkroberts @MaureenDunlop1 @burt_cdburt @Indierock_Paris @nickbarleyedin @IRStewart1 @BookwormVaught @RobBfromDerby @SilverDollaClub @carolyates64 @DickieFelton @ITVatnoon

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Steve Albini selling merch at ⁦ @Nath_Brudenell ⁩ 2019. Very sad to hear of his death. Played a major role in so many records I hold close to my heart. RIP X

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3 years

Some absolute horrors on here today. The worst of this country. All the best to Nazanin and her family. Anger is an energy and one she has every right and justification to express.

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Alan Stewart Carries A New World Here In His Heart

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2 years

…thinking this eighty year old man was a post punk obsessive. The picture of him with his grandson in matching shirts is my favourite. My kid doesn’t know anything about Joy Division either.

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11 months

I put ‘Andrew Eldritch from The Sisters of Mercy in the supermarket’ into an AI image generator.

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1 year

Amazing to think At The Drive In’s ‘Relationship of Command’ came out 23 years ago.

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2 years

RIP Ian Curtis. Thanks for everything x

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@JonMao___

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@DrMatthewSweet My mother, who’s now in her eighties spent her last decade working as a waitress in a hotel. At one function some obnoxious tool asked for a blow job. At this point she was in her 60s, didn’t know what he meant and just told him in her confusion that they were coming soon.

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7 months

Mum’s come to stay so playing her some of her records that she can’t any more.

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@Ecoclown @Alec_Eiffel85 Fixed it.

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1 year

@Keir_Starmer You sound worse than Nicholas Witchell on viagra.

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2 years

In other news I just watched ‘In Bruges’ with my 13 yr old kid and we had just the best time ever.

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4 years

Just finished ‘Lowborn’ by @ThatKerryHudson and cannot recommend it enough. Essential reading for all teachers to remind ourselves of the barriers many students face before they even get through the door. The Seagull Theatre where I spent so much of my youth gets a mention too.

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3 years

Skipping into Leeds city centre, two whiskies in, Beastie Boys on my headphones, twirling my umbrella. I am 48 years old.

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@LaikaAlan

8 months

This is lovely.

Echo & the Bunnymen

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Our mate @BrettAndersonHQ of @suedeHQ has just released a stunning version of ‘The Killing Moon’, the lead track from the new full-length album, ‘Death Songbook’ by Paraorchestra with Brett Anderson and Charles Hazlewood (featuring Nadine Shah and Gwenno) is available now!

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@Walshicus1 @IanDunt Ah, but then Ian Dunt would have to be wrong about something and if you position yourself in the sensible centre you can never be wrong.

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Suede. Fucking hell. What a frontman.

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2 years

@Botanygeek Well done. From my teens to my thirties The Observer was my favourite newspaper. Now I’m nearing fifty I wouldn’t even wipe my arse with it.

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My partner, who lectures at the university, has been ill all week and finally tested positive for Covid yesterday so I’m going into school to spread it around a bit. Spiralling cases in the UK but no need to have any precautions in place because it’s all over and completely safe.

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3 years

This is a perfect song. RIP Chris Bailey x

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4 years

@sharpygreen It was in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November and December. Actually it carries on pretty straight through October unless you think a few assemblies about Mary Seacole have completely destroyed the foundations of your limited worldview.

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1 year

At the start of the new Netflix Wham! documentary there is a shot of the young George Michael posing next to a spray painted Crass symbol. If there is a more vivid depiction of the two wolves inside of me, I have yet to see it.

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2 years

I think this is a stunning piece of footage. RIP Paul Ryder. Happy Mondays: Wrote For Luck, Manchester, 1989.

Happy Mondays: Wrote For Luck, Manchester, 1989.

The Other Side of Midnight, 1989, presented by Tony Wilson.

www.youtube.com

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I am an ‘ex-goth’ of 1980s vintage. Financially things are a little bit tight right now. The Cult and The Mission are playing the Halifax Piece Hall in a couple of weeks time. I’ll regret it if I don’t go won’t I?

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@kelvmackenzie

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It’s happened again in Porto. Every time I visit a major European city I see a heterosexual (I assume) goth couple and the woman is always on crutches. No word of a lie. Prague, Venice, Ibiza, London- every single one. Too many to list now.

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This is currently getting its first outing for about twenty years. What an album!

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1 year

Arf.

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@IanDunt Can you not read? He says they’re going to win right there in the article. The issue is whether they will do any good or not and whether they will have too much power.

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Thanks to everyone who offered their commiserations about Tipsy’s death. It came out of the blue and we’re totally shocked but she was lovely xx

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"Does anyone ever say, you know what, you've done a f***ing good job because everyone else has sat on their a**** and done nothing.”

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The ‘sinister agenda’ here is fair pay and better working conditions after a decline in both for over a decade. If things don’t improve for us you can be sure they won’t for you.

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Writing in The Daily Telegraph with a byline picture that makes it look like you’ve just licked piss off a nettle and you talk about the cynicism of people who actually do a job for a living? The gall.

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When I worked at Waterstone’s I once sold Alan Bennett a copy of Primo Levi’s ‘If This Is a Man’. Hope he’s having a lovely birthday.

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Happy 90th Birthday to our favourite customer of all time, Alan Bennett

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@Joey7Barton Horseshoe theory is attractive to those that view themselves in the political centre because it allows them to think of themselves as sensible and moderate. Whereas they are no more immune to harmful ideas than anyone else. Basically horseshoe theory is bollocks.

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@IBHough Quite frankly, my picture of Brett Anderson from last night trumps it.

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1 year

As it’s the anniversary of The Pogues’ ‘Rum, Sodomy and the Lash’ today here’s a photo of me in the Louvre with ‘The Raft of the Medusa’. I look very awkward in it but I was soooo excited!

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@FerociousHotdog @BigotsBiteMe @salanaland @Applecookedgod @MoonHowler98 @Qaus_and_Quzah @EliErlick You don’t know what abstract means when reading an academic paper do you? And you’ve made a colossal tit of yourself while being extremely rude and aggressive online. Well done.

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@Docstockk @Nina_Compact @compactmag_ I did Nazi that coming.

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Just an observation as I was driving down to East Anglia and listening to this. If, like me, you only really know the Bauhaus cover of ‘Third Uncle’ when the Brian Eno original comes on it just sounds like The Wedding Present circa 1987. Not something I ever expected to say.

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My kid is 15 today and I love him so much x

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3 years

@scalyonee1977 ‘Best of British’ is really a misnomer as far as your account name goes, isn’t it?

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@chrismullinexmp It’s an idea but teachers are setting and assessing work, contacting student checking they’re ok, supervising students in school, planning for next year, driving round with good parcels and all the while trying to home school and look after their own children and deal with the

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@WoodIandWitch Why has he got Ena Sharples from Coronation Street wearing a bowler and smoking a cigar etched into his shoulder blade? Surreal.

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