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Huffkin and Oysters. Bus from Canterbury to Margate today. Motorcycle madness. 1970 punks, looked 80 1960 rocker, looked 100 Utterly affectionate pit bulls loving everyone Young lads on screaming Kawasakis One cool middle aged woman on an Indian Brilliant!

Yes, they think they’re as big as Wednesday!

Leeds -never loved, never fashionable, going all the way back to the ‘65 final when they had the temerity to equalize against cool Liverpool. Dad was a Bradford man, but a soft spot for Leeds was put into me from an early age. The idea that a club or all its supporters are horrible tout court is...

Time warp on those last two posts! It is very tricky to advocate for one set of policies and people while saying, of course, what I'd really like is much more radical. This is not the preserve of any part of the political spectrum. Everyone does it, but voters sense the fingers crossed behind...

Everyone knows we do straightforward, limb-breaking, whereas they’re more into shifty knife-work.

Elliot Automation

entertaining match. Somehow, it never looked like United would concede. City looked like Gills.

Good news and good fun !

Many things, but never boring! 👍🏻

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/grateful-dead-heads-trump-supporters-1234821260/#! https://www.facebook.com/groups/681939806014164/ No idea how representative of anything these are, but just knew I'd find them if I looked. I was stunned the first time I met a very conservative person who...

Just because a place kits itself out with all the trappings of a pub, doesn’t make it a real pub.

There is a tide in the affairs of men. Starmer and Gills both on the up and drawn together. Most auspicious!

I think my argument would still work, only substituting the requirements for being a subject (were this still the case) for those of being a citizen.

Good point and very pertinent to Canterbury! What constitutes a community and membership of it is the big political question. I was not thinking of subunits such as a constituency with its own interests and values. I was thinking of the state, the highest and most inclusive political grouping...

I wouldn't link voting rights to paying taxes, nor to those affected by decisions. The tax link moves us towards economic conceptions of citizenship and ideas about those with property and those who pay having more standing than those who do not. The idea that people affected by decisions should...