BY NICHOLAS ENGERT When I was growing up in the 1960’s there stood in the corner of our sitting room a magnificent Grundig wireless set. This was radio as furniture – a statement. A polished mahogany cabinet with a facia comprising a loudspeaker grille, below which was the backlit glass “dial” which listed the radio stations from around the world. To either side of the … Continue reading Radio Days
BY MAX WALLER After the never-ending demonisation and disregard of the working class by the political class ever since the death of Britpop around 1997, it occurs to me that in Starmer’s Soviet Britain, where he’s promised (paraphrasing ‘New Labour’s’ slogan) that ‘things will only get worse’ and not better, the timing of the ten Oasis concerts spread across London, Manchester, Scotland, and Ireland for … Continue reading Don’t Look Back In Anger
