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Depends how you're framing 'protest'. I think there is 'political' music out there but both music channels and political debate has atomised a lot partly through technology and partly through the rise of various forms of identity politics. You still get big artists like Kendrick making political...

Nothing that interesting really, mostly semi rural areas of India. It's quite weird to encounter people with mobile phones who nonetheless get excited because they've never met a white person in the flesh before. Occasionally I would go places with an american colleague who had bright blonde...

Dinner table joke, she (rightly) likes to moan about UK food culture so we retaliate with references to Chlodnik (bright pink cold beetroot soup).

Indeed, I think I read somewhere that over 25% of Mancunians have Irish DNA of one type or another.

Haha there's a good game in that. Sadly it doesn't work for me, most Irish placenames are anglicisations anyway, I suppose I could have a go at reverse engineering Wytheshawe but even then Irish phonology isn't consistent like (I think?) Scottish Gaelic broadly is. Using your system however...

Your doing well but it looks like when the bell for the last lap is rung it might be down to Bimbo and Fog to uphold the honour of the album thread.

You must hail from a different part of Poland than my eldest's girlfriend as she is more often to be seen holding a beetroot.

Loads of evidence that happiness is not a function of the amount of stuff you have but your appreciation of what you do have. Completely agree re community, I feel we've lost it more quickly than many of our peer.countries. It's quite interesting to be 'the other'. I've been in a few situations...

I'm not sure that's true you know. There's some really interesting research where people are asked to place themselves on a left to right spectrum to create a subjective measure of their leanings. They are then asked a series of specific policy/ideological questions to build up a more objective...

I once had to chuck Clive (Doctor) and Vom from Doctor and the Medics out of my Godmother's pub because they could no longer stand up. They came back the next day to apologise for their behaviour, nice lads.

Good job you weren't around for some of the earlier picks. One of the reasons I know I'm not suited to politics is that if you asked me what one piece of legislation I would bring in given the chance, I would bin the shedload of educational reforms I think we need in favour of introducing a...

That last paragraph was an upbeat end to an otherwise somewhat sad story. Questions of identity are fascinating to me, apparently of the five broad ways we tend to describe our identify, four focus on difference and only one on similarity, yet focus on that one can lead to higher levels of...

If I were a rag (shudders) with a brain (oxymoron) I'd blame him and his four legged friend for quite a lot. Actually none of it was the nag's fault, unless of course that pic is not photoshopped and he really was our special agent.

I know this is not "Who Do you Think You Are?" but how did he end up an enforced Wythenshavian? Not wanting to diss my home town having been born and bred there, but Alderman Jackson's brave vision of the greatest of garden suburbs didn't come off entirely and I imagine it could have been a...