En Passant

To be honest, I'm so sick of the lot of them I wish they'd just fuck off completely for 5 years. Who bloody cares who leads them or 'unifies' them? How do you unify a disparate bunch of self-serving narcissists anyway? What's the collective for narcissists? Can you even have a group for narcissists? "These and other questions will be answered in the next episode of...." (quiz, what's the show? Only those of a certain age need apply )

"Fun" songs are always a bit marmite though aren't they? Anathema to those who consider themselves musical afficionado's. FWiW I quite like it, which I can't say about agadoo or billy don't be a hero or dozens of others. And good luck downvoting a "gay anthem" in this place . Oh, and also me, I love this track.

My vote is for already just on guns. They kill themselves with an amazing regularity nobody else understands at all.

Breakfast Lunch Dinner/Supper Brunch is an Americanism - dismiss out of hand Tea is a drink Living room in your house Lounge in the pub or airport

A very dark part of me sn iggered at the idea of trying to shout out 'turn left, turn left!" to create havoc. I quickly quashed it as being as distasteful as it is - but you can't help what your mind throws up sometimes.

27 July 42 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 42 Bronski Beat — Smalltown Boy 37 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 37 Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes +4 35 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams 35 Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It 34 Nik Kershaw - The Riddle  34 Queen - I Want to Break Free 30 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 26 Madonna - Like a Virgin 21 Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover  17 Baltimora— Tarzan Boy 17 The Commodores - Nightshift  16 Elton John - Nikita  15 Bananarama - Robert De Niro’s Waiting  14 Dee C. Lee - See the Day  14 U2 - Pride (In The Name of Love) 12 Madonna - Material Girl 06 Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! 00 Colonel Abrams - Set Free -6

27th July  37 Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved +4 34 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss 32 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper — Shallow 30 Lil Nas X — Old Town Road 28 Jess Glynne — I’ll Be There 26 Stormzy — Vossi Bop 26 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid — Eastside 26 Ariana Grande — Thank U, Next 24 Ed Sheeran ft. Khalid — Beautiful People 24 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello — Señorita 24 Ava Max — Sweet But Psycho 22 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith — Promises 21 Demi Lovato ft. Clean Bandit — Solo 20 Drake — In My Feelings 20 Dave ft. Fredo — Funky Friday 20 Ariana Grande — 7 Rings 20 Ed Sheeran ft. Stormzy — Take Me Back To London 18 Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds — Three Lions 17 Ariana Grande — Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 15 Drake — Nice For What 14 Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen — These Days 08 Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran — River 08 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber — I Don’t Care 00 Drake — God’s Plan is coming together nicely -6

There's video's out there of them testing the 'cardboard' beds. But more as a generic jump on test than an entirely accurate one, at least so far.

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Fixed. It'll be the day I post in one of these and don't screw it up somehow.

26th July 33 Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved +4 32 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss -6 28 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper — Shallow 28 Jess Glynne — I’ll Be There 28 Lil Nas X — Old Town Road 26 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid — Eastside 26 Ariana Grande — Thank U, Next 24 Ed Sheeran ft. Khalid — Beautiful People 24 Stormzy — Vossi Bop 24 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello — Señorita 22 Ava Max — Sweet But Psycho 22 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith — Promises 20 Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen — These Days 20 Drake — In My Feelings 20 Dave ft. Fredo — Funky Friday 20 Ariana Grande — 7 Rings 20 Ariana Grande — Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored 20 Ed Sheeran ft. Stormzy — Take Me Back To London 20 Demi Lovato ft. Clean Bandit — Solo 16 Drake — Nice For What 14 Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds — Three Lions 11 Drake — God’s Plan 08 Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran — River 08 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber — I Don’t Care 07 George Ezra — Shotgun 05 Lil Dicky ft. Chris Brown — Freaky Friday There you go. Be careful what you wish for I guess . I did the honour of listening to each and every one of them. Even put them in a spreadsheet with a remark.

21 hours ago, jeez you're a slave driver . And now Book piles in as well . I don't know a single one of these so I have to listen to them all individually, which by all accounts will only be to determine which one is the worst! So I'm not even going to find a single thing I like from the process. I only asked the question about the rules, suddenly I'm committed to this assault on my poor lugholes? Gimme a few.....

38 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 38 Bronski Beat — Smalltown Boy +4 33 Nik Kershaw - The Riddle 32 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 32 Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes 31 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams 31 Queen - I Want to Break Free 30 Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It 27 Baltimora— Tarzan Boy 26 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 26 Madonna - Like a Virgin 24 U2 - Pride (In The Name of Love) 21 Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover 20 Dee C. Lee - See the Day 18 Bananarama - Robert De Niro’s Waiting 17 The Commodores - Nightshift 17 Colonel Abrams - Trapped 17 Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! 16 Madonna - Material Girl 16 Elton John - Nikita 00 Bronski Beat & Marc Almond - I Feel Love (Mouldy) -6

Is there actually anything in the rules that says you absolutely have to use all your points? (i.e. don't use the up ones). Anyway, seems against the spirit even if there isn't. I actually highlighted all of them in the last round and did 'search google' and played them for a bit - the best of them were 'banal and derivative' to me - the worst? Let's not eh?

25 July 36 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy +4 33 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 30 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 29 Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes 27 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams 27 Nik Kershaw - The Riddle 26 Queen - I Want to Break Free 26 Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It 26 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 25 Madonna - Like a Virgin 24 Colonel Abrams - Trapped 21 Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover 20 Bananarama - Robert De Niro’s Waiting 20 Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! 20 The Commodores - Nightshift 20 Dee C. Lee - See the Day 20 Baltimora - Tarzan Boy 19 Elton John - Nikita 18 U2 - Pride (In The Name of Love) 16 Madonna - Material Girl 15 Bronski Beat & Marc Almond - I Feel Love (Medley) 14 Spandau Ballet - Only When You Leave 12 Jimmy Nail - Love Don’t Live Here Anymore 12 UB40 - Don’t Break My Heart 12 Ashford & Simpson - Solid 00 Status Quo - One Marguerita Too Many -6

Owen Jones.....Ach who needs an in depth analysis? Opinionated Twat. Rating 0

That's not exactly what I intended . Perhaps I have to make that clear too. They can hold broadly similar opinions on a given subject without being declared as blood brothers. The fact I personally disagree on this particular subject is neither here nor there really. My semi-rant at Jones should not be inferred as an attack on Wills, it isn't. ETA: This sometime contributor to the same rag and now a Labour MP is more on the wavelength I'm coming from: 'Torsten Bell, the former head of the Resolution Foundation turned Labour MP, said: ' Full piece here for anyone not bored out of their minds already. And no, it doesn't mean I want to marry him either.

That Owen Jones in The Grauniad appears to agree with your view on this @YoungWillz. I'm not really a fan, but alternatively I'm equally happy to draw attention to it even though I largely disagree with his predictably emotive take. I often think some columnists are just people paid (well) to troll for a living. Clickbait draws the numbers. He's one of them. I don't happen to think, "children deserve to live in poverty". As if that needed saying. But you almost have to state that in order to disagree with these people. They avoid rational discourse.

Also, I suspect we're currently all a little* wary of party division concerns taking precedence over needs of the country. Can't imagine why . Starmer and Labour leadership in general will be acutely aware of that. So yes, stamp on it early, and stamp on it hard. Anyway, I shall wait patiently for the next TOC response to be quoted, so I can raise my bp a bit. *for varying values of little, my personal value is MASSIVELY.

As an MP belonging to a political party as opposed to a complete independent you are, like it or not, at least somewhat beholden to the party that supported you to get there. There may well on occasion be justifiable reasons to vote against that party, as a matter of representing a particular constituency or even as a matter of personal conscience but this doesn't appear to be one of them. It looks like grandstanding. As TQR rightly points out this is one of the things the party will doubtless be getting to in due course. It's far far too early to begin this sort of divisive behaviour when it achieves nothing. Or simply abstain eh? I never consider my opinions, I just spout 'em out , so there's that. it's better than TOC though, def.

24 July 28 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 28 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 28 Ultravox - Dancing with Tears in My Eyes +4 26 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 24 Nik Kershaw - The Riddle 24 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams 24 Tina Turner - What’s Love Got to Do With It 23 U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love) 23 Queen - I Want to Break Free 23 Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) 23 Madonna - Like a Virgin 23 Baltimora - Tarzan Boy 22 Elton John - Nikita 21 Bronski Beat & Marc Almond - I Feel Love (Medley) 21 Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover 20 Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! 20 The Commodores - Nightshift 20 Jimmy Nail - Love Don’t Live Here Anymore 20 Dee C. Lee - See the Day 19 Colonel Abrams - Trapped 18 Status Quo - Marguerita Time 18 Bananarama - Robert De Niro’s Waiting 18 Ashford & Simpson - Solid 18 Spandau Ballet - Only When You Leave 16 Madonna - Material Girl 15 UB40 - Don’t Break My Heart -6 13 Red Box - Lean On Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)

Get at him

Despite my views on this threads existence (or at any rate its location). The support for Kamala (pronounced comma-la apparently not like Kampala minus the p) is hugely encouraging, maybe she can actually beat that orange, felonious, lying, narcissistic, would be demagogue after all. I fucking hope so.

Nor me. I love all sorts of things, Beethoven's 7th especially off the top of my head, but it's no pop song and nor is this. It's a decent list actually with, strangely, not one thing I absolutely detest for a change. Jimmy Nail isn't going to make it either but even that I don't hate.