Everything posted by Suedehead2
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The UK Top 40 singles of the 1980s: listening sessions + polls: next session 18 Oct
Best Enola Gay Army Dreamers Fashion Three Little Birds Dog Eat Dog Worst My Old Piano Loving Just For Fun Love X Love
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The Online Safety Act
One of the worst aspects of UK governance, including local government, is a lack of review. Governments and councils implement something, then forget about it. For major changes, there should be a presumption that there will be a review after a suitable period, perhaps a year. The departmental committees would be the obvious vehicle for this at government level. In the case of the Online Safety Act, a review should happen sooner. It should be started after the summer recess. Either websites are being excessively cautious, or the legislation is badly drafted. The government should accept that they may have enacted bad legislation, and order a review.
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John's 1994 Charts
Back in 1992, two years before SevenSeconds, I saw Youssou N’Dour three times in three different capital cities. None of it was planned, I just happened to be in Banjul, Copenhagen and Paris at the right time. Now, I was flicking through French television channels and stumbled across a Youssou N’Dour gig recorded in June, just in time for Seven Seconds!
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Buzzjack Premier League Prediction Competition 2025/26
Liverpool 3-2 Bournemouth Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle United Brighton & Hove Albion 3-1 Fulham Sunderland 1-2 West Ham United Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 Burnley Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-2 Man City Chelsea 4-1 Crystal Palace Nottingham Forest 2-0 Brentford Manchester United 1-0 Arsenal Leeds United 2-3 Everton
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The UK Top 40 singles of the 1980s: listening sessions + polls: next session 18 Oct
Ashes To Ashes Biko Eighth Day Tom Hark Bankrobber Worst One Day I’ll Fly Away Give Me The Night Oops Upside Your Head
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Suedehead2’s Substitute Chart Commentary 8th Aug 2025: Chappell Roan grabs a 2nd number one.
Great to see a new peak for Richard Hawley!
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OPINION POLLS 2024-2029
What a surprise. Ed Davey leads in all head-to-heads but seems to have been left out of the next set of questions.
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Friday Chart Predictions
It does, and is is very big. Bear in mind that even 10! is about 3.5 million.
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Friday Chart Predictions
I could have worked it out but it would have taken too long. It is approximately 2.7*10^32. For a sense of just how big that number is, here are some significantly smaller numbers - Number of drops of water in the Pacific Ocean - 10^25 Age of the universe in seconds - 4*10^17 Number of grains of sand to fill the Grand Canyon - 4*10^19
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Friday Chart Predictions
Oops, that should have been 30! Just for clarification, I don’t mean 30 factorial which is a very big number.
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Friday Chart Predictions
Much as I love Slide Away, it’s a bit depressing that we might have just two new entries with one of them being over 39 years old.
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Friday Chart Predictions
The Subway is quite pleasant. I look forward to hearing The Greggs, The Pret A Manger and The Boots Meal Deal.
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2025 Cricket Thread
It was rather tense updating Cricinfo regularly here in France before I headed for the beach.
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TV Shows you're watching in 2026
Mix Tape, now on iPlayer, was great. Fantastic music as well as good drama.
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Friday Chart Predictions
I think you need to check the odds of winning the lottery!
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2025 Cricket Thread
An early finish today gives us yet another twist in the last match of an extraordinary series. England need 35 runs; India need four wickets. What are the odds on a tie?
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Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight
Fabulous, obviously.
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Trump: Folie à Deux (US Politics Thread)
His Orangeness has imposed hefty tariffs on Switzerland for no obvious reason. My guess is that either he once choked on a Toblerone or was frightened by a cuckoo clock. I assume Swiss journalists are now trying to find evidence that the orange blob has a numbered Swiss bank account.
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Suedehead2 Chart Commentary 1st August 2025: The K‘s slay on singles & albums: KPop Demon Hunters and The K’s.
The OCC has indeed described Tim Minchin as a multihyphenate. At least it’s a bit more accurate in his case.
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Suedehead2 Chart Commentary 1st August 2025: The K‘s slay on singles & albums: KPop Demon Hunters and The K’s.
Maybe The Ks should get together with the remaining members of The Specials. I still can’t think of Showaddywaddy without hearing Hugh Dennis’s impression of Jimmy Savile saying their name.
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Suedehead2 Chart Commentary 1st August 2025: The K‘s slay on singles & albums: KPop Demon Hunters and The K’s
I assume you are getting over the trauma of having to report what is at number one.
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Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn launch new party
It’s rather like the German Die Linke which grew from the East German Communist party. Still , I’m sure the right-wing press won’t make that link
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The Online Safety Act
The Online Safety Act has not been rushed through. The process started under the last government. They were slow to implement it precisely because it is so difficult to get the legislation right.
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Final | Women's Euro 2025
In three knockout matches England led for a total of four minutes.
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Final | Women's Euro 2025
Three Euros in a row for Wiegman.