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Danny's Chart: 13th August 2017
TW - LW / Artist / “Song” / (Peak- if not current)
01 - 01 The xx “I Dare You” *2 weeks at #1*
02 - 05 Bicep “Aura”
03 - 07 Indian Wells “Cascades”
04 - 02 Arcade Fire “Everything Now” (01)
05 - 04 Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton “Fatal Gift” (04)
06 - 09 ionnalee “Not Human”
07 - 03 Rae Morris “Reborn” (03)
08 - 15 The National “Guilty Party”
09 - 06 The War on Drugs “Thinking of a Place” (01)
10 - 14 Mura Masa ft. Christine and the Queens “Second 2 None”
11 - 16 Run The Jewels “Don't Get Captured”
12 - 19 Four Tet “Two Thousand And Seventeen”
13 - 22 The War on Drugs “Holding On”
14 - 08 Carly Rae Jepsen “Cut To The Feeling” (05)
15 - 18 Charli XCX “Boys”
16 - 11 Feist ft. Jarvis Cocker “Century” (11)
17 - 21 The Horrors “Machine”
18 - 10 Lorde “Perfect Places” (07)
19 - 13 Public Service Broadcasting “They Gave Me A Lamp” (13)
20 - 30 Jessie Ware “Midnight”
21 - 12 Zola Jesus “Exhumed” (09)
22 - 33 Broken Social Scene “Vanity Pail Kids”
23 - 37 Grizzly Bear “Neighbors” *Biggest Climber*
24 - 27 Kero Kero Bonito “Forever Summer Holiday”
25 - 17 The National “The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness” (02)
26 - 32 Dizzee Rascal “Wot U Gonna Do?”
27 - 40 The Killers “Run For Cover”
28 - 23 Sylvan Esso “The Glow” (15)
29 - 20 Danger Mouse ft. Run The Jewels & Big Boi “Chase Me” (03)
30 - 36 Declan McKenna “Humongous”
31 - 42 Ghostpoet “Freakshow”
32 - 24 Maggie Rogers “Alaska” (19)
33 - 45 Everything Everything “Desire”
34 - 26 alt-J “In Cold Blood” (03)
35 - NE Gorillaz ft. Peven Everett “Strobelite” *Highest New Entry*
36 - 39 Dusky “Cold Heart”
37 - 46 DJ Shadow ft. Danny Brown “Horror Show”
38 - NE Kelela “LMK” *New Entry*
39 - 31 LCD Soundsystem “Call The Police / American Dream” (01)
40 - NE Orbital “Copenhagen” *New Entry*
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In other EU related news, a former Daily Mail hack, James Chapman, has been trying to build up momentum for a new political party called "Democrats", which from what I can gather is a Macron-inspired centrist party which is avowedly pro-EU, which hopes to pick up support both from Remain-leaning Tories, as well as from Labour members unhappy about Corbyn's gung-ho attitude towards a hard Brexit. They're due to launch next month, and despite them not technically existing as a political party yet, they've had some "success", so to speak, with one betting firm giving them 200-1 odds of getting the most seats at the next general election (for comparison's sake, Ukip is currently as 250-1).
I will be surprised if this takes off beyond the initial momentum for several reasons. The main one being that an avowedly pro-EU party, the Lib Dems, barely made any gains in June when they ran on that platform. Secondly, the FPTP system would keep them from gaining any real seats, unless they were able to gain a few defections from current MPs (and if they did, the two that have been mentioned as possible turncoats, Heidi Allen & Anna Soubry, would go down like a lead balloon among quite a few people). And let's not forget what happened to the SDP. The other issue is that I'm not sure whether the name would get past the Electoral commission, as they may view the name "Democrats" as too generic, and possibly too similar to current UK parties, so I imagine a change of name may be in order before next month.
They'd get more votes by simply rebranding the Liberal Democrats as the following:
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Danny's Chart: 6th August 2017
TW - LW / Artist / “Song” / (Peak- if not current)
01 - 02 The xx “I Dare You” *New #1*
02 - 01 Arcade Fire “Everything Now” (01)
03 - 03 Rae Morris “Reborn”
04 - 06 Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton “Fatal Gift”
05 - 08 Bicep “Aura”
06 - 04 The War on Drugs “Thinking of a Place” (01)
07 - 14 Indian Wells “Cascades”
08 - 05 Carly Rae Jepsen “Cut To The Feeling” (05)
09 - 12 ionnalee “Not Human”
10 - 07 Lorde “Perfect Places” (07)
11 - 13 Feist ft. Jarvis Cocker “Century”
12 - 09 Zola Jesus “Exhumed” (09)
13 - 17 Public Service Broadcasting “They Gave Me A Lamp”
14 - 20 Mura Masa ft. Christine and the Queens “Second 2 None”
15 - 32 The National “Guilty Party” *Biggest Climber*
16 - 24 Run The Jewels “Don't Get Captured”
17 - 11 The National “The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness” (02)
18 - 31 Charli XCX “Boys”
19 - 26 Four Tet “Two Thousand And Seventeen”
20 - 10 Danger Mouse ft. Run The Jewels & Big Boi “Chase Me” (03)
21 - 27 The Horrors “Machine”
22 - 30 The War on Drugs “Holding On”
23 - 15 Sylvan Esso “The Glow” (15)
24 - 19 Maggie Rogers “Alaska” (19)
25 - 16 Jorja Smith “Teenage Fantasy” (10)
26 - 18 alt-J “In Cold Blood” (03)
27 - 33 Kero Kero Bonito “Forever Summer Holiday”
28 - 23 Washed Out “Hard to Say Goodbye” (23)
29 - 22 Ariel Pink “Another Weekend” (22)
30 - 42 Jessie Ware “Midnight”
31 - 25 LCD Soundsystem “Call The Police / American Dream” (01)
32 - 35 Dizzee Rascal “Wot U Gonna Do?”
33 - 45 Broken Social Scene “Vanity Pail Kids”
34 - 21 Everything Everything “Can't Do” (14)
35 - 39 Susanne Sundfør “Undercover”
36 - 41 Declan McKenna “Humongous”
37 - NE Grizzly Bear “Neighbors” *Highest New Entry*
38 - 28 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny” (01)
39 - 47 Dusky “Cold Heart”
40 - NE The Killers “Run For Cover” *New Entry*
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The car market is joining the housing market as being gamed by dodgy lending:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/sear...=clnk&gl=uk
The amount of money being borrowed to buy new cars has trebled over the past eight years to more than £30bn and there are growing concerns over the lack of financial checks made on potential borrowers.Motorists can be offered loans worth more than their own salaries in a growing scandal which has echoes of the sub-prime mortgage boom which helped spark the global financial crisis.
I'm sure it's all under control though.
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I am really properly gutted about Cumulonimbia because my top 2 were soooooo close and Cumulonimbia were actually ahead on my first listen, those extra 2 points would have actually seen them through. :cry: Maybe my new favourite DNQ of the year (or 2nd to 'Touched By The Sun').
Don't be, I'm just glad that you made a great discovery out of it Bré!
Really happy that Primitive Radio Gods made it through. Excellent. : )
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Doctor Blind Chart - 30th July 2017
TW - LW / Artist / “Song” / (Peak- if not current)
01 - 01 Arcade Fire “Everything Now” *2 weeks at #1*
02 - 04 The xx “I Dare You”
03 - 03 Rae Morris “Reborn”
04 - 02 The War on Drugs “Thinking of a Place” (01)
05 - 06 Carly Rae Jepsen “Cut To The Feeling”
06 - 08 Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton “Fatal Gift”
07 - 11 Lorde “Perfect Places”
08 - 13 Bicep “Aura”
09 - 09 Zola Jesus “Exhumed”
10 - 05 Danger Mouse ft. Run The Jewels & Big Boi “Chase Me” (03)
11 - 07 The National “The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness” (02)
12 - 19 ionnalee “Not Human”
13 - 16 Feist ft. Jarvis Cocker “Century”
14 - 23 Indian Wells “Cascades”
15 - 18 Sylvan Esso “The Glow”
16 - 10 Jorja Smith “Teenage Fantasy” (10)
17 - 22 Public Service Broadcasting “They Gave Me A Lamp”
18 - 12 alt-J “In Cold Blood” (03)
19 - 25 Maggie Rogers “Alaska”
20 - 27 Mura Masa ft. Christine and the Queens “Second 2 None”
21 - 14 Everything Everything “Can't Do” (14)
22 - 26 Ariel Pink “Another Weekend”
23 - 31 Washed Out “Hard to Say Goodbye”
24 - 29 Run The Jewels “Don't Get Captured”
25 - 15 LCD Soundsystem “Call The Police / American Dream” (01)
26 - 37 Four Tet “Two Thousand And Seventeen”
27 - 33 The Horrors “Machine”
28 - 20 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny” (01)
29 - 17 Alvvays “In Undertow” (06)
30 - 41 The War on Drugs “Holding On”
31 - NE Charli XCX “Boys” *Highest New Entry*
32 - 49 The National “Guilty Party” *Biggest Climber*
33 - 39 Kero Kero Bonito “Forever Summer Holiday”
34 - 21 Wolf Alice “Yuk Foo” (21)
35 - 43 Dizzee Rascal “Wot U Gonna Do?”
36 - 24 Cigarettes After Sex “Apocalypse” (05)
37 - 30 Phoenix “J-Boy” (05)
38 - 40 Sigrid “Plot Twist”
39 - 47 Susanne Sundfør “Undercover”
40 - 28 Day Wave “Promises” (28)
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Doctor Blind Chart - 30th July 2017
STATS:
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TW - LW / Artist / “Song” / Chart Run (Wks on Chart)
01 - 01 Arcade Fire “Everything Now” *2 weeks at #1* 35-25-16-10-05-02-01-01 (8 weeks)
02 - 04 The xx “I Dare You” 40-25-17-08-04-02 (6 weeks)
03 - 03 Rae Morris “Reborn” 34-19-12-06-03-03-03 (7 weeks)
04 - 02 The War on Drugs “Thinking of a Place” 40-32-24-15-05-02-01-01-01-01-02-04 (12 weeks)
05 - 06 Carly Rae Jepsen “Cut To The Feeling” 43-35-31-22-16-10-06-05 (8 weeks)
06 - 08 Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton “Fatal Gift” 39-26-14-08-06 (5 weeks)
07 - 11 Lorde “Perfect Places” 47-37-25-15-11-07 (6 weeks)
08 - 13 Bicep “Aura” 37-21-13-08 (4 weeks)
09 - 09 Zola Jesus “Exhumed” 40-33-26-21-12-09-09 (7 weeks)
10 - 05 Danger Mouse ft. Run The Jewels & Big Boi “Chase Me” 44-37-28-24-19-12-09-03-05-05-10 (11 weeks)
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11 - 07 The National “The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness” 46-33-26-17-11-05-03-02-02-04-07-11 (12 weeks)
12 - 19 ionnalee “Not Human” 43-32-19-12 (4 weeks)
13 - 16 Feist ft. Jarvis Cocker “Century” 38-27-19-16-13 (5 weeks)
14 - 23 Indian Wells “Cascades” 49-35-23-14 (4 weeks)
15 - 18 Sylvan Esso “The Glow” 43-31-23-18-15 (5 weeks)
16 - 10 Jorja Smith “Teenage Fantasy” 44-32-20-15-11-10-16 (7 weeks)
17 - 22 Public Service Broadcasting “They Gave Me A Lamp” 45-40-31-22-17 (5 weeks)
18 - 12 alt-J “In Cold Blood” 49-39-25-13-07-03-04-07-12-18 (10 weeks)
19 - 25 Maggie Rogers “Alaska” 49-39-33-25-19 (5 weeks)
20 - 27 Mura Masa ft. Christine and the Queens “Second 2 None” 39-27-20 (3 weeks)
21 - 14 Everything Everything “Can't Do” 44-32-23-16-14-21 (6 weeks)
22 - 26 Ariel Pink “Another Weekend” 45-37-26-22 (4 weeks)
23 - 31 Washed Out “Hard to Say Goodbye” 44-31-23 (3 weeks)
24 - 29 Run The Jewels “Don't Get Captured” 50-38-29-24 (4 weeks)
25 - 15 LCD Soundsystem “Call The Police / American Dream” 30-18-12-07-02-01-01-02-04-07-09-15-25 (13 weeks)
26 - 37 Four Tet “Two Thousand And Seventeen” 37-26 (2 weeks)
27 - 33 The Horrors “Machine” 46-40-33-27 (4 weeks)
28 - 20 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny” 50-36-26-17-12-07-04-01-01-01-02-03-04-06-08-13-20-28 (18 weeks)
29 - 17 Alvvays “In Undertow” 49-39-29-17-14-06-17-29 (8 weeks)
30 - 41 The War on Drugs “Holding On” 41-30 (2 weeks)
31 - NE Charli XCX “Boys” *Highest New Entry*
32 - 49 The National “Guilty Party” *Biggest Climber* 49-32 (2 weeks)
33 - 39 Kero Kero Bonito “Forever Summer Holiday” 47-39-33 (3 weeks)
34 - 21 Wolf Alice “Yuk Foo” 45-36-30-25-21-34 (6 weeks)
35 - 43 Dizzee Rascal “Wot U Gonna Do?” 43-35 (2 weeks)
36 - 24 Cigarettes After Sex “Apocalypse” 45-38-33-24-17-11-08-05-09-18-24-36 (12 weeks)
37 - 30 Phoenix “J-Boy” 43-33-28-21-18-14-10-07-05-08-12-22-30-37 (14 weeks)
38 - 40 Sigrid “Plot Twist” 49-40-38 (3 weeks)
39 - 47 Susanne Sundfør “Undercover” 47-39 (2 weeks)
40 - 28 Day Wave “Promises” 47-41-28-28-40 (5 weeks)
41 - 46 Declan McKenna “Humongous” 46-41 (2 weeks)
42 - NE Jessie Ware “Midnight” *New Entry*
43 - 35 Los Campesinos! “Renato Dall'Ara (2008)” 48-39-32-25-16-12-07-04-06-11-18-26-35-43 (14 weeks)
44 - 32 Grizzly Bear “Mourning Sound” 38-26-15-11-20-32-44 (7 weeks)
45 - NE Broken Social Scene “Vanity Pail Kids” *New Entry*
46 - 34 Radiohead “I Promise” 37-27-21-18-13-10-17-34-46 (9 weeks)
47 - NE Dusky “Cold Heart” *New Entry*
48 - NE Mr Jukes ft. Charles Bradley “Grant Green” *New Entry*
49 - 38 Broken Social Scene “Halfway Home” 47-37-22-15-09-05-03-02-03-03-06-10-14-20-29-38-49 (17 weeks)
50 - 36 Everything Is Recorded ft. Sampha “Close But Not Quite” 40-30-23-20-15-09-07-13-24-36-50 (11 weeks)
*NUMBER 1 FOR A SECOND WEEK*
*HIGHEST NEW ENTRY at #31 Charli XCX “Boys”
*BIGGEST CLIMBER - UP SEVENTEEN PLACES to #32* The National “Guilty Party”
*SECOND HIGHEST NEW ENTRY at #42 Jessie Ware “Midnight”
*THIRD HIGHEST NEW ENTRY at #45 Broken Social Scene “Vanity Pail Kids”
#01s of 2017
01-01-17 Bonobo “Kerala”
08-01-17 Bonobo “Kerala”
15-01-17 Bonobo “Kerala”
22-01-17 Run The Jewels “Legend Has It”
29-01-17 Run The Jewels “Legend Has It”
05-02-17 Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”
12-02-17 Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”
19-02-17 Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”
26-02-17 Sampha “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”
05-03-17 Young Fathers “Only God Knows”
12-03-17 Young Fathers “Only God Knows”
19-03-17 Young Fathers “Only God Knows”
26-03-17 Young Fathers “Only God Knows”
02-04-17 Sylvan Esso “Kick Jump Twist”
09-04-17 Sylvan Esso “Kick Jump Twist”
16-04-17 Lorde “Green Light”
23-04-17 Lorde “Green Light”
30-04-17 alt-J “3WW”
07-05-17 Perfume Genius “Slip Away”
14-05-17 Perfume Genius “Slip Away”
21-05-17 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny”
28-05-17 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny”
04-06-17 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny”
11-06-17 LCD Soundsystem “Call The Police / American Dream”
18-06-17 LCD Soundsystem “Call The Police / American Dream”
25-06-17 The War on Drugs “Thinking Of A Place”
02-07-17 The War on Drugs “Thinking Of A Place”
09-07-17 The War on Drugs “Thinking Of A Place”
16-07-17 The War on Drugs “Thinking Of A Place”
23-07-17 Arcade Fire “Everything Now”
30-07-17 Arcade Fire “Everything Now”
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Eeeek typo at the worst moment! I don't see a rate rise at all this year and I think we're more likely to see a 0.15% or 0% next year than a rise.
Agreed.
Actually I quite like what Yellen has done at the Fed, by raising three times to 1% she has given the US a little more wriggle room once the inevitable slowdown comes either later this year or in 2018; however the Bank of England are well and truly fucked! :D
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I can see us ending 2017 on 0.5% with the real possibility of a decrease in 2018 if we enter a recession.
You really think Carney will increase from 0.25% - interest rates haven't risen in 10 years and I can't see it happening anytime soon as the anaemic growth in the economy - fuelled almost entirely by debt - would immediately start to be choked out and house prices would collapse as new mortgages plummeted and existing ones started to be defaulted on. We're stuck with 0.25% rates for the foreseeable IMO and it is going to screw over anyone who is currently under 45.
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Doctor Blind Chart: 16th July 2017
TW - LW / Artist / “Song” / (Peak- if not current)
01 - 01 The War on Drugs “Thinking of a Place” *4 weeks at #1*
02 - 05 Arcade Fire “Everything Now”
03 - 06 Rae Morris “Reborn”
04 - 02 The National “The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness” (02)
05 - 03 Danger Mouse ft. Run The Jewels & Big Boi “Chase Me” (03)
06 - 14 Alvvays “In Undertow”
07 - 04 alt-J “In Cold Blood” (03)
08 - 17 The xx “I Dare You”
09 - 07 LCD Soundsystem “Call The Police / American Dream” (01)
10 - 16 Carly Rae Jepsen “Cut To The Feeling”
11 - 15 Jorja Smith “Teenage Fantasy”
12 - 21 Zola Jesus “Exhumed”
13 - 08 Danny Brown “Ain't It Funny” (01)
14 - 26 Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton “Fatal Gift”
15 - 25 Lorde “Perfect Places”
16 - 23 Everything Everything “Can't Do”
17 - 10 Radiohead “I Promise” (10)
18 - 09 Cigarettes After Sex “Apocalypse” (05)
19 - 27 Feist ft. Jarvis Cocker “Century”
20 - 11 Grizzly Bear “Mourning Sound” (11)
21 - 37 Bicep “Aura” *Biggest Climber*
22 - 12 Phoenix “J-Boy” (05)
23 - 31 Sylvan Esso “The Glow”
24 - 13 Everything Is Recorded ft. Sampha “Close But Not Quite” (07)
25 - 30 Wolf Alice “Yuk Foo”
26 - 18 Los Campesinos! “Renato Dall'Ara (2008)” (04)
27 - 19 Shabazz Palaces ft. Thaddillac “Shine a Light” (19)
28 - 41 Day Wave “Promises”
29 - 20 Broken Social Scene “Halfway Home” (02)
30 - 24 Frank Ocean “Biking” (24)
31 - 40 Public Service Broadcasting “They Gave Me A Lamp”
32 - 43 ionnalee “Not Human”
33 - 39 Maggie Rogers “Alaska”
34 - 22 The Weeknd “Secrets” (18)
35 - 49 Indian Wells “Cascades”
36 - 28 Danny L Harle ft. Morrie “Me4U” (04)
37 - 45 Ariel Pink “Another Weekend”
38 - 50 Run The Jewels “Don't Get Captured”
39 - NE Mura Masa ft. Christine and the Queens “Second 2 None” *Highest New Entry*
40 - 46 The Horrors “Machine”
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It's not surprising state pension age will increase, it'd have to be done sooner or later given life expectancy increases. The way it's been announced isn't good though.Hm, I expect life expectancy may actually have peaked and we may see a slight fall in the coming decades due to huge (and growing) levels of obesity.
e.g. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-...s-a7661571.html
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40571123
Conservatives have 'no plan' for no deal (no deal is better than a bad deal © Theresa May, 2016)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40555639
Newton Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris suspended from the Conservative party for using racist remarks at a panel event discussing Brexit.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/j...en-election-law
Conservative party call centre 'may have broken election law'
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