Ah, this article in The Gaurdian about Paul Willetts’ new book Teenage Flicks brings back memories of epic Subbuteo battles played out on my bedroom floor. Most memorable was the fully-fledged World Cup our office staged during the idle weeks of the national journalists’ strike in 1978. If memory serves me right, Wales beat Brazil in the final … after the Brazilian goalkeeper got trodden on.
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Extra Golden Plays ‘Obama’ Live In Studio : NPR Music
Kenyan band Extra Golden play their tribute to soul brother Barack, courtesy of NPR Radio.
Just in case you missed it, Barack Obama’s brilliant moving election night acceptance speech is worth seeing in full. Bold, gracious, statesmanlike and above all, more inspiring than any American politician since Kennedy. Even my politically-agnostic teenaged daughter said it made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. What a contrast to that illiterate idiot Bush and our own rude, divisive and arrogant Premier.
Change has ineed come – and not before time.
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