1. Neil Young’s Aboriginal t-shirt:

It was a top Glasto moment - my new best friend BT pointed out the t-shirt Neil Young was wearing on the Pyramid stage as being the very same one he had given to him when he had previously toured in Australia in January.  How did he get it to him?
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I don’t even know where to begin.   Does this story start in 1988 when the beautiful daughter of Burma’s first leader of independence, Aung San, was catapulted into the frontline?  Is it about her Nobel prize for peace?  Is it about the suffering she must be enduring now in prison?  Or how she must [...]

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When I was a kid, travelling in the car with my parents, I remember hearing a radio show in which someone had unearthed a tape of Margaret Thatcher having elocution lessons.  She was trying to enunciate “correctly” the phrase:  ”Enough is Enough”. Sometimes it came out more like:  ”Un oeuf is un oeuf..”  It was [...]

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Sometimes it pays to ask.  Literally.  Looking on the internet for a hotel for me and the kids in Greece this summer, I stumbled across one that ticked all the boxes.  It had the pool, it had the inoffensive design features, it had a view, it was close to the town, it was kid-friendly.  Just [...]

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