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Cassetteboy has a blog

Thats right!!! Cassssetttttebbbboooooyyyyyy - he/they of the harry potter & the under-AGE blow JOB and much much more - now has his/their very own blog

Progressive Conservatism

David Cameron on the politicians-are-scum revelations I got as far as: "Our philosophy of progressive Conservatism – the pursuit of progressive goals through Conservative means . . ."Talk about being all things to all people. We want to change things by keeping them the same. We want radical preservation. A transformative status quo. War is peace. Politics is PR. Satire is redundant.

Overheard: the worst date in the world

The 476 bus from Stoke Newington, Sunday afternoon"Yeah I went to sleep," the girl says"You always go to sleep. You want to get drunk more.""Hmmm. You wouldn't like me when I'm drunk. I get annoying.""Me and my friend were in a pub in West London the other day and the people sitting next to us got up and they both left half-pints behind, so we drank them, and then we went round drinking other

when it's over, it's over

Is Dalston the coolest place in Britain? Not any more

Everyone Will Leave At Exactly The Same Time

David Byrne, Royal Festival HallDavid Byrne is basically your favourite funky uncle. In a very cool artrock band in his younger days, when you were just a nipper, he now seems to potter around some swish and bohemian part of New York's West Side doing effortlessly interesting things - travelling the world, writing film soundtracks, designing bizarre bike racks. You hardly ever see him, but when

What's in a name

Labour sources were pointing the finger at the Unite trade union, which is riven by splits

Air pressure

"My aircraft disintegrated around me at Mach3, 78,000ft"

Phrases to make your heart sink #253

"It's set in stone . . . at the moment"

Crack House, by Harry Keeble and Kris Hollington

Wrote this off the cuff thinking it had just been published, alas only nine months late . . .Harry Keeble is the pseudonym of a British police officer who led the Haringey Drug Squad for twelve months in 2000. Det Sgt Keeble's modus operandi was, uncommonly for the time, a direct one: He led his small team, often but not always accompanied by the police heavy mob, the SPG, the TSG, through the

Amusing jobs

I'd imagine writing the entry for 'world' in the CIA factbook might have been diverting