Monthly Archives: July 2024

Wallsend record store haul 2024-07-23

We had a nice trip to Newcastle and Wallsend last week and I picked these up at an actual record shop (not a charity shop). The Ska-Dows and Clint Eastwood and General Saint records are the only ones I have … Continue reading

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Archie digests

They have hundreds of these Archie digests at the Oxfam bookshop, Nicholson Street. I had been resisting but succumbed to these two last week. The stock is all from late 90s, early 2000s. I find the price and gift aid … Continue reading

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CEM Joad and the Scottish Combined Universities constituency

Between 1918 and 1950, Scottish Combined Universities was a three member constituency elected by the graduates of St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities with a single transferable vote system (like all elections should be). Wikipedia ref here. I stumbled … Continue reading

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Pete Loveday RIP

I just saw in the new issue of the Idler that Pete Loveday left this world on 16th April. For whatever reason I hadn’t seen that sad news in any of my comics socials or news feeds. I used to … Continue reading

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