Bringing in the new year, advocating for the old normal.
It's time to end the UK's failed experiment with vaccine passports.
For @Spectator, out tomorrow.
It’s really quite alarming how Big Tech has anointed themselves the arbiters of the world’s truth and morality. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Web3 fixes this.
The Human Rights Act helped families of those who died at Hillsborough to get justice for their loved ones.
It's enabled disabled people to challenge removal of benefits.
It's helped LGBT veterans get their medals back after being kicked out the forces.
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Track of the year #murdermostfoul@bobdylan a 16 minute masterpiece from the (instant) classic album Rough and Rowdy ways. Time is not important, timing is.
#AOTY for 2020 is @bobdylan Rough and Rowdy ways. And could well be the album of the decade come 2029. This is a once in a century album. A creator at the pinnacle. This is Dylan's best album. @bobdylan what took you so long? #BobDylan
@gillespeterson after you dropped Coyote a few weeks back I revisited this gem of a live performance from Joni, hanging out with Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot at his house (that’s Gordon in the background). Just a wonderful vibe 🙏 https://t.co/FILol3wbNg
Album of the year 2019, has to go to Eton Alive from @sleafordmods - well what else could top that this year??!! Kebab Spider a particular highlight, smashed it at the Bristol O2 in April, but of course I'm saying this all to look good. oh no 👏 #AOTY2019
Track of the year has to be #notthenews by @thomyorke just minimal brilliance to start, with the counterpoint ambient bleeps, then progressing into unfinished style strings by the end, just a mini masterpiece served up freezing cold 👏 #trackoftheyear#anima
Liverpool are the first English team to complete an international treble.
European Cup
Super Cup
Club World Cup
2019 has been a great year for the reds.
my track of the decade is @jamie___xx 'Loud Places', released in 2015 it captured a high point of the 2010's, the accompanying Glastonbury set that year was just a beautiful moment of universal equilibrium 👏 (set here https://t.co/GCbnbz5rGm) #trackofthedecade
ok, my album of the decade has to be @boniver '22, A Million', so many layers and experimentation in each track, but it flows from beginning to end like the best of em, a beautiful tapestry 👏 #albumofthedecade
Robert Smith’s voice and the sound of the Cure are still as sublime as ever. Perfect soundtrack to end a very special #glastonbury19#glastonburyfestival2019
Slick ricks @thomyorke@nigelgodrich you've done it again, the outro of #notthenews is up there, shivers down spine when those strings kick in with the chord progression that never resolves. On repeat repeat repeat... https://t.co/LBl1NRpMgF
And the TRACK OF THE YEAR goes to The Fall @fallnews for their re-release cover of Sister Sledge's classic Lost In Music; #markesmith nailing the don't-give-a-sh*t-attitude-but-still-pulling-it-off-approach