Duncan Harris

From Derbyshire (DCFC & DCCC), now living in Leicestershire. Teacher of English in FE, enjoy countryside and architecture.

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

Another Peak District landscape. View from the old track at Offerton Moor across to High Neb, about 6 miles away.

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

“Fade to Grey” is the debut single by Visage, released in 1980. Written by Billy Currie, Chris Payne, and Midge Ure, with lyrics by Steve Strange, the synth-pop classic became one of the defining songs of the New Romantic movement. It reached #8 on the UK Singles Chart, #1 in Germany and Switzerland, #2 in Belgium, and the Top 10 across much of Europe.

The song's distinctive bilingual vocals (English by Steve Strange and French by Brigitte Arens) helped give it its mysterious, cosmopolitan atmosphere. Although it was Visage's only major international hit, "Fade to Grey" became hugely influential on synth-pop and electronic music, inspiring countless artists and remaining one of the most iconic tracks of the early 1980s.

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@Lady_FanAccount While I was ambivalent about much of the New Romantic stuff, this really hooked me, an all time classic.

[Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert]

Crucial point. They’ve been saying this forever, Just as they’ve been promising to somehow magically do the Industrial Revolution all over again forever.

[hauntedmachine1817 @hauntedmchn1817]

as a rule, these days, if something is recommended as being "punk", especially by some narcisstic hack it's wise to run the Reactionaryometer over it.

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@flying_rodent Yes. It's because they churn out a relentless diet of this stuff like forever. If the front pages and tv news had stories on corporate evasion every day for years, everyone would say that was out of control too.

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@0Calamity @_Wrevolution_ Didn't Cleese used to claim affinity to Buddhism too? Sure I remember being told he was often at the Lerab Ling retreat near Lodeve in France. This was some time ago though.

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@RobertACoe @shillcock_paul Yes, as someone from Derbyshire now living in Leicestershire, I'm not going to be following the Nottingham team. Not that I'm that bothered about the 100 anyway 😕.

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@Alonso_GD "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course..." Just watched the film, has its flaws but it's a fine work of art. John Leguizamo and Samantha Morton especially good.

[Jesse Hawken @jessehawken]

Hmm that’s not what the Critical Drinker said would happen…

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@JLarky @SlottyThot @JoshwaM No that's Ben Hur.....

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@morangles @FlintDibble Never seen a cyclops, but have seen men morphing into pigs down the pub quite a few times, often followed by the sound of sirens....

[Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs]

@NewLeftEViews It’s very much become analysis of how good various personalities are at ‘doing politics’ in highly limited quasi-technical terms.

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@DiscussingFilm Looks like it's worth seeing...based on the Chaplin sisters case in the early 1980s in York, they were both obsessed with a lorry driver called Ken; not sure if he looked like Orlando Bloom.

[Mrs Millicent: Whimsy mode ✝️♿ 🏳️‍🌈 @MillieCheesey]

I personally haven't called the fire brigade for 20 years either but I'm fairly certain its important to pay for it.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

".. the fees have gone up in the last year.. the RAC says equivalent airports in Europe don't charge at all, so why are our airports charging? Airports UK say.. those European airports.. are publicly owned, unlike the private businesses most UK airports are"

There you have it.

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@BBCSportWales Watching this on YT; congrats to Hope-Bell and Horton on their hundreds; both look like real telents.

[Duncan Harris @miscreative]

@flying_rodent Was never covered in my school, but I watched Jason and the Argonauts on TV and then I found a battered copy of EV Rieu's translation of the Iliad at the back of a drawer and got hooked ..

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Of all the things I worry about with Gianni Infantino the colour of his shoes is the least of them. OK, white trainers looks like he thinks he’s a player, he’s a 56-year-old suit trying to be cool and it actually cheapens the office of FIFA president. All true. But, really, I’m more concerned about Infantino’s relationship with the White House than love of white trainers.

I’m more concerned about his allowance of external interference in disciplinary matters; his wooing of politicians when a governing body should be above that; his consideration of the idea (not his) of expanding the World Cup to 64, destroying qualifying for a start, let alone the obvious voting appeal an expansion would mean for him; and the accelerating commercialisation of the game through hydration breaks.

I'm more concerned about the scandalous price of World Cup tickets (only partly a FIFA issue); the fact that Infantino makes things about him, and his love of being with rich, famous and powerful people, when really everything at FIFA should revolve around the good of the game. It's almost comical his swooning around wealth and power.

So, no, I wouldn't put white shoes as his worst behaviour. I’m more frustrated for the good people working hard at FIFA, doing incredible work in countries and communities around the world, and seeing the organisation they represent with such pride and industry be associated with a president who’s lost sight of the heart and soul of football.

Infantino may well be a decent guy, far removed from the mockery online. I don't know. But I do know that he needs to re-find the respected young lawyer he once was at UEFA. He's changed. That maybe him or FIFA culture.

Infantino should remember that FIFA is a sporting institution, not a political one. He should remember that FIFA should be all about the game, not about him. It's been a great World Cup overshadowed at times by wretched decisions and own goals of Infantino's making or shaping. Do better.

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Ferran Torres wins it for Spain! 🇪🇸

They are World Cup winners for a second time! 🏆🏆

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

We were made stand outside in the heat for 2.5 hours as secret service checked everyone and it was a better experience than that Bieber song.