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This Year 8 school band playing the stage at the Hunstanton summer festival at the weekend introduced their cover of Summer of '69 with the words "here's one your parents or grandparents might know". Cheeky fuckers.

It's even called "666". Absolutely zero subtlety and all the better for it.

This is like that time Tahiti scored a goal.

I think he mainly wants a Nobel Peace Prize, but that can have unexpected ripple effects

So, how are we all celebrating Dan Hannan Freedom Day? 🥳 https://www.reaction.life/p/britain-looks-like-brexit

The HMHMs, pictured this evening:

Just back from a weekend in Hunstanton. Who needs pintxos in San Sebastian when you can be watching a ropey ABBA tribute band on an open-air stage in Sunny Hunny?

Karen Carpenter?

That ceiling just keeps getting higher.

Because Huckabee texted Trump to tell him he's god's chosen one, basically

We're British, we don't do knowledge.

But on the plus side, Ronnie Radford is still dead

I've heard that before.

I could care less.

I'm aware it's hardly the worst thing they're doing or will do, but the levels of petty shit they're happy to stoop to are truly dispiriting. https://bsky.app/profile/matthewhodson.bsky.social/post/3lqrob67fsk2y

Devastating incident at East Boldon station this morning

I don't know like, you think you're finally free but you'd still get wykiki moaning about his bike ride being held up by your funeral cortege, DEAD CUNTS

It has! That Jimmy Jump arsehole invaded the stage during the Spanish entry in 2010 so they got to perform again at the end. And way back in 1958 the Italian entry - "Volare", no less - was performed again because the still-creaky Eurovision broadcasting network went a bit wrong and some countries didn't get to see it first time round. It still didn't win. "Volare" ffs! There was a stage invader during the UK entry in 2018 too but they decided not to perform again, probably because they knew the song was absolutely hopeless anyway.

We're fine with the Chinese. A great bunch of lads.

Whereabouts are you staying? Foodie friends in Berlin have previously recommended me Bar Immertreu and Windhorst for cocktails, St. Bart and Ngo Kim Pak for food, and Markthalle Neun (food hall/market) for general gastronomic goodness. Nothing to go out of your way for (Berlin is hardly short of options) but if you happen to be nearby etc. At the other extreme, Georgbräu in the Nikolaiviertel (near the Museum Island) is more of a southern style Brauhaus and definitely as touristy as it comes, but in a nice little cobbled neighbourhood that survived being destroyed over the years despite being very central, so worth a look if you want a stop-off while doing some of the main sights. Decent beer gardens in lots of the parks too, obviously. Victoriapark and Mauerpark spring to mind (the latter on Sunday especially). History/museum-wise, there's a good little museum and preserved section of the Berlin Wall here - https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/berlin-wall-memorial - gives you a decent sense of the scale and grimness of it all. The runways at the old Tempelhof Airport are now a big park so you can go and pretend to be an aeroplane if that's your kind of thing (it is mine). And since you've got the time, get the S-Bahn out to Potsdam for a day of wandering around the grand old buildings in the Sanssouci Park, it's dead nice out there.