I’d been thinking about a theme like this, and was prompted to do it by a post from Hugh at the weekend, in which he shared one of the songs I’m including today. The theme is a response to some of the scenes we’ve seen in the news since the lockdown in England had another gradual relaxation last Monday. Despite the exhortations of our esteemed Prime Minister for people not to go mad and congregate without taking the recommended precautions, that is exactly what the usual moronic suspects did, celebrating the fact that they could go out and have a beer. The theme that came to mind from this was: crowds. The song that Hugh shared had a lot of ‘audience’ (or ‘crowd’) participation, and I said to him in the comments that it put me in mind of another video. After a little bit of thought, I came…

Do you use Facebook? If so, do you follow your favourite musicians on there? Unsurprisingly, for someone who posts a lot of music, I can answer ‘yes’ to both of those questions, and in some cases I am a member of that artist’s Facebook fan group page as well. If you haven’t tried this, they are pages where people share their love of the music: they are warm, welcoming places, and we can all use those, especially nowadays.

One of the groups to which I belong is the one for Mary Chapin Carpenter, which probably won’t come as a shock to anyone familiar with my posts, and the other evening someone shared a video for one of my favourites of hers. Watching it again I was transported back many years, as the song has always had a special meaning for me, and this reminded me that I had featured it…

I kinda set this week’s theme up in the previous episode of this series, both by including one song which cheated against my own ‘rules,’ and also in the comment I made about the news story relating to the serial shagger who has somehow become this country’s Prime Minister. Anyone with an ounce of decency would have resigned by now when caught dipping his wick at the public’s expense – although decency isn’t a word I’d associate with him or his government chums. But it has given me the perfect lead for today’s theme: cheating.

I have seven songs for you this week. Four are the classic ‘you done me wrong’ sort of cheating, one is someone on the brink of temptation, one is trying to hold things together, and the last one isn’t sure if cheating is going on or if he has just…

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Diagnóstico urgente de la innovación en España

Mara Balestrini en El País, 150421

Ahora o nunca. Esa debería ser la frase que sonara como un mantra este año en las universidades, los centros de investigación, los departamentos de innovación de las empresas y las start-ups españolas. En juego están los fondos Horizonte Europa de la Comisión Europea, el programa transnacional de investigación e innovación más grande del mundo con un presupuesto de 95.500 millones de euros.

Si a eso le sumamos una parte importante de los fondos del plan de recuperación Next Generation EU destinados a I+D+I en el presupuesto español, la cantidad sería histórica y podría dar al país el impulso que necesita para estar en…

Pedro ‘Mentiroso’ Sánchez. «Entiendo que me podrán quitar la cartera, la Libertad y la vida, pero lo que nunca podrán quitarme es el asco que les tengo». Viñeta de Linda Galmor.

Por Fígaro en campaña/ EL CORREO DE ESPAÑA / La propaganda no se le da mal, pero en la mentira, que es lo suyo, saca un sobresaliente «cum laude», por unanimidad, porque la mentira es la base de su administración para conseguir y detentar el poder. El dictatorzuelo, que nunca llegaría a dictador, no distingue el bien del mal, la verdad de la mentira ni le importa, desprecia todo cuanto ignora, qué diría Antonio Machado. Es una persona sin conciencia. Le da lo mismo, Juana que su hermana, todo menos perder el poder. Por eso no cambia sus malas intenciones, que le mantienen en pie. Es el arma acorazada para seguir en la poltrona y desarrollar…