Tim Dowling: my banjo is out of tune, and the gig is falling apart
by The Guardian
The Guardian— The band has every type of cock-up pretty much covered, but then things go from bad to worseThe band I’m in is playing over the weekend: Birmingham, Gateshead, Kendall. They are all venues we’ve played before, but not for a long while.“Which is good,” says the guitar player as we drive north in the rain. “Because we can re-use all the jokes from last year.” Continue reading
RussiaFeed—U.S. empire is now falling apart.. Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Though the U.S. economy seems to be doing well now, via extracting manufacturing jobs from the EU by forcing up energy-costs there (such as by blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, sanctioning firms that trade with Russia — which was by far the lowest-price energy-source for European countries — etc.) […]
NBC Sports—West Ham fall apart again as Madueke finds Jackson. Chelsea shows no mercy coming out of halftime as Noni Madueke gets behind West Ham and squares it to Nicolas Jackson for the easy tap-in and a 4-0 advantage.
Yle Uutiset—Older apartment prices fall by 5% year-on-year. Helsinki and Vantaa saw the most drastic price reductions.