Cleo Sol “When I’m In Your Arms” Cleo Sol made her new record with the producer Inflo, who also produced the two Sault albums from last year. There’s a very similar aesthetic to this music – classic soul rendered with warm, foregrounded bass and ample negative space that highlights the precision of all other instruments […]
Since I started Radio Free Burrito Presents several weeks ago, lots of you have asked me if I would narrate something by HP Lovecraft. I love the Cthulhu mythos, but […]
"Mad Mike" Hughes, a self-styled explorer and daredevil bent on proving that the earth is flat was killed over the weekend when his homemade rocket crashed in the California desert over the weekend.
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TWH speaks with Jon Sewell, who has just finished his two-decade project to create new productions of Aleister Crowley's Rites of Eleusis.
In this week's Pagan Community Notes, Pagan Spirit Gathering has been canceled, indigenous shaman and actor Antonio Bolivar joins the Ancestors, Sacred Well announces changes in leadership, and more!
NASA added the name of the goddess Artemis to new missions. TWH examines some possible implications of the secretive "Artemis Accords" and how they relate to previous treaties and agreements that pertain to space and celestial bodies.
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The wildly popular game gives players a place to socialize with others or simply escape while on lockdown for coronavirus
As shelter in place orders around the world have left many people trapped at home indefinitely, some have found a new place to meet up: inside the digital world of wildly popular Nintendo game Animal Crossing.
Released in late March, Animal Crossing: New Horizons quickly became the top game in the US. In it, users explore a carefree pastel environment, growing fruits and flowers, catching bugs or fish to sell, and making friends with other characters in an open-ended simulation.
Continue reading...Temperatures will drop dramatically on Sunday as cold front moves in from northern Scotland
Britain could have its hottest day of the year on Saturday, with temperatures predicted to hit 26C (78.8F).
Most of the country will bask in warm sunshine while London and the south-east will be hotter than Ibiza and St Tropez.
Continue reading...Resuming the season is absurd and the ‘safety’ ideas are terrible, but whatever football decides it must decide together
“You eat alone, you choke.” During the years of plenty it became a habit to compare the Premier League’s wielding of power – always with a note of admiration – to the structures of a mafia family.
It isn’t hard to see why: the hierarchy of captains, the beautifully ruthless sense of unity, of a cartel of self-propelling interests. And yet the thing about mafia families is that now and then those interests start pulling in different ways. In mob lore breaking ranks is sometimes referred to as “eating alone”, with a certainty that bad things follow – and worst of all that bad business follows.
Continue reading...Have you been keeping up with the news?
What reason did the government give for not joining the EU procurement scheme on four separate occasions?
Brussels had the wrong address so we never got the email
We weren’t allowed to because we had left the EU.
All the European ventilators had the wrong plugs.
In her evidence to the home affairs select committee, did Priti Patel say that the reason passengers weren’t tested on arrival at airports was because...
The UK had too many international air passengers
The UK had too few international air passengers
The UK had both too many and too few international air passengers
The communities secretary, Robert Jenrick, owns three homes, two of which are in London. Where is the third which he visited in contravention of lockdown rules?
Exmoor
His constituency of Newark
Herefordshire
What did the Daily Mail think VE Day stood for in its readers’ offer for a 75th Anniversary Celebration coin?
Victory in Europe
Victory for Europe
Victory over Europe
Who was visited by the police after breaking lockdown to go to Dover to make a video about his failure to find any illegal immigrants?
Richard Tice
John Redwood
Nigel Farage
How many people in South Korea (population 52 million) have died from the coronavirus?
256
2,560
25,600
What did Donald Trump suggest people should think about using to help them beat coronavirus?
Sunbed courses
Dettol
Chloroquine
What is France selling to help pay for the coronavirus crisis?
The Arc de Triomphe
The wine cellar of the Elysee Palace
Its national collection of antique furniture
How long do you get on a free Zoom conference call?
30 minutes
40 minutes
60 minutes
What was Boris Johnson doing when he took 10 days off in Chequers in February during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic?
Recovering from his 10-day break to Mustique at the New Year.
Sorting out his complicated private life.
Helping Carrie Symonds arrange a baby shower for her friends.
What was the name of the two doctors who cared for Boris Johnson in St Thomas’ after whom he named his son?
Imran
Ranjit
Nicholas
What aliases did the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, use for his second job as an internet marketeer when first elected as an MP?
Maurice Blue and Archie Stoat
Mostyn Orange and Torquil Beaver
Michael Green and Sebastian Fox
How many coronavirus tests did Priti Patel tell a Downing Street press conference had been carried out?
300,034,974,000
3,000,349,740,000
30,034,974,000
Who is being lined up to take the blame for the inevitable public inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic?
The EU
Matt Hancock
Meghan and Harry
How much will a mug of coronavirus breakout star, Chris Whitty, cost you from the ‘Chris Whitty Appreciation Society’?
£8
£10
£12
What did deputy chief medical officer, Jenny Harries, tell a Downing Street press conference in March that couples should do?
Separate
Stop being so needy
Move in together
Banksy has donated a new artwork to Southampton general hospital. It depicts a boy holding up
A testing kit
A Boris Action man
A nurse doll
Where is Tom Cruise’s new film set to be shot?
The International Space Station
Richard Branson’s Necker Island
The Nightingale Hospital in London
What was Meghan reading to her son Archie in his first birthday video
Lights! Camera! Action!
Duck! Rabbit!
Duck! Never!
15 and above.
Excellent: give yourself a round of applause
11 and above.
Well done: you seem to have been paying attention to the news
7 and above.
Not bad: you appear to have been trying to keep with events
0 and above.
Risible: were you trying to get the answers wrong?
3 and above.
Very poor: do you follow the news at all?
Continue reading...Teenager remains in hospital as two men are arrested after collision on Streatham High Road
A 16-year-old cyclist is in a life-threatening condition after being hit by two cars in south London.
The boy was critically injured in the collision in Streatham High Road shortly before 11.20pm on Friday.
Continue reading...Artist Cotton Valent has created a brilliant cat comic series called, "Creepy Cat."
Creepy Cat is the purrfect combination of creepiness and cats! Honestly, what more can you want in life? The story begins when Flora, the human, moves into an old house. Turns out, the old house is occupied by a "creepy cat." And that is where their story begins!
You can follow the amazing series on Manga Mutiny! We love "Creepy Cat!"
Our pets are our children, and they deserve to be spoiled as such.
That's why we had to share with you these tiny crochet cat couches created by the crafty people on the subreddit r/crochet.
Sure, you could go and just buy a cat bed without exerting much effort, but they're not as fun or cute as this too cute to handle cat couch.
So, if you're looking for a new crochet project to tackle, this has got to be it!
The couches are shaped with thick foam and polyester filling to really give it that comfy sofa look.
There are a few craft stores online who are offering the crochet patterns if you like.
