I just wanted to share with my (three?) readers a fabulous musical recommendation courtesy of my good friend and house-mate Peter Baker. Peter has a very wide and varied musical taste, as well as being a musician/singer/songwriter himself, check out his track on the Bjork covers album ‘Army Of Me’.

The recommendation of which I write is ‘The Milk-Eyed Mender’ by Joanna Newsom. It’s an absolutely beautiful collection of songs that are hard to describe. For me it’s something like a mix of Kristen Hersh, Isobel Campbell and, well I don’t know what really. All I know is that it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time, an uplifting melancholy that I’m a real sucker for.

Well it’s the Conservative Party (known here in the UK as Tories) Conference this week and all the prospective candidates for the leadership contest are plumping themselves up and showing off their feathers. Today was the turn of Satan David Davis and Dr Liam Fox (Dr. Fox? Seriously?). They’re both of the right-wing persuasion even for tories. Mr Davis is a big supporter of bringing back the death penalty (because it works so well in the US), of reversing the equalisation of the age of consent for gay people, and eating babies. Dr Fox is a big Europe-basher and would like nothing more than to pull the UK out of the EU, Dr Fox would also introduce compulsory organ donation to further his evil experiments into human-dog hybrids.

To learn more use the handy evil-o-meter I’ve made for you, or alternatively see what auntie beeb has to say about it all.

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