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The Tap Room Video Show

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by Petunia Winegum on December 3, 2015

A little light relief in a week of doom ‘n’ gloom – a couple of videos as a break between the news, albeit ones that address issues far from funny. The first is a new ‘un, whereas the

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The Long and Winding Road to Damascus

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by Petunia Winegum on December 1, 2015

On Wednesday, the Commons will debate and vote on whether the fearsome might of the RAF – all half-dozen available planes – will join the US and the French in dropping bombs on Syria in the optimistic

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The Thin Blue Line

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by Petunia Winegum on November 30, 2015

Politics, it is true, attracts certain ‘types’, often in stereo. On the left, there is the social crusader whose guilt at his comfortable middle-class upbringing is manifested as doing the right thing by those who didn’t share

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A New Broom

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by Petunia Winegum on November 28, 2015

I was all for packing my bags and hitching out of town when the final missive from the previous premises was delivered. I anticipated a few fond farewells, but I always imagined my predecessor had a monopoly

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Our Sweet Lords

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by Petunia Winegum on October 29, 2015

Out-of-touch, privileged, cosseted from the real world, little or no interest in what goes on beyond their bubble, imbued with an arrogant born-to-rule sense of their own importance; sons, daughters, nephews and nieces of former occupants, inheriting

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When is A Woman not A Woman?

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by Petunia Winegum on October 28, 2015

…when she has a vagina, apparently. Germaine Greer is a woman, but not one at the top of Cardiff University’s Student Union Christmas card list. Why? Because she dares to mention the unmentionable, that transsexuals aren’t actually

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Slack Narcissus

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by Petunia Winegum on October 14, 2015

Cate Blanchett is an intriguing actress – interesting-looking, androgynous, a touch of Garbo about her. She climbed higher in my estimation last week when expressing her exasperation at her peers indulging in endless selfies when attending a

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Watson Tide

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by Petunia Winegum on October 12, 2015

If we were to think of those who voted for the 2003 Allied invasion of Iraq and did their utmost to block any investigation into the affair, certain obvious names would leap forward; it’s significant that these

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Thoroughly Modern Morals

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by Petunia Winegum on October 10, 2015

A long-time commentator on here pointed me in the direction of a Channel 4 programme looking back at TV from the 60s the other week; I was tempted solely by the fact that an ageing Peter Wyngarde

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Angels with Dirty Faces

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by Petunia Winegum on October 9, 2015

An 11-year-old in Jefferson County, Tennessee this week shot dead his 8-year-old neighbour because she wouldn’t let him play with her puppy; the shotgun belonged to his father. Across the Atlantic almost fifteen years earlier, Bristol

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The Ring Cycle

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by Petunia Winegum on October 8, 2015

Back in the 1980s, I was an avid reader of the music press, and my favourite weekly was ‘Melody Maker’. Within a few months of purchasing my first issue, I became familiar with the different writers on

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Good Evans?

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by Petunia Winegum on October 6, 2015

John Leslie, one-time ‘Blue Peter’ presenter and 1990s mainstream TV mainstay, has recently spoken of the accusation that effectively ended his high-profile, £350,000-a-year career. The story that emerged into the public domain in 2002 appeared in

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Anyone for Denis?

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by Petunia Winegum on October 3, 2015

When Tony Benn died last year, the obituaries tended to focus on the radical old uncle of the elder statesman years rather than the belligerent troublemaker of the turbulent early 80s. Benn successfully reshaped his public perception

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Who’s The Daddy Now?

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by Petunia Winegum on October 2, 2015

Excuse me while I light up. I smoke a lot of cigarettes and drink a lot of black coffee whilst writing; my teeth bear the scars, but it could be worse, I suppose. At least I’m not

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Party On, Dude!

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by Petunia Winegum on September 30, 2015

It might not be everybody’s idea of entertaining television – and, to be frank, it’s not necessarily mine; but the party conference season is with us again, and at one time this strange, ritualistic Eurovision-for-politicians spectacle used

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Comic Cuts

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by Petunia Winegum on September 29, 2015

Beyond the endless TV mags, titillating rags and metrosexual men’s handbooks, I spied a tiny handful of what used to be called comics on the newsstand the other day. All bar one notable exception appeared to be movie merchandise, just

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The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle

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by Petunia Winegum on September 25, 2015

Sometimes a face gatecrashes the public consciousness with such force that the imprint of the image acquires an immortal permanence; the owner of the iconic countenance in question remains fixed as that face way beyond the point

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Luck Be a Tory Tonight

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by Petunia Winegum on September 24, 2015

Whatever part competence, judgement and vision play in a premiership, the factors of timing and luck should never be underestimated. Robert Walpole emerged from the chaos of the South Sea Bubble and sold himself as the only

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Spamalot & The Sunday Obituary

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by Petunia Winegum on September 20, 2015

Members of staff at the Raccoon Arms are not solely engaged in serving the customers, pulling pints, changing barrels, preventing patrons from buying too many packets of peanuts merely to see if the model on the board

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The Hunt for Red September

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by Petunia Winegum on September 19, 2015

Being a starving artist in a garret and all that, social outings aren’t so abundant; but I do make a point of venturing out to my local parade of shops each morning and if there’s one thing

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Grace and Fervour

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by Petunia Winegum on September 18, 2015

September 1955, exactly sixty years ago – a momentous month for popular culture that drew a line in the sand, signalling the division between the old world and the new; in the case of the latter, it

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Citizen Corbyn

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by Petunia Winegum on September 12, 2015

It’s official. New Labour is dead. Long live Old Labour. Jeremy Corbyn is now the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. Imagine Jacob Rees-Mogg being elected Tory leader. Pretty unimaginable, to be honest, yet Comrade Corbyn’s election win

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Publish and Be Damned

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by Petunia Winegum on September 11, 2015

Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Honecker’s DDR – mandatory reporting to the authorities by friends, families and neighbours, phone-taps, wire-taps, cameras tracking the moves of every citizen, persistent persecution of targets by a police force making

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A Picture Fells A Thousand Tories

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by Petunia Winegum on September 5, 2015

What a difference a week makes. For a long time now, what used to be asylum-seekers before being rebranded migrants and then suddenly refugees have been dying at sea in appallingly high numbers, many fleeing war-torn Syria.

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Long To Reign Over Us

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by Petunia Winegum on September 4, 2015

David Bowie once said we’ve got five years. Well, we’ve got five days now. No, don’t worry; I haven’t received advanced warning of a meteorite poised to crash into the planet. I’m referring to the fact that,

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Stop Your Sobbing

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by Petunia Winegum on September 2, 2015

Rape and culture/rape and culture/go together like a…well, those two words don’t really go together at all, do they? An oxymoron is, I believe, the correct term. Culture is described by the dictionary I prepared earlier as

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The Collapsing Crucible

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by Petunia Winegum on September 1, 2015

Something very interesting has happened in the past few months. Johnny may have come lately, but he’s here at last. Beyond the bunkers that have sheltered common sense from an incessant shower of bile fired by obsessive

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The Shipping Forecast

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by Petunia Winegum on August 30, 2015

So many nautical terms are open to misinterpretation by landlubbers that anyone poised to set sail really needs to know a gash fanny from a cunt splice; failure to do so could result in kissing the gunner’s

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Blowing One’s Trumpet

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by Petunia Winegum on August 28, 2015

Momentarily putting aside those issues that invoke impassioned debate as well as those that inspire apathy, allow the management the luxury of basking in the rewards of their endeavours, pop-pickers. The latest figures for the top

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Obama Vista Social Club

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by Petunia Winegum on August 28, 2015

Family feuds can drag on for decades. We’ve all known siblings who had a big bust-up over something years ago, something nobody can even remember anymore, and still refuse to be in the same room as one another,

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