THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE CANNOT BE DEPLATFORMED
What a week, what a week. We are all living through stuff that will be written about in the history books here – I mean, we’re always doing that, that’s the way history works – but even so, this was a big, hairy, two-bottle week. It’s a tale of…what, exactly? Sound and fury for sure, […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS DIVING BACK UNDER THE DUVET
And so it came to pass that the old year ended, and the people did cautiously open their eyes on the new year’s morn, and lo they found that everything was much the same except slightly worse because of the military drum cadre playing a tattoo on the inside of their skull owing to half […]
THE LANG CAT’S ALBUMS OF 2020
First things first – you’re not expected to read this (though it’s obviously lovely if you do). I’ve done a roundup of my albums of the year every year since we started – so this is the tenth one – and it’s as much for me as for you. Strike that, it’s massively more for […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS OUT OF HERE
And so it’s nearly over, thank the deity of your choice. The No Fun Decade I wrote about 11.5 months ago started and self-actualised in a way very few of us could have ever have imagined, and what followed was attritional. “If you want a picture of the future,” wrote George Orwell in 1949, “imagine […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE MAKES NO CHARGE FOR ONGOING SERVICE
Greetings from the Isle of Wight. The boss is apparently busy with other stuff (presumably organising our virtual office Christmas party [1] ) so for one week only I’m back in charge of the weekly update. Sitting comfortably? Then we shall begin. It was a pretty full-on week last week, what with Parmenion, Nucleus, Transact […]
All change in Platform Land
Any thoughts of a quiet end to the year in platform land [1] were firmly kicked into touch at midday today with Nucleus publishing a statement regarding a possible offer, a story that had been broken by the mighty Jack Gilbert at NMA a few minutes earlier. This of course comes on top of the […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE MIGHT PUT THE TREE UP EARLY THIS YEAR
Welcome to the last twelfth of the year so bad they named it twice. If you’re still here – and that’s a conditional phrase that carries more weight than it should this year – then you made it. Well done. Nearly there. Keep going. I’m usually a bit of a moan about the run-up to […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE IS 90% EFFECTIVE WHEN TAKEN IN TWO DOSES
Reasons to be cheerful, one two three…I don’t know where you stand, but I’m starting to book up gig tickets for next autumn. As my oldest, wisest and best mate Alsy says, “Personally planning to gig my **** off once we can”. Words to live by. The Update always tells the truth, and to be […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE’S LEVEL IS ALL THE WAY UP TO 11
It’s true; while various parts of the country labour under level three, two and even four if you live in the west of Scotland’s Central Belt, your faithful Update exists on a completely different scale. Level 11 allows the Update to travel freely in time and space, raid your drinks cupboard, insult your local sports […]
THE TOP CLASS WEDNESDAY UPDATE WINS EVERYTHING BY A LOT
After a monumentally rubbish eight months, the occasional shaft of sunlight pierces the clouds – a U-turn on whether it’s OK to let kids go hungry, the potential for a vaccine that works, and the really big one…genuine, laugh-out-loud comedy from the American politico-judicial process. If it wasn’t for the import taxes I’d be buying […]
