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No news

There has been a lot of news in the UK about certain people, comedians, actors, presenters, authors whatever, being involved in legal cases about rape, sexual assault and inappropriate sexual behaviour. If you are interested, you can look them up. The two most recent are well-known around the world.

We’re not naming them here, or saying anything about what they did do or didn’t do or anything related to their cases. We don’t know all the details, we are not fans of either of these chaps, one is now serving a ten year prison sentence, the other is under investigation. It’s not our place to say.

We just wanted to make one comment. As has happened in previous cases, after it all comes to light and maybe a person is sentenced after being found guilty, people come out of the woodwork, often professional people in the same industry, and say things like “we knew what X was doing, we had evidence at the time, it was an open secret, people had concerns, he boasted about it”.

OK, so, why are you telling us this now? Why didn’t you report it at the time, why didn’t you take steps to stop these bad things happening?

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Faust

One of my favourite bands from the 1970s was championed by John Peel, the German band Faust.

You can find out all about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust_(band)

They were originally signed to the Polydor label. Legend has it that the company thought they were signing the new Beatles. No…

Their first album caught the attention by being transparent in a transparent sleeve with a transparent word insert. We still have ours and play it.

Their second was all black.

They signed to Virgin who compiled a disc of bits and bobs, priced it at 49p and sold shed loads. A fourth album followed.

They were regulars on the late night BBC radio.

By Faust IV it had all gone a bit wrong and Faust were no more. Faust V was rejected by Virgin and they were released from their contract.

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No vehicles please

One of the main shopping streets in central London is Oxford Street. It starts at Tottenham Court Road and goes along pretty well straight, past Oxford Circus and Bond Street, to Marble Arch.

Oxford Circus roughly divides the street into two halves. The western end has Selfridges and Bond Street and John Lewis.

In recent years, the area has gone down hill. So many of the smaller shops are empty and abandoned, and many many others are these American sweet shops. Apparently they are for money laundering. We don’t understand it at all.

Hannah Ricketts has done several YouTube videos on the area, and here is a link to the latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHz72fExrmQ

We don’t go there very often, because we don’t need to and because of the crowds. Security is never great when there are so many tourists about.

We always recognised Selfridges as a good shop. Their cheese counter was second to none.

We have posted pictures of the Xmas lights and some of the shop windows. Maybe it’s us, but every year they seem a bit more disappointing and just cheap advertising.

Buses and taxis used to be able to go down the street and it was great if you had to do some shopping, or just to sightsee. But now it’s gone pedestrian in the western half.