Twitter and World Cup chaos, Jaco Pastorius, gruesome 18th C combat and other matters of high import

Published: Nov. 9, 2022, 2:44 p.m.

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On the radar this week in an enquiring, celebratory or goat-getting capacity \\u2026

 

\\u2026 has the World Cup balloon already been unmendably punctured?

 

\\u2026 and is the same thing happening to Twitter?

 

\\u2026 \\u201cif social media had come along earlier would Sergeant Pepper exist?\\u201d

 

\\u2026 Richard Osman-created fictional sleuth or rock stars\\u2019 real names: you decide.

 

\\u2026 a chance meeting with Jaco Pastorius.

 

\\u2026 speaker-testing moments of bass guitar brilliance.

 

\\u2026 the general public armed with a mouse are infinitely crueller and more aggressive than the very worst journalists: discuss.  

 

\\u2026 plus two thousand years of gruesome mortal combat.


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