We may be still underestimating just how much influence WW2 had on 1970s schoolkids.

December Will Be Magic Again - Kate Bush Christmas Music Advent Calendar 24/24 I find it surprising how few people know about this little gem. And Kate even made two versions of it! Merry Christmas everyone x #music #christmas #christmasmusic

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Dear listeners, When the days feel narrow and the noise gets loud, try a song. Not as escape — as evidence. Someone, somewhere, once felt this too and made something that still holds. If hope is hiding, it often hums first.

Christmas Will Break Your Heart - LCD Soundsystem Christmas Music Advent Calendar 23/24 Discovered last year. Currently my favourite Christmas song. It feels like you've dragged a broken sledge through a beautiful snow landscape. Then crashed it. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Loved this.

This thread reflects my thoughts on this article exactly.

Consider: In that one little red dot, there are 200-400 billion stars. 🤯

Angel In The Snow - Elliott Smith Christmas Music Advent Calendar 22/24 This is on my pre-christmas playlist but I've seen it on quite a few Christmas lists now and it's such a beautiful tune, I'm including it! There's also a new Fleet Foxes version out. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good work, Labour, this is all very welcome news. 👏

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

A Christmas Wish - Beverley Knight Christmas Music Advent Calendar 21/24 Beverley has such an incredible voice and I can't understand how I don't hear this played on Magic Christmas fm more. What a great feel-good tune! #music #christmas #christmasmusic

The fact Farage isn't sueing ITV, BBC , National Newspapers etc as the publishers - tells you everything .

Claudia and Tess are phenomenal. I will miss them! #strictly

Christmas In Prison - Emmy The Great Christmas Music Advent Calendar 20/24 I thought this was worth a spot on the calendar because it's great. And because they (sort of) released some of the Epstein files. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.

From today's @financialtimes.com Moral Money newsletter on Russia's continued assault on Ukraine: “Russia keeps striking our gas systems,” Shakalov (CEO of Kness Group, a renewable energy company) said. “But Russia can’t stop the wind and can’t stop the sun.” So true.

It Is A Blizzard - Dove Ellis Christmas Music Advent Calendar 19/24 Another new release for 2025. Echoes of Jeff Buckley from this chap's debut. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Wow @thetimes.com, that’s impressive An entire article about “freak heat” in the Dolomites causing mayhem amongst skiers without once mentioning climate change…🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵 1/5

Hwiangerdd Mair - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Christmas Music Advent Calendar 18/24 Hwiangerdd Mair is Welsh for "Mary's Lullaby". Delightful. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up For Christmas - Aimee Mann Christmas Music Advent Calendar 17/24 Aimee has quite a few Christmas songs. Goose Snow Cone is lovely. But I like this best - raw and a tiny bit hopeful. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Turns out all the flag waving and shouting isn’t for King and Country. Well ours anyway… So just which country is Yaxley Lennon and his buddies in Reform working for?

Just Like Christmas - Low/Ingo Star Cruiser Christmas Music Advent Calendar 16/24 The Low (original) version of this is available on most platforms, but if you can find it, the Ingo Star Cruiser is my preferred for the drums. Adds je ne sais quoi. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Silent Night - Sinéad O'Connor Christmas Music Advent Calendar 15/24 Simple and beautiful. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Baby In The Hay - Fruit Bats Christmas Music Advent Calendar 14/24 I love Fruit Bats but was disappointed with their cover of Its Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas. So I was delighted to discover this original Christmas track by them this week. Much better! #music #christmas #christmasmusic

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

Who invented non-reflective glass? American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938. It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve - The Head And The Heart Christmas Music Advent Calendar 13/24 This a sweet song. A male/female duo that's soooooooo much better than creepy 'Baby It's Cold Outside'. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Christmas Song- Phoebe Bridgers Christmas Music Advent Calendar 12/24 I've heard two of the songs from Phoebe's Christmas EP so far - I'm not convinced she enjoys Christmas very much! Love the line 'it's Christmas so no one can fix it'. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

I love this song. Shit, I love this song too! Good morning! 🩷

It's A Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse Christmas Music Advent Calendar 11/24 This isn't strictly a Christmas song, but in my head it totally is due to the song title alone and the associated film. Beautiful lo-fi indie. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes. "He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise" open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...

#SomeGoodNews A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid, flat-packable washing machine. The Divya washing machine operates a 30-min wash cycle where it completes a 5kg load needing only a few minutes of manual turning

Back Door Santa - Jet Christmas Music Advent Calendar 10/24 Naughty, but nice. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Annie Lennox Christmas Music Advent Calendar 9/24 I love the intense drum beat and somewhat pagan feel to this version. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Baby Jesus - Radar Brothers Christmas Music Advent Calendar 8/24 I have no idea what's going on in this somewhat weird Christmas song. But I like it. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Little Drummer Boy - The Dandy Warhols Christmas Music Advent Calendar 7/24 A blast of Christmas! #music #christmas #christmasmusic

My Christmas Prayer - St Etienne Christmas Music Advent Calendar 6/24 This song made me realize there might be some really good alternative Christmas music out there. I LOVE all the stuff we hear every year, but also like discovering new treasures. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

What's This - The Futureheads Christmas Music Advent Calendar 5/24 A new release Christmas album for 2025. There are a couple of fantastic versions on this - distinctly unique to The Futureheads' style. This was my favourite. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

That's What I Want For Christmas - Holly Golightly Christmas Music Advent Calendar 4/24 A gorgeous cosy track in the traditional Christmas romance vein. #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Better Do It Right - Smash Mouth Christmas Music Advent Calendar 3/24 This is an absolute banger from The Grinch soundtrack (which is generally excellent!) "Who! Ha"! #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Richard Hermer: “Arguing that 20 people have somehow all misremembered the same things about his nasty behaviour isn’t credible. Throughout his defensive responses to legitimate questions put to him, not once has Farage condemned antisemitism." https://bit.ly/4pHWr0A

Two Queens In A King Sized Bed - Girl In Red Christmas Music Advent Calendar 2/24 #music #christmas #christmasmusic

Smith & Burrows - As The Snowflakes Fall This is the song I most look forward to playing as soon as it hits December. Melancholy, wistful and magical. Christmas music advent calendar. 1/24 P.S. I am unlikely to remember to do this every day but I adore Christmas music and so thought I'd try!

Oh are we discussing misleading the public about money?

Pretty awkward for Gullis & Tice…

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started