A communications lecturer believes old media formats are presented as a remedy for our digital ailments. As a 65-year-old whose journey in music began with a transistor radio, moved on to a radio cassette player and eventually to a record player, I can testify that these old technologies were just as addictive, unnatural, unhealthy and harmful as today's, but in a beautiful, exciting, memory-filled, crackly sort of a way.
Football Songs
Your list of the 20 greatest songs about football surprisingly omitted Fitba' Crazy, written in the 1880s by James Curran. Sung by Jimmie MacGregor and Robin Hall with a strong Scottish brogue, it was released as a single in the 1960s. Surely it is the oldest football song and ought to be the Scotland anthem in the World Cup.
Money Matters
Someone should remind Elon Musk of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's words: the man who dies rich dies disgraced. This comes as Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX's valuation reached $2.1 trillion.
Medical Mysteries
Who are these people who get to speak to a qualified doctor? NHS staff are battling a wave of food supplement disinformation.
Vintage Comedy
I loved the picture of the five redoubtable ladies paying tribute to the sublime Nora Batty. But were they wearing wrinkled stockings?
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