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Is there a 'cliff-like' decline at menopause? Australian experts skeptical
By Lauren RobertsA new international study suggests menopause-related changes to the body are sudden and "cliff-like", but Australian experts urge caution interpreting the results. Here's why.
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My climbs to the top of the cliff with a milkshake?
Ledge n' dairy!
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How Platform Design Shapes Political Reality
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — October 13, 2026Reporting
Political understanding on Facebook is not shaped only by what people believe. It is shaped by what the platform makes visible, repeatable, and emotionally compelling.
On Facebook, political content does not rise because it is representative or accurate. It rises because it performs well within a system designed to maximize engagement. Over time, this performance-based visibility alters how political reality itself is perceived.
Structural Context
Facebook’s design emphasizes speed, reaction, and repetition. Posts that generate strong responses are surfaced more often, recommended more widely, and kept in circulation longer.
This creates several predictable distortions:
- extreme or simplified political claims outperform nuanced ones,
- emotionally charged narratives crowd out procedural or policy-based reporting,
- repeated exposure creates familiarity, which is often mistaken for consensus.
The platform does not distinguish between persuasion and manipulation. Both produce engagement.
From Political Debate to Political Theater
When visibility is determined by performance, politics becomes performative.
Candidates, activists, and interest groups are incentivized to produce content that provokes reaction rather than understanding. Videos replace documents. Slogans replace explanations. Outrage replaces deliberation.
This does not reflect a sudden change in voter intelligence. It reflects adaptation to platform incentives.
What succeeds on Facebook is what fits the format.
Time Compression and False Urgency
Facebook collapses political time. Past statements, old scandals, and outdated clips resurface without context and are experienced as current events.
This creates a constant sense of crisis. Political moments appear unresolved even when outcomes are known. Users remain emotionally engaged but poorly informed.
In this environment, political reality feels chaotic not because it is, but because the platform presents it that way.
Analysis
Platform design does not tell people what to think. It tells them what to notice—and what to ignore.
By rewarding emotional intensity and repetition, Facebook amplifies certain political behaviors while marginalizing others. Policy detail, legislative process, and institutional accountability are structurally disadvantaged.
When Facebook functions as a primary political information source, the platform’s design choices quietly shape public perception of what politics is and how it works.
Practical Implications
Understanding political content on Facebook requires interpreting the platform as an intermediary, not a mirror.
Practical steps include:
- distinguishing between political performance and political substance,
- seeking primary sources such as official statements and legislation,
- following political reporting outside social media feeds,
- and recognizing that high visibility does not equal broad support.
Political reality is larger and more complex than what performs well on a feed.
Conclusion
Facebook’s design rewards political content that provokes reaction and sustains engagement. It does not reward accuracy, proportionality, or resolution.
As a result, political reality on the platform is shaped by what spreads, not by what governs.
Recognizing this influence is essential for interpreting political information responsibly—especially in environments where Facebook dominates public attention.
For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com
Archived as part of the WPS News Monthly Brief Series (Amazon).
References
#Facebook #journalism #misinformation #Philippines #platformDesign #Politics
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SunLocator (1.0.0) by Clifford Farrugia
➡️ https://github.com/clifarr/sunlocator
A lightweight solar calculator for sunrise, sunset and twilight times.
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View from the beach boxed in by a cliff at Camusett State Historic Park Preserve -- that's Elliot sitting in the far distance
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⚡ NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12GB vs RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16GB: The 1440p VRAM Cliff, DLSS 4 & Value Benchmark (2026)
Does Blackwell's architectural leap compensate for a 12GB memory ceiling? We benchmark the GeForce RTX 5070 12GB against the previous-generation RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 16GB: evaluating ...
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🚀 oddquark // Space Watch — 2026-10-12
Curiosity just beamed back a gorgeous dawn shot of Mars's yardang cliffs emerging from shadow 🚀 after 4,982 sols on the Red Planet, that rover is still out there making art with geology!! 🔴✨
🔗 https://nypost.com/2026/10/09/science/nasa-rover-captures-stunning-shot-of-mars-at-dawn/
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@ianvisits that "this is not a photo opportunity" stencil used to be found partway up a cliff in Cheddar Gorge in 2010; not checked recently to see if it is still there. It is accessible on foot from the road...
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“Monterey Cypress Forest, Leaning Trees” — Monterey Cypress trees at the edge of a Point Lobos cliff on a foggy morning.
These trees grow along one of the most exposed coastal locations at Point Lobos State Reserve. Not far behind my camera position s the rugged end of a peninsula that just out into the Pacific, exposed to the waves and wind. In the other direction, beyond these trees, is a cliff that drops to a rocky, narrow bay that where the surf constantly washes in and out.
continue: https://gdanmitchell.com/2026/10/11/monterey-cypress-forest-leaning-trees/
#pointlobos #trees #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature
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Addleborough is a distinctive, flat topped hill with steep stone cliffs in Wensleydale in the #YorkshireDales. Its prominence led to it being used as a lookout station by the Romans so there are good views from its summit. Route to climb it at https://www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/YorkshireDales/Addleborough/Hiking%20Pages%20-%20Addleborough%20walk.htm
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Binge-culture confession: the "one more episode" rule only works if you decide the stopping point BEFORE you start. Pick the episode number up front, not at 1am when the cliffhanger is hitting.
Bonus: stop mid-season on a scene you're curious about, not on a resolved one. Way easier to come back tomorrow.
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After a rain while hiking around Roughlock Falls, I captured this forest landscape with lingering fog clouds floating around the pine trees high on a cliff at Spearfish Canyon in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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NASA rover captures stunning shot of Mars at dawn
Red dawn? NASA has released stunning images of Mars at dawn, revealing the planet’s mysterious cliffs in unprecedented…
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a longer #wordle means longer #WordlePoetry. is that bad luck for me or for #poetry lovers & #ReverseWordle players? 😅💙
#Wordle1942 6/6 #Poem: 🖕maga
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜Fuck all of the assholes & those hard of thinking
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜Who chose a child rapist & fascist as mad king
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩He admits he's a snake, yet they haven't an inkling
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩Secret documents stored in a room meant for tinkling
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩I wish they’d walk to a cliff, & then keep on walking
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Oooh, Google Maps/Tiktok luring people to a dangerous spot....
SFGate: Extremely popular San Francisco overlook is now more dangerous than ever
"...In 2022, Google Maps cited the viewpoint as the second-most searched spot in the country — the same year that a woman fell 150 feet from the cliff. .e was lucky to survive after stepping past the fence..."
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/golden-gate-bridge-vista-22474147.php
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Roadworks report for #Tamworth, Mon 12 Oct, 2026:
CLOSED: Portway Lane, Florendine Street, Hurley Common, Birch Grove, Dunstall Road, Syerscote Lane
LANE CLOSED: Bonehill Road
TEMPORARY LIGHTS: Apollo, Grendon Road, Lovell, Atherstone Lane, Borman, Ludgate, Warton Lane
SINGLE-FILE TRAFFIC: Armstrong, Kettlebrook Road, Mariner, Clifford Street, Cornel, Foxglove, Jowett, Kiln Way, Old Kingsbury Road
WORKS IN THE ROAD: Tinkers Green Road, Aitken Close, Holwick+2 more: https://CheapFuelNearMe.uk/street-manager/tamworth/
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In the darkness of the middle of the night, I wrapped myself in a blanket and took myself onto the large balcony, sat on a terrace chair and just enjoyed the night. Stars twinkled above me, and the the sound of sea waves breaking below the cliff. It was so very special.
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Blinding orange flashes flickered from the nose of the lead fighter. A half-second later, the hammering of four synchronized .50-caliber Browning heavy machine guns rolled across the caldera, punctuated by the sharp, tearing rasp of a 20mm cannon. Gray smoke streaked back over the Lightning’s canopy. A sharp, metallic spang echoed across the valley floor. "They hit it!" Arthur shouted. "They're firing live ammunition!" The silver craft shuddered violently. A second later, whatever invisible hand had been holding the hexagonal machine in the air seemed to vanish completely. Its nose dropped sharply. It didn't spin, and it didn't burn, but it dropped like a boulder hurled from a cliff face, tracing a steep, sickening parabolic plunge toward the southern flats. "She's going in!" Harlan yelled, watching through the binoculars as the silver machine plummeted toward the dry borrow pit near the old Brawley property boundary. At the absolute last split-second, barely fifty feet off the ground, the craft seemed to jerk backward against the air, killing its vertical drop before dropping out of Harlan's sight.
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Later today on #hashtag #BaroqueSun an hour of curated baroque! 4:30pmPT/7:30pmET/2:30MCET All welcome, riff along or just listen. "More Emoke, more baroque, including Lucy playing 2 recorders with her nose (again) and the new Mozart piece (again) but with different performers. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF6a_adW22Pg (cc @theClurichaun @stuartgrist @paddydoublems @Quantensalat @bunnyhero @cliffco58 @Kinetograph @ADignorantium @Cateo @Dianora @samsagreg )
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Roadworks report for #Tamworth, Sun 11 Oct, 2026:
CLOSED: Portway Lane, Florendine Street, Hurley Common, Birch Grove, Dunstall Road, Syerscote Lane
LANE CLOSED: Bonehill Road
TEMPORARY LIGHTS: Apollo, Lovell, Atherstone Lane, Borman, Ludgate, Warton Lane
SINGLE-FILE TRAFFIC: Armstrong, Kettlebrook Road, Mariner, Clifford Street, Cornel, Foxglove, Jowett, Kiln Way, Old Kingsbury Road
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The OpenAI Python SDK is mostly a
base_urland anapi_key. If an API speaks the same shapes —/images/generations,/chat/completions,/videos— the SDK you already have installed works against it.LivePair exposes exactly that surface: an OpenAI-compatible endpoint covering 60+ image and video generation models (Seedream, Seedance, Wan, Qwen Image, Ideogram, Minimax) plus a set of chat models. One
base_urlchange, andclient.images.generate()produces media from models that don't exist on OpenAI.Disclosure: I work on LivePair. Everything below is runnable against the live API — the catalog, prices, and shapes are public at
GET /v1/agent/models.Setup
pip install openai requestsGrab a key: sign up at
livepairai.com→ Settings → API keys →lp_…. Billing is a prepaid credit balance — each call debits the per-model price, no subscription.from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://livepairai.com/v1/agent",
api_key="lp_...", # sent as a Bearer token, so the stock SDK works
)Images —
client.images.generatejust works
img = client.images.generate(
model="seedream-5.0",
prompt="a lighthouse on a cliff at dusk, cinematic lighting",
size="1024x1024",
)
print(img.data[0].url)That's the unmodified OpenAI call. The catalog decides what
modelcan be —seedream-5.0,qwen-image-3,ideogram-3-turbo, and so on.sizeaccepts the standard1024x1024/1792x1024/1024x1792values and maps onto each model's aspect-ratio ladder.Chat —
client.chat.completions.create
r = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain the CAP theorem in two sentences."}],
max_tokens=256,
)
print(r.choices[0].message.content)Video — Sora-shaped, poll-then-download
The video endpoint mirrors OpenAI's Videos API shape:POST /videosreturns a job immediately,GET /videos/{id}polls status,GET /videos/{id}/contentstreams the mp4. Newer SDK releases have aclient.videosnamespace; here's the plain-HTTP version so the contract is visible:import time, requests
H = {"Authorization": "Bearer lp_...", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
BASE = "https://livepairai.com/v1/agent"job = requests.post(f"{BASE}/videos", headers=H, json={
"model": "wan-3.0-t2v",
"prompt": "drone shot over a foggy forest at dawn, slow push-in",
"size": "1280x720", # 16:9; 720x1280 → 9:16
"seconds": "5",
}).json()vid = job["id"]
while True:
v = requests.get(f"{BASE}/videos/{vid}", headers=H).json()
if v["status"] in ("completed", "failed"):
break
time.sleep(5)if v["status"] == "completed":
mp4 = requests.get(f"{BASE}/videos/{vid}/content", headers=H) # 302 → media URL
open("out.mp4", "wb").write(mp4.content)Prices are data, not a pricing page
GET /v1/agent/modelsreturns every model with apriceUsdfield — the exact per-call debit before you make it:models = requests.get(f"{BASE}/models").json()
for m in models["models"]:
print(m["id"], m["mode"], m["priceUsd"])GET /v1/agent/balanceshows your prepaid balance and recent ledger entries.Why bother
The useful part isn't another API key — it's that image gen, video gen, and chat land on the same OpenAI surface you already integrate, priced per call against a balance you can watch. For pipelines that need several model families (compare outputs, fallback chains, cost routing), switching models is a string, not a new provider account.There's also a no-account path if you're wiring autonomous agents: the same endpoints answer
402 Payment Requiredand settle per call in USDC via x402, so a client that can sign a payment header can call without any signup at all.Gotchas
n> 1 isn't supported on image generation — loop instead.- Video is async by design; budget ~1–3 min per clip depending on model.
- A generation that fails provider-side refunds to the balance automatically.
- Results aren't published anywhere and are deleted after 48h — save the bytes.
Docs:
livepairai.com/docs, machine-readable spec at/v1/agent/openapi.json, MCP server for agent clients under/mcp.#ai #api #openai #python #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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👩🦳 Menopause-related changes to the body may happen suddenly, rather than being a gradual part of aging, a new study shows. Researchers analysed the results of over 300 million lab tests - for bone health, liver and kidney function, the immune system, and more. Around the time of menopause, the results of more than half of the tests tended to suddenly shift for women, whereas changes happened gradually in men. However, the size of the sudden changes was smaller in women taking menopausal hormonal therapy. The researchers also found that levels of reproductive hormones started changing over a decade before women's periods stopped.
🗨️ University of the Sunshine Coast, The University of Melbourne, and Macquarie University experts have responded to the research.
✨Follow the link to read the full expert reaction✨
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/menopause-linked-to-physiological-cliff-across-the-body
#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #menopause #womenshealth
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He was shaking pulverized volcanic tuff into a gray cloud; Eleanor Vance sketched obsidian flake debitage onto gridded ledger paper. Young Pete Morales carefully catalogued ancestral Pueblo potsherds into brown kraft bags. To Harlan, this caldera was an open cathedral of deep time. A million years of volcanic ash and basalt rested beneath the dry June grama grass, undisturbed except for the mule deer and the wind sighing down from the Valle Grande rim. Then came the vibration. It didn't begin as a sound, but as an uneasy tremor through the earth, shuddering through Harlan’s kneepads and up into his shins. "You feel that, Dr. Harlan?" Arthur paused, the wooden sifting box balanced midway through a shake. "Hold up, everyone," Harlan said, straightening his back with a soft grunt. He took off his fedora, wiping his brow with the sleeve of his khaki field shirt. From somewhere over the southern volcanic dome, a deep, resonant snarling erupted, a double-throated mechanical howl unlike anything native to the mountains. It grew with alarming speed, echoing off the basalt cliffs until the entire valley basin seemed to hum.
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Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 by David Kynaston — final thoughts
One hundred million years ago, one summer evening, I was in the family car with my parents as they puzzled over the latest clue in the motoring treasure hunt in which they were involved. I just googled, and such events still take place, like this one from earlier this year, a Cotswold Treasure Hunt, which featured:
- A carefully planned route through the stunning Cotswolds countryside
- Clues, puzzles, and hidden checkpoints to keep you on your toes
- Beautiful villages, winding roads, and plenty of photo opportunities
- A spot of lunch at a beautiful venue
- A fun, relaxed atmosphere with fellow car enthusiasts
I don’t remember the last two things, but I do remember – vividly! – the whole family being stumped by a clue, which was something like $2.38 June 15th 19xx. I seem to remember my old man driving round, frustrated, as they doubled back, circled around, retraced their route and then finally stumbled across the answer. A snapshot memory: the garden gate of a pretty cottage—a house with a name and not a number. The name? The Pound.
This experience pretty much mirrors that of the Wilson government in the summer months of 1966 as Sterling came once more under relentless pressure and Wilson resisted all calls to float the currency and devalue. A struggle to find The Answer.
There had been a 6-week National Union of Seamen strike soon after the election, settled without much fuss in the end, but doing untold damage to the economy, the gold reserves, and the balance of payments. The quiet killer. But imagine: a time when a British merchant navy had the power to bring shipping to a standstill.
So much personal and national prestige was caught up in the pound and the exchange rate. In July 1966, as Wilson announced a grim and conservative package of measures designed to take the pressure off, the pound was worth $2.80. Staggering. I just checked: it currently stands at $1.32.
This strand of ridiculous national pride in the currency persisted, of course, into the 21st century, and was the main reason many people resisted the very idea of joining the €uro. How much happier might we all be without the fookin’ pound?
Inevitably, the author spends a good deal of time on this matter, which was the most important issue trying the nation in the run-up to the release of Revolver, Bob Dylan’s motorcycle crash, and the World Cup final at the Empire Stadium, Wembley.
We’re two thirds of the way through the book, Labour has just convincingly won the 1966 general election, and Kynaston takes stock.
When I saw him speak at the London Library last Wednesday, he was careful to emphasise that though the “Sixties” get seen as this revolutionary decade, it was also a decade of continuity. I’ve acknowledged this over and over again on this blog. Swinging London was a very small circle of hipsters who all knew each other, and you didn’t even have to leave London before you encountered what you might call the Long Fifties. Tradition. Continuity. Terrible food.
How many people still had an outdoor toilet? The answer: a lot. And what did people eat? Findus crispy pancakes, Vesta Chow Mein and fish fingers, yes, but also lots of tinned food. Corned beef (especially in the North East), but more chicken and fresh veg in the poncy South. Fish and chips, especially in the North, and marrowfat peas treated with bicarb to make them bright green.
By 1965, there were almost 13,000,000 motor vehicles in Britain, but still only 47% of journeys were taken by car; and as late as 1968 more than half of urban households did not own one. It’s easy to forget things like this. My dad used to drive terrible old second hand cars, but we did always have one, and a family holiday every summer. And we had a telephone, too, at a time when it was still common for people to come and knock on the door and ask to use it—when the payphone at the end of the street was out of order. And if you had a phone, you probably had a little wooden money box for such people to deposit coins in.
Other areas of continuity that the author identifies include betting shops and football grounds, greyhound stadia, and the working men’s clubs of northern England with their “turns”: comedians, jugglers, singers, and people eating pork pies and mushy peas.
He reminds us too that as well as the Kinks and the Stones and the Who, the charts were full of Mrs Mills and Ken Dodd—and that one of the most popular television shows was Val Doonican; and how Cliff Richard had more weeks on the charts than the Beatles; and how The Sound of Music was not just enormously popular in the cinema, but at number one in the album charts for 69 weeks.
And while the 60s was James Bond, it was also Carry On…; those films, with their seaside postcard humour, people putting up with things, grinning and bearing it all. Underneath all the seaside sauciness, Carry On films were puritanical in their attitudes towards sex. It wasn’t until 1967 when birth control advice was somewhat liberalised. 1966 was still the era when mostly only married women could access the pill, when Boots had only just started selling condoms, when most people’s idea of birth control was coitus interruptus. Heartbreaking tales of forced adoption.
Alan Brien in the New Statesman, a week before the World Cup Final:
‘[Sunderland] is a democratic land where no one is insolent because no one is condescending, where the poor who are mainly the old and the sick are buoyed up with strong and tender family ties and good neighbours, where the majority live modestly but well, while a few are making their fortunes turning comforts into necessities. In the evening, even in July, the people who clog the town in the day vanish as the sun begins to slant down and you can scorch along the main streets at 8 p.m. without seeing another car. Life is in the pubs, in the clubs, by the telly, with an iron-tasting beer served in a glass like a flowerpot. It is a gregarious, family, matey world full of nest warmth and communal solidarity. It has many of the qualities of the England of the past which have vanished in our atomised South.’
Philip Larkin, May 1966 (Friday Night at the Royal Station Hotel):
Light spreads darkly downwards from the high
Clusters of lights over empty chairs
That face each other, coloured differently.
Through open doors, the dining-room declares
A larger loneliness of knives and glass
And silence laid like carpet. A porter reads
An unsold evening paper. Hours pass,
And all the salesmen have gone back to Leeds,
Leaving full ashtrays in the Conference Room.In shoeless corridors, the lights burn. How
Isolated, like a fort, it is –
The headed paper, made for writing home
(If home existed) letters of exile: Now
Night comes on. Waves fold behind villages.Eleven million cars on the road on Whit Monday 1966. Wilson distancing himself from the Americans in Vietnam—which might be seen as one of his greatest legacies. Trouble brewing in Northern Ireland, led by the demagogue Ian Paisley. The World Cup begins. Racism among railway workers comes to a head when it is revealed that staff at Euston refuse to work alongside people of colour. The Fissiparous government. Wilson’s grim austerity package to save the £.
Save me save me save me from this squeeze.
It’s worth remembering amid all this that, compared to now, economic growth in 1966 was fairly good, unemployment was low. Mild choppy waters compared to post-Brexit Britain. But as Kynaston points out, when the PM stood up in the Commons to announce his economic squeeze: “for Harold Wilson and his labour government, never glad confident morning again.”
All Wilson’s big decisions were forced on him by events. He governed by reaction, not action. He was a Starmer in the end.
Meanwhile, the BBC was showing World Cup action in slow motion for the first time.
And the book finishes with a tour de force of a final chapter. It’s the world cup final, and Kynaston weaves Kenneth Wolstenholme’s BBC commentary (in italics) with his usual semi-colon long-listing of what people were up to. Who was watching, who wasn’t. There were still garden fêtes, people working shifts, race meetings. That evening, lots of greyhound racing. And Bob Charlton senior is on his shift cutting coal at Linton Colliery while his two sons make history. Incredible.
It’s a powerful package, a blow-by-blow record from the sources and diarists as England make heavy weather of their match against West Germany. Laurence Marks has a bet on with a friend and needs England to lose. Peter Cook is in a pub or club (or at the actual match?) somewhere and his neighbour opens champagne a few minutes before the end of the 90 minutes (a classic “Nothing can go wrong now!” moment), with England 2:1 up. And then the Germans equalise, and, Peter Cook turns to his neighbour and says, “If you open your fucking mouth in extra time I’ll kill you.”
And just as I did when Mark Lewisohn reached the “You’ve just made your first number one record” moment in Tune In, I wept at Wolstenholme’s they think it’s all over.
An incredibly moving final chapter. Brilliant. I have to add my own family lore: that when Geoff Hurst scored that last goal, my dad leapt up from the couch and smashed the overhead light with his bald head. It is now.
(According to what the author said last Wednesday, the next volume will cover late 1966 to early 1970. I’m already excited.)
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