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• L.A. Woman and Jim Morrison’s map of Los Angeles April 19, 2026 4:17 pm No one knew “Riders on the Storm” was going to be the last Doors song Jim Morrison recorded. The only one who might have known was Morrison himself, when he took his post at the band’s workshop on Santa Monica Boulevard, in a bathroom converted into an …
• Holyrood hopefuls clash at heated election hustings over topics from energy to immigration April 19, 2026 7:49 am A fiercely debated elections hustings saw emotions run high as candidates debated hot topics such as fishing, energy, transport and immigration. BBC Radio Shetland’s event at Mareel on Tuesday was packed to the rafters with voters eager to know what the …
• The cataclysmic decline of Britain is a concocted fantasy April 19, 2026 12:13 am This is Dispatches with Patrick Cockburn, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single week, you can sign up here. The belief that Britain is feeble, falling apart and in a state of semi- …
• A Comedian Crowned with Brussels Sprouts: Retrieving Peter De Vries April 18, 2026 10:56 pm Peter De Vries confessed, ever so wryly, that we crown our tragedians with laurel but our comedians with Brussels sprouts. We regard tragedy as the prime genre because it embodies the profoundest truths about proudly flawed heroes such as King Lear. …
• The myths and realities of North Sea oil April 18, 2026 10:48 pm In the heady weeks leading up to Scotland’s independence referendum, a new conspiracy theory was born. Some prominent online nationalists claimed the world’s biggest oilfield had been discovered off Shetland — and that the British government was covering …