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I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

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Apologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

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I agree. I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve also seen death of tricky people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

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I agree. I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

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I've never been a guitar afficionado, mine is an epiphone s200, I always thought it was pretty ugly, but it's the only guitar I've ever had. I do like the low hiss of humbuckers for plugging it into things like an octatrack.

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It's the canonical music shop imv.

Even the person selling boozey and hawkes stuff by the dentists in Marston has gone now.

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Speaking of music shops, the new record from Panda Bear and Sonic Boom (Spaceman 3) is great, and it's not on any streaming platform. To hear it, you have to risk it and buy it, like in the olden days; then listen to it many times until you like it. Or: make friends with someone who has it already.

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It really is a great music shop tho and you should spend money there. Ancient 19" rack FX units that smell correctly of beer. Huge hissy 1980s mixing desks. And normal things. I still remember the Akai AX73 I lusted for in 1989 when it was Musicology in Littlemore. £165 then was unimaginable (good).

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Just went to The Music Box on Cowley Rd to get my guitar fixed. I bought it in 1990 aged 16 for £85, from him. Now he's the only instrument shop left in Oxford. No smiling photos because (a) I'm not like that (b) as you'd hope from a great guitar shop he's appalled at the prospect of more customers.

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Watering new trees is permitted during a hosepipe ban. But how do you communicate to neighbours that your noisy babbling hose is on legitimate legal business? Single foghorn blast then confident announcement on a loudhailer? (First timer, I've just bought three trees, soon they will die).

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Oh that's a really good idea. The penalty should match the risk imposed on society by the driver.