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Ursula Huws

@ursulahuws.bsky.social
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Independent writer and researcher. Feminist. Editor of the journal 'Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation'. Retired from academia. Working on a new book. Blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. Please DON'T message me if seeking romance.

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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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How the English language excludes and includes
It is now six months since Trump was elected president of the USA and I began writing daily clerihews to find a way to get through each depressing day of the unfolding transition to a new world ord…
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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Choice, coercion or a bit of both?
Recent debates in the UK parliament about the right to assisted dying, like other public discussions, for example about rights to abortion or freedom of expression, draw attention to the way that t…
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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The perverse effects of outsourcing health and care services
As my last post indicated, I am currently experiencing very personally and directly the impacts of the outsourcing of health and social services that has been taking place in the UK since the 1980s…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My letter about social care in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham’s social care plans could be much more radical | Letter
Letters: Readers respond to the Labour leader’s conference speech and plans for changes to social care and the state pension triple lock
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Lightnews @lightnews.app · 10/08/2026
Meta returns; Zuckerberg urges deregulation Meta returned to open AI models, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged looser U.S. regulation to help the company compete with Chinese startups and criticized "closed" rivals. With replies by 🎓Michael Zimmer, 🎓Steven H. Seggie, 🎓Robert B. Reich +8 more scholars.
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Meta returns; Zuckerberg urges deregulation
Replies by 🎓Michael Zimmer, 🎓Steven H. Seggie, 🎓Robert B. Reich, 🎓Ursula Huws, 🎓Margot C. Finn +6 more scholars
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Pluto Journals @pluto-journals.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fair Trade, Dollar Dominance, AI & the Future of Labour are topics of articles from the Journal of Fair Trade, World Review of Political Economy & mega final issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation bit.ly/PJ_Aug26 @journalfairtrade.bsky.social @wrpe.bsky.social @wolgjournal.bsky.social
Pluto Journals August Newsletter. Whether you are enjoying the summer or trying to keep cool, we have a wonderful range of thought provoking articles from the Journal of Fair Trade, World Review of Political Economy and the mega final issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation. We want to thank Ursula Huws for all her work on this important and prescient journal which has documented, examined and challenged the impact of technology on labour, while bringing greater visibility to the people behind the often invisible work that shapes our everyday lives. Discover our full collection on ScienceOpen.
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Fried, griddled, poached, scrambled, boiled (and yes, hard too)
We have just come to the end of what was officially described as the fifth heatwave of the year here in central London. And it feels as if my brain has been undergoing much the same weather assault…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
My little book of clerihews is now published and available from www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/the...
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The clerihews of Winter, 2024-2025
In her day job, Ursula Huws is a researcher, lecturer, writer and editor, based in London, who blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. In November 2024, after the victory of Donald Trump in the US presiden...
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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The English country garden
A couple of weeks ago, I listened to a discussion about the impact of clean energy policies on the British countryside on the BBC radio 4 Any Questions programme. Although the discussants, picked f…
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Old bits of paper and some (probably dumb) questions about them
We are living through an unprecedented coup – unprecedented not because world history has not been strewn with examples of political coups, but because this one involves the dominant world na…
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Matthew Archer @matthewarcher.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
enjoyed reading ursula huws about this recently
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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AI and the future of work: Utopia or dystopia, threat or promise?
Current debates about AI are taking me right back to the 1970s when I first started writing about the implications of technology for work and daily life. Making me sometimes want to yawn and someti…
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Information capitalism, surveillance capitalism...capitalism remains capitalism, it seems to me." --Ursula Huws at ETUI today
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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AI and the future of work: Utopia or dystopia, threat or promise?
Current debates about AI are taking me right back to the 1970s when I first started writing about the implications of technology for work and daily life. Making me sometimes want to yawn and someti…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Fried, griddled, poached, scrambled, boiled (and yes, hard too)
We have just come to the end of what was officially described as the fifth heatwave of the year here in central London. And it feels as if my brain has been undergoing much the same weather assault…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... another article that seems destined to end up on student reading lists - simultaneously introducing labour process theory and the political economy of communications and pointing to their interconnections.
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Adam Mrozowicki @amrozowicki.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The article and special issuris available here: www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... Power resources and grassroots activism: Worker organising potentials in logistics centres and online food delivery in Poland – ScienceOpen
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Power resources and grassroots activism: Worker organising potentials in logistics centres and online food delivery in Poland
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d25432e103">In the context of debates about logistics as a critical infrastructure of contemporary cap...
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Introducing the concept of 'Social Recession', Mark Andrejevic makes an important theoretical contribution to the literature on the impacts of AI. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is a disaster. They MUST fire the break clause. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
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NHS England to revise Palantir platform data after staff concerns
Changes to two most widely cited claims come as scrutiny grows over US tech company’s contract
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This perspicacious and well-informed overview of the history of the political economy of communication by Jernej A. Prodnik seems destined to become a staple of student reading lists. www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum...
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... Amazing article by Lee McGuigan and Vincent Manzarolle describes the astonishing range of ways that AI can be used to coerce us into consumption, (in the process ratcheting up social inequalities) in the 'shoppable sublime'
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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On Call in a Burning City: How Extreme Heat Is Reshaping Women’s Platform Work in Delhi NCR
Thousands of Indians are falling ill and dying of preventable deaths due to extreme heat. Heat Watch is helping expand awareness, capacity, and accountability to facilitate better decision-making and ...
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Latest blog post by Ursula Huws - a contribution to the debate about the future of adult social care in the UK and how Andy Burnham might address it ursulahuws.wpcomstaging.com/2026/07/20/r...
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Reinventing social care
With a new prime minister committed both to devolution to regions and to developing a national plan for adult social care and the launch of a public debate on this topic, it seems to be an opportun…
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Ursula Huws on labor, technology, capital, telework, and gender
Ursula Huws on labor, technology, capital, telework, outsourcing, the OED, gender, and Jimmy Young You can read some of her work here: https://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026
Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Published at last! the final issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation is now online at www.scienceopen.com/.../cdba69db.... This is a special issue that commemorates the legacy of Vincent Mosco and shows the relevance of his ideas for understanding the new world order
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 19/07/2026
Why does someone with cancer receive treatment free on the NHS, while someone with dementia may have to pay for their care? The boundary between health & social care is increasingly difficult to defend – and increasingly expensive to maintain. Stephen McNair considers Andy Burnham's options.
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Grasping social care: Andy Burnham’s big gamble
Andy Burnham plans to “expend real political capital” on reforming social care. It's a big gamble on cross party cooperation
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My latest blog post - a contribution to the debate about the future of adult social care in the UK and how Andy Burnham might address it ursulahuws.wpcomstaging.com/2026/07/20/r...
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Reinventing social care
With a new prime minister committed both to devolution to regions and to developing a national plan for adult social care and the launch of a public debate on this topic, it seems to be an opportun…
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/06/2026
Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft newjerseyglobe.com/media/nearly...
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Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft - New Jersey Globe
The massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit today against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
@wolgjournal.bsky.social My latest blog post - an insider view of the local elections in Keir Starmer's constituency in the UK ursulahuws.wpcomstaging.com/2026/05/08/w...
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Where the national and the local meet
In 2021, in the midst of the Pandemic lockdown, I moved to a new home in the heart of Keir Starmer’s constituency, in the St Pancras and Somers Town Ward – the ward which historically h…
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Bryan Boyle @bryanboyle.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Thanks also to @ursulahuws.bsky.social and her team for all of the great editorial work to make it possible.
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Alex Taylor on X: "Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world My English sub-titles 👇 https://t.co/rcmWu9VBFh" / X
Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world My English sub-titles 👇 https://t.co/rcmWu9VBFh
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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Artificial stupidity
A week ago, I had an encounter with a chatbot which I posted on Facebook for its comedy value. After an opening conversation in which I had (repeatedly) established my identity and the number of th…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Happy Holidays
Usually at this time of the year I post a picture on this blog in lieu of a Christmas card. Very often this is a picture I have taken during the course of the previous year, selected sometimes for …
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Interview with me about forthcoming book by Christine Evans Pughe www.howandwhy.com/ideas/are-we...
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Are we living in a Usurocracy?
How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash
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Pluto Journals @pluto-journals.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Our news bit.ly/PJJan25 brings Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation Vol 18 Iss 2 with articles highlighting Precarious Work & Inequality: Insights from Airbnb, Tuk-Tuks, Labour under Martial Law and Migrant Labour @ursulahuws.bsky.social @wolgjournal.bsky.social @scienceopen.bsky.social
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Economics explained @dumaletter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Javier was into parody. But it worked too well as ‘rug pull.’
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Economics explained @dumaletter.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Where's the new Winston now that we need him?
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Martin Krzywdzinski @martinkrz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
How do engineers and tech workers cope with the digital transformation, how far do they show similarities or different es? New paper by my colleagues and me in www.scienceopen.com/hosted-docum... @ursulahuws.bsky.social
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An uncertain elite : Professional differences and similarities between engineers and tech workers in times of digital transformation
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" dir="auto" id="d1373472e208">The digital transformation of industries has given rise to new categories of tech workers, such as sof...
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/t...
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The perverse effects of outsourcing health and care services
As my last post indicated, I am currently experiencing very personally and directly the impacts of the outsourcing of health and social services that has been taking place in the UK since the 1980s…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
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Back
I am now back at my desk after an eventful few weeks. The horrible experience described in my most recent blog has yet to be resolved but has faded into relative insignificance. On September 5th I …
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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Call for Papers: Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication. A special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization I'm co-editing w/ @ursulahuws.bsky.social, Leslie Shade, and Catherine McKercher wolg.wordpress.com/special-issu...
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Call for papers: special issue on the legacy of Vincent Mosco
Special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication The theme When…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I kid you not
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Interview with me about forthcoming book by Christine Evans Pughe www.howandwhy.com/ideas/are-we...
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Are we living in a Usurocracy?
How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Wide ranging conversation with Valentin Niebler and Kenzo Soares about changes in tech workers' identities and class consciousness in the current conjuncture (and some reflections on how this has changed over the last 50 years) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oow...
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Niebler & Soares Seto speak with U. Huws on how tech work is changing in the new global conjuncture
YouTube video by Pluto Journals
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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Are we living in a Usurocracy?
How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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Help!
I found this image on Bluesky, where it was attributed to Von Bog Witch, to whom I offer huge thanks and appreciation. Unfortunately, despite several attempts, I was unable to find a way to communi…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
My latest blog post looks, inter alia, at the question of choice in assisted dying ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/c...
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Choice, coercion or a bit of both?
Recent debates in the UK parliament about the right to assisted dying, like other public discussions, for example about rights to abortion or freedom of expression, draw attention to the way that t…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/t...
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The English country garden
A couple of weeks ago, I listened to a discussion about the impact of clean energy policies on the British countryside on the BBC radio 4 Any Questions programme. Although the discussants, picked f…
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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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BBC Music - BBC Music - God Only Knows
A film to celebrate our love of music.
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