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This sounds FASCINATING

For three minutes, we had a sense of patriotic unity that could have re-taken Calais

Given we regularly discuss whether an alternative national anthem is required, and what it would be, I feel I should report that in this Corfiot hotel the DJ just played “Mr Brightside” and every single Brit, tho strangers all, went FULL ON BATSHIT, while everyone else looked on, bemused

Believe it or not, this is the hotel in Corfu

Aaaaand we’re done. Final three songs: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, followed by Take Me Home Country Road, followed by - by democratic vote - Desposito Truly, there has never been a DJ set like it

Truly a mixture of both

MR BRIGHTSIDE Every Brit in the hotel has just shared a transcendent communal dance experience and are now bound to one another with ties too sacred to describe. All the other nationalities think we are all clinically insane

He has played Faithless. In my husband’s eyes, all is forgiven

…aaaaand straight into Bailando. Because that’s normal. Quickly followed to Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You (weird female cover version)

IT IS YMCA TIME

“Segued” here is doing a lot of heavy lifting. “Just started playing, simultaneously, regardless of key, tempo or mood” would be less charitable but more technically accurate

Hotel in Corfu

It continues! Man, I Feel Like A Woman, to Night Fever, to Rock DJ Is there a theme? We are less than half an hour in and already that question feels futile

In non-Odyssey news, the DJ tonight has now segued from Money For Nothing, to Say A Little Prayer For You, to Play That Funky Music White Boy, to Don’t Stop Me Now, to September, to Shut Up And Dance With Me… to SOS by ABBA. To say we are getting musical whiplash is an understatement

men when christopher nolan casts a non-white actor: that is not ACCURATE they were all WHITE men when emily wilson points out christopher nolan’s inaccuracies: oh come on it’s just a film it can’t be 100% faithful to the original

I was wondering about this! In the last heatwave we kept the kids cool by hosing them down in the garden, which had the added bonus of giving the plants some respite. So now we can’t do that… but we can give them unlimited showers, where the water just runs down the drain?

It’s like a zoo for fishes

YES PLEASE. With extra psychological Discourse as the internet tries to figure out if Aeneas’ final move is noble or barbaric, and what that says about them

By sheer coincidence / psychic powers, I wrote about the idea of compulsory voting in last week’s New Statesman column before I escaped to Greece, and predicted it might be on Andy Burnham’s radar pretty soon www.newstatesman.com/politics/dem...