UK Top40 Sun 26 Sep 10
Congrats to Bruno Mars who's supurb new single 'Just The Way You Are' shoots straight to the top of the UK and US singles charts... a Trans-Atlantic Number One.

Congrats and commisserations to the Manics who while they hang on to a Top 40 place for a second week with 'It's Not War' pull up in third place on the Album Chart. Phil Collins has the UK's new number one album with his covers set 'Going Back' while The Script slip to No.2.

One To Watch - Rihanna's new song 'Only Girl (In The World)' climbs from 75 to 3 on the American Billboard Hot 100.

'Must Be The Music' is emulating Glee with Emma's Imagination having two songs on the chart and Missing Andy's second 'hit' in two weeks, Emma's cool in a mellow kind of way in at 7 with 'Focus' - not sure about Andy's 'Made In England' - it's one interpretation but...

The BBC's Album Chart web-page has been updated to include blogs, news and bigraphies for each entry - it runs to twenty four pages... a cool source of instant info... surf onto it here... I think a one page chart summary at the top would be good.

8 new entries – 3 up, 24 down, 5 non-movers Top Ten… 4 UK… 3 USA… 1 Eire … 1 Barbados... 1 Italian…

1 new 1 BRUNO MARS Just The Way You Are (Amazing) USA

2 2 5 TAIO CRUZ Dynomite UK

3 3 4 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream USA

4 4 3 THE SCRIPT For The First Time Irish Republic

5 1 3 ALEXANDRA BURKE Start Without You UK

6 6 14 EMINEM & RIHANNA Love The Way You Lie USA

7 new 1 EMMA'S IMAGINATION Focus UK

8 8 5 KATY B Katy On A Mission UK

9 10 2 SHONTELLE Impossible Barbados

10 new 1 ALEX GAUDINO I'm In Love (I Wanna Do It) Italy

11 7 10 USHER & PITBULL DJ Got Us Falling In Love USA

12 5 4 OLLY MURS Please Don't Let Me Go UK

13 new 1 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & NICOLE Heartbeat Spain & USA

14 9 9 FLO RIDA & DAVID GUETTA Club Can't Handle Me France & USA

15 11 12 YOLANDA B COOL We Speak No Americano Australia

16 15 5 KE$HA Take It Off USA

17 new 1 CHARICE Pyramid Phillipines

18 22 12 ELIZA DOOLITTLE Pack Up UK

19 17 9 TRAVIE McCOY & B.o.B. Billionaire USA

20 12 4 BRANDON FLOWERS Crossfire USA

21 new 1 MARC RONSON & BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL The Bike Song USA & UK

22 new 1 THE SATURDAYS Higher UK

23 14 9 THE WANTED All Time Low UK

24 16 6 ROLL DEEP Green Light UK

25 31 3 EMMA'S IMAGINATION This Day UK

26 19 9 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA & PHARREL One(Your Name) USA

27 23 17 B.o.B. & HAYLEY WILLIAMS Airplanes USA

28 21 8 NE-YO Beautiful Monster USA

29 26 24 8 DJ FRESH Gold Dust 88-176 UK

30 20 13 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & PITBULL I Like It Spain & USA

31 30 2 MAROON 5 Misery USA

32 13 3 McFLY Party Girl UK

33 24 7 THE SATURDAYS Missing You UK

34 29 14 KATY PERRY & SNOOP DOGG California Girls USA

35 25 5 STROMAE Alors On Dance Belgium/Rwanda

36 18 3 ALESHA Drummer Boy UK

37 27 27 2 EXAMPLE Last Ones Standing 126 UK

38 new 1 MISSING ANDY The Way We're Made (In England) UK

39 33 15 EXAMPLE Kickstarts UK

40 28 2 MANIC STREET PREACHERS It's Not War UK

America's Hot 100

This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title

1 3 9 BRUNO MARS Just The Way You Are

2 2 13 EMINEM & RIHANNA Love The Way You Lie

3 75 2 RIHANNA Only Girl (In The World)

4 1 9 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream

5 6 10 USHER & PITBULL DJ's Got Us Falling In Love

6 4 16 TAIO CRUZ Dynamite

7 5 19 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & PITBULL I Like It

8 7 5 NELLY Just A Dream

9 9 12 FLO RIDA & DAVID GUETTA Club Can't Handle Me

10 16 6 FAR EAST MOVEMENT with CATARACTS & DEV Like A G6

BlairLaneScrapped
Posted Fri 1st Oct 2010 - Source - BBC.co.uk
The Blair Lane err M4 Bus Lane into London is to be scrapped... BRILLIANT... I used to get stuck in it every Sunday night when there was far less traffic than warranted a queue. If liberation from the EU comes this is a taste of what it will feel like.

Ed Use Somebody
Posted Wed 29th Sep 2010 - Source - BBC.co.uk
Have you noticed how everything seems to need a pop song to identify itself, like a 'sexy' kind of mission statement... from car commercials to politicians image making... did you notice as Ed Milliband left the stage following his maiden speech as Labour Leader up chimed Kings Of Leon's 'Use Somebody'... A strange choice but as Tony Blair famously selected D-Ream's 'Things Can Only Get Better', Ed's choice can only be more accurate.

Tax the Council
Posted Wed 29th Sep 2010 - Source - BBC.co.uk

Cardiff's Lib Dem / Plaid Cymru Council... in the dictionary under pathetic have surprised us all again this week. Despite insisting the unnecessary road works at Cardiff Castle would go ahead without interruption.... as Tuesdays South Wales Echo shows they have near disappeared completely. The Labour / Green policy of narrowing roads as part of a general war on car drivers enacted here by a dysfunctional coalition of Plaid Cymru / Lib Dems was shamed into removing them - perhaps at the realisation that the world's impression of Cardiff during the Ryder Cup would be less than favourable... in fact if you were stuck in last weeks traffic you'd have been wise to have taken a packed lunch. We've got another two years of this devolved vandalism... then as Thatcher did to Liverpool council in the 80s the funds of the councillors responsible for this disaster should be sequestrated. The individuals who have arrogantly and consistently ignored public opinion in Cardiff should be made to pay from their own pockets for the outrage they're inflicting on us. They claim to be tackling congestion by reducing four lanes to two... an outright lie... no doubt, in lieu of arguing for a congestion charge... let's not get on to the destruction of heritage schools.

MoylesBreakdown
Updated 26th Sep 2010 - Source - BBC.co.uk
We speculated on a breakdown and now it's been revealed that Chris Moyle's has split from his girlfriend of eight years over his decision to remain single and not start a family... affairs of the heart eh???
Chris needs to bond again with an audience most of whom will be paid the minimum wage of around £5 an hour while he's earning £600 an hour... though you'd never have guessed it if you quality assessed his content... Perhaps this explains his mistaken on-air rant about his good fortune last week...

New Ed?
Posted Sun 26th Sep 2010
Still waiting for an explanation of how Labour sees 66 year old grannies who sell goldfish to 14 year old boys as a social evil - so evil they're worthy of a thousand pound fine and a two month curfew with an electronic tag.... while capital punishment has been downgraded to open prison status???
Don't hold your breath.
So called intellectuals may regard that as social justice??????
New Labour leader Ed Milliband must be quaking in his boots... praying Gordon the Great doesn't support him like he did Tony Blair in his third term as the elected Prime Minister of The United Kingdom of Great Britain.
Another strange quality to the 'new' Labour line is the attempt to distance themselves from their bigotted and disasterous thinking like the anti-granny policy above, as if Brothers Ed, Dave, Ed, Andy and Diane were nothing to do with it... at least we know when they're lying, each cleverly connived soundbite seems to betray a fork tongued deceipt... Is it possible to have social justice without justice... the justice system became a sick joke under Labour with their own Attorney General unable to abide by her own laws... Justice demanded she resign but she (and they) clung on to power in the same manner you'd expect a desperado to cling to booty.
The top legal job in the country - Attorney General... a ministerial office created in 1315 brought to a dismal non-functioning shame.
Not a word of apology.
There's little morality or guidance any such shamefuls can offer when tainted with such blinkered vision.
Labour seem to be banking on the exploding economic time-bombs they've deliberately left the Tories... if the Tories don't sort out Labour's deceitful governmental diarrhea - the strange union leadership to which Labour is betrothed will have achieved one of it's darker goals - a chaotic end to the capitalist system under which we currently live... it's hard to imagine the Tories will be alone in resisting such a calamity and for sure we ain't seen anything yet.
The Milibands - from wiki
Their father, Ralph, a Polish Jew who fled the Nazi invasion of Belgium in 1940, was one of the leading Marxist theorists of his generation - and a fierce critic of the Labour Party.
Their mother, Marion Kozak, is also a well-known figure on the British left.
Growing up, their Primrose Hill home played host to the leading intellectuals and Labour politicians of the age, with dinner guests including Ken Livingstone and Tariq Ali.
The family's basement dining room was the scene of high-minded and often heated debates between major figures on the Left.
The young Milibands were always encouraged to chip into the debate with their own opinions and, apparently, Tony Benn was even known to have given the brothers a few pointers with their homework.
"[They were] very, very fresh lively, intelligent… and I must admit Ed amazed me by being able to do the Rubik's Cube... in one minute 20 seconds and, as I recall, just with one hand too," remembers socialist academic Robin Blackburn, a close friend of Ralph's.
Ed studied at North London Comprehensive school, Oxford university and the Treasury.
Ed says he was not "cool" enough to hang out with ex Labour MP Oona King, who was in the year above him at school.
The more academically gifted of the two, Ed did better than David in his A-levels, following his brother to Corpus Christi College in Oxford, where he became involved in student activism.
After briefly working as a television journalist, Ed was taken on by current deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman, then a shadow minister, as a speech writer and researcher.
His number-crunching skills soon brought him to the attention of the then shadow chancellor... Gordon Brown "burgled him off Harriet", said Charlie Whelan, Brown's former spin doctor has said.