Behold, my very unorganised musical picks of the year. There’s no grading, I just like all of them equally (except the ones with asterisks, they’re my favourites :3)

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1. The Falcons - Patrick Wolf, Lupercalia

2. Wreckin’ Bar (Ra Ra Ra) - The Vaccines, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?

3. Together - Patrick Wolf, Lupercalia

4. The Wilhelm Scream - James Blake, James Blake

5. Come Get Some - Lykke Li, Wounded Rhymes

6. Hang it Up - The Ting Tings, Sounds from Nowheresville

7. Time of My Life - Patrick Wolf, Lupercalia *

8. Landscape (Demo) - Florence + the Machine, Ceremonials *

9. Paradise - Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto

10. You & I - Lady Gaga, Born This Way *

11. Book of Revelations - The  Drums, Portamento

12. Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club, A Different Kind of Fix

13. L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. - Noah the Whale, Last Night on Earth

14. Birthday Cake - Rihanna, Talk That Talk

15. End of Time - Beyoncé, 4

16. Shake It Out - Florence + the Machine, Ceremonials * 

17. The City - Patrick Wolf, Lupercalia * 

18. Marry the Night - Lady Gaga, Born This Way 

19. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5, Hands All Over

20. Bounce - Calvin Harris, Bounce

21. No Light, No Light - Florence + the Machine, Ceremonials * 

22. Fall Creek Boys Choir (Feat Bon Iver) - James Blake, Enough Thunder

23. House - Patrick Wolf, Lupercalia * 

24. Hurts Like Heaven - Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto

25. We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) - Rihanna, Talk That Talk

26. Some Boys - Death Cab For Cutie, Codes and Keys

27. Scheibe -  Lady Gaga, Born This Way *

28. Bermondsey Street - Patrick Wolf, Lupercalia

29. Spectrum - Florence + the Machine, Ceremonials

30. I Follow Rivers - Lykke Li, Wounded Rhymes

31. I Never Learnt To Share - James Blake, James Blake

32. Hair - Lady Gaga, Born This Way

33. Armistice - Patrick Wolf, Lupercalia

34. What the Water Gave Me - Florence + the Machine, Ceremonials

35. Hawaiian Air - Friendly Fires, Pala

36. Underneath the Sycamore - Death Cab For Cutie, Codes and Keys

37. Every Teardrop is a Waterfall - Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto

38. Highway Unicorn (Road 2 Love) - Lady Gaga, Born This Way

39. Bedroom Hymns - Florence + the Machine, Ceremonials

40. This Isn’t Everything You Are - Snow Patrol, Fallen Empires

41. Radioactive - Marina and the DIamonds, Electra Heart

42. The Days - Patrick Wolf, Lupercalia

43. The Edge of Glory -   Lady Gaga, Born This Way

44. Stay Awake - Example, Playing in the Shadows

45. You Are A Tourist - Death Cab for Cutie, Codes and Keys

46. Changed The Way You Kissed Me - Example, Playing in the Shadows

47. Strangeness and Charm - Florence + the Machine, Ceremonials

48. William - Patrick Wolf, Lupercalia *

49. Born This Way -  Lady Gaga, Born This Way *

50. How Do You Swallow So Much Sleep? - Bombay Bicycle Club, A Different Kind of Fix

• Heartbeat.
• Electronic cheep
•   Fills the air.
• 
  
• The ending score,
• 
  
• That dumb thud calls
• Masters to war.
• As the good man falls,
• 
  
• No word of speech, no cry for help.
• 
  
• Just a beat not
• Once skipped,
•   Soldiering on.
• 
  
• Blaring out bleeps and thoughts,
• Behind garb of green
• In the Atrium of Death.
• 
  
• Simplified to a line,
• Each spike holding onto the edge.
• 
  
• Winding down the clockwork soul
• Fateful last tick, setting on
• The rarest jewel.

(Copyright 2011, Adam Sorice.)

Hooray, the News of the World is seeing its last publication on Sunday! That’ll end corruption in the media! Oh wait, it won’t. News Corp has already planned to replace it with a Sunday version of The Sun and how would getting rid of NOTW change anything?

It’s just jettisoning a toxic brand, there’s no industry reform. The individuals responsible for hacking and bribery stopped working with NOTW years ago and none of them (especially Rebekah Brooks, Chief Exec of News Corp and ginger arse licker to David Cameron) are being punished. Instead, a vaguely innocent and largely moral editorial team is getting the sack for no actual reason. News Corp dumps a toxic brand and makes massive savings in the long term by shrinking its team.

Justice doesn’t win, journalism doesn’t win and honesty doesn’t win. Just Murdoch.