There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

It is you who makes me see what I really am.

I beg young people to travel.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.