Lisa Hannigan, the whispering wonder with a stunning voice, and who found fame in Damien Rice’s band with his album’s O and 9 is an incredible solo artist. Her words float like silken threads on the breeze, and though this isn’t a YouTube Pick of the Week, how can I ignore her? I don’t have a heart of stone.  Her voice is as gorgeous as she is herself.

Go on, see for yourself.

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So it’s sorted. Will the UK get the new kind of politics that our new Deputy PM, Nick Clegg, is so fond of talking about? Who really knows. One thing’s for sure – I admire the man’s (and the party’s) optimism that we will. I admire the belief that the new coalition government is the best thing for Britain, and that the Tories and LibDems can deliver on the promise to provide a stable and fair government, based on what the country decided at the general election.

Bit of  an odd thing that though – assuming that the country, as a singular, decided anything at all. Indeed, it could be equally (and has been, quite vocally) argued that it did the exact opposite of that, and showed just how different and diverse we are in our opinions. That’s no bad thing necessarily, but it does beg the question of how politicians make the jump from the fact that 26,116,083 people voted – between them – for three different parties, to the idea that we all voted for the current situation.

I didn’t vote for the Tories. I’ll say that because I’m open about it. I don’t believe that I should hide the fact, and I don’t believe I voted for another party (the LibDems) particularly to get the Tories in and have the LibDems on board. But then, when over 26 million people vote, it’s hardly easy to sort it all out. Not at the moment anyway, without Proportional Representation.

So it’s a bit of a stretch to say that ‘the country decided’. We didn’t, did we? We didn’t not decide either. Each of us decided to vote for a party/candidate/PM, but not enough of us did to avoid a coalition government. Yet there is Britain to run, and with Gordon Brown resigning yesterday in a truly dignified manner, what has the ‘ConDem/’LibCon’ government done to bamboozle us? Decide to get along! The barefaced cheek of it!

I must admit, it’s a crazy but inspiring idea, yet it might just work.  I’m not ‘anti-Dave’ per se. I don’t believe he represents my vote in the General Election, but it was quite refreshing to see him and Clegg address the nation’s media on the lawn of Number 10 today. I don’t jump into the fire of claiming that the LibDems sold me out either, because at first glance they appear to have brokered a sensible power-sharing deal, and, on the face of it, helped to shuffle ‘new politics’ into a rather stale deck.

What’s more, politics seems accessible and enjoyable for once. (I’m actually writing a blog on the damn thing, and) With the media, commentators and MPs not quite sure where they stand, the barn door appears to have been blown open for those – like me – previously tired by Punch and Judy back and forths. What? Oh come on, a little optimism never did any harm.

It might be I’m at the age to take interest, or the increased media coverage of this election. It might be the knowledge that ‘my’ party will have an impact in this new coalition that’s turned me and my friends and colleagues on to the political goings on. Or it might be those ‘New Politics’ (post ‘New Labour’) we’re hearing so much about. Whatever it is, I don’t really feel too bad about it. And I hope others don’t either.

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Hope you enjoy this. For reasons best categorised under ‘random machinations of Kevin’s brain’, this track, the first off The XX excellent album ‘X’, will be forever linked for me with the UK General Election 2010. It’s probably to do with a certain channel’s political coverage that, but anyway, it’s an excellent track. Press Play. Enjoy. Simple as that.

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It’s Wednesday. I know, I know it’s not your favourite day, but just chill for a second. Yep. Worry About It Later.

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(Awesome lyrics as well as video by the way):

your card’s on the table 
and the cat’s in the cradle 
and your heart’s been skipping like a jumping bean 
brain’s been waking in the sixth degrees

your time’s on the table 
and you’re young fit and able 
and your love’s been aching like an acorn tree 
take a spin around oh one two three

it’s easy to blame chaos on the ones with cloaks and daggers who 
push the hidden hands that hold the strings of ultimate control 
when you ain’t got love

time’s ticking tables and the new towers of babel 
and your heart’s been kicking in the sixth degrees 
take a look around from one to see 
it’s a blue sky december 
it’s your turn to remember 
oh your brain’s been bursting from the broken seams 
take a spin around oh one two three

it’s easy to blame chaos on the ones with cloaks and daggers who 
push the hidden hands that hold the strings of ultimate control 
when you ain’t got love

it’s the turn of the saviors 
it’s an all natural favor 
and the band’s been kicking in the old kick drum 
words can trickle when you start to run 
and my heart’s been tazered 
and my brain’s been phazered 
and my feet’s been skipping like jumping beans 
take a spin around oh one to sees

it’s easy to blame chaos on the ones with cloaks and daggers who 
push the hidden hands that hold the strings of ultimate control 
when you ain’t got love