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Falling out and in love with the club

 Hello, I went to Cobalt in Newcastle yesterday. Que Sakomoto was DJing - I'd never heard of him before, but my friend sold it to me as "washing machine robot sex music" which is right up my alley. To be fair, I wasn't initially intending on going, but I was hosting a dinner party (which aforementioned friend rocked up to with a bottle of vodka to adequately prepare herself for the night) and 3 glasses of wine later I had bought a ticket. £14.33 - quite steep for a club night. However, I had never been to Cobalt before and I was intrigued. I'd heard good things. I was reluctant because I have fallen out of love with clubbing. Everywhere in Newcastle plays the same 2000s bangers or some variation of generic R&B, rap or other typical club genre. Everywhere has the same awful crowds which are never properly down for the music. I loved it when I was 18, 19, and alcohol was an escape, a tool. Not so much now, when I acutely care about my health. If I'm getting ...
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Thoughts on individualism, the distance of family and the challenged state of social democracy

  Typical of me, I’m afraid. I’m tipsy and decided my first serious post would be socio-political. I’m truly sorry.  Title is a little dramatic.  I read an opinion article on the FT (I’m still rinsing my free student subscription) about how “France and Britain are in thrall to pensioners”. It was a great read, but nothing I didn’t already know or think about. Though there is a pretty damning statistic - the average pensioner in France has an income 5% higher than the average income. That, in my opinion, is bonkers.  We’re long past the point of the delusion that we “pay in” to a system and get to redeem our coupons when we’re retired, so I’m not going to address it as an argument. No, everything comes in and out of the Treasury year by year and it’s coming out for pensioners more strongly than anybody else. The Triple Lock (or as I like to think about it, mathematical eventuality of 100% GDP spending on pensions) is a mechanism to strengthen the state pension to ensu...
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Introduction

 Hello world, I decided to create a blog out of sheer selfish desire for legacy. I want my thoughts and feelings to be out there, somewhere, beyond me and my time. If the only person who reads this is our future AI overlord, so be it. Hopefully it (you?) will think about what I thought.  My full name is Asher Immanuel Harris. I'm currently 22, I graduated from Newcastle University where I studied Politics a couple months ago and now I'm working a boring ass job coding data for a legal ranking firm. I'm living at home (and, I'm very privileged and proud to say, it is a lovely home), paying "rent" into a savings account and I aspire to be a lawyer. Life could definitely be worse.  I'm feeling a little lost, as I'm sure many recent graduates do. Moving back home and giving up such independence I had taken for granted was tough. I have a career path in mind and I'm taking active steps towards it, but I can't help but view this current phase of my l...
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