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Bono Pay Your Taxes

For the first time in a decade, I find myself sitting in an office writing about tax rather than camped in a muddy field in Somerset getting inebriated on strawberry cider. Am I bitter I’m not at Glastonbury? Well, yes. I can’t say I’m too sad to be missing tonight’s headliners U2, however. But while [...]

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This post was written by Salman Shaheen on June 24, 2011 Comments (0)

Review: Glastonbury 2009

There are times I wonder why I do it. Standing for hours in the queue at a remote train station in the depths of rural Somerset hauling what feels like the unfortunate result of an unseemly encounter between Jabba the Hutt and Dibley’s eponymous vicar on my back. Waking up to the sound of thunder [...]

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This post was written by Salman Shaheen on July 2, 2009 Comments (11)