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Well, this might be a bit awkward.

Sums up much of what I think of Thatcher's reign:

Scott Walker - Tilt Genesis - Foxtrot The Fall - Perverted by Language Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Milton's Paradise Lost, depending on your interpretation.

Poser misanthropy aside: if by 'good' one means that we are, at a base level, compassionate and empathetic creatures, predisposed to seek cooperation and reconciliation over petty selfishness and vindictiveness, then I do believe that most of us are fundamentally 'good'. In spite of my usual...

In Our Time - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/ It's the best thing the BBC produces these days.

The chart music of every decade has tended to be dominated by derivative, commercial trash. At the same time, innovative and thoughtful music has always existed in great volume - you just needed to know where and how to look for it. Our era is no different.

'Krautrock' and Wagner.

Shackleton is well worth a listen, particularly if you're looking for more distinctive and experimental dubstep (though the label is, perhaps, less-apt with him as it is with WUBWUBWUB merchants like Skrillex).

I assume this doesn't apply to the 5000-odd 'security contractors' currently in the country.

Satan as he appears in Paradise Lost. Milton does not portray him simply as an evil monster, but as a tragic hero, undone by torturous hatred and inner turmoil. Satan's first sighting of Eve in the Garden of Eden gives a very beautiful example of the character's complexity: Such Pleasure took...

VALIS by Philip K. Dick and The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard are my two favourite novels by science-fiction authors, though the works themselves are very difficult to classify in terms of genre.

A 1929 copy of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. The fact that I picked it up from an Oxfam shop for less than £3 is part of its charm.

Ian Tomlinson and Jean Charles de Menezes say, "no".

Classical music for people who don't like classical music: