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Some excellent cover versions from The Hype Machine : David Gray sings Smile Like You Mean It by The Killers Editors sing Feel Good, Inc. by Gorillaz The Mystery Jets sing The Pioneers by Bloc Party

Well, it's Tuesday morning and I'm already settled in to the university 'regime'. I've had three fairly painless lectures and one very painful trip to the university bookshop (£100, gulp), and it feels as though I've never been away. Which is excellent, because it means I'm enjoying myself. It wasn't long before the complete "set" of students made themselves known in my lecture-cum-seminar yesterday: The feminists: one claimed that "the 'working class' did not exist as a definable group, but was simply a idea that men invented to prove their masculinity". In case you can't tell, I'm rolling my eyes. The foreign students: In a class with only around 2o people, two are American, one is Finnish (!) and one is from the former German Democratic Republic. They're German. The mature students: Useful for the inevitable "what was it like in the 80s?" question The Marxists: there's always one.

Dartford beat a very poor Folkestone Invicta side in last night's Ryman League Cup game. After going 2-0 up in a more lively second half, they expolited our dire defending to snatch back the equalising goals. Extra time came and went, before finally getting the deserved result through a 5-3 penalty shoot-out victory. In other news, police have raided Wentworth Drive in Dartford (on Google Maps: the house directly opposite the primary school gates) and two other properties as part of Operation Trident. They found " hundreds of guns " and recon on taking three days to bag and tag all the evidence. I'd like to take this chance to re-assure you that there are no guns in my house.

Dartford's excellent start to the season continued throughout August and into september, with wins against Kingstonian and Whyteleafe (never heard of them either). Alas, all good things must come to an end, and our unbeaten run was ended by then bottom-of-the-league Hastings. Dartford 1 - 0 Kingstonian Whyteleafe 1 - 3 Dartford Dartford 0 - 2 Hastings The league table still looks promising though, with the Darts now sitting in 3rd place... Ryman Division 1 South Pld W D L GD Pts 1 Dover 5 4 0 1 +6 12 2 Fleet 5 4 0 1 +4 12 3 Dartford 5 3 1 1 +6 10 Princes Park has taken another step closer to opening with the grand unveiling of the roadsign into the ground. Granted, it was just 2 workmen putting the thing up, but one step at a time...

The above photograph is from 2007. It shows the assassination of George W. Bush. Of course, at the moment the photo it is merely a mock-up, created by Channel 4 for a new programme to be shown on More4 , "Death of a President". They claim it is a "thought-provoking" rather than "sensationalist" documentary designed to look at Bush's foreign policy from a new angle. It is a typically controversial attempt to bolster the channel's ratings - More4 is funded by advertisements, and needs proof that people are watching to earn the most cash. Here in Britain, we can dismiss such tactics. But in America, it's provided sensationalist extremist yanks with enough ammunition for another anti-British-establishment rant. Fox News, possibly the most biased of all news agencies reported the programme as being commissioned by "BBC Channel 4". American companies have threatened to boycott advertising their products on Channel 4 channels. Progra