We’re at Highgate Art Fair this weekend with my work. Pop along and say hello if you’re in the area.

Saw him when he was her in Lancaster library a few years back, couldn't have been that long before the transition. Place was rammed in the late afternoon, lights off, and this magical galloping poem went on and on as the place darkened into dusk and yeah what a thing to happen in a local library.

8 November 1934 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Raphaël Pais, was born in Harlingen. In November 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz with his sister Jansje. After the selection, they were murdered in a gas chamber together with their mother Roosje.

PSA: Under Milk Wood - yeah THAT one - in full cry on R4Extra

The somnambulant mumbling incumbent shuns the non-ambulant dumb-lucked recumbent lump.

Yeah, what the fucuck.

Keats’ House, partially concealed by mellow fruitfulness.

It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.

Change in Headline

I do love a bit of shit writing that falls over on the first word. Outstanding, love he's style.

Oh how terrible, I can see why renewables are so unpopular...

ON THIS DAY: 46 years ago our son was born. Repeat (for my benefit alone) we have a 46 year-old son, which however I look at it is completely, utterly fucking baffling.

actually, reposting without gratuitous swearing because yeah

Good morning from the park.

Well this can get the cunting bollocks to pissing FUCK.

Wants me to do his hoovering.

For those who know the double-dactyl verse form, here's my quick stab at one for AS. h/t to @seanclarke.bsky.social for inspiration. Higgledy piggledy Abigail Spanberger Stormed the Virginian Mansion with ease. Stunning success with votes Gubernatorial Cutting Republicans Off at the knees.

Spray tan = $150 Waxing = $100 half leg, $200 full leg Complimentary prosecco 🥂 Walk-ins accepted!! 💝

A Question, The Answer To Which Is Always 'The Guardian'

Here's a Milky Way shot from a Joshua Tree forest in Death Valley back in July. Already dreaming about next season! #Photography

this is how we remember the ’90s 🙂

just...fuck off

This linen dress is 4,500 years old! On display in the Egyptian exhibition at the Fitzwilliam, Cambridge. fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Let's talk about linguistic arseholery. I have been thinking lately of examples of people being dickishly pedantic (or just wrong-headed) about what to call things. Three examples below, starting with the well-known case of Anthony Powell. 🧵

WHAT? LRB on Gris-Gris? Bookmarked with a JAVELIN.

Thank goodness for ballistic vests for this kind of attack. And what a relief there was only one sandwich. Imagine if the attacker had a sub machine gun

And going "We will simply have more growth if people work harder" is magic thinking with no basis in reality. You get growth when money is in the pockets of people who spend it, not being hoarded by a tiny minority. This is why every sector is struggling and businesses everywhere are failing.

“Relentlessly campaigning for this honour was harder work than building a stadium in intense heat for 45p an hour”, quipped the multimillionaire

Haven't been this invested in an American election since I put $1000 on Burr to win in 1801. Fucking Jefferson. Burr was on a par with Mamdani for ground campaigning. Hard working guy. Better shot than Cheney too. Hey, I'm typin' here! Badda ya bing gonna badda ya boom about it? RIP Fred Flintstone.

These fucking spineless eunuchs.

Dick Shotman United States, Census, 1950

Christ, he is supernaturally good at this.

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time. I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.

Morning on the Seine near Giverny - 1897 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10717

Is the plan to chew one side of the ball? Because I think that's 'tampering'.

lmao here's what i got (chatgpt 5)

Don't stare at your shoes! Have you ever heard this OR NOT?

VERY APPARENT.

Patricia Quinn and Patrick Stewart in I Claudius - Reign of Terror (1st November 1976)

You can find this terrible thing here, scroll down a bit: soundcloud.com/laurencefoxm...

Last night's Moon. 31 October 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

HOW CAN STARMER REGAIN CREDIBILITY?

Little weekend nudge for The Abergele Files. Eps 1 and 2 now on BBC Sounds. Go on, get some funny in your ears www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

BAD FUCKING TEMPER

St Martin's-on-the-walls, Wareham. Grade 1 listed. Built circa 1030. A gasp when we entered to see the 12th century frescos. #SteepleSaturday

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

For Hallowe’en this year I shall be dressing up as the guy who arrived a day late.