This is so crap and so predictable. I love WHSmith and shops like it. It's not just nostalgia; shops like that are a reason to go into town and be part of your community at the weekend. My high street is dying as everything is ordered online now. Town is increasingly beauty salons & charity shops.

Jesus. Another boarded up unit. This is all so fucking wasteful. Running everything for the benefit of speculation rather than commerce is so destabilising. All the pointless destruction of stuff that made things feel normal, even the dull shit. The knock-ons always unforeseen, chaotic.

My god, what have I done... I did enjoy talking to Ben Yeoh about Shakespeare, Shunt, the documentary on Punchdrunk I'd caught the night before, and mainly me, me, me. Thanks for having me on, Ben! youtu.be/YwdlBltbTnY?...

Anti-vaxers are the actual pits. This needn’t happen, and is caused by them and them alone. No excuse to not vaccinate your children for the sake of a healthier society.

"it meant if an organisation was proscribed for one purpose... it also criminalised expression of support too." I wonder if MPs who voted to proscribe PA were actually aware of this. @stellacreasy.bsky.social, for example? (Not a pile-on. Genuinely curious.) davidallengreen.com/2026/02/what...

Damning piece from Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social about what the Andy Burnham saga has revealed about Keir Starmer bylinetimes.com/2026/01/30/k...

I hosted a quiz tonight where I threw in a bonus ‘draw me a Goddamn horse’ round. The results were enchanting 🧵

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

NOO BLOG in which I catch an Embassy changing its flag – Unattended Articles: As a Trusted News Source... slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/01/blog...

Unattended Articles: Procrastination Exercise 06-01-26 (Look I just really wanted to see Lucky perform Yvan's speech form Art, OKAY?) slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/01/proc...

Unattended Articles: Pinocchio Restored! In which I see a brilliant Pinocchio and edit some mass murder from an interesting Pinocchio. slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/01/pino...

Thank you all! Clearing cookies worked! I always forget about that

Can anyone help with this? For a week now, Outlook's not opening on my laptop. Anyone else suffering this? (it's not an app)

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.

NOO BLOG. Self explanatory really. Unattended Articles: Ken Russell's Crabs on the Teasmade slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/01/ken-...

NOO BLOG. Because this year I went to Edinburgh. Unattended Articles: Flash Quotes slepkane.blogspot.com/2025/12/flas... and here's to a surmountable 2026 x

RIP 2025 2025-2025

NOO BLOG! Unattended Articles: Helpings – as in "Mitchell And Webb Are Not..." But they so have. slepkane.blogspot.com/2025/12/in-r...

Dancer at Oskar Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet, Weimar Germany, 1926. Looking quite fabulous.

NOO BLOG, in which I claim among other things that it's still December the Twenty-Seventh... Unattended Articles: The Annuals slepkane.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

2025's final video is now available for all. God Help Ye, Merry Gentlemen, it's Little and Large at Christmas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gujz...

I mean jfc CNN just *sat down and interviewed* a group of Christian nationalist leaders who want to repeal women’s right to vote! open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Farage in 2013 admitting what he now says are smears in 2025 www.channel4.com/news/nigel-f...

Rich people are such miserable fucks nowadays that we’re halfway in a recession and I don’t think poor people are even jealous of their lifestyle

Now that this data is available, it must - surely - be possible to simulate building shadow positions in real time and so deliver on my great app idea. tubvsig-so2sat-vm1.srv.mwn.de?fbclid=IwVER...

This is my favourite of all putdowns ever.

Happy to see this grotesquery reappear in the popular posts blog bar. Is Punch & Judy Christmasssy? Anyway, it now includes an already dated update on the Tarantino Dano foolishness – Unattended Articles: "Punch is a Opera. A 'Uproar' We Calls It." slepkane.blogspot.com/2020/03/punc...

Fuck!

"He has to do this to avoid Trump attacking us!" so stunning and brave

REVIEW: ‘Tinsel Town’ Has Fun While Throwing Everything At The Board

Oh yes he is! Kiefer Sutherland dives into the world of panto He and Rebel Wilson are in the area making Tinsel Town, a British Christmas film about pantomimes. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

NOO BLOG in which I'm sort of in a Holiday Movie with Mark Wahlberg but absolutely in a Holiday Movie with Kiefer Sutherland, plus evidence... Unattended Articles: HAPPY HOLLY(wood)DÉ(but)S! slepkane.blogspot.com/2025/12/happ...

Now is the time to speak up and stand up for who we are and who we are not.

My favourite

No Cass didn’t recommend a ban. Streeting is lying

Aren't clinical trials supposed to provide evidence on which to make decisions, not validate decisions you've already made?

Does desktop qobuz not have a radio function? The fuh?

How are we back at Episode 30 already?! Next up in the archives is a snippet of our conversation with the fantastic @slepkane.bsky.social. Here, Simon talks about writing on the first 'Mitchell & Webb' series. Look out for future performances of Simon's live show 'Jonah Non Grata'. (1/2)

These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard

Watching America's Next Top Model (series 15) while doing admin and wow. It's not a surprise that a modelling show from 2010 feels toxic, but there's so much emphasis on do as you're told, don't question anything, ignore your discomfort; a training school for Me Too.

So glad @markjacob.bsky.social is writing about this: “After a Trump social media post said some of his political opponents were “guilty as hell” and should be prosecuted, NBC wrote about it without noting Trump’s own felony convictions. Same for the New York Times, Axios, AP, and CNN.”

I see less and less briefcase cunts in my replies scoffing at the idea a party called Labour could ever do ANYTHING bad. It used to be constant and now when it happens you can tell the scoffer's heart isn't really in it.

Quite a staggering statistic. Trump isn’t just bringing misery to immigrants, he’s harming everyone. #TrumpSlump

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Guys, you should really listen to The Divide... Unattended Articles: Big Spoon slepkane.blogspot.com/2025/11/big-...

Hey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2

There does seem to be a scandal here, and for a while, and it's whatever the hell has been going on with Ofcom. Is that a fair use of the word scandal?

let’s all acknowledge that slopaganda is an excellent word for this sort of thing

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶