BRING ON BIG DAN BURN

BRING ON BIG DAN BURN

This morning I shall dine in the classic English style. 10 Pints of Stella 1 Bucket of Vindaloo 20 Benson & Hedges Gold 1/2 Bottle of Rennie 🦁Good day to you all.

Albert Gleizes - Composition For Jazz

LIZZ TRUSS BALL

Look, Americans, British homes aren't designed with air conditioning in mind. Our architecture values other things: heat retention, space management, trapdoors, automated breakfast-serving mechanisms which can be operated by a literal dog

As the temperature rises this week and the weather gets hotter, please remember to care for wildlife by leaving out a shallow bowl of fresh water for them 💚

You know it isn’t going to be a normal day when your son wakes you at 7am with “Mum, dad, there’s a hedgehog chilling out in the living room”

Terry Pratchett, one of England’s funniest writers, is in danger of being lost to history, Helen Lewis writes:

Birthday Sunday: usual complimentary cheeseboard, plus every pint bought 1–6pm gets you a raffle entry to win a 5L mini cask limited edition of Track's Sonoma. One pint, one entry. You do the maths. Can’t wait till then? The other limited edition of Sonoma - Cryo Fresh - pouring from 3pm Friday 🍻

‘I owe you an apology I was unfamiliar with your game’ Ridicule is the price of innovation. I want to have swim in my own bin.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I don’t know what’s worse - Bluesky dying for 20 minutes or Bluesky dying jokes for three hours.

Dear All, I've started a Substack for the lesser travelled corners of music, books, food and booze. Here I am on master crime writer Nicolas Freeling's lesser known - but equally brilliant - food writing... harrysword.substack.com/p/freeling-o...

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

'No algorithm would have said Britain wants a comedy about a bloke who grows homunculi'

Turned down for some Arts Council funding today, and we're at a loss as to where to turn now, so if there's any multi-millionaire who has got bored of trying to manipulate the political landscape and would quite like to see a musical about grief with a singing tiger in it pls get in touch

WE RIDE AGAIN! Save the date for south east London’s finest day out, the Shirk, Rust & Pray Summer Bus Party! On Saturday 18th July, a (FREE) open top bus will whisk you between New Cross, Eltham and Blackheath to @theshirkersrest.bsky.social, Rusty Bucket & @thegreengoddesspub.bsky.social.

“I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative & cynical & predict doom for the world than it is to try & figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter." - Jim Henson

Bet they missed this out of the Michael Jackson film x

The Tuesday toast run with donkey, George

From the latest issue (sorry no refunds). shop.viz.co.uk/viz355bs

Geoff Bennett on fearlessness, the limitations of any one narrative, and what a history of Black comedy can and can’t show:

thatch finials were, historically, often used to indicate something about the resident- a hint at their occupation or the number of children, sometimes. so anyway i have some questions, namely, where is this house so i can figure out who thatched it and offer them a round of applause

Pixies Gigantic meets the old Attack of the 50ft Woman poster. This took forever to draw, so please buy several prints.

UK-caught cod joins mackerel, as overfishing means loss of traditional British fish Decades of this - each generation of politicians allows quota higher than ecosystems can take It's not supporting fishing communities by doing so, in the end it's failing them www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Time to gather your entries together!

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid... Jeff Grant, the director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

TWO RONNIES FEEDLINE KLAXON

All eight #SmallProphets covers are available as a pack of postcards. Buy here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop and love them. Forever. 9/

This tour has been so so fun, and now we get to bring it back to @sohotheatre.bsky.social in a couple of weeks! I'd love you to give this a share if you saw and enjoyed the show, let's pack this run out! sohotheatre.com/events/joz-n...

Matchday!

Clapton CFC and the football pyramid 😍 Graham Dury of Viz produced these posters as seen in our match programmes which you can now download below: Women's First Team: www.claptoncfc.co.uk/content/uplo... Men's First Team: www.claptoncfc.co.uk/content/uplo...

Me, being led away by the secret service after releasing thousands of gophers at the Capitol: "You don't understand! It's a scientifically proven way to revive a desolate place! I'm a patriot!" www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

“Coming soon to the BBC! Kim Jong Un is tough, uncompromising cop MONKFISH…”

Me entering my late 30's: aww shit my check lower back light just came on Luchadors in their 40s:

the mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors. humans have 3. we see roughly 10 million colors and think that's impressive. the mantis shrimp is sitting there processing a visual reality so hyperchromatic that scientists genuinely aren't sure what it's like to be one. #addOcean

UK Gardeners Asked To Make ‘Bee Baths’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1642062/uk-gardeners-asked-to-make-bee-baths/ If you want to help bees this spring, you can start by leaving your dandelions well alone. They’re especially helpful for rare Pantaloon bees. And, if you see a bee in distress, …

BLOG POST: Ray writes about feeling the benefit of the homeliness of the pub when you're away from home. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2026/02/the-...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

I’ve invested money in a brewery and I KNOW I’m not getting any back www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A time traveller's pub crawl round London's old boozers

We’re bowled over to have been voted Lewisham Area pub of the year by South East London CAMRA! Thanks to everyone who voted, to our wonderful staff, the amazing breweries and of course to our dear customers, without whom there would be no pub to vote for! Also, these 4 would be decent pub crawl… 👀

New toilets at this Tube station mean the end of what was the longest stretch on the network without a loo 🚽

Three more #kakapo nests found on Pukenui/Anchor Island yesterday. Here's Konini with her two eggs. We have found nests for 26 out of the 36 adult females on the island, with more to come in the next few days. It's a big year! #conservation #kakapo2026 A