I’m learning Steve Reich’s Music For 18 Musicians. It’s harder than it looks.

We are so, so small. #Artemis

The microwave just beeped and I checked my phone for incoming messages. This is a genuine beep crisis.

Getting a pillow dry appears to be harder than splitting the fucking atom. This one’s currently approaching its fifth hour in the tumble dryer and is STILL DAMP.

Cracking story, this, which joins lots dots along the way.

My neighbour seens very pleased with his new car.

FAO all councils everywhere. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/unauthorised...

Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP

An impression of a sitcom isn’t a thing. An impression of Basil Fawlty is, but in the relevant scene, Fawlty (who was concussed) was doing an impression of Hitler. An impression of someone doing an impression of Hitler is an impression of Hitler. So that’s what Grotty Edwards was doing.

A guy at the swimming pool today was using a hairdryer to dry… his legs.

Watched PMQs yesterday and was admiring the signer [whose name I can’t find]. Dr Marie Tidball asked about The World Snooker Championship, when Reform walked out en masse and it all kicked off — and the yawping and Lindsay’s ‘Order!’ is a real BSL masterclass here. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

Headline in today's Broadcast "Gary Barlow takes Jason Manford to New Zealand for ITV Travelogue" feels like the last straw. Stop telling us there's no money to make TV when you're sending dull millionaires on free holidays. FOR FUCK'S SAKE! Who is watching this shit? *eye twitch*

Scam? Three emails have landed this morning suggesting someone has taken my iPhone 13 (not sure I ever owned one) into a Servify/iDestiny service centre in Guwahati for a screen repair. Either that or someone’s just got my email address. Anyone?

I hope the poor fella’s OK.

No. Not even slightly. Shit. What have I got to do?

I know people are sceptical about journalism right now but this is the kind of story that takes weeks to get to the bottom of. I hope people see the value in what we do

🔥🔥NEW🔥🔥 Ed Davey wants Britain to have its own nukes, Tice’s tax avoidance goes under the radar, and Theroux's Manosphere doc grips the nation. @nndroid.bsky.social, @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, @jonnelledge.bsky.social and @jasonhazeley.bsky.social discuss it all ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

All day long.

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🔥 NEW EDITION 🔥 Liberalism has had a terrible decade… but has its time to save the world come again? Plus, Mandy Files latest. 🔥 With @zoegrunewald.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social & special guest Adrian Wooldridge of @opinion.bloomberg.com 🔥 Listen up - linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

Ah. A Sunday evening with the Penguin Café Orchestra. Perfect.

What a fucking reprehensible way to talk about your audience.

🚨NEW EDITION 🚨 As the Iran war drives the right insane, why can’t Britain wean itself off tough guy politics? Listen everywhere! linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

This is astonishing. Leo Sayer appears to have had the least boring life imaginable. And might have invented a couple of typefaces along the way. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Fuck. This is awful. I’ve had my ears syringed especially for work AND asked the nurse to turn the pressure up and go longer than they should. I switched to micro-suctioning a couple of years ago, but not because I knew syringing was so risky. Yikes. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Ultrasonic.

Bet these are flying off the shelves (if they can get a flight).

Such a handsome book about such a brilliant designer.

Such a good piece by James — and something which needs saying again and again.

Morning all. Photograph by Frank Martin. Charles Tumbridge riding through Kensal Rise, West London with his dog Susie in her sidecar kennel, 1962.

“Everything’s imminent eventually.” Ah, Hugo Rifkind is *such* a joy to listen to. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down. Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book. (And would much appreciate a RT please)

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Perfectly put by the brilliant @iandunt.bsky.social

How I wish the UK would get on with this. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

Ken Trodd was such a huge force in TV drama. He’ll be forever missed. Here he is about to tackle a Knickerbocker Glory at The Delaunay in May 2019.

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

Fried Christ, this absolutely GLORIOUS. Farson was a twinkling, no-bullshit maestro who could effortlessly steer an interview anywhere. The Shelagh Delaney and Robert Graves programmes, in particular, are blazing.

Punchline wanted.

Yup. Any excuse. One of the funniest things ever broadcast. And a masterpiece of commitment.

I preferred it when The Onion made stuff up.

Neil Sedaka was so talented, and he inspired me to follow my dream of being a songwriter. With love and gratitude and condolences to his family. www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...

Neil Sedaka has left us. Luckily, he also left us this long before he left us. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa-g...

🗳️ BY-ELECTION EMERGENCYCAST 🗳️ You can never find a plumber when you want one… The Greens clean up, Reform furious, Labour battered. What does it all mean? 🗳️ With @nndroid.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social & special guest @steverichards.bsky.social 🗳️ Listen everywhere – linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

It’s 33 years since the final episode of Absolutely was shown on Channel 4

Worked with Rob on an unrealised project back in 2010 and he couldn’t have been nicer. How terribly sad. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Played some Radigue a few years back (as beautifully realised by Charlotte Harding). Fearless, brilliant stuff. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...