Had the honour of playing with him once — and it really, sincerely was an honour. He had music coursing through him like a vital fluid. He ran off it. What a mensch. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”

WORK QUESTION, to which I’m sure I should already know the answer but self-evidently don’t: who’s the best historian of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop? I need to ask someone thoroughly knowledgeable for some skinny...

The road I live on has had an attack of the past this week: I’ve seen JWs knocking on doors and someone drove past in a Ford Zephyr. How has the past affected where you live lately?

Wow. What a brilliant bit of writing — drenched in heart.

Nobody’s wondering what she’s gonna look like with a chimney on her any more, and that’s sad.

Fawlty Towers captures middle Britain at its most hilariously uptight and Basil Fawlty has never been bettered as an Englishman on the verge of nervous breakdown. Comedy writer @jasonhazeley.bsky.social joins @nndroid.bsky.social to explore why the show’s legend lasted so long ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

🏨 ARE YOU ENJOYING YOUR MEALS? #FawltyTowers, the greatest British comedy of all, started 50 years ago today. The Yoda of comedy @jasonhazeley.bsky.social and I discuss its lasting majesty and whether Basil would have gone Reform by now. 😡 Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod

Here’s ‘Roads,’ from last night’s Together For Palestine gig. Donate at donate.togetherforpalestine.org/campaigns/to... m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Am...

What a strange beast the original, modular version of John Adams’s ‘Shaker Loops’ is to behold.

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

Jaws at the IMAX. An outright fucking masterpiece. Ben Gardner’s one-eyed head bobbing into view — surely the greatest jump scare there is — made the person two seats from me SCREAM. I checked with her afterwards: she’d seen the film before. Bonus: bumping into @iandunt.bsky.social afterwards.

—> “Scenes“

If you’re seeing your first off to university around now, here’s a thing I wrote when that was about to happen to us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Been scribbling. variety.com/2025/tv/glob...

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

Brand new on Dirty Feed: today is the 50th anniversary of the studio recording of Fawlty Towers, "Gourmet Night". That episode's famous ending is pictured here. But it wasn't the originally intended finale. Instead, things were going to get rather more peculiar... www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/luck...

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Sadly, Jonathan died this morning. Crystal Palace won’t be the same without him. I guess they need the help more than ever, now.

Its more of a saxophone solo than a question really

Just passed a place called ABBA CAR RENTALS. So I’ve made a start. • Knowing Me, Knowing Yugo • Mamma Kia • The Daewoo Before You Came • The Name Of The Daimler • Jimny Jimny Jimny #abbacars

Been reading about Ady Fidelin. What a remarkable, beautiful woman.

It’s happened again. The most recent mix of ‘I Am The Walrus’ had some of the Mike Sammes Singers’ parts missing: now the reversed ‘turned out nice again’ has been de-reversed. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vats...

Sondheim. Right, as usual.

A day late for Ian Nairn's 95th birthday. I went to visit him a few days ago, and someone had left him a soft-top Morris Minor.

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Pretty sure I just heard someone say ‘prid quo pro’.

What the BLISTERING FUCK?

Graphic designer Joe Caroff passed away yesterday at age 103. Responsible for absolutely legendary posters and typefaces. www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

One of Terence Stamp’s smaller roles was as a punchline in The Day Today. Here’s film researcher Robert Katz’s original paperwork for that sequence.

I don’t think it would be illegitimate to call Colin The Caterpillar a design classic.

I love 6Music, but I wish they wouldn’t bother playing censored versions. Huey played a Wu-Tang tune earlier that had so many holes punched in the vocal that it sounded like Norman fucking Collier.

One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall

Bob Odenkirk has been more than vocal about The Framley Examiner, and we’ll be forever in his debt for his approbation. Also: he’s a stunning actor and a thoroughly fucking lovely guy. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Here’s Autechre, playing at the Flow Festival last night in TOTAL DARKNESS. A woman next to me filmed some of it. Welcome to the future, where we film what we can’t see.

Shitheadedness of the first order. mRNA technology is fucking astonishing. It saved *the whole world* five years ago. Now this idiotic prick yanks the rug. Yet again — see DOGE and Medicaid cuts — this will ACTUALLY CAUSE DEATHS. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Never trust anyone who dislikes this record.

Man, this Nick Drake box is the fucking suds.

Good to see the UK Government texting me (from the Philippines) about my (ineligible) winter fuel payment.

Just watched Close Encounters for the first time since about 1983. What a strange, intelligent, distant film. Mainly STRANGE.

‘Rising to a crescendo.’ (The Crescendo Misunderstanding would also be my Robert Ludlum tribute thriller.)

In case you missed it, this is the absolute suds. youtu.be/TwOLo_U6bTw?...

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

This is a beautiful, rare and briliant bit of radio. Quite unlike anything you’ve heard in an age. Gift yourself an hour in its company. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

2 Chainz sampled Tom Lehrer's The Old Dope Peddler 60 years after it had been recorded. Lehrer's response to the license request: "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" RIP TOM

An astonishing talent. Comedy plus music is fantastically hard to do: Lehrer did it *so brilliantly* time after time. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...