Would Peter Mandelson (were he to end up in court) have a jury made up of other members of the House of Lords like in Kind Hearts and Coronets? This could be really something.

Maybe one of the best photos I have taken

Ways of seeing: inky swirls against the sky or cracks in the twilight?

"WHAT'S HAPPENED TO YOUNG PUNCTUM?" I hear no one ask. Well, it's been a busy day, but better late than never - here's February 1974, the Super Deluxe Edition thereof: funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/01/febr...

When Clough Williams-Ellis bought some land for a modest sum, he didn’t have a plan. Aber Iâ became Portmeirion - soon to be a ‘home for fallen buildings.’ The village has continued to evolve for over a century. #portmeirion #theprisoner #cloughwilliamsellis

"You’re late." "I had things to do. With the boys." "But you’re always with the boys..." @lordbonkers.bsky.social on the excellent 1958 movie Innocent Sinners. thelionandunicorn.com/2026/02/21/f...

Excitedly told my husband how Getting Away With It by Electronic was written entirely to take the piss out of Morrissey, by Neil Tennant, and for him to look it up live and find out it's true I love telling people this. It's so fun

Really not sure what to do with the fact the Restore Britain video contains a bunch of stuff that I really like. 🤓

@countmoriarty.bsky.social - did you ever listen to Daphne Sounds Expensive? If not, do give it whirl and let me know what you think? Always felt possible strong echoes of the Goon Show.. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Post a crush from your youth …

Proper Britain.

Americans will look at your country and tell you that you're not segregated by race enough.

Clarice Cliff (1899-1972), regarded as one of the most influential ceramics artists of the 20th Century #WomensArt

Comics fact of the day: In December 1985, the Beano offered a signed photo of Dudley Moore as a competition prize.

1925. No pressure.

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. The television set Artist: Harry Wingfield (1970)

Going to pitch Radio 4 with a new EXTREME version of Just a Minute

I hear the king is very distressed by today's development.

The first arrest of a member of the Royal Family since Charles Stuart in 1646.

Me, drunkenly roaring down the corridors of the Classics department:

"Satisfyingly middle-class" is my new insult of choice.

TV to be limited back to three channels only that stop broadcasting at times during the day because people are at work.

"If you mourn the absence of Palmer-like attributes & find the narrative incomprehensible, still read this novel for the way it brings to life the early 1960s, the pre-Beatles era of steam trains, soot & the death penalty" On Len Deighton, 97 today👇 thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2019/10/26/r...

Positive action: an explainer

A good 🧵 🪡 for those interested.

The BBC to bring in a dedicated Midsomer Murders channel paid for by a doubling of the licence fee on the under 50s.

All dogs to have white excrement by autumn 2028.

I’ll be honest if you were there for wilderness years doctor who fandom everything else is tame

Goodnight #Birds

#NowPlaying Seeing the evening out with Thomas Tallis. "Spem in Alium" still sounds like nothing else on Earth, a beautiful multi-faceted jewel of a piece; in one sense almost impossible to get hold of and, yet, managing to be perfectly logical in construction at the same time.

It’s funny that all the focus is on what happens if/when the AI bubble bursts and most commentary is missing the fact that the bubble continuing to grow is strangling the life out of consumer electronics in a way that is already having real tangible effects for everyday people and businesses

another favourite scientific headline, following confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity by observations of the 1919 solar eclipse. "Stars not where they seemed or were calculated to be, but nobody need worry" is a beautiful sentiment. i would have that on a t-shirt

I think it's wrong to describe the World Service as "soft power". It's actually "info power". And these days that's a very hard form of power indeed.

Enjoying the end of another productive week.

If you would like to spend some of your Sunday reading an issue of Nutty accompanied by some inane commentary, I have you covered. cwickham.blogspot.com/2026/02/frui...

Every promo shot of every British electronica trio c. 1997.

I see the rain is back, good, I was getting worried about the lawn.

"The Kiss". Robert Delaunay. 1922.

Post a tree you photographed.

"Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem.... No doubt there are natural enemies which limit the increase of the creatures. You and I, Watson, we have done our part." Sherlock Holmes in The Dying Detective

Post an image you can hear

PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days

Friday night.

reading about this petty and wildly undignified beef between rival biographers of poet laureate John Betjeman

Hitchcock's less known thriller