If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

Over 100 works of art being put up for auction by (cash strapped) Reform-run Kent County Council. Kent Greens: "While the total financial value of the art is only around £35k, the historic and social value of the art, most of which depicts Kent, is far higher."

Watching S1 of Chancer on DVD, and halfway through one of the episodes, this popped up … Shame network aren’t around any more …

I see a hypocrite politico on the cover of the Daily Fail today complaining that the Green Party only won the by election by campaigning on national /international issues, seemingly unaware that last year his party fielded 1000s of candidates for local elections claiming they would “stop the boats”

Here is the moment Geese seems to have said “Free Palestine” but was bleeped by ITV

"You won, Hannah. Enjoy Gorton and Denton, I hope it makes you very happy."

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Today is the day. Hope vs hate. Green vs Reform. Vote Green in Gorton & Denton.

Remembering the genius that was Mark Hollis 4th January 1955 - 25th February 2019 "I like silence. I get on great with silence you know. I don't have a problem with it" Talk Talk - After the Flood 🎶 🦋 youtu.be/O9HsGsB-MCM?... #musicsky #albumalmanac @punkandnewwave.bsky.social

“I thought [“losing my religion”] was a common phrase… The song is a classic obsession song. It’s about someone who pines for someone else. It’s unrequited love… some major revelation is occurring, and I’m mapping the reactions and changes about to take place.” - @michaelstipe.bsky.social

Talk Talk's 'The Colour Of Spring' was released #OnThisDay in 1986. It may be 40 years old, but it remains a timeless relic, one of the most incredible records ever made and the perfect midpoint between the band's synthpop beginnings and their majestic masterpieces. #MusicSky

COLUMBO: My wife, she loves your games. The sunken ghost ship level. It’s her favourite MARIO: Thank-a you! C: Just one more thing. Now you say your girlfriend, the Princess, was kidnapped by Bowser, your enemy. And yet you were go-karting with him this morning? M: What’s-a your point, Detective?

Fred Smith Forever

As expected, Mew were tremendous this evening at the Roundhouse - they’ll be a different band without Jonas but I do hope they keep cracking on.

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

#OnThisDay 1983 : The bar where everybody knew your name came to the UK with the first episode of Cheers was broadcast on Channel 4. (TV listing : @woodg31.bsky.social ) #80s

Listening to Mew ahead of the big London gig later this week - reminded of the piece I wrote about them for @toppermost.bsky.social www.toppermost.co.uk/mew/

Forgive me, but I’ve never listened the Neil Young original of “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” until this past weekend and bloody hell it’s tremendous isn’t it? youtu.be/364qY0Oz-xs?...

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

#OnThisDay 1995: A certain digging up of a patio on Brookside Close would reveal the hand of Trevor Jordache. #90s

We were watching Wonder Man this morning, and it reminded me of the Trevor Slattery tie-in yogurt.

My phone this morning threw me a new track, “Soft like swans” from a Swedish band called Sternpost, and it sounded for all the world like a lost diamond from Prefab Sprout. Go listen. sternpostulrika.bandcamp.com/album/unworl...

Last week's comic. I'm new to The Traitors and predictably loved every minute of it

The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie.

Prompted by a record store email, I end up watching this amazing Jeff Buckley performance from the late Show in 1995. How I wish we still had music TV that could capture genius in a moment like this - youtu.be/KOjP1d8WzIg?...

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

One moment the PM is claiming that Kemi is an opportunist. 5 minutes later, in response to a Green Party MP asking a question about environmental damage, he chooses to respond that the Green Party wants to legalise heroin and is in league with Putin. Shameless - what a hypocrite.

'I was out in the studio tweaking the amplifier and I heard this one note roaring back through the amp and I remember thinking, This is the end. This is as far as we can go. After one note there's no notes. This will be the last album we make.' Tim Friese-Greene

Undeniable

That's £414m since 1 January 2025. Meanwhile, still no sign of a decision in the PL/City legal wrangle over 129/130 charges, several serious enough to warrant relegation if substantiated. A joke, not a good one. share.google/bt3imylQrbrv...

🔥BOOM!🔥 All time global attendance record today. Total 5k finishes sailed through 400,000 for the first time.... Incoming graphics from @charliepearce.bsky.social awaited in due course. #parkrun

If anyone can't manage to put together a mid-budget Brit scifi/horror movie about a man trapped in this lookout post after a nuclear war in the 1960s, trying to escape before it falls in to the sea, then we should close down our film industry www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

It’s difficult running a Fantasy League Team without any Man City players when they spend the transfer window snapping up loads of yr players. Two unwanted transfers to make, but money can’t buy everything …

Today's announcement is the opposite of what it says it is. It's the formal cancellation of the high speed line across the Pennines. What's left - additional TRU scope - is a good idea but should be delivered as a business as usual enhancement in 2027, not some far off fanfaron.

Zahawi can lead Reform's crackdown on tax avoidance. Plenty of experience.

I’m listening to random music today on the auto speaker thing and I swear, when Sugar comes on, all of their songs are about 20% louder than anything else.

First gig thing (the Roadmender didn’t look anything like this back in 1988 tho)

Our 10-15 cm of overnight snow has not materialised. The kids only hope of a day off is if school now closes for a “rain day”

The same people who screamed at us for not sufficiently revering the memory of Charlie Kirk are now telling us that Renee Good had it coming and was a “domestic terrorist.” What cretins. What fiends.

You can walk from where the feds murdered Renee Good to where George Floyd called for his mother in about 15 minutes.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

We’ve graduated from “abolish ICE is the moderate position” to “Nuremberg trials for the Trump regime and its Gestapo is the moderate position.”

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

If anyone else has realised their kid's school or youth organisation still has a X-twitter account and is asking them to drop it, the magic word to trigger them to take it seriously is "safeguarding".

Five years ago.

Reposting this one last time:

⚠️ @metoffice.gov.uk snow and ice warning issued for Northamptonshire for tonight. Snow showers may give a covering of 1-3cm in some places. Ice will be an additional hazard.

the main thing to know about the maduro arrest is there are hundreds of thousands of epstein files we still haven’t seen

That thing where you’re enjoying reading a highly regarded new music biog, but you’re still annoyed cos 70 pages ago, in 1984, it referred to Simple Minds as a surging Britpop band…

So much truth. And controversial view: for me one of the key differences between radio programmes and podcasts is that radio programmes rarely make me shout GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IN THE PUB I WASN’T THERE