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

“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on

Rubicon Beach by Steve Erickson - pretty sure its unfilmable but it might lead to more people reading one of the great lost books of the 80s

Seasons greetings.

A universal truth.

Exciting times - it’s day 24 of the Haribo Advent Calendar - I wonder what it could be… Oh it’s some Haribo - Happy Christmas !

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

And there it is...

Fascinating BBC doc from 1970 about the word of retail focussing on up and coming supermarket Tesco and a trad high street fixture - WHSmith. Oh for bookshop shelves that were as full as the ones in this show. youtu.be/qiSou0ndgxA

I love Christmas - it’s the only time of year you can scoff a crate of Easy Peelers and claim it’s “tradition”

Sad to see this news - I remember enjoying their LP very much when I stumbled across it back in the day and though they were well regarded, I don’t think they really got the credit they were due. There’s a track or two linked in this piece. pitchfork.com/news/joseph-...

There’s not a Talk Talk song that I don’t love, but every time I hear “Call In the Night Boy”, I think it’s actually a song about a chap called Colin… youtu.be/bQbobt23djQ

Dunno what radio is on at the blood donor place today but we’ve got ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart” by Saint Étienne now five minutes after Edie Brickell. I assume somebody is rebelling against the normal Christmas music.

Blood Donor today - I’ve had the text telling me to drink loads of water - just hope that I don’t get the one about my appt being cancelled at short notice as well for the 3rd time running

I’m 12th out of 13 in my work Fantasy League and I’ve just noted that all 11 teams above me have Haaland in their side. As I said to somebody last week, I find that all rather unimaginative (as I make second to last my own)

I was surprised by this fire-making news because I thought nothing ever happened in Barnham - but it turns out there’s another Barnham and it’s not the one I thought of. Panic over.

“Alexa”, I said. “Play Sunday Morning” So it did, by Mar00n Five. This is what’s wrong with technology. Bah.

I’m not saying the Council never cleans the roads / kerbs, but I spent 20 mins today scraping the road outside our house, and this is what I got …

Another one of those calls that looks like it’s coming from a UK mobile but when you answer it, you hear an automated message and the words “Indeed Human Resources” - I doubt it’s going to end up in a job opportunity for me.

Everyone should make their plans to survive a Reform government. Which for some of us will be harder than others. But if your first instinct is "collude" I hope you don't survive and I'll do my best to make sure you don't.

@dave-daints.bsky.social Dave! Tomorrow Morning !!! www.parkrun.org.uk/stmatthewsfi...

The Best Album of 1989 is Pixies, DOOLITTLE

I can remember when it was a scandal if the 18 weeks wait figure dropped below 95%. It was only about 10-12 years ago. The collapse in NHS performance under the last government was truly staggering, and went well beyond the pandemic.

The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power. No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality. The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.

We’re trying to see if we can watch “Angel Falls Christmas” every year as part of a terrible new Christmas tradition…

Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...

If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

100% this - though please forgive me a mention of “Amateur”

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt

1 episode to go …

So to Sunday, and off to the cinema for the final instalment in their screening of Twin Peaks S2. Fair play to them for doing this as a tribute to David Lynch - seeing episodes on a big screen has absolutely brought out their quality and I’m delighted to have had the chance to see them like this.

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

Watching the Brookside appearances in Hollyoaks this evening - it occurs to me that it just needs a Tapehead column in Saturday’s Guide to really cap it off.

Trying to imagine what the reaction would have been if the Govt had casually announced they were replacing A-levels with no details, as they have done with post-16 vocational qualifcations today. Probably not total indifference.

ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉 📈 125,000 members and counting.

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