Oasis reflect both the best and worst aspects of modern Britain, which makes the wholly uncritical response to their reunion quietly unsettling. I’ve tried digging into the knottier realities of their legacy for @thequietus.com. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

This is great. Do please watch it.

Sam’s Breakfast Banger. Oasis Week. Day 1… youtu.be/hQONUdzwfC4?...

Sam’s All-Back-To-Mine Bedtime Banger… youtu.be/DVZSJgtH60Y?...

A feigned interest in Strictly Come Dancing still represents decent value.

Lot of people dunking on this, but it's good to see Mark Zuckerberg getting back to the thing that first made him passionate about coding: rating girls online.

This week on It Was What It Was, the football history podcast, the first part of our series on Nottingham Forest's glory years under Brian Clough: promotion and the league title. podfollow.com/1745066482

Maybe - just a crazy idea, but bear with me for a moment! - the reason why the Lib Dems should not “get serious“ is that the UK’s most important media organisation covers politics in babytalk so much of the time?

Can't work out from this piece whether it's the coke, the fraud or the kicking of a police officer in the head that Liz thinks he's been unfairly demonised for. So I'll presume it's all of it.

🏠 Ben House laying the foundations for victory over Luton Town! Watch all the best bits back for free on Imps+ weareimps.com/imps

Football ground no. 143. Gateshead International Stadium. www.instagram.com/p/DO0_8f8iBc...

Saturday's the day we play the game.

This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters. www.wsj.com/articles/sto...

Estonia's Foreign Minister: "Russia’s increasingly extensive testing of boundaries and growing aggressiveness must be met with a swift increase in political and economic pressure."

Incredible photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social

Sam’s Breakfast Banger… youtu.be/-d2virRstVM?...

If the Marketing Director at EA Sports responsible for FC26 just happens to be reading this may I congratulate you on a job well done. It is unprecedented for the Stafford boys to be up, showered and dressed a whole forty minutes ahead of time.

Thursday Night Stafford Boys Red Hot Champions League Action Vibes. www.instagram.com/p/DOwQB2aiFW...

Fact of the Day. The average home in London is not affordable for any household income decile. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

A toilet pod has opened at Brough station. How, you may wonder, does a toilet pod differ from a toilet? Best one can tell it's that you have to ring a buzzer to contact the ticket office, and show them your ticket, before they let you in. Dignity all round

What a time to be alive.

If you work in the land, planning and development sectors and your organisation is not a member of the LPDF then you need to take a long, hard look at yourself, consider how much fun you missed out on last Thursday afternoon, and conclude that you should be.

Er.........yes?

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

The direction of travel has been clear for a while, an increasing tendency for people to see the internet as the real world and the areas outside of a screen as places you visit to gather content.

Sam’s Breakfast Banger… youtu.be/oGpfD9Qd2XI?...

I’ve only just spotted so this is only a ten minute call. The Firm is on BBC4 at 10pm. youtu.be/dhRZfbt2XQQ?...

Tell me again about football being better in the olden days…

“Build steadily, recruit smartly, and maximise potential.” www.skysports.com/football/new... #Imps 🔴⚪️

Labour will miss its 1.5m homes target by 2030. But missing the number doesn’t have to mean missing the chance to change direction. I’ve explained what’s been done, what still needs to happen, and how delivery can rise again. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/longwall...

Sam’s Breakfast Banger… youtu.be/H65Ifm9LzIQ?...

I enjoyed a day spent talking Green Belt with @catrionariddell.bsky.social and James Corbet Burcher at the launch of Charles Goode’s new book in the Birmingham & Midland Institute. And we fitted in recording a @50shadesofplanning.bsky.social podcast with @samuelstafford.bsky.social

Better to burn out Than to fade away Robert Redford RIP

Sam’s Breakfast Banger… youtu.be/PEd8u_X-NcE?...

The weather couldn’t be filthier, but Youngest is still out there in the kit he wears on Tuesdays going through all of his drills in the obligatory order, going back to square one if he missteps. To not do so, for reasons I can’t comprehend, would be worse than getting freezing cold and soaking wet.

Only the memories of Mike Tyson at his most destructive in sparring can rival the vivid images I carry of the young Ricky Hatton training in an old hat factory. He was utterly lost in boxing. It all felt so pure. Ricky was unforgettable then – and remains so now www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Sam’s Breakfast Banger… youtu.be/5uN3n-NjLHc?...

Astounding conspiracy theory here

THIS is the line? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

good that Keir has broken his silence this morning to ... continue posting on a website run by a man who yesterday addressed a far right rally to call for his overthrow, while not in any way addressing said far right rally

A reminder that Elon Musk is still a Fellow of the Royal Society. Surely THIS is the point at which he is expelled @royalsociety.org

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Sam’s All-Back-To-Mine Bedtime Banger… youtu.be/sFBeWHpgwTI?...

Starmer as it happens hasn't made a public speech outside chamber since mid-July. Hard to think of a PM who has made so little use of the normative power of his office. Unlike eg Cameron who really did think No 10 had the capacity and obligation to attempt to frame debate on all manner of issues

I find it mind boggling that our entire political class seems to be ignoring this. Musk is the owner of a major media platform that - as we’ve seen - can shape media and political discourse. And the official response seems to be head in the sand.