A Roblox gardening game getting a movie? Pfft. A couple of years back, I wrote about the *retro* gaming movies we* really want to see. www.stuff.tv/features/ano... * I and possibly no one else

By me for Stuff: This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...

By me for Stuff: This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...

I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

I have many journals and sketch books that I have started…and gone nowhere with. I’d like to reuse / repurpose these, but I feel silly for the failed start pages. What should I do?

If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard. If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller. But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment

I didn’t think I needed another mini retro console – until I saw the Vectrex Mini www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/i-... Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.

I didn’t think I needed another mini retro console – until I saw the Vectrex Mini www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/i-... Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.

Weeknote: 🎨 Why it’s OK Affinity is now free 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Apple Family Sharing helps keep children safe—until it doesn’t 🔍 Why you should pay for Kagi search 🍎 Apple’s changing values 🕹️ Gamestation Go could be brilliant. (Isn’t. Yet.) ❤️ Simogo’s excellent collection and book reverttosaved.com/2025/11/02/w...

Douglas Adams was really ahead of his time about this.

My town, looking like a sci-fi movie earlier.

Optimus sub-prime.

Column: I think the Atari Gamestation Go could become my favourite retro handheld – On the joy of a console packed with control options but that’s currently scuppered by duff software. www.stuff.tv/features/i-t...

And that all parties at the last election failed to confront the electorate with that reality. Instead claiming we can fix public services, reduce poverty etc whilst cutting taxes.

And also, the most terrifying game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNMs...

Brutal comparison of Apple value shifts by @snell.zone at the end of his piece on Apple’s latest results sixcolors.com/post/2025/10...

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

@metoffice.gov.uk Here, for me, is your problem. Same with the app. The old design gives you loads at a glance. The new one doesn’t and requires loads of extra clicks. I do like the larger temp/conditions font above the strip, but that’s about it. (And that could be integrated into the old design.)

Met Office old (left) vs new (right). Information density: gone. Symbol design: worse. Unnecessary acres of white space: present. It looks like Temu Yahoo! Weather now.

Looks like the Met Office’s bloody awful redesign is locked, given that it’s now made it to the website too. Bah. It’s just awful, in every conceivable way. weather.metoffice.gov.uk/forecast/gcp...

New by me for Wired: Apple’s Family Sharing Helps Keep Children Safe. Until It Doesn’t • www.wired.com/story/apples... Family sharing is a great convenience but tech companies set it up with a major point of failure that becomes apparent when families fracture.

If you’ve been following the Affinity saga, here’s what’s happening. No, it’s not getting a sub. No, it’s not getting mashed into Canva. Instead, it’s going entirely free. Blimey. www.stuff.tv/news/affinit...

Here is the section where I explain why I think protecting the independence of scientific and evidence generating public bodies (like ONS, the Met Office, Environment Agency, Food Standards Agency etc) is crucial for supporting democracy.

UNHAPPY FAMILIES: @craiggrannell.bsky.social takes a look at how when families break down, Apple's systems put in place to protect children online can fall apart. Read the full piece on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/apples...

New by me for Wired: Apple’s Family Sharing Helps Keep Children Safe. Until It Doesn’t • www.wired.com/story/apples... Family sharing is a great convenience but tech companies set it up with a major point of failure that becomes apparent when families fracture.

Wikipedia vs Elon Musk In a world of algorithms and AI slop, the simple joy of aimlessly wandering through a website of ideas is worth preserving. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/wikipedia-... My newsletter, out now.

I just found out that Jimmy Carr’s new TV show is called Am I the A**hole? Bit on the nose.

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

This should be very special. Also, fantastic to hear Simogo reworking its mobile catalogue for Switch and Steam *and* bringing Sayonara Wild Hearts back to the App Store after it was dropped by Apple Arcade.

Funny that Threads just launched ghosts posts, given that last time I checked in there it felt like a ghost town. about.fb.com/news/2025/10...

Column! Ikea’s tiny bed for your smartphone isn’t as stupid as it sounds www.stuff.tv/features/ike...

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

Weeknote: 🛏️ Ikea’s smartphone bed plays a neat psychological trick 📱 iPhone 17 review 🎃 Halloween apps and games 👾 Sega Master System at 40 📰 Kagi News ☹️ Mags get further squeeze in UK 🕥 Lego Back to the Future DeLorean And more! reverttosaved.com/2025/10/27/w...

Celebrating 25 years of the PS2 in the US: www.stuff.tv/features/the...

Popped into TG Jones to get a copy of The Week Junior for the kid (or the animals version). All mags shunted to the back of the store and further compressed. Almost no educational mags for kids. Staff confirmed they do still sell The Week Junior – the store gets in one (1) copy per week. Good grief.

Column! Ikea’s tiny bed for your smartphone isn’t as stupid as it sounds www.stuff.tv/features/ike...

Not a great look that Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and HP are effectively funding the demolition of a big chunk of the White House. www.macrumors.com/2025/10/23/a...

Quick reminder, given all the polls floating round right now, that Survation put Plaid on 38 (-9) and Reform on 42 (+6). Actually putting a tick in a box can sharpen minds.

The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC. Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.

Sleaford Mods and Gwendoline Christie: not the collab you expected but quite possibly the one you needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyVI...

“Benchmark obsessives might insist the Pro is like a million supercomputers glued together while the standard 19 wheezes like a VIC-20, but the reality is the A19 copes with almost anything.” Don’t tell me I can’t write cultural references that click with today’s yoofs.

My review of the iPhone 17 is up: www.stuff.tv/review/apple...

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Immersion the band of Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) announce UK tour London, Manc, Leeds, Portsmouth and more Immersion (Colin Newman of Wire and Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact) announce new single and album and tour louderthanwar.com/immersion/ via @louderthanwar

Tell the new Democracy Minister: it’s time to end First Past the Post - Please sign the petition. @makevotesmatter.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

I do hope that if they do choose to become immigrants in another country they plan to fully assimilate, abandon any home culture, become fluent in the new language, make no claim on state services or pensions, and fulfil all the other demands they make of people choosing to live here.

Honestly lads it’s not hard. This is a 97% position Ed Davey is agreeing with here. This should be easy mode politics.

See, Craig knows Enduro Racer. Listen to Craig.

The Sega Master System at 40 (sort of) – and six of its best games www.stuff.tv/features/the...