In a nutshell.

Mark Hollis (Talk Talk) 4 January 1955 – February 2019

Here’s to 2026. The Chinese year of the chicken nugget lodged in the windpipe and the ketamine overdose. Fingers fuckin crossed.

#totp 🎵Upset stomach... diarrhea🎵

Shite! Is there a baked potato under that mess?

My message of hope for 2026: Abolish the monarchy.

Go round the outside.

Radical professor brutally attacks Trump supporter.

This is still so good.

THE SPECIAL - Matthew Philpotts takes us to Burnley via Ancient Greece in hos tour de force classical previews of a Newcastle United football match - you must read this - you absolutely must - tf1892.substack.com/p/the-specia... #NUFC

You should like this one..

They also don't pay any UK taxes, just like the daily mail. The daily mail owner lives in Monaco to dodge UK taxes and the daily mail is registered in Bermuda.

This is Richard Smith of the South Durham Hunt and he thinks it’s ok to hit a horse over the head. Make this ‘man’ famous.

Figures in the city Greenwich, London, 1991 Silver gelatin print #photography #streetphotography #believeinfilm #blackandwhitephoto #analoguephoto #London #Greenwich #man #figure #gastank #gasholder #industrial #city #urban #urbanlandscape #footbridge #town #southeastLondon #monochrome #film #bnw

Such brave lads. Life can be cruel, but nothing beats love and support 🖤❤️ #NUFC #SAFC

This is the lovely Nigel Farage. The photographer gave him a message before he went to support the Boxing Day hunt. He’d hate it if people shared this and signed the petition for a proper ban on fox hunting - protectthewild.org.uk/our-campaign...

Morning all. Hoping your Christmas day is as happy as this little lad's. Christmas day in Wales, 1962. Photograph by Dennis Stock.

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

Farage went on GB news today to say the the BBC is biased. Farage… today.. on GBNews… said the BBC, no less, is biased. On GB news. His employer. Satire writes itself these days.

Ginger twats!

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

I was bawling already but I had to stifle at sob at this point. I'd given up on this happening in my lifetime. Thanks Eddie, mad dog, Bruno etc. Not just a great year. The best year. Happy Christmas #NUFC

Matthew Bowles works for the IEA. Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco. Times up. Merry Christmas! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Story from Joolz Denby over on Facebook. A bad day at TotP in 1985 with New Model Army, and Chris Rea suddenly appearing and being compassionate and gernerally decent.

Stuart Sutcliffe inventing Suede here

Herring girls gutting fish on the quayside, North Shields, 1930s, photo by Edwin Smith (1912-71).

My round, pint?

Maybe my most beloved Xmas song... What's yours? open.spotify.com/track/0OFdNO...

Suella Braverman’s parents emigrated (those horrible economic migrants not from a war zone she hates). She went to Cambridge for free and didn’t collect £27k debt like everyone else. Scrounger. She used the Erasmus scheme to study in France. Which she has blocked. Horrible.

Feckin middle class arseholes.. their only point of reference for city and guilds is Jamie Oliver

£107 to renew a passport.. for fucks sake.. it's a human right to travel freely.

Morning all. Photograph by Chris Killip ‘Wallsend in the snow’ 1976.

23 years ago today, one of the greatest died In memory of Joe Strummer 🖤 ... gone but not forgotten... 📸 Anthony Saint James #punk #punks #punkrock #punklegend #joestrummer #theclash #punkrockhistory #history #otd

Back Lane, Hong Kong — Fan Ho, 1960

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

UNITED ✊

Tynemouth, by photo north-east photographer Sophie Henderson.

Happy Chris Morris was more prophet than satirist day to all who celebrate

HOWAY THE LADS 👊

Boy walking down snowy alley, Manchester, 1968, photo by Shirley Baker.

#10minutesfromhome #ClassicMono #Photography Early Saturday morning

The cliche that ‘having an idea’ is the hard part of writing is persistent and pernicious. Realising the idea is the craft of it. That FAQ of…

Obligatory airport photo. #barcelona #onthepiss

Getting my new phone ready for travel to the US.

"Hands up! Give us your oil, I mean drugs! Wait, what are we doing again?"

We are reaching a place where this kind of commentary - which a mere ten years ago would have been career-ending - is becoming worryingly commonplace and nobody bats an eyelid. The absolute descent of man.