Also provided this legendary quote in his book.

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I feel bloody ancient. I'm in a room of engineers and product managers. Speaker just put up a picture of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and asked who had read it. I was the only hand.

‘Joanne has roasted Royal Park Swan in a Boston Duck infused sauce served on a bed of fresh paracetamol…’

Quite. If Burnham is the answer I think they're asking the wrong question!

Bloody hell but @petepaphides.bsky.social’s post on Danny Thompson this morning is full of heart. Love it. www.patreon.com/posts/139696...

My only Danny Thompson story: seeing him play with Ryley Walker at Bush Hall some years ago. Ryley says between songs: ‘Look, it’s Danny Fucking Thompson.’ Voice from audience shouts: ‘We know who he is, mate, who the fuck are you?’

Earlier this year, I spent considerable time working on an essay for @ftweekend.com about issues around autism: www.ft.com/content/d1ba... I read a great deal about the condition and spoke to several experts. There is no indication whatever that use of a single drug in pregnancy is linked to it.

Claudia Cardinale and Robert Redford dying in the same week puts the world in a hotness deficit not seen since at least the 19th century

If you have not seen it, direct link here

Had me weeping like a stupid fat baby this did. youtu.be/5VXSQQ5YDIU?...

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

I've put the heating on. In my defence I went for a cold swim this morning. And I'm weak.

Small train stations. Country lanes. Running man thrillers. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Patrick O'Brian's novels.

This is very powerful. #MentalHealth

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

"The man, who called himself Rick, was barefoot and continued to claim that he was "Rock and Roll's spiritual guru," and all should kneel before him. When the police removed his red sunglasses he cowered, crying, "No! Not the light!!". Enquiries are ongoing." Honolulu News, 22nd Sept, 2025

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." -H.G. Wells Happy #BicycleBirthday, H.G. Wells! September 21 (1866-1946) Wells is shown here getting ready to ride a Humber "lady-front" tandem with wife Amy Catherine Robbins Wells.

What with this essay by @stephenkb.bsky.social and an equally perspicacious column by @timharford.ft.com on the same day, this week's FT Weekend has more intelligent, sober analysis of what immigration means for the UK than I've read anywhere else over months. www.ft.com/content/43da...

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?

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Just speared a wasp’s nest in our allotment. Not recommended #ouch

Reading Richard Aldous’s brilliant account of Gladstone and Disraeli’s rivalry, The Lion and the Unicorn, I encounter for the first time Gladstone’s stupendously awful proposal of marriage to his future wife Catherine Glynne. She actually said yes to this rubbish.

People are gonna get mad at me for this but fundamentally ed davey takes the current moment more seriously than most former or current labour people

Since the advent of Apple Intelligence (🤔) iOS autocorrect has taken huge strides. Backwards.

After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

Nothing demonstrates the iron, deadening grip of ‘News’ on the BBC creative ecosystem than this. A vain nonsense to have regular news broadcasts on a music station. But I learned from hard experience - you don’t say No to News.

[sigh] it's nice on the internet before the americans wake up. Let's see what shitstorm they dump on us today.

Bit strange to hear the Today programme interviewing the CEO of Newsmax like he's a public intellectual, then interviewing a Labour minister like he's a war criminal

Starmer does seem to be a spectacularly unlucky leader. Debases himself before the Orange God in large part to save Jaguar Land Rover - and then JLR manages to destroy itself. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have dealt with my BIG FEELINGS about people saying mean things about London by writing this about 57 things I love in London. There were 100 things I loved, but it got too long for one email. London is inexhaustible. naomialderman.substack.com/p/57-things-...

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

As a decades-long customer of Nationwide I was freaked out by the no-consultation purchase of Virgin Money last year. And now this. Might be time to move.

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

It's time to tell the racists to fuck off (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-is-en...

I'm currently reading After London and while I know it's a mystery thriller type of book, it's more of a horror novel for me. I live in the United States and I can see the drone situation happening to us. I feel like I'm reading our future. P.s. It's a really, really good read #books

Go well, Redford.

not an exaggeration to say I am WEEPING with laughter at this reply from someone who hadn't seen that Robert Redford died today

Somebody just sent this in the group thread

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

Damn it, he’s gone. I met him once years ago & he was everything you’d hope he’d be. Courteous & thoughtful & entirely comfortable with who he was & what he represented; neither downplaying his status nor exulting in it. Robert Redford, what a man

I read someplace that when INDECENT PROPOSAL came out a TV reporter, outraged at the concept, did some vox pops outside the theater, asking a woman "Would you sleep with Robert Redford for a million dollars?!" Only the woman without hesitation replied "I'd sleep with Robert Redford for fifty cents."

After Saturday's far-right march, police would like you to let them know if you recognise those suspected of violent disorder, using the platform owned by a man encouraging violent disorder.

People ask why I don't smile in photos more. This is why - Miranda and Robert, cerebral, sophisticated. Me: dopily grinning, just happy to be here.

Get off twitter then.

So tired of these awful fucking people. Day after day after day of lies and rage and horror. It’s sucking the life out of Western society and I hate it.

Nigel Farage: "Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve." Farage has two ex-wives.

Rather magnificently, Wikipedia has a category for 'Living People' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...