Coming pretty soon. This afternoon, in fact. Disordered, second series.

In case Christmas and New Year isn’t enough entertainment for you, the new series of Disordered starts on Monday 29th on BBC Radio Four at 2.15. Here’s a wee taster…just after the black screen, obvs.

Well let’s hope Roy is reliable and can deliver it before the 25th. 🤞🤞 #subjectlinecutoffs

I think he should have the name "Andrew" taken off him too

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Quote of the weekend from Shane Lowry on the next Ryder Cup in Ireland. “It’ll be a little bit nicer than playing here, I know that.”

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Next week's @newyorker.com cover. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

Fancy a laugh? R4 is repeating Alone series 2, just 6 years (almost) after it first aired. On the plus side, it’ll all be a surprise, even to me. Mondays at 2.15, from today. Starring the all wonderful Angus Deayton, Abigail Cruttenden, Pearce Quigley, Kate Isitt and @bennettarron.bsky.social

Hard agree. 4 eps to go. Missing it already…

‘Genteel bias: how the BBC dismantles the Left without us noticing’ BBC right-wing bias is exceptionally dangerous because it is subtle, opaque and covert westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/g...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Neil Young’s eyes obviously not part of the BBC deal. They’re extra….

In #FirstLastAnything ep 19 (June 2023), I welcomed and chatted to comedy writer and performer Moray Hunter (@morayh.bsky.social) about the Celtic comedy classic #Absolutely, singer-songwriters from Rab Noakes to Colin Hay, and his key record purchases! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

@itvnews.bsky.social were apparently streaming Farage’s speech in Wales on TikTok today. So we can now expect Ed Davey, Adrian Ramsey, John Swinney and Rhun ap Iorwerth’s speeches being streaming too can we? This is now propaganda and has to stop. Sign petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Can I ask a practical question at this point? Are we still going to Mars?

The wonders of AI. They’re taking the piss. Get it sorted, Scotrail and Readspeaker.

Delighted to be involved in this Justin Lewis “textcast” project, now relaunched at FirstLastAnything.co.uk

Brexit betrayal, they cry. Keep Brexit Shit! 🙄

Wait. Tariffs are beautiful. But it's 'hostile' to itemise them?

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our free humor newsletter to never miss a Daily Cartoon: nyer.cm/PJhMpSk

No suit, no thank yous, that's a 10% Tariff for you MR Penguin.

Grateful for the many and varied media descriptions of Heathrow being shut, just how shut Heathrow is and what a shut Heathrow looks like. Really painting the picture. 👍

Hi - any of you writing, Journo pals out there know of someone in the press who’d be interested in me writing a piece about my PIP nightmares? I will supply some gags as well. Can people please repost this please.

Assuming they won’t cancel it, suggest they tweak Trump’s state visit and call it a “state-of-him” visit instead…

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

A lovely surprise - unlike those sideburns….

Best part of the day, this. A few hours when HE's not up....

Trump tariff climb down with Mexico and Canada framed as an outright success in R4 by a TOADY, sorry, Today programme presenter. 🙄

Five years after we left, a new YouGov poll finds a grand total of 2% of voters think Brexit has had a very positive impact on the NHS.

In happier news…👇

America Defeats America theonion.com/america...

Some American political commentator on Today programme telling us Biden was the first President to try to imprison his political rival and referring to it as the persecution of Trump goes completely unchallenged by Justin Webb. It’s started….🫣

Sad day. Hat well and truly off to this guy….

…so, in conclusion ,I propose that for New Year 2026, as the centrepiece of our celebrations, we go with a big firework display at midnight, even bigger than last year’s, in fact, our biggest display ever! All those in favour? Hello?

Amol Rajan on Today describing Reform as offering “full fat conservatism”. Really? Is that the official BBC line now?

Hail and farewell and thanks for all the laughs.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it could just be someone doing a cracking duck impersonation.

I know things ain’t great but on the plus side, Sunak could still have two months to go as PM. So there’s that….😅

I'm quite new to Bluesky Could I ask you to share this post to get my account in front of those who care about the NHS So many good accounts from Twitter who don't know I'm on here Thank you 🙏😊

I now discover you refresh the feeds by clicking on the titles. 🤦‍♂️ I thought the whole thing was a bit slow moving. Sharing for anyone else who is finding this as steep a learning curve as I am....

Picked the worst possible day to try and track down my old school friend Invalid Handle.

Now I see it’s called Bluesky, all one word. Acronym is B. Not BS. Joke, such as it is, doesn’t work. 🤦‍♂️ We go again tomorrow.

Hello Blue Sky friends. Been here for a while doing not much but now going to have a proper go at Blue Sky, away from that other place. Loving it so far. My only concern is - did they think enough about the acronym for Blue Sky? Or is that the plan?

I mentioned Blue Sky on Twitter, but I think I got away with....aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh.......

Out and about today in what looks like pissing rain all damned day. So I’ve taken the precaution of wearing my best suit - should be fine. 😉

@mrjamesbachman.bsky.social As the man who introduced me to Twitter, (or maybe Facebook, it was one of the two) it’s good to see you remotely here too. Season’s Greetings to you all. X