Had to reset my mother’s Alexa and she’d forgotten her WiFi password and Amazon password and for the actual love of God I need a lie down

Watching Newcastle and Manu try to outshittify each other is making me wonder why I was so frustrated by the lack of Boxing Day football

An incredible tradition has developed on TikTok between Christmas and New Year and it’s where women get bored and cut their own fringe with predictably disastrous results and I love it. Fringemas has begun

Thank god there’s not a wrap for TikTok cos I’ve watched Andrew Tate getting his head snapped back 1.3m times in 24 hours

Chris Evans going back to Captain America the same year he has his first kid is absolute peak millennial

Decorating the Christmas Cake while Classic FM plays the the from Downton. Mrs Padmore vibes was not the look I was going for

Bloody love Jonny Woo www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

OH on the bus earlier « I’m sure he’s made loads of cash but he’s an idiot. Even a 28 year old in Tuebrook know to block a punch to the f&cking face »

Taxi driver’s phone ring is Bolero

No it’s not, grow up www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/2570061...

Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use

For those who are interested in panto, I spent a very happy few days reading some old books including 'The Annals of Liverpool Theatre' from 1908 and 'Recollections of Old Liverpool' from the late 19th century about Victorian panto in Liverpool open.substack.com/pub/liverpoo...

Businesses have been warning about rates increases since Covid but no one has listened. This is going to be fairly devastating for high streets www.theguardian.com/business/202...

You have to work really hard to not allow bigots to define your sense of self

Nope.

I’m watching the State of Play TV series from the early 2000s. There are five journalists investigating and working on one story. All the best

Strictly was more fun when the dancers were all banging. Sorry but it’s true

Trainline, there’s too much snow on the app

So tempted to set up a mailer in 2026 that’s like Popb!tch but for calling out arts festivals just absolutely breaking people’s souls. People always focus on the big guys but hooha there are some small outfits (publicly funded) doing their best to be just as destructive

Here’s a cheeky little recipe for Arabic coffee - great all year but very festive A small jar (like those mini jam ones) 2tsp ground cardamom 1tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp cloves 1/4 tsp ginger 1/4 tsp mahleb 1/4 tsp nutmeg Add a tsp of the mix to the coffee grinder and yalla, Arab Christmas

Foubd out someone tried to slag me off to one of my bezzy mates and they basically got a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation about how sound I am. Excellent

Gosh. I’m not sure how I feel about local news getting a premium service. It’s a weird position as a PR because you need to know how many subscribers there are for a piece to go behind what is essentially a paywall www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

There's trails for Nicky Campbell's phone in across the network saying "listen now" - essentially stop listening to the BBC output you';re listening to and put this programme on instead. Which makes me wonder if it had shocking numbers for that time period in the October Rajars

Encapsulation of how the London art world sees the country on The World Tonight as an academic, accused of saying Blackburn won’t understand the issues raised by Turner Prize artists by saying they’re complex and need a lot of reading. I’ll ask my whippet if they understand feminist theory aye?

Best you can muster up is Purslow? Jesus

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

There’s a social media brewhaha bubbling with Liverpools two Beatles Museums and I’m so here for it I can’t tell you

Well done to whoever had the big idea to sit with their feet up while I constantly sing Police Nabbed Me Dad for the next fortnight

Paramount has entered the chat

When we talk about the lack of opportunities for young people, we rarely talk about local government funding decimation. The lack of cultural funding, third sector funding, place based funding, training opportunities - all of that has evaporated over 15 years www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Shoved on to a late Avanti train like cattle. Arsey passengers trying to push on while people were still trying to get of. A dad infront of me had to lift his children and suitcases off the train while a woman tried to push on. No staff around, obviously. And you’re lucky because you have a seat

Went to see The Weir on the last matinee and Christ I’m in pieces. An English woman as we were leaving said to her husband she missed a few bits. It reminded me, as it did with Blackstuff, that when we bring our voices to the London stage we should never slow them down or make them softer. Full pelt

Exactly this. Eurovision is a cultural and political project. Many people wish it wasn’t but it was when Greece and Cyprus voted for each other, when no one voted for the UK when they were bombing Iraqis and when they banned Russia

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I genuinely think you should ask these men what they think sex with a woman is cos we’re assuming they know

1970s Kirkby. A new town with lofty ambitions. A Council, with aspirations to be in Rotten Boroughs. If you don't know the unbelievable true story of the Kirkby Ski Slope then book your tickets for @royalcourtliv.bsky.social Summer Blockbuster 2026 show liverpoolsroyalcourt.com/main_stage/t...

What’s the youngest a child can be in the public realm before you can tell them to f@ck off? Asking for a middle aged woman in a bad mood

Genuinely don’t know how Americans do this three weeks between Thanksgiving break and Christmas hols with any semblance of dedication

I am already Whamageddoned. When you do Christmas theatre it happens incredibly early. Although my OH got done on his way to the launch of a festive chalet in the first week of November

I’ve had 15 fecking emails from different brands since 8am this morning with various Black Friday discounts. For the love of God leave me alone

I mean I’m pretty emotionally stunted but Carlos ugly crying has just made me tear up

Lived with a girl at uni who chain smoked and listened to Cher Believe eight or nine times a day. I’m deeply triggered when I hear this song

It’s either naïveté or bad faith to act surprised when a racist says something racist again

Your boyfriend tells Susie Dent that she absolutely nailed her word of the day

The Stage magazine has announced its print is going monthly instead of weekly. Understandable but a shame for the industry that has so little written about it anywhere else, other than reviews www.thestage.co.uk/the-stage-is...

The news about Pam Hogg doesn’t feel quite real. Quite brilliant, possibly the most alive person I’ve ever met. She did a marvellous interview with @timjonze.bsky.social here for a show we had up here with DuoVision in the Gallery. RIP you bloody legend www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I’m just so goddamn tired

There’s an older woman who swims at the same time as me, three times a week, who will only do backstroke and can’t figure out how to swim clockwise in a lane but OK

After completely screwing over the artists brought in to develop it