You can legitimise your behaviour however you want, you can blame lots and lots of different factors. Truth is, you park on a pavement and you’re a dick. There might be reasons making you a dick, but you’re still a dick www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I did the most brilliant parallel park this afternoon that I'm annoyed it's not been filmed

An Evertonian is in charge. Best of luck, everyone

You always think FIFA has sunk as low as it can, but the thing about FIFA is it always has the capacity for surprise

Difficult to articulate how completely life changing seeing Jennifer Finch and L7 was when I was a genuine child. They rewired my whole self. Gutting

A summers night, and a reminder that invariably people who play loud music rarely play good music

Well Making Tax Digital continues to be an unremitting nightmare. My only advice to those haven’t done it yet is to check every sodding transaction and do not assume it will be correct automatically because it uses AI and the last thing you need is to go to tax prison because of an AI hallucination

Lol I just found out about the Merseyrail plan from Burnham and not any local site in Liverpool. Cool

Church in Wales says trans rights. I did not see this coming, brought me to tears & I'm not even a christian

I’m writing a Substack while listening to experimental music inspired by the stone circles of the Peak District. This is me in my purest form

Internationally, we’re Villa, and that’s not a bad thing. Problem is every England fan thinks we’re Man City

BDB Energy 🙌🙌🙌

If there’s one thing you expect an Englishman to be good at it’s to park a bus

Wherever you are, open up your preferred music listening device, search for Cruel Summer by Bananarama, turn up the volume (on your headphones cos we are not bellends) and hit play ☀️

Business Rates are bonkers and need widespread reform. And every museum and cultural venue looking for a rebalance could be the spark it needs www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

To the incel who screamed that I was a “f&cking tw&t” when I shouted he was about to crash into me on a pedestrian crossing as he ran a red light - do keep not wearing a helmet while you’re cycling. At least if you kill one of us you won’t survive it either

I already have my tickets because I know how great this is going to be. You should get yours 👇🏼

Currently listening to a podcast on the history of Ain't it Cool News so as long as there isn't a superhero in this, or a bunch of weirdo male bloggers telling me how it fits in the multiverse narrative, I'm in

Modern culture and destination tourism want us to look backwards (not always a bad thing, plenty to learn when we contextualise) but when you combine it with the lack of arts criticism, of funding for new projects, of aversion to new work, it means we are just fuelling culture as a nostalgia train

Anthony Gordon has such Coronation Street hair. I don’t know how else to describe it

I’ve told a lot of people the story of the day Thatcher died and I was on the top of the 79 by Liverpool Lime Street and it was bedlam. A man was dancing on the top of the steps like he’d won a trophy. Belter of a day

Now if I could tie a fan round my cat’s neck so when he jumps on the bed it wakes me up, yes, but it’s also a breeze, that would be ace

Imagine if @countbinface.bsky.social is how people who use their phone speakers on full blast on public transport find out that we all think they're a total nightmare?

She’s doonstairs

Brendan O’Neill thinking Binface is punching down gives Binface a seriousness he does not give himself. Which is many, many, many things but objectively funny is a main one

VIVA LA BIRKENHEAD

Restore should be prescribed and Lowe investigated www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of Girls Aloud is co presenting Morning Live this morning. Funny old world innit

Not entirely sure where those high paying, growth-driving jobs are going to come from

British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.

Dreadful for hospitality this

Working from home and my fringe is amazing today. Might have to pop out just to show people

WHY DOES ARGENTINA HATE ARABS THO?

As much as I want this to be tremendous fun because I’m deeply traumatised by politics, but he’s going to say he’s staying. His audience is the maniacs in his party and the only way to reach them is a live news broadcast

The Summer storyline we deserve

Wherever you are I do urge you to go on iPlayer to see the collection of rough as f&ck pubs North West Tonight went to to film the England game. Not a single one you’d leave your drink in

The Summer of Big Meeks continues to give me lots of joy. Azteca Smashteca. The man’s a poet I don’t know what your problem is

TEN TO EIGHT ON A FRIDAY, LADS If someone emails me at 17.01 I get a cobb on. Imagine having to spread that news around to the poor fecker who shifted licensing legislation

Fifa have confirmed to BBC Sport they are thinking about moving the KO time but that no final decisions have been made

If this is true (they’re fact checking) then lol trying to get your school to open at 9am on Monday

You can’t get an A Level in Knowsley but you can magic up late start times when it suits

This week has been so wild I haven’t had a chance to bang on about My Chemical Romance 🖤 whose Anfield show was bonkers, brilliant and so intensely cultish I feel like I fell down a rabbit hole. Adored every second www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Alan Shearer looks crispy to well done on Rest is Football

So my family lore goes, I had a cousin who was excommunicated because they were in a bonkers sect of the Catholic Church www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I say this to producers when they complain about show reviews and it feels appropriate here - it’s far easier to position your show as good and relevant when it is a) relevant and b) of high quality. Having listened to Today religiously up until five years ago it no longer felt either of those

I‘m so intensely sick of the litter on pavements in Liverpool. I have nothing constructive to add. It was so much less a decade ago and now it is simply awash everywhere outside of the city centre. Whatever the council has done has utterly failed with it

I appear to have cursed my 50m pool with my words as the hydraulics is fooked (technical term) and it’s now a 25m for the foreseeable. Anyway, still a lovely swim