Time and time again I get to the bottom of an excellent interview in the Guardian, then scroll up to see who wrote it, and see the name Simon Hattenstone. The recent one with Corrine Bailey Rae continues this pattern of high quality writing. Fantastic.

I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is the original is like this 👇

Picked up Bog People from my local library on Friday and powered through it over the weekend. Superb anthology of #folkhorror - no filler, all great tales. Highly recommended. www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781784...

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

I bet very few people skip the opening titles of Gummi Bears on Disney plus. That theme tune is so good.

And Ozymandias, who did NOT die, thereafter wandered around the lone and level sands himself, personally inviting any passing Mighty to look upon his Works and despair

"A curse on bakers and their loathsome confections!"

Trying to convince my kids that the pronunciation, based on the original German, is The Grink

It's only the 3rd of December and already

Floating mountain home

@secondmentions.bsky.social Arnie's old antagonists

Another Connections streak halted by my lack of knowledge of American culture

Crikey Finland

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... Lovely article about snorkelling around the coast of Britain.

This morning's bathroom guest

Searching for Dune online, and my phone autocompleted to Dunelm.

Connections is tough today

One of mine in the new @privateeyenews.bsky.social. Please buy one (the mag not the car).

Downloaded this image to reply supportively to a post flooded with humourless replies, and the original author (rightly) got sick of the grind and deleted the post. But Desperate Dan eating cow pie is too good to not share.

@sentimentbot.bsky.social what is this?

Not "Not Now Bernard" now, dad.

Thinking of setting up a Go Fund Me to buy Dan Biggar some socks

Call of Cthulhu? Cool off, Cthulhu!

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

When I’m in the office, my jokes get a laugh. When I work from home and call in via Teams, they don’t. I guess I’m not remotely funny.

Connections Puzzle #629 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 A rare solution for me - don't normally solve purple first.

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Um.... who and who took questions?

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money

Super interesting video, why *do* supermarkets have clock towers?

I want to see a four header something starring Coogan Brydon Tennant and Sheen. TV show, movie, stage play, I don't know what. But I want to see those four together in something.

The mission statement of the Galactic Drainage Inspectorate is: "We are all in the stars, but some of us are looking at the gutter."

Hey, I am looking for your questions around pensions for next week’s Money Box Live. Maybe you’re 18 and wondering what age to start, maybe you’re 50 and getting a bit anxious. Maybe you want to check your investments are ethical. Maybe something else entirely! Email me [email protected]

Baffled by chicken fingers. Transatlantic connections means playing on hard mode

Managed to get my tax return done yesterday. Relatively easy as I'm completely PAYE, and only have to do a return for the HICBC.

Just finished Disco Elysium for the first time. Such an amazing game. Funny and bleak and whip-smart.

Alan Moore knows the score

Do you ever look at Han frozen in carbonite and feel a pang of envy? I bet his children don't wake him up at 5.20am on a Sunday morning.

I wonder if this coincided with Gomez taking the day out in Manchester described in their song Whipping Piccadilly, with that line about the "Kung Fu king" - the Bring It On album is released a couple of years later, so the timelines could match up.

What is a ski mogul?

Best ever use of heroic inspiration, from a natural 1 up to a natural 20

Just wrote an M.C. Escher joke that works on multiple levels.

Wow, I did not expect to have a dream where I was in a spy partnership with Agent Rishi Sunak. He disguised himself as a monk at one point, and he turned out to be surprisingly handy with the Walther PPK, covering me as I hacked into a computer terminal. Weirdest dream in ages.

David Lynch made some amazing weird films and TV and I was a big fan. Love this anecdote from Naomi Watts, Lynch on King Kong youtu.be/HLreaAQA9kA?...

Fantasy crime novel idea: An Unmurder mystery. The most unpopular person in the manor house has just been brought back to life and the detective needs to work out who the secret necromancer is before they strike again...

Post your favourite #DoctorWho, wrong answers only

My son’s excellent joke: Hey Dad, do you want to hear a six word short story about a baby with massive feet?

You have a new follower

Great long read here if you're interested in investigative journalism and the post Jan 6 landscape for militias and similar group in the US.