Can I be the first to say: give it Big Sam till end of season

See what you’re gonna need there is another super over mate

a society losing the plot in real time

This one star review of a local convenience store... fair enough

From PA: Sir Keir Starmer's former communications chief Lord Matthew Doyle has apologised for his past association with a paedophile councillor and said he will not be taking the Labour whip

Rayner:

Coordinated show of support from the cabinet for the PM ongoing. Reeves, Steve Reed, Heidi Alexander and Bridget Phillipson among those posting their support

David Lammy arriving in Downing Street asked if the PM should go says: “we’ve waited 14 years to get here, no!”

At Downing Street there is a British Airways flight simulator parked up. Please write related metaphors into your scripts accordingly

The King got heckled in Clitheroe this morning, about Andrew and Epstein. Files release fallout all over the place in Britain

For the rain it raineth every day.

peak male performance

Sources telling me city’s gonna win the league

Curling top of the Winter Olympics sport power rankings for me after day one, have to say

Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

Gordon Brown on Today says revelations about Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein while in government show “systems failure”

The only thing I actually like about these opening ceremonies is the bit where all the countries parade around. That and Nessun Dorma obviously

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Met Police say they’re searching addresses in Camden and Wiltshire “related to an ongoing investigation into misconduct in public office offences, involving a 72-year-old man”. No arrests made and investigations ongoing, they say

File this one under "interesting" www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

You think you’re on top of the various angles on the Epstein story and then you see Norwegian crown princess Mette-Marit apologising for her friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

Newsroom really never happier than debating who can be referred to as a "grandee"

Exclusive: Barclays is first client to cut ties with Epstein-linked lobbying firm Global Counsel www.ft.com/content/59f9...

When they’re talking about copper on the business news

Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

This is very good indeed by the way www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Ice hockey on iplayer atm lads, USA v Czechia for the winter Olympic heads

Continuing my winning streak on Craig Charles’ Time Machine on 6Music when it’s a year I lived through over the age of 10 or so: it’s 2006

Email appears to confirm Andrew and Virginia Giuffre photo is real

Worth turning on BBC Parliament and listening in on this debate, imo, if you want to gauge the mood of the Parliamentary Labour Party

Watching TikTok, YouTube and Reddit bake the Epstein emails like it's 2016. No, Pizzagate isn't real. No, "pizza" in the Epstein emails doesn't mean anything other than the food, and grape soda isn't secret code for rape. They aren't speaking in code in the emails; they don't need to.

But doctor...

Someone seems to have tried to sell AC Milan to Jeffrey Epstein. “A unique opportunity to acquire the last remaining super club of Europe” www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Met spox: "I can confirm that the Metropolitan Police has now launched an investigation into a 72-year-old man, a former Government Minister, for misconduct in public office offences.”

"An email appears to show Lord Mandelson telling Epstein he'd spent "all day first with [Gordon Brown] then with Libs. They are all pretty bonkers…"" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still think there's been nothing better written about Epstein's background than this. Explains a lot. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

NEW: Who was John Pond? This August 2009 email exchange which was forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein included Mandelson, the PM's PPS Jeremy Heywood, the minister/adviser Shriti Vadera and... John Pond. Two sources have told the BBC that John Pond was in fact Gordon Brown, then the PM

Not his worst crime but I can’t get over how bad Epstein was at not just writing but *typing*

Not quite one year ago as.ft.com/r/52c094cb-4...

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

Okay, so you're going to be very surprised at what happens with about 7 seconds of this video left to play

Arsenal v Corinthians at the Emirates? For some bauble Gianni made up? Into extra time? Sign me up!

HOW ON EARTH HAS DOMINIC SOLANKE PULLED THAT OFF? 🫨 SPURS FIGHT BACK TO TIE IT UP AGAINST MAN CITY!

Bit of fight in Tottenham this half huh!

Suggested location for @stephenkb.bsky.social to file his review of the Harry Potter TV show from

Another blow to the T20 World Cup www.espncricinfo.com/story/pakist...

This is the most exercised and passionate anyone has ever been about the 'Vertu Trophy', including everyone who has ever won it

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) is such a fascinating artefact, filmed right at the end of the pre-smartphone era, released two months after the iPhone. Everyone’s on Motorola flip phones and we’re supposed to be impressed!