Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

"In the year just passed, I recorded some guitars on a version of "So. Central Rain" by my friend Ian McNabb. You might remember him from the Icicle Works. It's a cool version. Hope this helps start the new year off well!" - Peter www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-m9...

Mar-a-Lago guests lined up at the metal detectors to confirm they’ve disarmed themselves for Trump’s gun free zone

'BBC News - Boxing Day shopping falls flat once again.' 'BBC News - Late shopper rush drives Boxing Day sales traffic.' Two headlines on the BBC News front page.

I've just had a notice from my energy supplier that, because of the rise in the energy cap from January, my new annual bill is estimated to increase by £6.12! Not sure how I'm going to manage.

Just remembered 1980s Lenny Henry in drag being Sade and it was only actually on YouTube when I looked to prove I wasn't making it up

Born 22 Nov 1950, musician Tina Weymouth, founding member & bassist with Talking Heads. Described as one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s, they helped to pioneer new wave by integrating elements of punk, art rock, funk & world music with avant-garde sensibilities. #TalkingHeads

Remembering the late 🇺🇸American actor #RobertVaughn (22 November 1932 – 11 November 2016) born #OnThisDay in Manhattan in New York City

Can anyone explain why the energy regulator thinks they should increase the energy cap by approx. £4 pa on a cap of about £2000? Surely the added admin for energy co.s will cost more than that?

Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.

Kewl: Thomas Deininger is a Rhode Island artist known for crafting intricate assemblages from found and discarded objects, turning everyday trash into striking visual stories.

Can you guess who this is?? And don't do a reverse image search! Will repost with the answer later today.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train in Huntingdon has been named as Samir Zitouni. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chris Philp opens by gymnastically framing the train attack with relation to asylum seekers, concludes that the reason for knife crime is foreigners in prison, then LOSES HIS RAG when LibDem Home Affairs spox @maxwilkinson.bsky.social pulls him up on it. "Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA

Eldest channelling #RobertSmith for his #Halloween DJ set last night.

I am trying to write a column about the Tory deportations bill, how it got noticed 6 months later. It is mildly impeded by His Majesty's Opposition being unable to say clearly which parts of the Bill they published are their policy - and how much of it they have now ditched already or may ditch

How is it that hearing and reading MSM reports of Trump's Knesset speech, you get no sense of how unhinged, rambling and demented it was?

7th October, 1978: "Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet" part 2. #DoctorWho

George found not guilty of having a knife! Hooray! Except, someone in prison is out to get him and won't be happy he got off... he's going to be assaulted, possibly killed, before he's released, isn't he? #TheArchers

Hyacinth kicks the bouquet...

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (gasp) ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (oh god, I can't even) ha ha ha ha... Poor Daily Mail, apparently being nasty to their darling Nigel is 'dragging politics into the gutter'! Poor fkn snowflakes.

Sorry, shouldn't that be 'Why the BBC wants to keep talking about Nigel Farage'? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The nice thing about Miller is his appearance is as repellent as his ideology, he’s the whole package.

Okay so Harmon Northrop Morse, who first synthesized Paracetamol (which is also marketed now as Tylenol, etc), was described as “quiet and uneffusive” and had a “single-minded devotion” to his work. No proof, but this may mean there is a NONZERO chance that it is actually AUTISM that caused TYLENOL

Share your favourite black and white movie.

Re the Rosie vs. Cleo storyline on #TheArchers, how come Cleo gets a speaking part, but Rosie doesn't?

Sensational opening night of the Met season – @themilesshow.bsky.social gave a truly EPIC performance as Sam Clay in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Super proud to be on Team Mykkanen! 🤩

I understand this ad is running in Texas this weekend during football games 👀

In Nickelodeon's U TO U show visits the set of "Star Trek: Voyager" in January 1996, and chats with the cast during filming on "Deadlock" www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6x6...

At this point, the RW press are right behind Donald Trump vs the duly elected British government!

Repost and 💙 if you stand with Jimmy Kimmel!

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Video credit: itsjuliencohen Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me" This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵 #VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg confirm new project, Indiana Jones and the Lost Files of Epstein.

THE ACTUAL VALUE OF THE “post” COMES INTO PLAY, WHEN THE TOILET PAPER RUNS OUT.

Loving the press coverage of the enormous energy price cap 'hike' (another blow to Labour's energy policy, of course) of... £35 per annum. Scandalous!

Nothing at all?

Really, BBC? Are you sure the most important issue with Reform's immigration policy is whether it's achievable or not? BBC News - How deliverable is Reform's plan on migration? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Watching The Dambusters (1955) on 5Action this pm. Nice to see (and hear) that Guy Gibson's black lab dog is now called Trigger!

No frickin way #allythepiper #piperally #freebird

Isn't there a word for someone who asks another state to take action against his own.

Robin Williams interviewing George Lucas about Jar Jar Binks and comic relief. Imagine being in a room with these two legends. youtu.be/n8s8P5Ly1-Y?...

My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.

You can replace the sky with ANY color. Go. #whatif #designinspo #indiedev #gamedev