Genuinely sad to see this as he was the Car Dad of my youth, but also genuinely in awe of his kids’ names

The number of times this joke has been repeated is testament to the enduring cultural impact of the greatest living Merseysider, Nigel Blackwell.

Orinoco Flow: a period so heavy you have to staunch it with a Womble #totp

Jayne Middlemiss introducing PJ Harvey. Being 17 was wasted on me. #totp

JUST EELS NOT THE EELS #totp

“Generation sex injects The sperm of worms Into the eggs of field mice So you can look real nice For the boys” is an all time lyric #totp

First rate “posed for local news” picture.

We may not have won any trophies but this year Brighton fans have been in the finals of the Wimbledon men’s doubles AND Celebrity Traitors. You’ll never sing that. #bhafc

Ok The Sun front page subs, take the rest of the night off, well done.

Great news names: Lieutenant governor Winsome Earle-Sears

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Your AI and your LLMs will never write headlines like this.

Funny for a company to say “Please do not attempt to travel north of Preston today” when for a lot of their customers they actually mean “…or south of Carlisle”

Literally had my coat on and had logged out and was walking away from my desk

“I never once said I was the mayor. He never addressed me as the mayor,” DeBlasio told Semafor Wednesday evening. “So I just gave him my opinion.” www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

England W, consistently the world’s most frustrating cricket team 🙁

"Now then, Savage, I want to talk to you about some charges that you've been bringing lately. I think that perhaps you're being a little over-zealous." "Which charges did you mean then, sir?" "Well, for instance this one: 'Loitering in Northampton without a dog poo bag" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congratulations to Sir James Anderson

"O'Reilly's a cut-price cock-up artist". RIP Prunella Scales.

Bring back local time! Noon is when the sun is overhead wherever you live! No more Greenwich tyranny!

Happy Peter Hitchens’s Article morning to all who celebrate www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Don’t forget to put your clocks back.

Went to see Harry Enfield do a preview of his autobiographical stand up show. The nicest thing was Paul Whitehouse, just sitting at the back, laughing at it all.

Chauncey Billups really is one of the great names in American sport.

Super over!

Latest in my series of ludicrously expensive things. A colleague urgently needed to print a single sheet of A4 at a premises run by a public sector organisation today. She was charged £11 (ELEVEN POUNDS).

This is sadly true #thecricket

Absolutely love my independent local cycle retailer for casually telling me that my bike has a problem that could cause me to die next time I go downhill on it at 25mph. But it’s fine, it can be replaced under warranty.

an Italian restaurant in Highgate has closed and they’re not happy, I mean really ‘what a sad little life Jane’ not happy

There’s no way that teenagers won’t rip the piss out of qualifications named “V-levels,” is there?

We’ve reached a new level of Greatest Sporting Trophy here. Cricket nerds (I’m looking at you @xvh.bsky.social) won’t believe that the Moose Cup has been topped.

Not saying we’re going to win the World Cup but we’re going to win the World Cup

“A further instruction for staff was that no ginger was required until further notice.” @peterhunt.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/peterhun...

People who have used the phrase "at pace" in different circumstances today 1. The PM's official spokesman 2. The first minister of N Ireland 3. The Scottish drug policy minister 3. A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson

Celia Imrie farts in a shed and everyone's like 'OMG she's such a national treasure' but I do it and they kick me out of B&Q #CelebrityTraitors

Mysterious items found in the office today

By which time I'll have finished every season of Byker Grove as its been on stv player for months - which had fewer adverts & less glitches.

Now more than ever ITV needs to make ITVX actually work

The cricket situation is developing not necessarily to England’s advantage.

Delighted to discover from footling about in the archives that the gymnastics correspondent of the Dundee Courier very much fancied my great grandmother (one of Dundee’s leading gym pianistes) in the 1890s.

Mark Pougatch loses at conkers to a man with only a fraction of a conker www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Gene Hackman, Robert Redford and Diane Keaton all going in the same year. Absolute titans of '70s cinema

Very disappointed that Celia Imrie says “tenderhooks”.

This is possibly a new personal worst for a Diet Coke sold in a can. Benugo in St James’s Park in London. £3.25!

If Celebrity The Traitors was made in 1978 it would involve Frank Muir, Roy Kinnear and Angharad Rees in boiler suits sitting round a big beige hexagonal table in TC7, and would be all over in 27 minutes.

Incredible scenes in The Cricket where Australia W recovered from 76/7 and now look like beating Pakistan out of sight.

Let’s do the fucking news

I read in 2011 that Jilly Cooper was a life-long member of the National Union of Journalists.

About Peacehaven: it was a new estate named as such in 1917 to capitalise on people’s hope that the war might end.