‘When we got to England, they saw the chimney stacks and they saw the fog - well it was it was December 22nd, 1958.’ Hear Guyanan-born Rod Westmaas on the shock of arriving in Britain. MORE JAM TOMORROW British Guyana 🇬🇾 morejamtomorrow.com/episode/brit...

That’s a wrap

EXCL: UK national security adviser Jonathan Powell attended final talks between US and Iran - and judged Tehran's offer on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent rush to war @patrickwintour.bsky.social & @julianborger.bsky.social reveal www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

You can’t park there! NCP the car parking company file for administration. www.perplexity.ai/page/ncp-fil...

@iandunt.bsky.social & #ArthurDent: Two Englishmen accurately railing against the bleedin’ obvious yet never seen together in the same room. Thank #Thanos! @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk @sturdyalex.bsky.social

Rediscovered my short-term memory.

🚨👀 Nigel Farage says Reform UK never promised to cut council tax. An election leaflet says otherwise...

Obama’s speech at the Jessie Jackson Memorial event. Astonishing. Then Jennifer Hudson. “A change is a gonna come.” Thew.

Interesting. A German Lufthansa flight has just left Abu Dhabi bound for Munich.

The Embankment, River Thames, Saturday, 22 February 2025 at 13:32.

Thanks for the memories Neil youtu.be/fULjbnrWn_k?...

Walrus 1942 Eric Ravillious. This wood engraving was amongst the final works completed before E.C’s untimely demise. It was commissioned to enliven the Admiralty weekly Intelligence Report with further pieces shown here.

*30%* ffs. I wonder what that figure would be by now if our media weren’t still almost exclusively populated by intellectually indolent wankers too pompous to admit that they never had the first idea what they were encouraging everyone else to vote for. (With a side of plums who deployed ‘balance’.)

@nickabbot.bsky.social Nick “Normal” Abbot has a certain ring. Handy when you restart your cage fighting career 😂

Skippers Lane towards Newmarket is frankly treacherous for most of its length. I have seen better maintained roads in Laos.

Five years on and still no negative effects following first COVid jab.

@matthew-wright.bsky.social I have considered your recent period of unwellment. I suspect you might have inadvertently drunk liquid from a damp glass. 🥴 Wish you a full & speedy recovery.

I’m not normally that person but…. It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!

From a time before electronic computing and American fast-food. The original Big Mac.

To be fair, he can write risible prose too.

@bbcstever.bsky.social Excellent documentary. You are the very best of British journalism and my admiration of your measured style knows no bounds. Do take very good care of your colleagues and yourself. Some squirrel 😉 !

For enormously personal reasons this wonderful rendition of a Jackson Browne classic resonates down the years. Headphones on, volume up, darkened room and enjoy. youtu.be/W-Dm5QdkcI4?...

I could be wrong but I’m suspecting that my Daughter’s family German Shepherd bitch just *might* be overly indulged.

Timeless Larson

Still, enough about me ...

Russia has spent years planning this disruption! The they were so happy when the puppet Trump was elected.

You either know or … To everyone who warmed themselves on a Vox AC30 before confronting an icy audience who would have preferred the Bay City Rollers, Monkeys, Beatles or Love Affair but their Dads wouldn’t let them …

Secret police. People disappearing. No due process. Knocking down doors. Racially profiling American citizens. History has a name for this: authoritarianism.

UK glaucoma cases will rise to 1.6m by 2060 amid ‘demographic timebomb’, experts say

Not a good sign when you can’t distinguish between what the US President says and what Russia's Foreign Minister says... "Russia's Lavrov says Greenland is not a 'natural part' of Denmark" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-lavrov-says-greenland-is-not-a-natural-part-denmark-2026-01-20/

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

@sturdyalex.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social just in case you hadn't seen/tio good not to share 😊 youtu.be/GRQrQr198to?...

Watching the defectives youtu.be/GRQrQr198to?...

An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies. Is this the tool we need to effectively prosecute the world’s biggest carbon emitters?

Too good to miss ⏬

In 1999 a series of suspicious bombs in Moscow, which analysts now believe were a false flag operation, propelled Putin to power. Today, ICE actions in Minnesota seem similarly designed to stir up trouble and provide a pretext for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act. www.rferl.org/amp/putin-ru...

🔴Nigel Farage Paid by Trump Crypto Adviser Who Worked With Russia Operative Paul Manafort The Reform UK leader received payment from David Bailey, who collaborated with the convicted fraudster behind the Trump-Russia influence scandal, reports @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/n...

🔴 Last week the Free Speech Union got a High Court writ to prevent the publication of a list of its donors So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit Wanna see? 🫣 New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...

Leicestershire pensioner fined £225 by council for flicking snot out of van window 🏆 #HeadlineOfTheDay With a note on grammar.

Having long quit cigars, I wonder if I could get away with this smoking jacket. Mr Bozo’s emporia seen to think I should 😵‍💫

Mammals are entitled to enjoy hobbies

That Kirk Douglas moment …