A fun read from @vittles.bsky.social to start the week.

Not really sure what the point was of the BBC putting episode 2 of the Night Manager up on iPlayer last week but not episode 3 this week. They'd probably have arranged it so episode 6 wasn't online first anyway which makes putting episode 2 up early even more pointless.

Ok even amongst these grim times I needed this guilty laugh.

Not that I'm looking for any reason to celebrate at all at the moment but the Mega City Four live album has landed on Tidal since I last listened to them on there and it's still great.

You will not regret watching all of this. Not for one second.

Said this many times in the last decade, but the far-right have run the most effective social media campaign in marketing history, and you can't beat them with traditional marketing, and you certainly can't beat them by being Panda Pop to their Coca Cola.

Not every Chotiner interview is him making some blowhard look foolish. Sometimes he has experts explaining complex situations in clear terms. Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...

That was ridiculous #TheDarts

DAZN Italia are showing the Litter Van Veen final live on YouTube. So if, like me, you don't subscribe to Sky and would like to watch the darts live, here it is! Italian commentators are enthusiastic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9q...

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This is quite an important point; if you are a UK citizen with Twitter on your phone, opening it up is like playing Russian roulette that the algorithm might commit a strict liability offence on your behalf.

i wrote a round-up of 2025, and put up a new instalment of the Live Compendium for sale today! Having a January subscriber sale!! Digital tier is 1/3 off at £30 for a whole year 🥵 and renews at that price :) read all about my year here ✨ loulayorke.com/2026/01/01/s... selected recordings there👇

An orange quarter zip fleece is a red flag #TheTraitors

My new MP has posted maybe twice each on FB and Insta since the election, but is very active on X (I know this without logging in). We're well beyond the point where if you're primarily directing your constituents to X for updates that you're actively putting them at risk of harm.

Revisiting Psyence Fiction for the first time this century thanks Lonely Soul appearing as the Hijack theme and it holds up a lot better than I thought it would. The moment in Lonely Soul where the beat comes back in is still the best thing with Richard Ashcroft's name attached to it.

My local studio is doing two week of hot yoga for the price of a one session and so I've just done my third class this week and basically what I'm saying is my entire 2026 personality is now middle-aged man who does hot yoga.

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I love how David Attenborough finds ways of turning anything he's working on into an advert for the Natural History Museum.

The CGI bollocks and film trailers were worth it for the massive Fuck You to all the racists tuning in for the fireworks, and to be honest if the 2026 anti-fascisms need to be sponsored by prequels for musicals then I'll take it. Happy new year and all that ❤️

Would much rather watch Ruby Turner's Hootenanny #HootenannyOpinions

In a micropub that closes at 8pm which is basically the perfect way to go out and do new years.

Just some of those we lost in 2025. The gaps are there for us to remember those close to us. Wishing us all a better 2026. x

Sneaking in as the best unexpected song to hear on the radio in 2025

The highlight of 2025 for me has been giving new voices a shot on LWSTD-FM, and using that platform to give DJs their first live gigs. I want to more of that next year. And on that note I finally got round to reading this and it's as close to a 2026 manifesto as I've seen.

Fuck Traitors, there's a new Harlan Coben starting on NY Day. Will it feature a missing relative, a dogged cop, secrets from the past informing current day actions, teens ho have done something dumb, a wood, some odd casting choices, and nice property in southern Manchester? Yes, yes, yes and yes.

Sunday's show has been uploaded. 120 minutes of music we purchased this year on 45s. Last show of 2025. Thanks to everyone that listened, liked or reposted a #NightTrainNowPlaying post, shared the show, shared their music, recommended music or even just said hi. www.mixcloud.com/RadioNightTr...

Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.

This is a glorious story.

I've visited hundreds of churches and cathedrals and I quite genuinely believe this is one of the greatest pieces of devotional art ever created.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the YEAR!

Today's research into pioneering astronauts has led me to this: The Silver Snoopy award is a special honour awarded to NASA employees for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success. The award consists of a sterling silver lapel pin, worn during a mission.

I really want social media to be just this kind of thing for ever more

Incredible thread - the gif in the second post is amazing

Fergie and Andy had their first post-wedding engagement in our town and my primary school all went to line the streets, except for my class because we had swimming booked and the pool wouldn't give the deposit back and that money wasn't going to waste.

I'd happily scrap the honours system but also I love that you get people like Paul Chuckle who are dead made up about getting one.

You have to see this/won’t believe it.

How many other people have spotted that APT by Rosé and Bruno Mars shares a good chunk of its melody with Suppose You Gave a Funeral and Nobody Came by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine? Double figures globally? Single?

I'm starting to worry Rory Kinnear is trapped in our walls and is sending us messages through the TV

Why are so many non-religious people going on pilgrimages? I walked to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to find out

Best rickroll ever

For the avoidance of doubt, I think that Adrian Chiles is the only real opinion columnist we have left. Everyone else is just recycling old Twitter beefs to an ever-decreasing audience.

Top Adrian Chiles Columns of 2025: I’ve given up wild swimming. So why does my Volvo smell like mince? Should I tell the postman he has halitosis? My first wife wouldn’t let me wear shorts. I buried my father with my bare hands. It’s time we stopped talking about glamping. 1/3

Andre Gee is probably the best writer around on hip-hop and the surrounding culture, so it's not a surprise he's written the only piece on the 6 7 meme that anyone needs.

Three months into rehab on my shoulder which I knacked doing rehab on my knee. Finally able to do stretching so tried hot yoga. I was the only man there who wasn't shirtless and buff. It's the most heterosexual I've felt for quite some time.

Comin' up at 9pm… Dry chat ✔️ Hot 45s ✔️ Recommending shows on other stations ✔️ Self-inflicted technical difficulties ✔️ Tell your friends and loved ones. See you on the ice! ✨ tunein.com/radio/Sheffi...

Playing a bunch of rock'n'roll over on the radio now if you fancy it. Just started Bill Haley going. www.lovewillsavetheday.fm

We all really needed to stomp around the hills for a couple of hours.

This was meant as a sarcastic 'separate the art from the artist' but it turns out if Marine Le Pen had performed some sultry pop bangers a lot of people would have happily cheered her all the way to the Élysée.

She may have been an unrepentant racist but at least she hated hippies too.