My investigation into the network that pioneered the "dodgy shop" model just landed. I trace the group’s mid-2000s takeover of the West End souvenir trade, their expansion across the UK, and follow the money used to fuel it all the way to the badlands of Afghanistan the-fence.com/article/grav...

If you love gaming or haven’t gamed since you were a kid, you’ll still love our pod! Happy one year!

It’s our one year anniversary! If you’ve listened to our gaming podcast then I hope you’ve enjoyed it. I love making it, so here’s to many more!

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Come see me for one last fringe show before it’s bedtime!

“A friend of Pierre.”

I find it difficult to recommend my own book in general, and socially even harder to recommend to an individual, but every now and then I see someone who I think needs it enough that I’d happily humiliate myself to get it to them

What a terrifying expression on the child's face at bedtime! I'll be there!

Come see me for one last fringe show before it’s bedtime!

Love hearing my cousin @paulfoxcroft.bsky.social get a shout out on Button Boys! As @pierrenovellie.bsky.social said, he is a DM of great renown and also writes for games! If you need either, go contact him.

This blows the case wide open!

Dodgy shops on your local high street? They're still paying rent. And what if they're actually *pricing out* the legitimate cafes, restaurants, thanks to the option of "simply not paying your taxes" and therefore having more budget to pay landlords. www.londoncentric.media/p/who-wants-...

Thank you!

The Button Boys podcast is brilliant for recommendations @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social @pierrenovellie.bsky.social From them I got DorfRomantik (super relaxed tile game), TR49, Blue Prince, Return of the Obra Din… (differently paced puzzlers) They do a good job of indie recommendations, actually.

A secret Budpod series 1 episode has been released featuring Phil Wang and @pierrenovellie.bsky.social! It's nice to hear from my old dad again. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

These are not serious people

Hahaha yes! And it is SO bad for summer - would chainmail work?

It’s like trying to sleep inside a fucking McDonald’s apple pie

Cambridge! I return for a final time! 30 June 🙏🙏🙏

HIGHLY recommend if you can catch this, full of the usual Novellie excellence 😍 (plus it got me over my lifelong fear of seeing those I love, live on stage and being disappointed. Certainly wasn't, it was brilliant) #ukcomedy #koji #cambridge #livecomedy

Finally finishing up some coursework, huh?

Cambridge! I return for a final time! 30 June 🙏🙏🙏

just learned two things from a pair of bengali guys in the gym changing room: 1. it is possible to passionately disagree about the subject of air fryers 2. there is no bengali word for air fryer

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

Thank you very much!

Policy changes create winners and losers It’s a truism that losers complain more than winners are grateful But we’re on a ludicrous path if those who lose out from policy decisions demand and then get compensation That’s a recipe for nothing being decided ever

Japan is a land of contrasts

As expected, this was fantastic! Alex Kealy is obviously funny but he's also such a lovely human. @pierrenovellie.bsky.social I assume that he'll be draughted in for another Budpod Edinburgh special?

Most politicians who were driven mad in office in the past had fallen victim to fawning and flattery. With the maddening hoots and jeers of the crowd, I think we are learning that hatred can be just as disturbing as praise. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social is right

My first ep on Frank Off The Radio is out! Listen before I’m sent back to the forge hammer 🏭👩🏻‍🏭

Good book haul today 🥰📚 @pierrenovellie.bsky.social @adamtots.bsky.social

New Button Boys Patreon episode coming very soon with someone who’s recently shot to international fame…who could it be?

It’s like trying to sleep inside a fucking McDonald’s apple pie

Vote button boys pleeeeeease!

*Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You voice* HENTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIII

Thank you sir! Birmingham tonight, Bristol on Saturday!

Thank you sir! Birmingham tonight, Bristol on Saturday!

www.instagram.com/reels/DSnSGz... Well worthy of the Golden Lobes Particularly the tangent-winning Mr. Blobby 🤣 @pierrenovellie.bsky.social @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social #KOJI #goldenlobes #glennmoore #podcasts #budpod#ukcomedy

This week it’s Cardiff, Birmingham and Bristol! pierrenovellie.com for tickets!

This week it’s Cardiff, Birmingham and Bristol! pierrenovellie.com for tickets!

Was in the front row for @pierrenovellie.bsky.social at The Stand. Amazing show - absolutely hilarious. Even got to engage in a bit of chat about @glasgowskeptics.bsky.social as well ... bonus!

Bristol’s final chance

Bristol’s final chance

Brizzle!

Brizzle!

Bristol, you are my favourite place to gig and this is your last chance www.1532bristol.co.uk/events/pierr...

Bristol, you are my favourite place to gig and this is your last chance www.1532bristol.co.uk/events/pierr...

Hahah! No but I shall!