I sincerely love how the BBC solidifies the canon of British culture. Like to me Chris Rea is the Road to Hell because I was living in Kent when the M25 opened, but also and of course youtu.be/H0WiwB1Cjbg?...

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology. And that's without a mass terror event four days ago

I'd hoped normal service might resume today. I woke up with a tight 600 words mentally typed out on the suspension of the US-UK technology deal. The subject line included a terrific pun. Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.

I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.

"I was confident that Ryanair would match your public spiritedness by refunding you the £100 fee as a goodwill gesture. I was naive." Some epic shithousery from Ryanair here, impressive.

'She's only sorry she got caught and called out'

A story in three parts

This is INCREDIBLE: My headteacher at primary school was v into trains and arranged a trip for the school and chartered a tube train for it. IT MADE THE NEWS. And i'm pretty sure my brother @olibradley.bsky.social is in the clip (at 50 seconds) .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvgNFwyOVyI

"Of course, like around two-thirds of British Jews, I am a Zionist. What about the history of Jews in Europe would make me not see the case for a Jewish lifeboat outside of it?" 100 per cent agree with this excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/14d4...

Bravo.

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Alert the media, General Boles has produced a new composition that will stop all the wars - I call it "England" Bidding will start at £100,000

Seems like the day to post this.

In conversation with the tax dude. on.ft.com/4m4fhOf

Oh mate

This is really excellent on our understandings of - and the reality of - intergenerational inequality.

This had 7,000 viewers on stream at one point! The level of interest in this story is (understandably) *wild*.

Reflections on the Raynor Winn affair and why it matters. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

No one has ever LinkedIn this hard. I am CRINE.

Rylan’s facial expressions are marvellous here.

My favourite version of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZ...

@aiannucci.bsky.social You've seen this right? Real life Partridge. youtu.be/uLsDpkQY3xo

"Wahayyyy it worked!" No criticism of Starmer, but nothing sums up the UK's state of decay better than the PM being surprised that the British state could successfully wire some Christmas tree lights.

A brilliant defence of - no, a passionate rallying call for - history wrapped around a quietly scathing restaurant review. This is superb writing from @stephenkb.bsky.social and brilliant advocacy by David Olusoga. www.ft.com/content/9e6b...

Gutted about Matthew Perry. I wrote about what he (and Chandler’s awkward sarcasm) meant to me for my newsletter helenlewis.substack.com/p/matthew-pe...

Exceptionally good: "If there is to be any resolution of the current conflict, the starting point will be taking the fate of Gaza away from both Hamas and Israel".