RIP Tony Head. Fucking hell, what a legend to lose.

Malloch St felt a bit Lisa Loeb as I was leaving the place for good... farewell then, Fashionable Maryhill. I lived here, and I felt alive here. I'll miss you.

I approve of the Dems' response to this, though

He didn't see you there! @paddyduffy.bsky.social is back on Talk Media this week as he and Stuart Cosgrove take a look at the Peter Murrell shenanigans, the Section 30 vote, and get head under heels for Scott McTominay's banknote! Look out for it on our Supporters Club later today!

i genuinely thought this was a photoshop, scrolled past this several times and just didn’t think it was real at all its so insane lmfao

Wait a minute, I didn't tell you how we did at the buzzer quiz...WE WON! AGAIN! What an incredible few weeks for the parish!

JFC. How do you make a product so successful it becomes a verb and then decide to tank it like this

Again: the business of the British press is the recruitment and promotion of the most hateful wingnuts they can find, to use as weapons against people they want to coerce and damage.

Arsenal, the Gerald Ford of champions: incredibly dull and only in their fortuitous position because the corrupt shower ahead of you made one mistake too many.

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

Join me surfing the radiowaves at around 5.10 on Today FM with Matt Cooper as we have the last word on the week's trending news stories. Cowabunga dudes!

Mad that Burnham and by extension the UK is in the hands of someone so pink

The bus was just turning the corner as I got to the bus stop, and the top of the double decker was free. Life's not all bad, sometimes.

Keir Starmer deserves everything he gets after that "Island of Strangers" shit. Cynical, hateful, clueless. He fucked it and for absolutely nothing.

Well, the left hate him because he's the figurehead of a multi-year effort to excise them from democratic representation, the right hate him because they think he's a Muslim communist and everyone else was pretty disengaged already and he ran on change then didn't change much. That about cover it?

Next few weeks of stories about new Reform councillors:

Do you condemn Hamas, Mr Christ?

During RBQ this year Val and I were queuing for breakfast and she was asked for her room number. The server took it and briskly went to seat us both. At this point Val went to great pains to say I also had a separate room number. Anyway see if we can beat the tabloid rumours on Radio 4 today at 4.30

id get fired if something i wrote or edited had an error in it that i willfully ignored because my entire point relied on the error

One of the best tweets to come out of Scottish Twitter sums it up in a nutshell...

I'm very intrigued to see what band of Reform freaks come through the Scottish list system. No public exposure, no examination of them as people or candidates, just the weirdest people you've ever met being the beneficiary of people firing stray "tookerjabs!" bullets into the ballot box

Quite a few seats where Reform and Tory vote combined would have unlodged the SNP. I hope people of a more centrist or soft left bent realise what this means: the right are much better at hanging together, and the more high-minded liberals among us need to examine what they'll do about that.

Obviously this is a good result for progressive parties but I can't help feeling, "Nearly 11% for Reform, in my town?! Shiiiiiiit...!"

Gotta be tough to lose your seat while standing beside a man dressed as a gannet

Sad to see Jackson Carlaw lose his seat. Not because I think he's a great representative or anything, I just enjoy guys with names like solicitor firms. #scottishelection26

It should be utterly clear that Labour's strategy of castigating Farage but implementing his policies with a broken heart emoji after is immoral as much as doomed. To say nothing if castigating the Greens and trying to raze their ground. Unfortunately nobody's as blind to sense as a Labour advisor.

Weird & non-celeb-vehicle sketch shows written by a writers room of professional comedy writers work! WHO KNEW!!! NOW LET'S HAVE EVEN MORE!

I tell ya something that annoys me: all the big brain snobs smugly going "Voting Green on Wandsworth council isn't going to free Palestine now is it?", but that local hyperfocus will go out the window as the coverage will be relentless "What does the Byker ward tell us about Starmer's premiership"?

I hear Kyle Rittenhouse was bitten by a spider. I hope the spider is ok and hasn't suffered any adverse effects from such venom

Yessss laaaaddd

Ah now. We've been hearing this tired guff for 25 years. Discussions around immigration have been almost exclusively a "but decent people are concerned!" feedback loop. And of course McDowell was rather notably involved in a pernicious bit of immigration legislation which famously solved everything.

Wait a minute, I didn't tell you the Pop Culture Buzzer Quiz ended... WE WON!

Helloooooo, Oxford!

BBC reports "Suleiman had been a patient at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust." I dunno dude maybe that should be part of your focus after three people were stabbed rather than sounding like a segregationist southern governor railing against The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

One of the all-time great Bits on absolutely every level

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Michael Jackson taking over at Burnley has made me think Billie Jean light panels could be more effective than VAR

Oh great, even the half measure is doomed to failure

It's official...Inter are The Invincibles!

The 1930s were truly a golden era for film naming. Masters of their craft. May never be topped.

We ought to just post this every four hours or so

Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.

Choosin Texas just came on BBC Radio 1 there. Blows my mind to think the kinda music my granny would wash her front step to on local radio 30 years ago has now taken over Young Folk FM.

Been dipping my toe in the wonderful resource that is the 1926 Irish Census. Seeing your toddler granda in black and white is some craic. Also fun to see my great granda's exploits as a "milk dealer". Thankfully Liskey is too small for a sudden population boom of very hairy babies.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Sledgehammer was released 40 years ago today!

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Some long weekend of quizzing this has been! Inter are the Irish Quiz Champions!

While I come down from the high of Ireland winning the Celtic Nations, and come home via all three countries of GB, it's as good a time as any to say RBQ's Joxer Goes To Stuttgart ep has dropped! Sadly, some of our more seditious statements were taken out, but try and guess where they'd have been...