Sadly does not contain a cornet solo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYJ8...

I wasn’t sure about I Know Where I’m Going the first time I watched it. Now I am. It is perfect. boxd.it/bkJTol

I spoke to The Guardian's Steve Rose for this wide-ranging interview about identity issues: flags & patriotism, the far right & racism online + offline, control & compassion on asylum, and still looking for the common ground in polarised times www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I've been to a few exhibitions at the Weston recently and without fail they have been a) exceptional b) exceptionally understated. I'm sure this one will be the same.

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

Great piece by Matt Chorley this. Also a really clever way of managing 'BBC bosses' desire to compete in the comment space' in a way that is good, informs readers and is Charter-compliant:

Share your favourite black and white movie

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

In the last 20 years, the greatest improvement in sport has been the growth of the women’s game in football, cricket and rugby. Long may it continue.

scorching start #rugby #rwc2025 #ENGFRA

Good to see the entirely volunteer-run, no-ad, free-to-read @oxfordclarion.bsky.social included in @georgemonbiot.bsky.social’s list of proper local journalists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh, AI will know that with this demonstration he'll be starting from the unemployment line.

Film Director Great Powell leads by More than 15 Points in Exclusive Labour Member Poll 🇺🇸

Michael Powell was unhappy with his end product, but it's the last movie made by The Archers & thus has its place in film history. ITV have quietly restored this VistaVision production and it's free to stream...one to check out on ITVX #FilmSky www.itv.com/watch/ill-me...?

This *has* to get a UK release, it just has to...

I know where I’m going Dazed and Confused Lost in Space

I have been obsessed with the football challenge the Lucarne d'Évry – a small window to a bin room in the southern suburbs of Paris – for years. In 2021, a video of Gay Sissoko nailing a spot kick right through it went megaviral. Here's the video, you can see why: www.tiktok.com/@papi__nueve...

Me: Nearly Monday again. Totally ready for it. Narrator: But she wasn't ready. She wasn’t ready at all. [sound on]

🇬🇧ON YOUR (DEN)MARKS Team UK have complete day 1 of their 3-day EuroSkills 2025 competitions in Denmark UK competitors tell @annieiseating.bsky.social they're feeling quietly confident feweek.co.uk/on-your-denm...

Walking up to Gibson Mill & Hardcastle Crags - reet lovely #yorkshire #godsowncountry

Chastleton House, Oxon, where the rules of croquet were reputedly codified by Walter Whitmore Jones in 1866…

Buck’s Fizz the Archaeopteryx to Steps’ Chicken #totp

How do you take a pretty dry story about the American insurance man who negotiated the release of a downed pilot from behind the Iron Curtain, and transform it into thrilling, entertaining cinema? Like this. Just like this...my ★★★★ review of Bridge of Spies on Letterboxd boxd.it/aXXIQ5

A cafe called “The Good Habit” could be opened on St Giles by the monastic Catholic hall of Blackfriars. The ground floor site, a bank until 2018, is currently vacant. Blackfriars is one of two Catholic “permanent private halls” at the University of Oxford.

Oh good god BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp... At least 15 dead after Lisbon funicular derails and hits building - live updates - BBC News

Even if you can find your way through the dark to reception the doctors are way too cool to treat you

These are really terrifying numbers in terms of the partisan split on vaccine hesitancy in the US... via @today.yougov.com

Cut the live vocal #totp #boyzone

Witchcraft

In what same world is the man who played a major role in inflicting Brexit still calling the shots? Such a failure of politics.

Good news! www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/19/b...

Dexy's 2am Sprinters

EPHESUS, the ancient Greek city dating from 1400 BC. On this, a very special birthday I thought I’d go somewhere that made me feel young. “Just another old ruin” says Master 61 (I’m not entirely sure he was talking about Ephesus...)

Can somebody go and check if Bristol’s still there?

Listening to Alfred Brendel’s Private Passions and he described Rachmaninov, Puccini and Lehar as “the Bermuda Triangle of music” 😂 He said Rachmaninov was “music for teenagers” and I agree — a redundant composer

Today has been one of those days where I haven’t sold anything in my online shop. Have a look at my shop and please repost to spread the word. Thanks. gailmyerscough.co.uk

Seems I will have a spare seated ticket for this, if you’re interested let me know. Anoushka Shankar Prom at RAH, Tuesday 12th August.

Can’t believe all the time we’ve wasted down the years watching men’s football

No cheating, post your Lock Screen

Katie Smith gets it

96 minutes: one of the most dramatic and joyful equalisers in England's international history

Is Michelle Agyemang English? Is Ian Wright English? Yes they're fucking English. The loser racists can all fuck off.

She did it!

Will do this, but mostly to prove I have non-political opinions.

Shame the Spanish team weren’t singing along to their national anthem #yesiknow #euros

Only one possible answer to the what to do with masterchef question

I just cannot understand +how+ you can speak French or German with that incredibly strong, weird, posh English accent. It's PERVERSE. It explains why it's so forced-sounding and halting. It must take some proper effort to promounce words in that way. It can't flow.

MI6 boss Richard Moore has spoken very eloquently about the deep partnership with the French foreign intelligence service the DGSE in this new era. “We are equipping an intelligence partnership forged in the darkest moments of the 20th century, for the challenges of the 21st.”