I played laser quest with Tim Westwood.

I know the brief with Where the Hell is My Husband? was to create an Amy/Beyonce style anthem, but Raye totally nailed it. Shame the Taylorgeddon is going to sweep it from the top end of the charts.

My use of TikTok is just to post lovely comments under videos I love. Every time I open it I have two dozen messages of people saying “ahh thank you”. Makes me so happy.

does no-one stop to think how insane it is to suggest it’s dishonourable to the memory of two murder victims to protest the blockade of relief for a man-made famine

Max Martin’s at 29 Billboard number 1s for songwriting. McCartney is at 32. There’s maybe (maybe) 3 on this album. They’re not obvious though.

jaz is kinda going viral in china and i tried to explain why forty-deuce.ghost.io/this-pic-of-...

Me: I want to walk somewhere. Google Maps: I’ll calculate an ETA that will have slack for you to grab a coffee, browse local bookshops and snap some photos. Me: I want to drive somewhere. Google Maps: here’s the ETA if you break the speed limit and jump lights all the way. Hurry up you loser.

Just went to Lime bike rank where 5 bikes have got flat tyres. It feels like someone has deliberately done it too.

Great reporting. @londoncentric.media reports that TfL is paying £40 per passenger to transport cyclists under the Thames. www.londoncentric.media/i/174323663/...

By the end of the series of The Paper it’s already showing signs of being brilliant. Glad they’ve recommissioned it.

What a player Alcaraz is. Important he won here if he was to keep the balance of the rivalry. Wonderful era for the sport.

The first Bieber record was better, wasn't it?

Where’s this Bieber record?

The Chappell song is Keane meets Roxette. Sorry I’ve only just commented.

No one needs the Trump Letter to drop more than the Coldplay Two.

Brutal end to the Great Meme shortage that the Coldplay Two have had to pay.

Who knows what the production credits on this Bieber album are but it’s way better than anyone could have hoped.

Go to our concentration camps or we will kill you. Ah yes the only democracy in the Middle East.

Outstanding by Anisimova - delighted for her. What a brilliant match.

If these M&S hackers aren’t put to work hacking Russia then the penal system is wasting a brilliant resource.

People should be free to do their jobs. Especially doctors in a warzone. Please ensure you watch Doctors Under Attack. It documents how medical staff have been routined targeted by Isr4el's occupying forces. www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

Carlos Alcaraz should be the global spokesman for the ADHD movement.

Draper just needs to beat Djokokic, Sinner and then Alcaraz to win Wimbledon. Thank god he got seeded. EASY! EASY! EASY!

Still have availability to buy your mate’s Glastonbury ticket.

For the avoidance of doubt, I don’t like your dog, I don’t want to touch your dog and I don’t want your dog anywhere near me.

Still ready to buy your mate’s ticket when he bails from the “Glastonbury crew” WhatsApp group citing stomach issues. Genuine offer. I’ll buy your friend’s ticket and enter disguised as them.

Huge implications from this: Microsoft cut off the email of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, because of his work on Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

Why in the year 2025 is the BBC still using John Lloyd and Andrew Castle to do tennis commentary?

Beginning to think no one is going to sell me their Glastonbury ticket.

Ezra Klein is essential again today. Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert saying that Israel has been committing war crimes and a solution is possible. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

Damn, they even stole the font.

Imagine winning one of the all timers and asking for the winners photoshoot to be done early so you can take the gang to Ibiza. Incredible energy on the kid.

Turned up to a BBQ with an iPad yesterday. Streamed all the tennis. Built a nice crowd of new Alcofans. Then I had to leave at 6-5 in the fifth set. Utterly criminal.

Rachel’s version of the Poolhouse song is the best thing on TikTok this year. Joyous.

Draper beating The Little Prince like this is such a statement. Hope we get to see him measure up against Sinner next week.

Last week was a breakthrough week in AI. It's no exaggeration to say that many of us are in a fight for our jobs. Microsoft's latest Work Trend Index describes what this world of work might look like. I spoke to Alexia Cambon, the author of it. eatsleepworkrepeat.com/what-does-it...

Whenever I look at the Popular with Friends column here I can only conclude that my friends are idiots.

Finished the Biden book. Jill Biden comes out of it especially badly. Can’t help but wonder what would have happened if he’d chosen Gretchen Whitmer as VP back in 2020.

Someone has finally been held accountable for the war in Gaza, and it's Gary Lineker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alcaraz playing this well is so good for tennis.

I suggested to my lunch partner today that we go and see Mission Impossible. He said no. Boooo.

Well I had low expectations of that Rihanna song but wow.

Couldn’t disagree more on this. I’m listening to a book right now and I hate the narrator. I’d love to switch them out.

Radio 4 news: one minute on both thousands of people being starved to death in Gaza and the Israeli contestant at Eurovision being upset by booing.

It's hard to separate the clay court season from the asshats who chant 'let's go [INSERT NAME]! Let's go'. Generic, dull, worthless. The tennis equivalent of 'by far the greatest team the world has ever seen'.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Why is Apple TV so glitchy?

Confession: the fact that I think that Sheeran Azizam song could have been banger for anyone means I actually like him doing it.

The algo on TikTok is night and day to Reels. On a train journey today TikTok showed me someone talking about linguistics, discussion about Starmer’s mistakes, a funny dissection of dating chat on Hinge, some music chat. Reels showed me some lame comedy sketches because someone once sent me one.

This NYT discussion on Theo Vonn and the Manosphere is the best piece on it’s importance in contemporary culture. overcast.fm/+ABLUSPLz16o