In all this talk of best Heathcliff and best Cathy on screen, everyone seems to have forgotten Terry Jones and Carol Cleveland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIME...

And so. The Home Secretary and the Home Office threw everything at defending the botched proscription of Palestine Action. They failed. They may win on appeal. But. Today was a useful reminder that they don’t always get their own way. Terrorism law is important, but it should not be abused.

Me: Oh I remember that TV show! I watched it when I was a child. For years, I’d eat my dinner and then run to the tv to watch it every day. Easily one of the things I watched the most throughout my entire childhood Wikipedia: Only 9 episodes were ever made

26 years ago was the year 2000. If you need me I'll be getting a free parker pen just for enquiring about the sun life plan. #TOTP

Hmmm! #totp

If I was drunk now, I'd do a fifty-post thread about how homophobia and misogyny somehow became 'ok' if a major label American act did it and how Eminem is ultimately responsible for Trump and tedious social media edgelords. But I'm not, so I'll just say this is shite. #TOTP

And to think it can't get any worse, up comes yet another pointless cover. #totp

I don't get the wave of ridicule over Spurs' new interim manager. He's a canny bugger, Tudor.

Tudor to Hotspur is basically Shakespeare's history plays in reverse.

My dad had a 1950's recording of this on a 7" single. I can't recall if it was the Don Lang or David Seville version, or even another cover. #totp

I've just seen the front page of this week's edition of the local newspaper. It must be a very slow news week, as the lead story is regarding a rugby club bore who has self-published a book of his rants about the modern world.

one of the most frustrating things about there being “no jobs” is that we all walk around and see the work that needs to be done. our cities are crumbling, our people need help, our world is dying. there’s so much work to be done, if only it were good for the balance sheet

Picked up huge box of Cine stuff at the local dump Ye Olde Recycling Shoppé Don’t think I’ve ever seen 8mm Magnetic Tape, with Sprocket Holes Says it’s for syncing with Cine Film A Timing Film Loop for Cine, has a stop / start hole? One Audio Reel in mix, Goon Show. Are there any missing episodes

Happy Radio Day to all those who celebrate.

There seems to be a live-action remake of Bailey's Comets on BBC2 right now! #onefortheteenagers

Still unable to understand a word of this snowboarding commentary. "Yam tam 720 alley ding dong nobble doo-dah?"

This piece in The Spectator by @shippersunbound.bsky.social has an absolutely mad detail that I was not previously aware of spectator.com/article/auth...

I've no idea who did this as I received it via WhatsApp....nb @scottwortley.bsky.social

What was the most famous PIN and mother's maiden name and your first pet at your high school?

Schools and establishments closed in Barcelona today due to severe wind warnings. Streets clear, cafe empty. Now, I don't want to say I'm harder than the Spanish because I grew up in Bangladesh and lived in England, but I've experienced stronger farts in Leamington Spa

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

And it's not a cycling thing, He's been good (in some way vital) for cycling, or at least his money has. No issues there. It's his awful world view which I detest: one in which only riches count, and at all costs. Every obligation to society is as nothing. He, and his billionaire ilk, make me sick,

gold medal skippity paps

Jim Ratcliffe is a prick. I always thought he was. He has done nothing to suggest that he is not a prick. I loathe Jim Ratcliffe and as a result I find it very hard to get behind his cycling team. He was a prick before he got into cycling. He’s always been a prick. I hope that clears things up.

In the original ancient Greek Olympics, many of the athletes were naked. Which could make the four-man bobsleigh event in Cortina more fun. Ice hockey, not so much.

I've just noticed the similarity between the pattern of the tabards from Dinnerladies and the sleeve of Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) by Cecil Taylor.

Fuck your ChatGPT, if I want to see a caricature of myself I will make the effort to go to the seaside and pay £15 for a cruel man to give me body dysmorphia like we’ve always done.

What’s Greek about 26.2? Actually basically nothing. #classicsbluesky #running

This. Is. Beautiful.

Today's entry in 'Phil Collins or Vladimir Putin: You Decide'

On my walk this morning I spotted an empty condom wrapper on the ground next to the remnants of a kebab. Someone had the perfect date last night ❤️

Will the credits on Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights be as honest as the credits on the Morecambe and Wise version?

This is the best thing you'll see

I had a song playing in my head earlier, but I had no idea what it was. Then I remember that I first heard it on a YouTube video last year - someone had found a test-pressing or acetate of this song, but there was no artist credit. So, although I now know what it was, I've still no idea what it was!

The “should of” is a cringeworthy nice touch.

Orange album cover

Large containers of sulfuric acid Epstein had delivered to his island after being tipped off may point to atrocities that prove too much for the public to handle. There are mentions of murder involving Trump and disposing of bodies in the files. Sulfuric acid takes care of dead bodies, incl bones.

New Haunted Generation Radio Show! Honest! Music from Highly Likely, Elizabeth Parker, Renaissance, Roy Wood, more school assembly curios... plus I get put on trail in the Crown Court. Thanks to @soundliness.com @andreworton.bsky.social & Ross from The Futureheads... www.mixcloud.com/hauntedgener...

Great! The Carbon Monoxide monitor in my kitchen has developed a fault, and is making loud beeps every 10 seconds. There's no obvious way to shut the thing up, so I'm stuck with it until morning. So no sleep, then.

Coming up this Thursday... episode 5

Post a banger that isn't in English. youtu.be/At8gAmINxBo?...

Chris Mason is hondootedley no John Cole.

v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

Not got a clue as to what these snowboarding commentators are prattling on about. "That's a 1260 flange wimple artichoke wombat plonk 3 1/2 kerplunk" or whatever!

Is John Sergeant on the steps of the Paris embassy yet?

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

On looking up something almost totally unrelated, I've possibly identified the obscure 1960s EP that was the source of some otherwise uncredited samples on a famous old recording. Now I need to track one down - or preferably a box of them, so I can sell them on if I'm proved correct.

I gather Jive Bunny is doing the half-time raffle at the Superb Owl later tonight. Or something like that, anyway.

British values