I like how Sunderland have more than one player who sounds like a dog speaking. Robin Roefs obviously, but I’d also include Brian Brobbey.

I changed the audio

Definitely not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTbl...

My dad is turning 80, so naturally he is celebrating by walking for 24 hours (to raise money for Christian Aid). You don’t have to be Christian to donate, or to support their mission; we’d appreciate it if you did. www.justgiving.com/page/gareths...

search.savills.com/property-det... scroll through the pictures and admire the photographer's valiant effort to downplay the most noticeable feature of the back garden not mentioned in the property description.

We're being sued.... www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-londoner...

I swear every festival poster I see is an elaborate practical joke. I know the Beta Band and Stereolab of course. But Honk? Sex Mask? Freak Slug? Dog Race?

For years, as I travelled into Finsbury Park station, I would spot these huge playful, provocative, conspiratorial signs and was often either amused or bemused. I wanted to know more, so dropped a letter round the house. From me in @londonermag.bsky.social www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-finsbury...

I don't totally agree with this. But there are films named here that did not need to be as long as they were - and I think there's a broader issue of indulgent directors not being challenged enough (by studios flattered to have hired them, or because they're seen as A-list: see Tarantino, Quentin)

Important debate at the blood donation centre in Manchester

[Christina is right be wowed, we're ace, even if I do say so myself]

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

I always thought Hugh Bonneville looked a lot like Huw Edwards. Was he unavailable? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

“Our AI is terrible and we know it, but everyone else is pushing out their own AI so we feel we need to do the same even though we know it’s not ready.”

AP story on Venezuela. No hot takes, only facts. Props to my colleagues who are working their socks off

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

Today’s sad news means the singers of Fairytale of New York, Driving Home for Christmas, and one of the two singers of Happy Xmas (War is Over) and Last Christmas all died in the four weeks building up to Christmas

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

Sometimes you don't realize how much you say "ooh la la" till they play your 911 call on the local news

“Merry Christmas”

Genuinely though his name was Chip Chief for a second

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

I’m at the (really good!) Lisbon earthquake museum, where they use the novel measurement “this earthquake was equivalent to x yoghurts”

A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving

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Is it because you don’t know him and you weren’t invited?

Eurgh

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

These patriotic displays have gone a bit too far now, if you ask me.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Six years ago, there wasn’t even a Wikipedia page for the biggest robbery of all time. But I was obsessed with the story and pitched it as a documentary - now, finally, it’s out there, and here’s my story about the robbery in the Mail today. It’s pretty wild. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

A story to make your blood boil. But as an aside, I'm a big fan of Mill Media sometimes printing the full aggressive responses they get to their questions (see also: Twamley, Lee)

Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Attenborough should narrate a new series called Absolute Bastards, that follows the absolute bastards of the animal kingdom

The hero we need in these times www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

It’s fascinating comparing the front page coverage of the Huntingdon train attack (below) with how the British press treated another case 30 years ago. I’m referring to the 1995 Netto supermarket attack in Birmingham in which a man stabbed 10 people, killing one of them.

All prepared for tonight’s trick-or-treaters

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

Whoever channeled Billy Idol for this headline… I applaud you and your very strange decision

I'm sorry, you what now?

NL was always among most Atlanticist in continental Europe. Supported US invasion Iraq, blindly pro-Israel, provided troops in Afghanistan & Iraq, often bought American rather than European arms (Joint Strike Fighter). Quite something for top intelligence people to come out and say this out loud.

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference?

Immediately got an earworm of "Nuns on Fire" stuck in my head, to the tune of "Girls on Film" bbc.com/news/videos/c1jzj1n797yo

Every single line of this horrific story delivers some new wonderful detail/sense of revulsion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is fine

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

Sarah Mullally, now the Archbishop of Canterbury, was at the heart of the appalling Martin Sargeant fiasco. Read our investigation from last year www.the-fence.com/in-the-shado...