I’m quite keen on the Ski Mo. Fair play for getting a sport into the Olympics that involves climbing some stairs.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bedford CC dealing with the bigots like an absolute boss.

A dramatic end to the Men’s Super Team event at the ski jumping. So many different emotions.

They take the rules seriously in ski jumping, folks. Daniel Tschofenig of Austria was disqualified after the first round of the Large Hill last night (while lying 8th) because his boots were 4mm too big.

Walking back into the hotel tonight, the receptionist said a cheery ‘Hello’. I almost replied with ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ (just to be friendly). But then it made me think of Alan Partridge and the chocolate oranges with superficial damage.

You’re not meant to have favourites, but on a human level, it’s a great shame that Thomas Frank is not going to be a Premier League manager anymore (at least for a while)

They’re playing Europop dance remixes of Country Roads and Sweet Caroline at the ski jumping venue.

Absolute masterclass from Hazel Irvine and Chemmy Alcott (and production teams).

Andrea Bocelli knocking it out of the park again. Check out his performance of Amazing Grace filmed during Covid lockdown outside Milan’s Duomo Cathedral.

Looks like I picked the right week to get involved in ski jumping…

It’s occurred to me that the Tipping Point theme tune is far more dramatic/energetic than Tipping Point itself. It could easily be used on Gladiators.

Shout out to everyone in the Harry Styles presale queue.

Andy Robertson doesn’t appear to be quite the player he once was. But it feels like a bold & potentially reckless move by Liverpool to let him go. Reds fans will be extremely sad to see him leave.

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Does anyone have a clue how you speak to a real human being at Evri? We’ve had a parcel delivered for a person who hasn’t lived at our address for over a decade.

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

The 2016 trend on Instagram, with people seemingly capable of instantly finding 16 photos of themselves from a decade ago, is highlighting that everyone else must have a better photo-filing system than me.

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

I have travelled north today so that I can report on Man City vs Exeter City for BBC Final Score tomorrow. Lots of good pre-match storylines on and off the pitch. As an impartial spectator I hope Exeter can make a contest of it (Man City bt Salford City 8-nil at this stage last year).

I can never quite get over the frustration I feel towards contestants on Tenable who don’t realise the answers on their Tenable Tower are listed in alphabetical order.

Rice, Rice, Gaby?

The London fireworks felt a bit of a chaotic mess to me. A crazy number of fireworks and projections plus the manic mash-up of different audio clips and music snippets. Less might be more? (And if you’re going to play Auld Lang Syne then play a proper version)

Commentating on Jaze Kabia and Ismeal Kabia on opposing teams tonight. They’re not related and they pronounce their surnames differently.

4,606 people filed their Self Assessment tax return on Christmas Day bit.ly/3YNYmVX Why would you do this? It’s 38 days before the deadline!!

My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.

I only spotted today that The Snowman is set in Brighton. Father Christmas gives a present to ‘James, Brighton’ and it then becomes clear that it’s the pavilion and pier from Brighton that the snowman and boy fly over during ‘Walking in the Air’

Well it’s taken 37 years of its existence and nearly 45 years of mine, but I’ve finally watched Die Hard.

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

One of the great modern motoring curses is having to speak to a remote call centre to have any chance of getting through to the service desk of your local car dealership.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas was not what I was expecting.

Mo Salah gets a hero’s welcome back after publicly throwing his toys out of the pram, but Trent Alexander-Arnold got booed for daring to take on an exciting new challenge abroad. It’s a funny old game.

Wonderful to see the support that John & Amy Hunt are getting from across the sporting & broadcasting worlds. What an incredible way for them to respond to such evil & heartbreak.

An absolutely brilliant read, by Kate Mossman, on a plane crash that never was. Features Bryan Ferry being extraordinarily calm. www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...?

Mo Salah’s photos of solitude on Instagram are becoming increasingly ridiculous (and very funny).

Forget the airports thing and the utter bilge of this column. The much bigger issue here is that Mr Johnson (and sadly, presumably many others) still view a wheelchair as ‘a symbol of vulnerability’ rather than a symbol of empowerment. It’s Andy Murray’s metal hip all over again.

Sensational

If Salah’s form has really disappeared then there could be a happy ending for Liverpool out of all this. Rest of the squad galvanised by his selfish comments, he gets sold for squillions to Saudi Arabia (rather than for free in summer 25) and Liverpool put money towards Guehi and other new signings.

Awful from Mo Salah.

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Why is the “FIFA Peace Prize” being reported as a serious thing? Why is it being reported on at all?

There is a very serious point to be made here on a mere football organisation publicly pushing such politicised interpretations of global diplomatic deals and talks.

Motability today, PIP tomorrow, SEND funding, Access to Work... Disabled people would have more chance of thriving (and in some tragic cases, just surviving) if we didn’t have to fight for things so hard and so bloody often. It feels like the walls are closing in.

Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!

God forbid people who pay for a car through the Motability scheme are actually allowed to drive a nice one.

A ROAST IN A BEEF GIANT YORKSHIRE PORK PUDDING TURKEY

Saw one of those posh artificial Christmas trees for sale yesterday that has the lights built in. The box boasted of ‘8 different light settings’ including ‘Classic Static’. Or what we historically have just called ‘On’.

So, happy 48th anniversary of That Lovely Diary Entry From Michael Palin

If YouTubers (and politicians) are going to insist on this maddening trend of holding their lapel mics instead of clipping them on, then at least go the full Terry Wogan and clip them onto a long stick.