Why are they calling them ‘druids’? #TheTraitors

Last week Amazon did an offer on Baby's Breath. This week, an offer on the sequel, Fallen Feathers. Get in there quickly, and enjoy both books! I'm about a month away from completing book 3 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0G2...

Ooh look, a laptop without a screen.

May Savidge sounds like a total legend. Moving picture: Tale of house rebuilt brick by brick set for the cinema www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The minimum sound level for a ship horn at 1 meter distance for a ship >200m is 143dB. For a vessel less than 200m but larger than 75m it should be a minimum of 138dB. She didn't expect that... 😅

I’m in a public place for gods sake. I can’t be laughing this loudly.

Broken Veil is superb to the very last second. Loved it. Listen with the lights off. Unless you’re driving at night. In Essex.

Absolutely fucking tremendous from the FT.

In the end, someone has to ask *why* people have been persuaded to be so terrified of immigration, when it has so many benefits and so few real downsides. Almost all of the claimed downsides are either lies or misinterpretations of statistics. Why would any sane country do this to itself?

I am on Sutekh’s coach of doom.

Reform UK's director for Wales has been removed from Cwmbran Community Council for failing to attend meetings. David Thomas is also goes by the names "DJ Dowster" and "Dr Squeegees" (I am not joking). Find out more about Dr Squeegees here: willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...

The BBC gets a lot of stuff wrong, and I'm sick to death of copping flack for stuff that has fuck all to do with me, but there are really good legal reasons why a journalist would avoid using a word like "kidnapped" in describing this event in the course of their reporting.

Went for a long walk. Tried on a Victor Meldrew hat. Bought an insulated coffee mug. Used the computer in the public library. Came home on the bus. Lifestyle goal unlocked.

Bore da

I’ve reached quite an age before learning that taking a few days leave this time of year is THE THING.

in the old days we had to make our own fun.

One plus of bad weather is listening to local radio. BBC Tees is excellent. The presenters are enthusiastic, fun and know the area. Listeners are treated with respect.

More AI-generated images of Nicolas Maduro being detained by the US military and transferred to the US have been shared online. These two images have both been created with AI and aren't real.

Good business in Tywyn 😅

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

Hey everyone, guess what's back on BBC Two for a new series tonight? #SkiSunday #IDontLikeSnow youtu.be/hCIWyKey0BI?... @jeremylion.bsky.social @bigedwards.bsky.social

Immediate murder for anyone who says “yourself” when they mean “you” #thetraitors

Hugone. #TheTraitors

SUCH a Mam! #TheTraitors

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Hagiographic the film might be, but Thomas More’s speech about giving the Devil the benefit of the law in “A Man For All Seasons” continues to feel relevant. m.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBi...

Chilly in the South Wales Valleys this morning. Proper shorts and DryRobe weather.

Reminder: If it's snowing where you are, post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode and a snow-rating out of 10 (x/10) and help draw a real-time map of where it's snowing right now on uksnowmap.com ❄️

Starting off 2026 with peak “how’s yer da handling the divorce?” energy from the letters page of the Daily Mail

Please god let me never find myself in an escape room with a Hugo. #thetraitors

Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.

Another day, another confirmation that I was right to get the hell away from the enshittified Twitter.

For pity‘s sake Hugo, just call her Claudia. #TheTraitors

For pity’s sake get your news from a reliable source.

Five Go on a Bus Replacement Service

Watching The Sound of Music is getting more uncomfortable by the year. Everyone knows the flag-tearing moment. Less dramatic but just as troubling…

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: - It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’ - It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’ - It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’ - It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’ - It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’ No worries if not!!!

1 January 1926 | A Polish Jew, Leon Weintraub, was born in Łódź. In #Auschwitz from August 1944. He was transferred to Groß-Rosen, Flossenbürg & Natzweiler-Struthof. He was liberated on 23 April 1945 near Donaueschingen. He became a doctor. Today he turns 100. Happy birthday!

Born in 2003, I have no memories of the miners' strike - or of mining in Wales at all. The ‘Streic!’ exhibit, however, connected with me in a way I did not expect ✍️ Ella Groves

Ah, New Year’s Day! That can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 148th anniversary of New York Herald proprietor James Gordon Bennett Jr being banished from polite society for pissing in his fiancée’s fireplace, thus giving the world the phrase ‘Gordon Bennett!’ 🧵

I did this. With actual scissors.

I see England’s having a big fireworks show.

Wishing you a Happy New Year now, as I’ll be busy in the Millennium Operations Centre later. Ever watchful in case the bug tries again.

It is a little known fact that they prerecord the Jools Holland Hootenanny - all the people on screen are faking it being New Year for tv. For eg, last year’s was prerecorded June 15th, 1535, during the Siege of Munster, look carefully and you can see John of Leiden mingling with the audience.

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Happy New Year’s Eve! Hootenanny!

A free ride home tonight if you're in Bristol, Cardiff or Newport (and it's 1986)

NYE and en route to the Diff so a good time as any to listen again to this three-part series looking back at Red Dragon Radio (with a bit of the backstory behind ILR’s early years in south east Wales, too) Produced by @theliveluke.bsky.social with contributions from me. www.buzzsprout.com/2544630

Wow

It's a landmark day in Welsh broadcasting history*. (*At least according to Youngest Child, who couldn't wait to tell me about it when I got home from work.)