This year rather than send out Christmas cards I’ve chosen to donate to the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery in London) which a year ago discovered and emergency removing my brain tumour. if you would also like to, here is how: www.nationalbrainappeal.org/get-involved... Thank you x

Tony #Mammoth, In-vision Continuity-ing like it's 1979.

Not the first time the British public have got it wildly wrong…

Went to see Radiohead, 28 years on from my first time. It was great. If you can, I do recommend spending your money on experiences that make you feel properly alive. You’re unlikely to regret it.

Steve Smith describing Pat Cummins as “an absolute weapon”, truly two nations divided by a common language.

Factoid: The 147 gave Alfa Romeo its 2nd European Car of the Year title in 3yrs & while it had arguably desirable looks, it joined an ever-lengthening list of cars bested by Ford’s all-conquering Focus in an Autocar group test 25yrs ago this week. Yes, 25yrs ago - you are that old… (📸: Autocar)

@reckless.bsky.social I've been wondering when Brendan would get involved: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The sound you hear is of cricketers all over the world laughing forever.

It was a year ago today I was in a hospital bed choosing my birthday lunch knowing that the next morning I was literally off to Brain surgery. So thank you all, optician that spotted something odd and of course all those NHS staff for enabling me to see another one. I remain humbled and grateful 💙

This is an unpopular position but: having worked with him a bit, I always thought Tim Davie was a highly competent leader and given his commercial instincts, was probably the best person to lead the BBC through its next charter renewal. I think this is very bad news for anyone who values the BBC.

Factoid: Archetypal ‘80s family car with the archetypal ‘80s grille accessory & frankly looks all the better for it… (The accessory being Hella’s neat grille/driving light set & one offered on many ‘80s cars)… (📸: Autocar)

Happy iOS 26.1 Day, everyone!

If you missed it live, here's another bit of silly fun, including Live Travel updates from Paul Briant in the Flamethrower Flying Eye* www.mixcloud.com/theflamethro... *Ford C-Max

The Wheel on BBC One basically has great radio sung jingles.

Following Engineering Works last Sunday we return tomorrow with your ideal Brunch accompaniment: 10 until 12am Sunday Loud Songs flamethrower.live

Don't think these are going to blind you at night...

Unclear to me what some of Labour’s critics on here *want*. If you oppose further tax rises, you support the status quo OR further cuts. It’s just that simple.

For the design nerds, here's Network Rail's official design manual for Rail Clock It incorporates a sonic pigeon deterrent. www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/u...

As much as I feel a Judas for saying it, the white Innocenti looks fabulously classy compared to our Series 3 with the AR logo on it.

Shout out to everyone whose night shift is an hour longer tonight

Know Your BL Colour: No: 67 Bianco Avorio The one, the only, the incredibly rare Innocenti Regent 1300, with some great pics from IG a/c Jagalfa. It also serves as a reminder that Innocenti-built BMC/BL cars had their unique colour range… (📸: IG a/c jagalfa)

I remember reading this news and turning to the guy in the university computer lab, and saying: "that's interesting, Apple have released a hard disk that can play music". Also, it's odd that the iPod and Windows XP were released in the same week (iPod Tue 23 Oct 2001, XP Thu 25 Oct 2001).

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Am I going mad or could you once add an event to Google Calendar by typing it as spoken? "Dentists at 4pm tomorrow" I am sure I remember this...

Not blaming James for this, but a side-effect of this piece of bluffery is a lot of people on Bluesky claiming that "DNS is down" (it's not), and that that today's problems are being caused by a "massive cyber attack" (unproven, fairly unlikely, but possible).

The saviour of Sunday morning online radio returns this morning from 10am: Sunday Large Songs flamethrower.live and we’ve had our Weetabix. Be lovely to have you along..

I thought I'd take the opportunity to put together a website representation of these new Rail Clocks which launched yesterday. railclock.davwheat.dev Source code (MIT): github.com/davwheat/rai... And, don't worry, it does have the special flourish every 12 hours!

AI people keep showing up in my mentions to argue that I am not using their specific narrow definition of AI agents while the industry keeps promising magic computers that can listen and take consistent, reliable actions on arbitrary voice commands www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

'London Dreams: Sleeping Cat and BT Tower' by Edward Luper edwardluperart.com

Factoid: The Allegro 2’s launch ads focused on the changes but also achieved in making owners of the ‘Mk1’ model seem either stupid or gullible to buy it in the 1st place. In reality, the car was all-too-frequent BL occurrence of the ‘rethink’ model removing flaws the original shouldn’t have had…

Perhaps the change that got the most attention was the increase in rear legroom effected by moving the rear seat back 3ft but not at the expense of boot space. A good improvement but like many Allegro 2 changes it could be argued it should’ve been like that from day one…(2) (📸: Autocar)

There's no such thing as an "urban hike." You took a walk about town.

I love that they’ve put Alan in an L322 Range Rover. Coogan knows it.

How BlackBerry Messenger set texting free

“The Flamethrower WILL return…” In fact it does: Sunday Loud Songs, tomorrow, 10am! flamethrower.live

Know Your BL Colours: No:32 Russet Brown A ‘stalwart’ shade of the late ‘70’s & early ‘80’s, one obscure ‘claim to fame’ was it became the 1st new colour option for the Range Rover since the car’s launch in 1970… (📸: Motor)

Frank Bellamy featured. His art follows in this thread. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Know Your BL Colours: No:12 Blaze Along with Flame Red one of the showroom friendly Austin Morris colours introduced by BL, this was in stark contrast with the rather ‘sedate’ shades offered by BMC… (📸: IG a/c classicsbychance)

Two stories related to radio and audio right now on @theverge.com

Guys, guys GUYS: it's finally happened - they did a photoshoot for This Modern House and they forgot to hide the telly:

iOS 26 would be a triumph if it wasn’t for those awful blurry icon style guide which make you wonder if your screen/eyes are tired. What’s the point of Retina screens if developers are made to do this? #blur #ios26

‘The average man travelled 8,245 miles in 2002 and 6,549 miles in 2024—a drop of 21%. Almost the entire fall was caused by a decline in driving.’ Such an interesting piece economist.com/britain/2025...

Factoid: To some this would be peak BL: a Mk1 Marina Coupe in Antique Gold or beige to you or me... (📸: IG a/c classicsbychance)

“Reality often wears a Greggs apron”. This is terrific and very funny about the reality of professional sport by Surrey’s Cameron Steel. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This week’s pick of “was once a pirate and now gone legit on DAB and kept their FM frequency in the name” is….

Hypervault rug pulls for $3.6 million September 26, 2025 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=hypervault-rug-pull

Ford “doesn’t like the execution” of CarPlay Ultra but CEO Jim Farley says he’s talking to Tim Cook about it. News from Decoder! www.theverge.com/transportati...

Our final Decoder guest host is the one and only @joannastern.bsky.social, who interviewed Ford CEO Jim Farley… and allowed me to call in with a very specific Nilay question www.theverge.com/podcast/7848...