This seems like maybe important?

Puts the row about Kier Starmer's Taylor Swift tickets into perspective, eh?

Fresh off the press, my latest YouTube extravaganza, sponsored by the Wendover tourist board

It's Friday afternoon, so why not enrage yourself with the maddening tale of how local NIMBY's just forced HS2 to drive a temporary road across a quarter of a mile of Chiltern's landscape.

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

Disgraceful behaviour by the local council, who demanded that farmland, hedgerows and waterways should be trashed because they didn't want a few gravel trucks going up a residential road (with the ulterior motive of holding up HS2 at a cost of tens of millions of taxpayers pounds). Twats.

Torn between rooting for the PBGV (we had three when i was growing up, plus a basset x PBGV cross) or the cavalier king Charles, one of which is currently snoozing on my lap. #crufts

Claudia Winkleman bringing such wonderful 100% dog person chaotic energy to Crufts is exactly what I need right now.

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

Here are some of my thoughts about climate change. 1/12

You will prise my postal vote from my cold dead British hands, you pathetic sore loser.

Another weekend decluttering my parents' house - sorting through some priceless antiques

The world was saved because a human being didn't trust a computer.

I've been watching council planning committee meetings as research for my next short film and it's remarkable how many of them involve a professional woman giving evidence getting bellowed at by red-faced old men.

Me: Really looking forward to getting on with some gardening jobs this morning! The weather:

This.

Disapppointed she isn't going full Neom on this. Where's the aspirational floating hotel or upside-down swimming pool??

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

"Are YOU a licensed Young Lady????"

If they come saying: * Longevity * Wellness * Supplements * Peptides * Light therapy ...they will be effective at taking your money, but they will not be effective in making you healthier. Walk away. @theatlantic.com gift link: www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

I had the privilege of visiting the MERL today and getting a closer look at the board

Make American Child Mortality Great Again!

Of particular relevance in the context of all the recent authoritative reports claiming LLMs can help novices develop and build threats. #biosky

PUT IT BACK. PEBBLE IS NOT FRIEND.

Over on LinkedIn, a platform that is being rapidly destroyed by AI slop, I've been ruminating on the coming AI Slopocalypse and how to survive it: www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-su...

Longevity influencers tell millions to take rapamycin, sit in hyperbaric oxygen chambers, blast themselves with red light therapy, and take 50+ supplements daily. Meanwhile something that cuts dementia risk by 20% is invisible. overmatter.substack.com/p/your-anti-...

Or you could be like me and come across as a person abnormally obsessed with science AND gardening AND knitting. Have I shown you a picture of my pond lately???

Misread this as “the year of the Fire Hose” and I thought, you’re not wrong

No, but I do like the image of the police stopping people and searching them for social media. "Looks like he's smuggling a gram." "Weed or coke?" "Insta"

Outside Source on BBC World Service is a masterclass in how to cover vaccine hesitancy: featuring a healthcare expert, a woman living with long term effects of measles, a mother of an unvaccinated child that got sick, and vaccine skeptic who'd since changed her view. www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

Apologies for blowing my own trumpet but I’m amazed and beyond thrilled that ‘Potholesville’ has somehow hit 150k views in less than a week. Branching into film was a random experiment so to see the channel take off so fast is, er, thought provoking. m.youtube.com/watch?v=RKiV...

UK continues to see #measles outbreaks, the latest in North London schools This follows year-on-year decline in measles #vaccine uptake. @benk-d.bsky.social talks to @theguardian.com about the complex factors behind rise of measles in UK: www.theguardian.com/society/2026... #PublicHealth

Great proposal this. Continues to be incredibly funny and incredibly stupid that for years we've *banned* bus and rail operators "colluding" to make their timetables integrate with each other.

Big album cover energy, I’m thinking prog rock

A risky move given what happened the last time she met a head of state...

By way of contrast, I shot 1.41 terabytes of footage for 'Potholesville', a 12-minute film, which would require around 1,244,554 floppy disks. My main camera would fill 1 floppy disk every 7.4 milliseconds.

Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous & fiercely independent, & based on the author herself in a kind of characteristic self-portrait #WomensArt

I made a newsletter for my teenage youth group using a very primitive desktop publishing software & stored the files on 5 1/4 inch discs. You could get 2 pages on each. Also, the first podcasts I made were recorded on minidiscs! I never had to learn to edit tape, fortunately Just missed that.

First day of actual gardening (pruning the vines, roses and wisteria) watched by a curious robin and oh my God it feels good. Bulbs coming up, shoots shooting, even enough sunshine to get the solar waterfall going. Spring is on the way, hold tight folks.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Somehow this has hit 100k views. Humans have spent over a year watching an incompetent man unloading cold lay tarmac from a wildly unsuitable vehicle.

Fuck sake.

Delighted to see that the Climate Emergency declared by Cherwell Council in 2019 is presumably now over, so no need for woke green nonsense like this... 🫠

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Come for the journalism, stay for the mad guerilla pothole repair set to opera

Being in New Zealand has been glorious, and I’ve been trying to bring joy to our world that needs more joy and less rage posting. But this is a rage post. You need to read this gift article because you need to be enraged.

The world service really matters. It’s such an important voice available everywhere around the world.

My latest, on a town's escalating fight to fix a broken road, in which become accidentally radicalised by Nick Offerman. m.youtube.com/watch?v=RKiV...