Need some kind of litmus test for Bono/fake Bono.

A fair amount of sick on George's St this morning.

Let's get back to this.

Bus driver stopped his vehicle, opened the door, and got the attention of two women working in a card shop next to the bus stop. He wanted a card. 'Something with "Nan" on!'

So this is the abundance I've heard about.

Need a Least Favourite Books of the Year list for perspective.

Recommended book 👇📚

Eight years to the day since I walked between Paul McCartney and John Lennon's houses as part of the research for Hit Factories.

Eight years to the day since I walked between Paul McCartney and John Lennon's houses as part of the research for Hit Factories.

'Is The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill a Christmas album?'

Pub conversation about Robert Caro. 'Did you read that fucking Power Broker?'

Lots going on here that I agree with on non-fiction's struggles: Attention economy issues, templated unimaginative books, a very diverse category that doesn't always serve its readers or writers well to be grouped under, but fundamentally a vital human pursuit: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

One for Bressie's Christmas special.

Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers ‘may die without Lammy’s intervention’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Paris, Drogheda, Birkenhead - all the greats.

It's (nearly) Christmas! Two words: Pys Melyn nomoreworkhorse.com/2025/12/16/a...

SELF-PROMOTION POST: trying to make sense of the major labels’ gen AI deals, musicians’ earnings and the war between art and slop. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

I'll be talking to Lizzie Nunnery and Pete Kalu about writing and younger selves in Liverpool Central Library on Friday 9th January. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-convers...

One of my Christmas traditions is Googling Ladbaby to make sure they don't have a new single out.

With the stadiumification of everything we're not so far from Brian Eno's Music for Airports: Live at Wembley. Wild cheers when a echoey piano note rings out.

ITV4 showing RoboCop on Christmas Eve.

That album was much more full-on than I remember (me accidentally listening to an instrumental jazz album at 45rpm)

Oscars will surely favour Shakespeare In Mourning.

My Beatles’ film book A Hard Day’s Night event in Liverpool is ON! Tix available now..

Home Alone 2. Despite advances in his consciousness (soft focus chats with Brenda Fricker) Kevin MacAllister fails once more to unite with the lumpenproletariat (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) to bring down capitalists/his parents.

This has gone too far.

Banter podcast presented by Eric Cantona and the Crystal Palace fan he kung-fu kicked, interviewing unlikely pairs (preferably other podcast hosts) about how they met.

Suddenly it's Bob Dylan Christmas album time again.

Reading on the importance of the hyphen, I encounter the phrase 'first hand job experience'.

Have a Great Philosophers Christmas. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kx5p

20% of Dublin traffic jams caused by taxis turning around at the Long Hall.

'What I always explore is complexity' says a TV historian, having given a relatively context-free description of the assassination of Marat (bad guy!) by Charlotte Corday .

My best books films 2025 open.substack.com/pub/aonchial...

Interesting to know how this went. Any fatalities?

Thinking about the burden and joy of writing about real people... Do subscribe. It's free. Or you can buy me a cuppa if you fancy it. 🍵 tobiasjones.substack.com/p/the-ethics...

#philsky 30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy ::

The Reith Lectures

The sound of Anglesey '82

Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social have a few words on @rte.ie about small presses, the "rich forest of independent publishing," and the Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social (28/29 November, Pearse St library): www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.” —Simone de Beauvoir In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇

An Expressway bus being towed.

The celeb speaking tour phenomenon is very strange.

✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by me is published today in the UK! (Australia and North America publication is next February.) ✨✨

Published this week.

Published this week.

Patti Smith on tour again