Who writes this? Do they live in a cave?

Keep refreshing my work emails in the hope that I’ll see something new from a client, just to feel alive.

Nearly there. Four more hours to work this year.

My celly well.

If I like you, or just think you’re a good cove, I’ll probably take the opportunity to wish you a happy Christmas and all the very best for you and yours over the next few days. I hope Alison’s turkey isn’t cooked through and she stands on a three pin plug running to the bathroom.

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One of the less popular Smiths songs.

Good demonstration of why Google AI overview should not be trusted. According to this, Chris Rea had fairly robust opinions on the "business implications" of Brexit. But it's confusing singer Chris Rea with a completely different person.

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Paddington as Charon? No. Get in the sea.

The next 10 days are going to be just one massive struggle against gout and heartburn.

This year has seemed absolutely brutal for deaths of well-loved celebrities. Not quite 2016 (which is unrivalled given that we lost Alan Rickman and Bowie in the space of a few weeks) but bad nonetheless.

Come on now 2025. Not Chris Rea. Not 3 days before Christmas. Pack it in.

Every time I hear someone within the GOP talking about science I’m reminded of the song “Miracles” by Insane Clown Posse, particularly the line “fuckin’ magnets how do they work?”.

If you have autistic relatives for the love of GOD don’t invite them to a family only thing and then drop extra guests on them and make THEM feel like an asshole if they don’t want to come anymore. You’ve fundamentally changed the thing you’ve invited them to.

The BBC spinning for Reform? Surely not?

A bit of CS Lewis.

Do this and put solar panels in fields as well.

It’s not a refusal to re-enter society. It’s not shaping your life around Covid avoidance. It’s adaptation. It’s a desire to protect health. It’s being willing to accept that things change, and masking & clean air are the way forward. Mass death & disability is not normal

I do feel for Chris Rea. Has to brave all the traffic and even when that clears and he gets going again, he’s stuck with the thought that he’s spending Christmas in the Boro.

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

No massive fan of Rachel Reeves but if you need the publicity of banning her from your business (which sells alcohol in the run up to Christmas) additional taxes are the least of your problems.

The sexy adult gift for the disgraced former Tory MP in your life.

Lovely if Gordon could bother his arse for games against so-called lesser sides.

Finishes 2-3.

Fuck. Scored too early again haven’t we.

“Sex pest, handsy, danger, wrongun” - these are all terms that trivialise men who commit sexual assault and harassment and I don’t like straight men using them. You don’t sound like you care, you sound like you’re getting a prurient thrill out of discussing it

Whilst we're thinking about a baby born in this part of the world 2000 years ago ... Palestinian infant freezes to death in Gaza as Israel keeps blocking aid Winter cold ‘becomes lethal’ as Israel restricts entry of tents, blankets and other shelter supplies www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

If the founders of our country had intended for their leader to be above the law, they would have created a monarchy with an explicit provision that the monarch is above the law. Instead, they created a president, equal before law, with provisions for the president's removal if necessary.

Heard a great joke in Scotland last week: “What do you call a cow with two legs?” “Yer Maw”

Does this make me “upper class”? What about one of my course mates, who hailed from Basildon? The bloke doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Ruud Gullit sitting on a shed.

2025 me: “I think we can park this until the NY” 2026 me:

It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.

Lewis Miley coming from Stanley makes up for Darren Grimes. Yassss Stanley.

Lewis Miley man. Mint.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t think that was bad. #NUFC

Curry sauce is the best condiment for chips. Don’t @ me.

A shot at being a soprano in a boys’ choir.

Because we had hope for a change, and have seen it be crushed beneath a torrent of xenophobia, racism and contempt.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Well this is good.

Not many gigs next year , but I will be at #leicester comedy festival with new show Let The Quiet Ones Rise which I am hugely looking forward to events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/robin...

I know there are so many demands on our time and money at this time of year, but don’t forget to try and do one good thing, whatever you can afford. It could be doing a shift at a community kitchen or foodbank. Or dropping in on someone who you know is struggling. Or giving something.

My unpopular opinion is that everyone should have to do a low-paid, people-facing role for a bit, because after that there is no scenario that you cannot handle.

My friend the stress headache has returned.

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

“If you see a faded sign by the side of the road that says, fifteen miles to the…

Have you ever made something you’re so pleased with it makes you a bit lightheaded?