What I'm wanting from a second Simpsons film: - Arnie Pye in the Sky, - Kirk Van Houten, - An Itchy and Scratchy episode, - A full 20 minute episode of Eye on Springfield as a DVD extra, - Richard and Lewis, - A large role for Patty and Selma, - A Scott Christian appearance

Has anyone yet made the pun "unpresidented" about the second state visit? Just need some variety at this point

Listening to Lana Del Rey does not make a guy a 'performative male'. Column here for LBC www.lbc.co.uk/article/stop...

Final plug for my in-depth feature: Why successful musicians are ‘sofa surfing and on Universal Credit’ www.lbc.co.uk/article/why-...

An, errm, alternative take here www.lbc.co.uk/article/camp...

And another opinion piece for LBC Teens cracking age verifications is the new fake ID – and more damaging www.lbc.co.uk/article/teen...

From a few weeks ago, but ICYMI Football needs an offseason to let other sports shine www.lbc.co.uk/article/foot...

Coldplay albums ranked from worst to best. No recency bias here! www.lbc.co.uk/article/all-...

Trump has hit at least seven holes in one in his life, he says, which is more than in Rory McIlroy’s professional career. However, Kim Jong-il is said to have managed 11 in one round www.lbc.co.uk/usa/politics...

Feel like Britons would rather have only one player make the second round and then have a shot at a title, than 20 players make the second round with little chance of lifting the trophy. Think I'd plump for somewhere in between www.lbc.co.uk/news/sport/w...

Funny how Wimbledon has moved straight away to having life-like sounding automated "out" calls. Was expecting a robotic era, or a Hal 9000 type voice for a year or two

On his new contract, Cristiano Ronaldo might even be able to buy a copy of the Economist and read it over a pint in central London, with change to get a taxi to Walthamstow. Here is what else he can afford: www.lbc.co.uk/news/sport/w...

www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view... First column I've written for LBC

Faith Kipyegon is making me feel very unfit, but I have levelled up my graphic game to visualise this preview for LBC www.lbc.co.uk/news/sport/f...

More delays - and the trains haven't even started running yet! Here how HS2 has gone off the rails www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

I am actually up to date on athletics! I don't think I have ever before kept pace with the Diamond League in June

Has a band or artist ever released an EP that's far superior to any album they have ever done? Not talking super new artists for the sake of fairness, and the EP must be more than three songs. Some examples: - Azealia Banks - 1991, - Biig Piig - The Sky is Bleeding

And that concludes a hard day of blogging on the spending review for LBC www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

It's the most wonderful time of the year www.lbc.co.uk/news/sport/w...

How Inter and PSG could line up, TV details, odds and everything else you need to know ahead of the Champions League final www.lbc.co.uk/news/sport/c...

Antonio Conte is the only manager to have won Serie A with three clubs www.lbc.co.uk/news/sport/w...

To find out all about Kneecap you can either read this or watch the film. The film is way more entertaining but this might sort you out if you have (slightly) less time www.lbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

Where would this XI finish if they played together? They're mostly over 30 (and a few over 40) but I'd fancy a top half finish with that midfield www.lbc.co.uk/news/sport/o...

Kind of loving Roma more and more. The club has the best social media game and always the most banter worthy managers. I think Spalletti's 2000s side with Totti as a false nine is one of the best teams to not win a title www.lbc.co.uk/news/sport/j...

What we know about Joe Biden's condition so far www.lbc.co.uk/news/health/...

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to "take back control" but what does that actually mean? I've put together this explainer for @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

Is this finally gonna be Akani Simbine's year? One of the most consistent and talented sprinters over the past decade and would love nothing more than for him to win a global title

Hopefully an interesting one I did for @thelondonstandard.bsky.social on the subject of boredom! www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/bo...

Does the world really have only three pieces of music for when you are on hold? I am on hold about four times a week, every week, and it's one of three tunes every time...

Form guide and full entry lists for the elite races at this weekend's London Marathon. www.standard.co.uk/sport/athlet...

My attempt to apply HIIT principles to my work. Features a photo of me struggling to be productive www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/hi...

ICYMI, a round-up of the best April Fools from around the web 2025. Sadly, I didn't see any fake news articles for the day. Is it now a tradition of the past, I am wondering? www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/best...

Does Donald Trump have ADHD? Here are 1,000 plus words where I've deduced... probably. www.standard.co.uk/news/us-poli...

Has London fallen out of love with reusable coffee cups? Meet the environmentalists trying to reignite the spirit of 2019 - before covid halted the movement www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

“I don’t know what people expect of me or want from me and maybe that’s a good thing." Interview with Soo Joo for The Standard: www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...

Sir Jim Ratcliffe. A profile... www.standard.co.uk/sport/who-is...

I'm not sure I wanted to think about what's next but I did... www.standard.co.uk/news/us-poli...

Best songs about coffee. Any more? Blur - Coffee and TV Twin Atlantic - No Sleep Hinds - Coffee All Saints - Black Coffee Jimmy Eat World - Coffee and Cigarettes (Sorry, but Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter does not make it!)

Do we call this Black Friday? Rebecca Black - the singer of The Room of pop songs - is back with a new EP today. Here's what she's been up to in the years since the song which defined a weird time in music. www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...

Mark Cavendish, Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas... Not exactly my childhood but certainly a period of my life coming to an end www.standard.co.uk/sport/sports...

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Rachel Reeves has now been given a contract extension and the vote of confidence. If she was a football manager we know what would be coming next!

Lesson here is that AI CAN generate Valentine's Day messages but that doesn't mean you should entrust it www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/wh...

The state of the BBC paying to show athletics and then snubbing the Keely Klassic for a re-run of Flog It I hope this gets remembered at the Worlds this summer when Michael Johnsonand co are on their annual debate about what needs to be done to "save athletics". www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

Quite enjoy when, on second reference, an article refers to an actor by a really leftfield film in their catalogue. "The Meet Joe Black star has been married to Angelina Jolie..."

Other footballing brothers to have shared a pitch on opposing teams? Without Googling, maybe the Pogbas, the Milinković-Savićs, the Ferdinands... I don't think Arsenal and Peterborough played each other when the Kanus were in their ranks. www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba...

Essential stuff here. Can you actually describe how a long black is different to an Americano? Well read this link to find out... Ok, I'll just tell you - the Americano is coffee and then water. The LB is the other way around www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/lo...

A squad which is the political equivalent of early 2010s QPR www.standard.co.uk/news/us-poli...

"John Barron" once told journalists that Donald Trump was away and couldn't respond. A few days later Trump fielded questions. It turned out they were the same person... Read on for many, many, more mad stories of this ilk www.standard.co.uk/news/us-poli...

The best and... not so best albums of 2005! Here is what you should listen back to and move on from if, like me, you are prone to bouts of nostalgia www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...