My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating. I’ve set up a fundraiser. If you haven’t done anything for international women’s day yet, here’s a chance to support a women-run business in need: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9nhn...

Quite heartbreaking to see this building destroyed in a massive fire. It was such a recognisable part of the cityscape. I loved seeing the Irn Bru sign as we got the bus home from Buchanan Street. Thank God there appear to be no casualties at least. news.sky.com/story/vape-s...

Anyone who *wants* war should take their weapons and march out into the nearest desert, far from innocent souls, where they can revel in slaughter until even their hate-filled hearts are sick of it. The rest of us will quietly ring the battlefield with land mines and go home to our loved ones.

If you know your Douglas Adams, this makes perfect sense.

Khamenei was an 86-year-old religious fundamentalist. You could have taken him out with a scandalous flash of ankle. Operation Epstein Fury is part distraction, part profiteering. As usual.

There’s a website which will generate a suitably apocalyptic headline in the style of the hysteric Sunday Telegraph editor Allister Heath. You have to work very hard to generate an unlikely one. I’ve done my best … stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

This is what the rubes who think AI is some whizz bang solution to work fail to get. The point of the work in education isn’t the output. The point of the work in education IS THE WORK.

Tourette’s Syndrome is a difficult, painful condition and tics are involuntary. It can be very distressing for people with the condition at the best of times, and when they are nervous or stressed the condition can be particularly acute. They don’t get to choose what they say or do when they tic.

Fascinating. For our audio Sandman Men Of Good Fortune tale I wrote a version of the 1389 Hob Gadling pub scene in pidgin middle-English and recorded it with the cast as a sort of optional extra. Sadly it wasn’t included but it was an interesting exercise in the challenges of time travel.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Andrew's completely broke which raises the possibility that a Norfolk duty solicitor is currently having the strangest day of his / her life.

Hey, Donald Trump. They just arrested the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew. Imagine you must be shitting yourself about now. I mean, you do that most days anyway, but nice for it to be out of fear rather than just the usual foecal incontinence you think we don’t all know about.

Can’t tell you how thrilled I was to very briefly meet Graeme Garden and can attest that he is both lovely and categorically a genuine genius. Happy birthday to him!

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate it. May the year of the Fire Horse bring you blessings in abundance.

Woollen jerkins are red, This small jug is blue This undershirt was chequered and there's a hole in this shoe. Happy Valentine's Day everyone! MaryRose.org

Jim Ratcliffe and his shite Ineos brand and his tax dodging, money grabbing, old white man schtick can get in the bloody sea, frankly. I’ll never buy anything branded with Ineos and if I can workout how to avoid buying other things that enrich this prick I will very much be doing those too.

The last UK Prime Minister to actually survive a full term was David Cameron, during his coalition with the LibDems (2010-15)... over a decade ago The last one to serve the full term from election to election after winning a majority in his own right was Tony Blair (2001-05)... over *20* years ago

Don't remove the racist post. Remove the racist from his post.

Just want to acknowledge and appreciate Robyn @ntsonline.bsky.social and the team who contacted my agent to let me know I wasn’t successful on a recent audition. It means so much to get a response and is still rarer than we might like, so I always want to laud positive experiences from the rooftops.

Wonderful Ellen, of our three-in-one sisters, the Hecatae in Sandman.

'We've got a new character to promote fossil fuels - we're calling him Coalie.' 'Coalie? What about Oily and Gassy?' 'Oh, it was his idea.'

I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

Man who bankrupted a casino also runs successful arts centre into ground in less than 3 months. And yet, somewhere in the heart of Trump Cult Land, people still believe he’s a good business man. And not a sex offender thief who stole virtually every cent he’s ever had by grifting and/or intimidation

An online newspaper obituary of Catherine O'Hara at the weekend said 'she left behind two sons' and I think I deserve some kind of a medal for NOT commenting: 'No, it was the same son twice.'

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1784

Bri speaks for many of us despite the friends we miss in the US.

For Liam.

This is terrible. It is also an opportunity for certain journalists to finally speak up with a *fraction* of the courage the people of Minneapolis have shown. It is also instructive that Lemon is Black. Woe/pox etc upon white journalists who don’t freak out about this.

'I knew this was a bad idea as soon as I saw the trailer.'

Monetisation The advert said MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS so he thought he would respond by painting them in the changing light, like waterlilies in a pond.

There is no justice. There is just us.

I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.

Surely I'm not the only one who sees it?

As a Scot, having seen our football team triumph in a way many of us couldn’t have dared to hope for in recent times, it genuinely hurts me to say this - we must boycott the World Cup. They are murdering people in the streets. Attending feels like acceptance or complicity.

I'd just like to apologise to George Lucas for thinking that his tale of an evil politician manufacturing a trade war so he can achieve absolute power and murder whoever the fuck he wants was a load of absolute bollocks. Now we're stuck with Emperor fucking Pumpateen.

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NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Please let the other leaders just corner Trump round the back of the building and fucking leather him. Just beat the tar out of him and then send him stumbling out, bruised, pantsed, showing his flabby, pathetic arse to the world’s media. All bets are off now anyway.

The Prime Minister rises to the global political moment and gives a speech of intelligence, insight and gravity. Unfortunately for Britain, it's a different Prime Minister.

Letter in Times today

I knew Trump being handed that Nobel Peace Prize reminded me of something.

ICE makes a lot more sense when you add the missing letters to get INCELS.

European leaders debate whether to let bully eat their lunch or punch him in the face www.cnbc.com/2026/01/19/e...

It's actually kind of funny watching Reform become a small boat filled with refugees from the Tory party.

More moves like this required, online (and other) publishing entities.

The Fox of Kensal Green by the lovely Richard Tyrrell is out as an audiobook today! Beautifully written characters and prose made this story truly a pleasure to narrate, and I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity. You can find it here: tinyurl.com/Fox-of-Kensa...