Dutch satire: UK bans fax for people under 16.

Doesn’t really count, but yesterday we almost ran over Ai Weiwei crossing the road because I distracted the driver by excitedly shouting ‘Ai Weiwei’

Years ago I was on a stag weekend in Poland. We went paintballing. We were chatting to the Polish guys who ran it over beers afterwards and one casually mentioned that British dudes were the ONLY ones who ever seemed to listen and keep their eye protection on. So we explained Byker Grove to them.

Give that student her own show.

We're long overdue a sideburns comeback.

Daphne Shadwell 1927 - 2026 Pioneering TV programme maker and director. tvark.org?s=Ready+Stea... Daphne inspired the title of legendary ITV music show Ready Steady Go. “Most TV directors counted down ‘ten, nine, eight,' etc. I was different. I used to end the countdown with, ‘Ready, steady, go!’”

Suspect that this is just the tip of a huge iceberg Russia was behind arson attacks targeting PM, BBC reveals www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My (probably unwise) take on radicalisation of older people is that, if the government of the time handled the Great Move Online more carefully, the process might have been slower and kinder to those less willing to engage. However, that doesn’t excuse rabid stupidity.

ah, this is sad, but what a good innings he had. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

RIP Daphne Shadwell, a legendary producer/director in early ITV Music, Drama, variety and childrens programmes. Her production of 'Object Z' was released on DVD last Autumn. She helmed pre-Python 'Do Not Adjust Your Set', David Nixon, Pardon My Genie, Ready Steady Go, and many episodes of Rainbow.

Lmao come on man

Such an accident-prone people. A nation of Frank Spencers.

Quite tasty, although I think I prefer the bananas mashed, rather than in chunks (I followed a recipe on the Waitrose app). Nothing quite so cheering as baking yourself something nice…

My banana bread is a little burnt (the oven that came with the house is on the hot side) but smells good. I shall report back on the taste.

Happy 46th anniversary to The Shining 🪓 If you're celebrating Kubrick’s horror masterpiece today, there’s no better companion than his original treatment—an essential read for fans of the film. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/stanley-kubr...

🐈 Jimmy Pesto the cat 🛒 Aubuchon Hardware, Newmarket, NH

"This is a little something that we like to call... Out To Tender"

I can't stop thinking about this utterly delicious anecdote in last week's Guardian Q&A with Mark Williams...

The various insane spheres of my offline and online lives have collided. Someone has written to say that I am not allowed to write about George Michael, or music, because I once complained that I don’t like pianos in train stations.

When you grow up seeing hitmen move like shadows and with smooth ultra fast control construct long range rifles with elaborate silencers and then reading about assassins defeated by a country because they drive on the left.

The same employers who witter on about young people lacking the basic social skills, see nothing wrong with not bothering to tell job applicants that they have not been successful. www.ft.com/content/2af1...

Have you always been a bit thick, Christine, or did you have to do an evening class?

We have reached peak Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome, good job everyone

If you like stationery you’re in luck. We are open today 11-6. Holborn/TCR tubes are 5 mins away. 12 Bury Place, next to the wonderful London Review Bookshop.

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

World Cup may be a shitshow but at least we have this amazing new reaction meme.

(Our bedtime routine includes unplugging the entire internet, because the government told us to.)

Order this evening, because we'll be taking down the link right before we closedown for the night and start playing the 440Hz tone at you to make sure you turn off your computer for the night.

What a lovely story this is, I had completely missed the viral original but all of it is absolutely wonderful:

Big fan of the Amelia Earhart one. Surely the thing that would have more stopped you being afraid of the Bermuda Triangle was the fact she went missing in the Pacific

They fly under the radar somewhat, but Reels are also quite full of disinformation

The pledge not to raise general taxation is basically this government’s original sin and a synecdoche of everything that’s wrong with it - timid, and forced into a series of unpalatable, harmful and unpleasant manoeuvres that please literally nobody because of its timidity.

I wrote a short thing about one of my favourite moments in Married... with Children. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/elec...

Pleased to see the triumphant return of the News at 5.45 on ITV tonight, a week or so before the triumphant return of the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1

Les Dawson was enjoying a Berni Steak in 1980

Every generation fetishises the media texture of their earliest years. Just as we fetishises grainy 16mm film, kids today are obsessed with VHS dropout. But what will the next generation have to go mad about? 4:3 safe framing?

Good afternoon to you all

I see that the Southampton rioters are once again proving to be the kind of decent, law-abiding, women-defending, pleasant stout yeomen of the shire we should be paying attention to.

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

The thing in this interview that I identify with is the feeling that the place where you work is more than an outfit that gives you money in exchange for your labour. I'm now at the age where I and a lot of friends have left firms after long periods, and it can feel like a relationship ending.

Started watching A Very Peculiar Practice. a) Excellent. b) Considering who wrote it, Stephen is essentially just a more professional version of Martin in Game On. And Robert has an awful lot in common with Matthew, for that matter.

There is a technical term historians use to describe interpretations like this. It’s: ‘Bollocks’. Factually incorrect, deeply wrong-minded, and actually just plain silly

Absolutely flawless "women, you'll get yours come the revolution" vibes from Jacobin here. Perfect trad socialism, no notes.

I’m not saying @dirtyfeed.org is becoming middle-aged, but he’s just tried to search iPlayer for A Very Peculiar Practice with the phrase ‘most unusual’, which has a different flavour entirely.

impossible power levels as a poster. this man has so much talent it's hard to even comprehend

Final plug for this episode. Many thanks to everyone who left a YouTube comment (even the bizarre ones). It really helped us massively. youtu.be/qjX_f7pmic0?...

Is it a sin?

A joyful anniversary today, because it’s 31 years since Kees Moeliker witnessed “the first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard” when a duck flew into the glass wall of his museum, dying instantly. Violent death, however (as you may have surmised) was not the final indignity visited upon it