The GOAT. John Robertson RIP.

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If Gen A are ever interested in what Teletext felt like, I'll ask them to tell me what the 5th bus to arrive will be

Kate Bush is up on the tree. @heykidsshop.bsky.social

Right, off to see Betty Boo in Shebu, which gives me the excuse to share her video from before she had a record deal and saw Public Enemy in Shepherds Bush Maccas and rapped for them. The rest is history. youtu.be/8PSbg7ynGqM?...

CHO, CHO, Sangare.

Majestic Wine?

I spent a week in the Tom Wolfe (Bonfire of the Vanities) archive in New York earlier this year. The guy’s notes were impenetrable. Would love an AI solution but I doubt it’s realistic when people invent their own shorthand.

Enjoyed this podcast interview with Peter Saville. Wide-ranging, not just the old Factory legends and myths. open.spotify.com/episode/5QuA...

So Bardella *asked* to be interviewed and the BBC just rolled with it?! #r4today

You will be visited by three spirits.

Interviewer: And what would you say your biggest weakness is? Me: I guess sometimes I can be too much of a perfectionist.

It's maybe an obvious choice but I remember the New Brighton shots being published in (I think) the Sunday Express magazine when I was about 13 and I was absolutely fascinated by the entire set. #RIPMartinParr

‘If anything, we trained too much’. www.bbc.com/sport/cricke...

Fritz Lang, in an interview with William Friedkin, talks about the robot from Metropolis. You can watch the full 92-minute interview at the link below.

And please remember that the FIFA Prize for Economics is NOT a proper FIFA Prize.

New flying taxi story just dropped.

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

This was a great pint, even if the pun is crowbarred into its name. And followed by a brilliant display from Forest at the World Famous City Ground.

I’d rather they tasted of sardine than marzipan.

Rural connectivity solved ✅

Bro-ometer, surely, @katie0martin.ft.com.

A movie that takes place where you’re from.

Arrival in Birkenhead.

Birkenhead Day of The Dead 2025.

🌳Nice away day….🌳

Mat Collishaw, said to be the artist from the Kingston poster, is brilliant. If you ever get the chance to see his zoetrope ‘All Things Fall’, do so. youtu.be/izMdrZCZ0Mo?...

‘There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

This reads like it should be on the Jenny Holzer timeline. @jennyholzer.

Happy #spacemen3 Day!

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

Now do driving test appointments.

Troy Parrot just scored a hat-trick to take Ireland into the World Cup final playoffs. Is there a more Martin Amis name IRL than that?

Mate just ordered a couple of pints of Guinness in Madrid.

Jason Atherton’s restaurant is promoting its Sunday lunch using guess which song #AccidentalPartridge www.instagram.com/reel/DP1AqRH...

I feel that news outlets need more consistency in whose face needs to be blurred out in this photo

If you never seen Gavin Bryars perform ‘Jesus Blood’ before, tomorrow is the perfect opportunity. It’s wonderful and always very moving in this setting.

if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social relevant for point 3 of your ‘manifesto for men’ in today’s Times…

That opening note is like a time machine.

I’m in Lewes for bonfire night 🔥 youtu.be/2xjX0BKSBKk?...

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

They are filming the new Spiderman in my local London park. They’ve converted a disused hospital into an ER room. Took this earlier - is that Spidey I see along the top walkway?