10 straight league wins for Clapton CFC and back to the top of the league. ⚽️👏

Busy ol' birthday week. #blessed Sun - No Other Choice @curzon.com (5/10); Harry Hill @sohotheatre.bsky.social (8/10) Wed - Ezra Furman @ O2Forum (9/10) Thurs - Wuthering Heights premiere @ Odeon LSquare (7/10) Fri - Midlake @ Electric Ballroom (9/10) Sat - snooze....😴

Having missed / avoided The Traitors entirely, finally watched the final tonight. Its basically the cast of Love Island playing the Cones Of Dunshire, isn't it? 🤔

Incredible work. 😂

"Trump and Malignant Narcissism" from psychologist and former John Hopkins University Professor Dr. John Gartner.

Quite a football weekend. Up to Portman Road for a 3-0 win yesterday, off to see a film about two former Ipswich Town managers today. Both entertaining, excellent in parts, but not completely coherent.

Talbot family outing. @o2academybrixton.bsky.social @soulwaxx.bsky.social

First live performance of the year; first “album of the year” contender of the year. Dry Cleaning @ Rough Trade East. Outstanding.

We can’t go on like this. In just two days, the average FTSE 100 CEO has made a median workers full time annual salary. The right calls this “wealth creation”. It’s wealth extraction. Time to tax the rich. @highpaycentre.bsky.social highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...

A set of results the insane Christmas fixture schedule deserves...

On my way to Portman Road for one of the few New Year's Day football matches I've attended. Thirty years ago today, I took my dad to what turned out to be his last match at his beloved White Hart Lane. It was quite a game. I'll be raising a glass to him today.

This begs so many questions... Not least: "who is Dipstick? And why does he only do tyres and exhausts? 🧐🤔

I did warn you... 🤔 www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/c...

Seriously. I am warning you.... #ChristmasNumber1Day metro.co.uk/2025/12/19/c...

Frosty, misty morning.

This year, Newcastle United's owner had people put to death at a rate of nearly one-a-day.

RIP to Rob Reiner, a director behind the camera for many iconic lines & images in modern cinema, and influence with Castle Rock Entertainment beyond his own. Choose to remember that, and his efforts to improve the lives of others - ignore the other noise and maybe pop on one of his films this week.

Last two gigs of a strong concert year this weekend - and they couldn't have been more different. @snappedankles.bsky.social at the ICA, Flyte at @kingsplacelondon.bsky.social. Splendid stuff.

Sadly, the precise opposite seems to be much more common. As this weekend has proven.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

It’s a special evening in an Ipswich-Spurs household like ours. This only happens very rarely (just a couple of times since Lily was born in 2002), so we treasure it. 🍾🥂😃

Some people seem to find sharing the results to be deeply uncool, but I love seeing what is on other people's Spotify Wrapped. December's many EoY lists (newspapers, retailers, web mags) is one of the best things about this time of year IMHO. Here is mine... Please share yours...

What did I tell you?

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Music and dogs. 🥰

Gorgeous dog walk this morning.

Share a 90s film that you feel deserves more love… (Strictly, it’s 1989, but… ☺️)

Mercury nominated Joe Webb Trio at the PEX Jazz Club in Dean St. Splendid way to end the week.

Special treat tonight. Home delivery Chinese takeaway - and it came with a free ashtray! #winnerwinnerChinesedinner #classy

Flesh is a brilliant novel and deserved Booker winner. But (warning for the faint of heart) it is also particularly explicit in parts. More importantly however, it may also be the first Booker winner to feature the pelican crossing at the end of our road. 😃 @wansteadium.bsky.social

This is Herman. He learned how to eat corn on the cob today. And within 11 seconds, he became an expert. 13/10 (TT: devonjohnson07)

"Don't look at me, I'm irrelevant." 'The Young Ones' made their BBC2 debut on this day in 1982.

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

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. bsky.app/profile/situ...

My God. He really has no self awareness at all, does he…

So, Fronkensteen. What a crazy, incoherent, overlong, 149-minute mess. Let me give some advice - watch the 1931 Karloff (70 minute) original twice. You will be enriched by it's brilliance and you will save 10 minutes of your life. 🤷

Among the downsides of a team on the up is that away section tickets sell out instantly, so watching my team with the opposition fans has become a bit of a habit. Today was the 8th time I've had to sit on my hands in 18 months - & (as a 4-1 victory) easily one of the best. #ITFC #COYB

Brilliant piece here from Saturday’s @theguardian.com by Rob Evans about the mysterious sources of Mr Windsor’s wealth - it includes this summary of the motivation behind his relationship with Epstein. Damning. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

After a crappy week for my football team, a bit of this would not go amiss today. 12.30pm kick off. Come on!!!

Warrington Runcorn. In Bethnal Green Road. At the Rich Mix. Spectacular. @warringtonruncorn.com

Damn shame that movies like this are going to small screens so quickly, but this is a superb watch - and has just dropped on Netflix. Worth watching this weekend. www.netflix.com/gb/title/817...

"Why do we play with three drummers on stage? Because it's the limit. If it was down to us we'd have 50 drummers," Soulwax, Rough Trade East, Oct 23rd 2025. @roughtrade1976.bsky.social

This is sad news. Soft Cell were a hugely important act to me as a teenager... Opened my eyes to so much music and culture... www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/s...

Some 250 miles from home, not the best place to lose a key football match, on the telly. But sometimes it happens. Last night also happened to be my 100th English football ground, current and now demolished, league and non-league), 111th in all, across 45 seasons.

To anyone wavering over whether to check out I Swear - don't delay. A superb, intensely moving film, it shouldn't be missed. The bonus for me today was seeing it at the beautiful art deco Tyneside Cinema in the center of Newcastle. Quite a double bill. 😍😍 www.imdb.com/title/tt3151...

Well, it wasn't the result I wanted personally, but what a boring world it would be if we all agreed on everything. Great show though (congrats to Maggie, Jo & at the BPI) and Sam Fender raised the roof with his win. 👏👏👏👏👏

En route to Newcastle for the Mercury Music Prize. For what it’s worth, my humble opinion is that the winner should be Jacob Alon, Martin Carthy or Joe Webb. The reasons are…

Match 2 of 5 in 13 days, this time a 4-2 home win for Clapton CFC vs Rayleigh Town in the Thurlow Nunn Eastern Counties Lge, Div 1 S. Big result for the Tons vs a decent side; think we go 4th with a game on hand. Meanwhile Bobby is distracted by a big stick. @claptoncfc.co.uk #nonleaguedogs

This headline is obviously ultra-simplified but at some level it's correct, my retirement account is at the mercy of the stupidest, most gullible prats (acting collectively on the belief that everybody else is stupid) in the world

Popped into the incredible new V&A East Storehouse in Stratford today. Completely knocked out by the sheer scale of the place. Get hold of a ticket if you can, by hook or by crook.