Haven‘t seen a BBC News late bulletin becoming this short for ages - nine minutes of news plus one and half minutes of weather. Probably the shortest since New Year’s Day 2020 when it’s only four minutes.

Laxmi of #Pluribus is basically 80% of English-language posts Twitter put on my timeline.

Apple has tweaked the cover arts of its Apple Music Live albums…

Alex Warren’s Ordinary is the UK’s biggest song in 2025. It beat Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need”, “Messy” by Lola Young, the Kpop Demon Hunters hit “Golden”, and former Christmas number two, Gracie Abrams’s “That’s So True”. Bruno Mars has two top 10 songs. Only three in top 10 are released this year.

Playing Coldplay after Gracie Abrams once again reminded me of Hackney Church…

Spent my Christmas night watching the NBA and… The Jaws. Jesus.

HELP… #NBAChristmas

Happy Christmas guys and I survived #Whamageddon and its Mariah variant for the second year in a row! I always feel old Christmas songs are being played more and earlier - whether in the UK or the US. So I compared the UK chart data from a certain week in the past decade and suddenly realised… Oh.

Happy Christmas from BBC News.

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

So Weiss failed to 1) protect her newsroom and reporters 2) understand public perception 3) comprehend the impact of her own actions 4) REALIZE THEY ALREADY SENT THE EPISODE TO CANADA WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THE INTERNET AND CAN BROADCAST IT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

I tuned in to two international music stations of China’s state radio to witness their closure. Then I missed the biggest media story in China tonight - a TikTok-like platform was flooded by pornography. Felt like I was in Sheung Wan for hours on 21 July 2019 but the main story was in Yuen Long.

Nicki Minaj takes the stage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference as Erika Kirk’s special guest…

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.

What does “once in a blue moon” mean?

Just saw 119 pages of this…

The UK has a new Christmas number one. Kylie Minogue’s XMAS beat Wham’s Last Christmas and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You on the most important chart of the year in Britain. Last Christmas was number one in both 2023 and 2024.

Kylie Jenner now directs ITV News at Ten…

Never seen this Hong Kong censored version of #Deadpool - the skee-ball scene is between Chinese New Year and International Women’s Day. In the original version it’s before all the festivals.

Inflation eased to 2.7% in November, less than expected.

I did some data breakdown and found this only happened last week… On the first week of December R2 played more Wham! and Mariah than R1.

Taiwan’s lame-duck president William Lai bashed the opposition parties for “legislative abuse and opposition dictatorship”… President Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party won 45% seats in the parliamentary election.

Currently on day 4 of #Whamageddon and after two close calls I saw a Vodafone Christmas ad on YouTube… with a caption saying “since 1984”. God it was so scary.

Saw an online post where lots of Hong Kong netizens are surprised that how Ariana Grande’s look changes, in their words, “turning black”. But none of them noticed that the last picture was Cynthia Erivo.

It’s very interesting that the “35+ station” Radio 2 plays Kylie Minogue’s new Christmas song XMAS more than Radio 1, while the “younger” Radio 1 plays Last Christmas and All I Want For Christmas Is You more than Radio 2.

Are you kidding…

Tricked, abducted and abused: Inside China’s schools for ‘rebellious’ teens

Fun fact: Both Last Christmas and All I Want For Christmas Is You are played on Radio 1 more than Radio 2 so far this December - as of 11 December 13:00.

Across the pacific, the Chinese Ministry of Defence has got Sabrina-ed too…

Maisie Peters covers ‘Christmas Light ’ by Coldplay live in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge!

It’s been announced that Tony Dokoupil will become the next anchor of the CBS Evening News.

Maisie Peters covered Coldplay’s Christmas Lights in the Live Lounge and it’s so beautiful.

It’s Friday then, it’s Saturday Sunday what?

Well I don’t know how to make a proper chart but still here it is… Yeah both DC and LegCo elections are included. A reminder - Hong Kong’s electoral overhaul was imposed in mid 2021.

China’s national security agency in Hong Kong summoned some foreign journalists to express “concerns” on the coverage of the fire and the upcoming parliamentary election in Hong Kong…

POLITICO: “.. Almost half — 46 percent — say the cost of living in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

As someone who put down my phone during A Sky Full of Stars and returned my wristband after the show… I truly think recording Jonny Buckland and Chris Martin’s performance with Gracie Abrams at a no-phone private show and posing it online is extremely disgraceful.

It’s even worse than China.

Oops. #FIFAWorldCup

A Head Full of Dreams turns 10 today so… Happy Friday.

Olivia Dean’s Man I Need is BBC Radio 1’s Biggest Song of 2025. The song was the UK’s number one single in October, and currently it’s number four on the Official Chart. Lola Young is the runner-up with Messy. RAYE’s WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! is at number three.

Radio 1 is counting down their top 100 songs in 2025…

Woke up and the first thing I saw was Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland performed I miss you, I’m sorry with Gracie Abrams… not sure if I really woke up but what the hell are you kidding me.

Just heard an artist called Taylow Swift is extremely popular in Australia this year… #SpotifyWrapped

Thought McLaren was operating a food delivery service in China.

People in Asia: welcome to the club…

Someone my friend knows lives in the burnt flat in Hong Kong. He was trapped in the toilet along with his wife but his fire safety knowledge helped him in the next eight hours before being rescued. Saw lots of stories from the media but hearing them in real life is always powerful.

Presenter Laura Woods appeared to faint while leading the coverage of England's friendly against Ghana on Tuesday in Southampton.