Went to see ‘The Drama’. Amazing. Now that is one original plot twist and conceit….

Went to see One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Old Vic tonight. You should too. Was incredible.

Possibly the best tweet ever committed to the site.

Another young persons drinking establishment in London where all the bar staff refer to customers as ‘love’ as tho I’m Greenhalghes bakery in Bolton. What’s going on?

So earlier this year I felt really glum & decided to do a few new things to try to lift myself. One was to learn to play the Ukelele I bought in the Xmas 2020 lockdown. Tonight the group I’m with is performing at a bar in Shoreditch, including Bulletproof by La Roux. Not quite matched her quiff…

If I owned a grocer’s called Tuck Shop, I would have not have chosen this font

This recipe looks lovely and most of all its instruction to ‘de-beard’ the spring onions, which I have never heard before (tho wondering whether anyone eats them unshaven and hirsute?)

hold my beer, hemingway

Have to share this at least once a year. Always struck she was maybe the Italian Cilla Black, albeit performing a song written for her by Ennio Morricone, that inspired Johnny Marr. Be patient - it’s absolutely breathtaking www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOS...

I am so in love with these two. ‘Dual Carriageway’. Chris Morris meets Julia David meets Ali G meets Mrs Merton in a parallel universe www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

On why the future of adult social care needs a shared story, not a 'brand'. Blogged: makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/t...

was out to see Mogwai at the Albert Hall tonight. Fabulous and so overpowering as always. But their sound and imitations of it so ubiquitous now that was unable to escape the creeping sense of dread that I was one of a number of suspects in an ITV drama about a missing child. youtu.be/9hMw9AavXqU

discussing trend for comedians/comedy actors to play murderers & sex offenders in TV biopics: Stephen Marchant as Stephen Port; Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile; Martin Cloons as Huw Edwards. Concluded Ronnie Corbett would’ve made a good Rose West. Others?

It was spring in London yesterday. Now it is a very bad shipping forecast.

That bit in Years and Years where Trump nukes a small island to make a point to China, and thankfully no country retaliates in kind.

Misty morning run 🏃

RIP Chuck Norris www.youtube.com/watch?si=XSO...

From an amazing new album. How cool is this ?! youtu.be/aVgbDP8yEz0

www.scope.org.uk/news-and-sto... The Timms Review into PIP (Personal Independence Payment) in the UK will be seeking input from people who receive PIP... It's so very IMPORTANT TO HAVE YOUR SAY if you receive PIP; the eligibility criteria and the link to register are further down the page linked.

Let there be….

Looking for Linda by Hue and Cry

fuck your desert island disc, I want to know your Guantanamo bay song. what song would the government use to torture you at a Black Site

Something rather magical about this episode of Desert Island Discs www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

NO LONGER CORRECTING TYPOS - THEY ARE ARTISINAL PROOF OF HUMANITY.

Funny listening to British Ministers and officials relying on the rules based order & Nato's articles to explain why they're not prepared to come to the aid of their pissed up old school pal in the taxi queue brawl he's just started.

A friend once said this lion, on the south side of Westminster Bridge had an expression that made it look like it had been caught doing something very private (he specified but I’m not writing it here). That was 30 years ago and I can’t pass it without remembering.

Morning 🌅

What a gorgeous version of an already gorgeous LCD Soundsystem song by Ezra Furman www.youtube.com/watch?v=cySk...

Dreamt about Donald Trump last night. He was washing up and I was drying, and he was trying to tell me something important but was clearly having a stroke so I couldn't make it out. It woke me up at 3am and I barely slept for the rest of the night. So there's another reason to hate him.

Dunno if this will make sense to anyone or not... what can my failure to calm my friend's daughter's night terrors, and what the solution proved to be, teach us about meeting the anxieties and conflicts of our wider world? Rearranging the sheets lnkd.in/emBrE6N9

Love love loved this talk by @teuntoebes.bsky.social at @nuffieldtrust.org.uk last week. "We can create change through fear, or through hope" www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TC5...

Dirty Business was an exceptional piece of TV, but expect won’t have had much attention given the news this week. The whole politics of ‘red tape’ and low regulation is laid bare. www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

Ha, yes I had one from the Everyman cinema of all places recently. I mean, who takes their mum to the cinema for Mother’s Day anyway?!

Ear. Worm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLXS...

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

Well, it’s to the point www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Scorchio 🥵

Listening to Kemi Badenoch on Today. If Keir Starmer has one thing on his side…

That bit at the start of ‘Threads’ where people are just carrying on with their lives and the radio is on in the background, reporting on a growing conflict following a US-backed coup in Iran.

Just remembered how at The Roundhouse in Camden on Friday evening all the male bar staff said ‘what would you like, love’ or ‘thanks, love’ as tho working in a bakers in a Northern town and it was both very strange but also endearing. Is this a thing?

How do narratives impact care? On Friday, join @teuntoebes.bsky.social as he draws on his own experience of living in a care home to challenge how we think about care. We'll discuss how a shift in narrative can re‑centre dignity, safety & human connection 🤝 🎥 Watch: buff.ly/9RtiYiq #ntsummit

Pete Hegseth is speaking www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPIv...

Good afternoon 🌸

Still coming down from last night's Big Special gig at the Roundhouse. Such an amazing atmosphere in there, which support act Gans managed to whip up. Felt like one of those gigs where you'll never get to see them in such an intimate venue again www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiFE...

Off to see Big Special at The Roundhouse. Second best band in Britain to Sleaford Mods youtu.be/wKnlDWD5xXg?...

Brief respite

I think the collapse of print newspapers and the end of linear TV habits has created a context collapse for news. Where once day to day reporting and investigation and lifestyle sat side by side in one package, now they live as seperate things in people's minds, with reality warping effects

This is a beautiful love song. That it is a beautiful love song with repeated reference to custard makes it even more special IMHO youtu.be/3g0CRY6dLrs?...

oh, chef's kiss