Random episode of #TheSopranos flicks on. S3 finale. Jackie Jr’s funeral and wake. Uncle Ju sings Core ‘Ngrato. It’s actually Dominic Chianese’s voice. His performance. Still incredible.

Well, as it’s 28 January, it must be time to mark the 365th anniversary of that most rational example of that most sensible of judicial measures, capital punishment. Yes, this was the day Oliver Cromwell’s corpse was exhumed so he could be hanged and beheaded for regicide 🧵

Nigella to GBBO is, and will be, the best piece of business in the January transfer window

The (as far as I know) last surviving Auxiliary Fire Service pumping station on the Thames at Charlton. Still hanging on!

Americans discovering #Claudia Winkleman. #TheTraitors www.instagram.com/reel/DT8NQmx...

Huge if true.

The ludicrous A24 aesthetic of The Traitors is so much part of the fun. I suspect in TV terms it might be a post-Taskmaster thing. As in: you can turn a run of the mill party game into a whole world for telly by picking a wild vibe: Prisoner-esque goofy Alice in Wonderland, or Evanessence Cluedo.

Noooooooooooooo!!!!!! #thetraitors

Just give it to Big Sam until the end of the series. #thetraitors

Bottler. #Steven #thetraitors

Ra. Chel. #thetraitors

makes sense tbf two great institutions that were doing fine until too many Americans got involved

It’s the 59th anniversary today of one of the greatest anniversaries in British culture. I refer, of course, to the Dwile Flonking match between Beccles and Bungay, filmed by Pathé News, rescuing a traditional pastime from the centuries of obscurity in which it had been tragically languishing 🧵

Fallen Danish troops in Afghanistan.

Sir Alex Ferguson has already demanded that Mercurio add an extra five minutes to the end of each episode.

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

One of the Bellingcat Discord members has made Wordle, but for identifying warships keel-fawn.vercel.app

🚀 NASA's moonbound Artemis II rocket is on its launch pad! The SLS vehicle and Orion spacecraft, with its European Service Module, rolled out from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building and reached Launch Pad 39B on Saturday (pic: ESA/S.Corvaja). go.nasa.gov/4qtbMDh @exploration.esa.int

#thesnooker #masters

The Class, in every sense, of ‘92. #thesnooker

Apparently not.

Is it “by winning things”?

“And what *sort* of fever do you think it is, doc?”

The worms are in the #wormery.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

The Airborne Museum at Hartenstein in Oosterbeek tells the story of the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. Step by step you go through the Battle of Arnhem. You can read what there is to see in this article.

The magic of the cup! Plucky Man Utd so close to taking it to extra-time!

But I just want to eat unsmashed food.

Nice to see your boyfriend finally get some recognition.

Cheered myself up with an episode of a classic 1980s private investigator drama. That was a Boon.

Proverbs 26:11

Wow. How does the BBC keep coming up with these original dramas? Wonder if there’s a Jane Austen element to it…no, no…that would be *too* innovative.

At least he can now return to his podcast exploring high performance and the 14 books you must read in 2026.

Always the same, sad story at this time year. Streets full of abandoned Man Utd managers. Stray coaches, who thought they’d found a loving home. But were only bought for European qualification and a good Carabao Cup run.

This implies the existence of *unlicensed* Gruffalo trails and I’m very much here for the cop show based on the unit tackling them.

When you order a replacement for yourself off of Temu.

"I'd like to order 100 coffins, please. Oh, and make sure they float." "That sounds a little suspicious, not sure if we can do that." "It's for The Traitors." "Oh, that's fine. Do you need some headstones too?" #TheTraitors

Could Amanda, the former undercover copper, look any more like a former undercover copper? #Traitors

Set designers absolutely outdoing themselves on the IKEA-showroom-in-a-pleasure-dome vibes. #Traitors

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Grok + X now seems to be awash with images undressing women, without consent. It is an issue with the potential for a very very broad coalition - across political divides - to insist the Musk platform gets back within the law, on all fronts, not just this example. www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Some of the best & worst TV of the year. Best>>> Traitors/Celebrity Traitors. Just exceptional television. Big Boys. Final episode landed very hard. Unforgotten. ITV’s banker, continuing to deliver. Adolescence. Extraordinary bit of craft but…(see below) This City Is Ours. The Scousepranos. 1/

It’ll be 17 years until his next one though.

Damn. Was hoping he’d join my new catering venture, Lecter.

With Brigitte Bardot’s passing, only three of the people listed in We Didn’t Start The Fire now remain alive. (Also: for a 16 month period in 1951-52, all of them were alive at the same time).

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