Why has nobody yet suggested Fred Emney Picks A Pop?

Just recalled my school work experience. Career advisor: "What's your dream placement? Think big!" Me: "I'd like to work in TV, film or..." Career advisor: "What's your dad's job?" Me: "Sales rep in a menswear firm" Career advisor: "Ok, so I'm placing you in a dept store in menswear. Have fun!"

Fucking hell Ipswich - good luck with those optics you absolute knobs

The Empire Strikes Back (1980): Fantastic Hungarian poster by Tibor Helényi

So, UK ICE officers broke into an Indian restaurant with stun guns and demanded to see people’s passports? 🤔 Racism is alive and well in the UK - government sponsored!

This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…

A while between gigs for me so happy to have an essay included in the extras for this new collection of 1950s juvenile delinquency films, released by @imprintfilms.bsky.social my essay looks pop culture responses to the 1950s moral panic over rising youth crime viavision.com.au/products/you...

Everyone is receiving their Council Tax bill through the post at the moment. The most hated tax. But judging from the awful standard of ‘discourse’ in FB groups around the county - I can only urge as many people as possible to read/share this Thanks! cllrdrnathanley.substack.com/p/the-adult-...

In case anyone’s wondering how the new “AI” baggage screening is going in Scottish airports, my modest stash of Tunnocks caramel wafers was flagged as “suspicious” this morning. Tunnocks. Suspicious. In /Scotland/.

Optometrist and artist George Mayerle’s International Test Chart. Test chart, Negative, circa 1907

First heard as US and Israeli strikes on Iran began, the shortwave broadcast has since been traced to a US military base in Germany—but its purpose and its operator remain unclear.

When Portman came out about how creepy Moby had been to her, I started openly chatting about how we were told not to let under 16s attend his live promos. But then everyone just forgot and moved on. So weird which wrong uns take and which ones slide

When I worked in radio we had to be warned to keep any under 16yo fans away from Moby's visits.

We live in a timeline where "capybara sighted at Stonehenge" is a real news story but we're too immersed in doom scrolling to pay attention. www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/2595599...

“This, my sweet, is a letter from my solicitor telling you that your husband has filed a petition for divorce. It also tells you to get yourself a solicitor pretty damn quick. Happy Christmas, Ange.”

I never knew this West person lived in a high-concept gaff designed to look like an abandoned NCP car park in somewhere like Rotherham.

Nothing to see here, just the police destroying the evidence of their own criminality at Orgreave.

You too can look like a Svenska Dansband when you buy your coordinated outfits from Postitar of Finland.

He could have just written: “I am a wanker.”

Neil Young, painted by Joni Mitchell.

How to tell you're in Yorkshire, the going to the supermarket edition: If the gentleman in front of you in the queue is in full Islamic dress, apart from the flat cap and Nike trainers, but is buying 12 bottles of real ale and 6 bags of pork scratchings to watch The Match with, yer in Yorkshire.

Chaka Khan!

I'm genuinely really quite fucking disappointed in this country's abilities to support the Palestinian people without becoming rancid antisemites in the process. The government doesn't meaningfully do the former, the people don't meaningfully do the latter

Every home should have a copy of "Philosophy Of The World". God bless the Shaggs, they were great and nobody else sounded like them.

The Financial Conduct Authority is going to spend the next three months throwing taxpayers' money at Palantir in return for the privilege of giving Palantir access to some eminently saleable information thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/03/what...

Donate here to Hatzola, the Jewish charity whose ambulances were burned in an antisemitic attack in Golders Green this morning: hatzola.org/donate/

Oh. So you can stream Canadian animation & documentaries for free. Everything the National Film Board has is just... there. No gate kept. www.nfb.ca/animation/

Moby, dick.

Stop! Stop everything! Watch this. It's the best thing you'll see all day if, like me, you like pop music, electric guitars, recording studios and seeing people smoking indoors.

This is Golders Green. A wonderful place with people from all over the world living together in peace.

Wash your mouth out.

At least I get to repost the greatest headline the Independent has ever run.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Bus trip soundtrack: fascinating edition of In Our Time @bbcsounds.bsky.social

I have the book and have just looked through the references. There are 12 in total for the entire thing. 5 are to Matt Goodwin’s own Substack, 3 include a reference to ChatGPT in the UTM, and 1 Telegraph article quotes… Matt Goodwin. It’s the academic equivalent of sniffing your own farts.

New project- 出口🏃🏻‍♂️ Shinjuku Station has over 200 exits, I'm going to draw all of them wrongly, not where they actually take you, but the many worlds that they could take you to.

Huge in Finland, of all places. Denmark too.

Are there people out there making money from consulting on the hilariously clichéd list names that French municipal candidates run under? ‘Pour Strasbourg’, ‘Aimer Strasbourg’ and ‘Utiles pour Strasbourg’ are in a run-off for bland, ‘Strasbourg sans frontières’ sounds like they want to annex Kehl.

“…Although renewable energy sources have been supplying more ⚡️, fossil fuels still acc’t for 60%. “Talk to someone who doesn’t make a lot of money, & see if they’re resilient to oil & gas,” Mr. Williams-Derry said. “In terms of a variable expenditure that you can’t control, it’s up there.” 🔌💡 (7/n)

[linkedin post] and in the 157 seconds i was legally dead, i thought about the role ai can play in teambuilding

Having just worked directly under a handful of former Amazon execs who were acronym-spinning clowns that couldn't get out of their own way to get any actual work done, this is concerning.

Convo in two of my group chats has turned to this purveyor of fine cuisine in Great Horton

To any political campaign Galloway is seeking to exploit. Your answer to him should always be 'fuck off'.

How about a little love for Sir Ralph Richardson and the lovely Jill Bennet?

Tell us your favourite … tree: oak flowers: chrysanthemums season: spring tea: white, no sugar. Nambarrie or Punjana brands preferred coffee: white, 2 sugars, and strong time of day: just before bedtime genre: documentaries dessert: sticky toffee pudding

Really enjoying the new Squeeze album. Hard to believe Glenn Tilbrook was just 16 when this was written, with Chris Difford at the ripe old age of 19. A concept album (my favourite kind) which was simply too complicated for the teenagers to record back then. #NowPlaying #squeeze #Trixies

"Beware the green menace" are the dying words of a bowler-hatted civil servant who has collapsed in woodland in the pre-titles of an episode of The Avengers.

I've become used to the descent into vileness of Laurence Fox, Morrisey and John Cleese, but Jan Leeming? Jan Leeming?

Yay Nancy Banks-Smith. 97 and still with us. The greatest TV critic who ever lived. Turned down an OBE. Both Guardian anthologies of her writing are shamefully out of print. Every sentence she wrote was the very opposite of me me me showy clickbait. Genius with a pen.