Watching the second season of the new All Creatures Great and Small show, and just want to say that I unironically love the The Big Cricket Match trope in English period dramas. Fucken love it.

Jools’ Hootenanny or Ronan Keating & Friends?

All these years, and I only just noticed it's a CARRACK'S original Jools Holland Piano Lock. Anyway, mine's ready.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

Also proves, once again, that the Academy Awards are completely laughable.

Ok, so, anyone else think Oppenheimer is shit? 80 minutes remaining but I think I'm done.

And I'll always remember the number of farms I drove past in my bus, across the East Riding, North Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, who were proudly displaying 'VOTE LEAVE' boards in their fields. Sympathy. It lies in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.

Boxing Day in #Scarborough

This Christmas morning in #Scarborough

Christ Nick Ferrari has just been introduced

Tis the season to be stuck in a hospital clinic waiting room with This Morning farting out of the TV.

Somewhere out there right now is a programmer vibe-coding an FDA-regulated medical device, and somewhere else is the unemployed person whose job was to inspect that code and hold it to standards and who was fired by a 19 year old.

I’m really not so good on cinema these days but I would very much reccomend ‘It Was Just An Accident’ by Jafar Panahi.

I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”

As a matter of fact I've been to see Dr Zhivago Oh. Well, what did he say? #PricklyHeat

Ending the weekend with two Dorothy's for the curtain call of Scarborough Theatre Company's terrific production of The Wizard of Oz. #scarborough

I’d never seen this until this evening. Isn’t it wonderful? ♥️

The longer I watch the mainstream media breathlessly carry water for the ruling class, the less seriously I am able to take any other aspect of their supposed journalism. Oh, no shit, the redacted Epstein files don't implicate anyone important? Quelle surprise! ... jesus christ.

After being ever present all season, guess who took Woltemade out of their fantasy football team during the week. #ffs

Nuts in May is being repeated on BBC4 on Sat 10th Jan at 21:50. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

A birthday shout-out for Celia Johnson - born on this day in 1908. There's much more to her than just BRIEF ENCOUNTER. Here she is in the great, under-seen festive film, THE HOLLY AND THE IVY (George More O'Ferrall, UK, 1952). It features another of her wonderfully nuanced performances.

To be fair this is how I feel about most posts I see across social media, including my own.

I love Floella B, don't get me wrong, but I have to really fight the urge not to reply to her life positive posts with...

Hard to pick favourites from Kirsty, cos there are just so many... But, this one doesn't get chosen by others very often, so let's have it now. 🎶

A few years ago I was watching The Good Life and got distracted by thinking about Tom & Barbara's record collection, obviously this then led me on to making a playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/4bI...

Sweet fucking Christ make it stop

Working as a Photoshopper in Snappy Snaps (yeah, it was a thing around 2001), someone asked to have a hat taken off a person in a picture. I asked if they had other pictures we could use for the top of his head, the customer replied "well you'll see that when you take the hat off"

man i have never had as many stupid questions as when i worked at Lush, just thinking about it now and we really put retail workers Through It don't we

We’re doing a question time special for our Christmas podcast offering. Send in yours below!

Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

"Bluesky is an echo chamber." "Bluesky doesn't have enough reach" "Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right" I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.

NEW! Ep 36 of #FirstLastAnything and top TV arts producer and filmmaker Jamie Muir (@jamiembrixton.bsky.social) joins me on the textcast to talk about The South Bank Show, The Late Show, early life with dad Frank, and some key record purchases in his life. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/12/14/f...

Merry Christmas

It’s not just a UI/UX issue. Instead of understanding what people’s needs are and helping them bridge over the gap, or understanding what people’s actual problems are and designing solutions for them, they develop *products* and then go about coercing, forcing, or confounding people in to using them

You will be visited by three spirits

Martin Parr R.I.P. Such sad, sad news. He leaves behind him a magnificent body of work. Mary Lynn Merkel, Gay Pride March, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010, by Mr Parr.

The very last Moviedrome screening of 2025 is Edward Scissorhands (19 Dec), and we're delighted to have announced the first titles for 2026, including White Heat, Sunset Boulevard and A Fistful of Dollars. Read all about them here! sjt.uk.com/news/moviedr...

I now await the Stephen Graham remake.

Another Hitchcock film ticked off tonight, this time Rope (1948) and as per an extraordinary experience. I'm going to call it, that boy could direct.

I’m sad to hear of the passing of Michael Turner, at 91, one of the very greatest aviation, motorsport & #F1 artists. He was also a kind & friendly man. #RIPMichaelTurner

Still awestruck with total admiration for the woman at our team Christmas meal out in town last night who abruptly stood up and declared ‘Right. I’ve had enough of you lot now. I’m off home’ put her coat on and promptly left the restaurant. 🫡

Sorry for the late upload, this week’s podcast is now live. We discuss Constable vs Turner, Caravaggio (and for some reason, rats in art 🐀).

Eurovision yesterday, FIFA today - my aren't we all being spoiled.

"Hey Google, put the Christmas decorations up" * Waits *

My snooker companion this evening.

Microsoft seems to have borked my Outlook android app - select a date in the Calendar to add an event, when entering the event details it always defaults to the current date, and not the one I've just selected. I'm sure that's how it used to work and I'm not going mad!?

Not long now....

Anyway. I made this several years ago. Stuff That Got High in the Charts At Christmas That Isn't About Christmas. (I cannot get TuneMyMusic to convert this at the moment, and I don't understand why.) #ChristmasInContext 1960-2020 open.spotify.com/playlist/5On...