Piss poor stuff from Gabriel Clarke there. Trying to stir shit up with Bellingham after Tuchel put him back in his box for asking a stupid question. You're not the story, mate, get over yourself.

Oh, so that's why the heatwave. Hell was getting the doors open to drag Widdecombe in.

That's an amphora-ing of the highest order from Egypt.

Every international football tournament (involving European teams, anyway) reaches the point where you're idly wondering who the most objectionable team in it are, and then Portugal make their debut.

Somehow, every form of transport back from Chalk Farm is fucked in one way or another. Would I do it all over again for Rilo Kiley? One million percent. A genuine bucket list band for me, and so worth it. Just about held the tears until Better Son/Daughter finally, fully cracked me.

I'm choosing to interpret the lightning repeatedly cracking overhead for the past hour as a sign of how sky-splittingly good Rilo Kiley will be tonight.

Really sad news about Queer Brewing closing. Even if it's better for them to go out on their terms than somebody else's, it's a really depressing reflection of the place beer is in that it's come to this point.

Losing My Mind by Summer Camp. Runner-up: everything else by Summer Camp. My band of growing up as a grown up in London.

I've not been for a while, so it was interesting seeing the updated audience rules at @princecharlescinema.com. Not overdue, sadly, there'd been an ever-increasing trend of people performatively watching and damaging the experience for others in the process. Well done as ever, PCC.

Andy Burnham has his principles. And if you don't like them... boy, does he have others.

Relaxing sanctions on Russian oil might be the worst policy any non-Truss government has ever come up with. Morally repellent and indefensible, economically incoherent with no impact, politically hopeless on two fronts (abandons an ally AND removes being able to pin Farage to Russia). Mindboggling.

That Aaron Rai putt will be rightfully making highlight reels for decades.

I know everyone else has done a similar shot, but they've done it for a reason... Delightful couple in the Wild Swan, and having @thornbridge.bsky.social in London is more than worth toasting.

Doesn't matter how often I hear it, Courtney Barnett on a Magnum advert doesn't get any less disorienting. Great, but disorienting.

8 hours, and THAT'S your fucking statement, #ITFC? Pathetic. Do better. Now.

Holy fucking hell, have #ITFC disgraced themselves. I may not be a season ticket holder any more, and I'm not usually drawn to writing complaint letters, but they will absolutely be hearing my comments on this.

You can feel cognitive dissonance radiating from Kemi Badenoch's statement, stoking ethnic and racial divisions while simultaneously claiming others are stoking ethnic and racial divisions. It doesn't help her sound sane, although being cuckoo bananas batshit is probably a bigger factor there.

I don't know what I'm looking for or at, but bloody hell, that Japanese free skate routine was amazing.

Gold! Huw Nightingale ran so much better in the semi and final, and Charlotte Bankes has dominated that middle section of the track every single time. Amazing stuff.

Team snowboard cross is a great event. Already love the random gate drop for starts, and then it adding the delay for the second racer makes for a brilliant set of chases.

A couple of days ago I couldn't have cared less about the ice dance, but I felt so bad for Lilah Fear as they came off the ice, she looked so gutted while trying to put a smile for the cameras.

First random event to grab my attention from the Winter Olympics - big air snowboarding. Great fun, and even knowing nothing about it, you could tell Kira Kimura nailed the last jump that won him the gold.

Didn't realize I was still following Neil Gaiman on here, due to the year and a half of silence while he apparently hired an anonymous writer on scum site Substack to defend him. Consider that fault rectified. Fuck Neil Gaiman.

I've seen some terrible "other things you might enjoy" recommendations down the years, but Channel 4 suggesting camp Emily VanCamp thriller nonsense Revenge alongside Weerasethakul slow cinema masterpiece Memoria is brain-scrambling.

Hadestown tonight. So, so good. The entire cast (including the musicians) shone.

Had a pretty good Lorcana week the week before last.

If anyone remembers the NFC Championship game a few years ago where Purdy could physically only hand the ball off as he'd torn his elbow up, that was still a better quarterbacking performance than Stroud has managed so far.

Bang Bang, Niner Gang! Incredible win in the circumstances. Top 3 pass catchers missing against a tremendous defence, and a defence made up entirely of cast-offs and youngsters, missing basically everyone outside CB. The Jauan-to-CMC TD deserves its own little spot in the HOF.

It finally happened - the Mildmay collapsed into a singularity of useless shitness so strong that it bends the laws of space and time.

Genuinely shameless stuff from the Raiders. Both today and all week.

Chargers secondary appear to be in a very delayed turkey coma.

Midnight cheese course eaten. Wine finished. Watching cricket I'm not even that fussed about, and occasionally checking the other cricket score and cursing about Carse. The joys of the holiday season.

This is the worst thing Rio Ferdinand has ever done, and he cheated on his wife while she had terminal cancer.

Throwing a UDFA QB in behind a makeshift OL, in Seattle, in order to protect your first round QB trending rapidly towards bust who suddenly has an extremely mysterious concussion that nobody saw at the time? That's really bad stuff from the Vikings. Deserves some heavy scrutiny.

There are unified theories of dark matter and cold fusion less theoretical and abstract than the timetable on the Mildmay line.

Every advert on, everywhere, is a Christmas advert. It's the 4th November. Fuuuuuck ooooooofffffff.

Determined to make Thro Pix stick as a nickname whenever Nix... well, throws an awful pick.

The Snocaps album during a walk in the sun to the bakery was absolutely what I needed this morning. Early favourites are Over Our Heads (big illuminati hotties vibes), Angel Wings, and You In Rehab, but it's all loveliness from start to finish.

Really enjoying the new series of Bettany Hughes' Treasures of the World. And good lord, Samarkand is a stunning place.

Not sure I've ever seen such disparate wall difficulties as Only Connect had tonight. One featuring unusual terms for info, a bunch of niche castles, and Windsor and WH Davies (no idea on either), the other featuring such obscurities as "dogs" and "places in Japan" (including Tokyo and Osaka, FFS).

Glorious to see Europe doling out a thorough bear down at the Ryder Cup. The American fans (and a few others...) have been way over the line. Watching them slowly shut their traps during the course of the day as more and more blue rained down is almost as good as the golf.

I'm not sure it's possible to go faster from "Who on earth is that?" to full ride-or-die status than I did with Jake Tonges on that final drive.

UAE DS is stealing a living. Anything beyond a Mr Burns style "You, Pogacar, win a bike race!" and they're a disorganized shambles #LaVuelta25

The conditions are so crap they really shouldn't be playing at the Oval, but that would have denied us this Ravi Bopara masterpiece.

I can see why Euston wanted to employ the holding system they've got in place. But whoever thought the best idea was to hold passengers for Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow trains and then release them all in the same direction at the same time needs to be put in stocks on the concourse. Carnage.

Feared the worst for The Naked Gun, but reviews were good so I took the plunge. So glad I did. Not quite as good as the originals (an impossibly high bar), but wonderfully silly, rude, surreal, and repeatedly laugh-out-loud-in-public funny. Does a lovely job paying homage while being its own thing.

Oof, Codenames. The collaboration is bad, but the absolute cowardice in turning off any kind of engagement beyond the mealiest of mouths in a statement with no right to reply? At least have the guts to admit the dollar signs overrode any moral considerations you might have had.

I'm assuming "rabe" is meant to be a homophone for "rob", but even the most ridiculous East Coast accent I can dream up is making that a stretch. Bad Connections.

Sad to see Brewdog Shepherds Bush (among others) close. Had many good times in there, and will remember the short-lived rolling chilli pot that packed quite the punch with fondness. And fuck Brewdog, obviously. Hopefully one of these days someone takes them to the cleaners.

Dunno if it's an app update or a backend change, but ITVX suddenly started running like an actual service on my TV. Combine that with the Disney+ deal giving them a bunch of decent shows, and it's a usable service all of a sudden. Plus Halt and Catch Fire. Always Halt and Catch Fire.