Not so much Special Relationship as Sleeping With The Enemy.

[The ghost of Salieri] And am I remembered? [Living human] Oh, yes [Salieri] And am I mentioned in the same breath as Mozart? [human] Look you might want to sit down for this

Given the scale of the Iran story I’ve been mobilised as a co-host for the @channel4news.bsky.social podcast and recorded this episode today with Matt Frei t.co/UqxCYmquGO

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

I think I signed some kind of review embargo on the film I’ve just seen. Which is handy because by the time I’m allowed to talk about it on Thursday’s show I’ll have thought of something to say besides “WTF was that!!”

Worried about fraying social solidarity, fuel supplies and the jobs crisis? Good news! They were just as worried 100 years ago! Join us for today’s Start the Week on the General Strike, with David Torrance, Jane Holgate and Isabel Berwick.

Still a bit freaked out by how much Tiger Woods looks like Homer Simpson now...

Broadcasting House reception — now with added homunculi.

When Richard Vernon delivered the line "Don't take that tone with me, young man. I fought the war for your sort" in A Hard Day's Night, he was 39. Also pictured: Paul McCartney, when he was 39.

They’ve planted a lot of saplings in our local pocket park and I was worried that they might not have properly watered them in. So that’s a weight off my mind. ⛈️💦

To the V&A’s Schiaparelli show. Not the frockiest of people, but I loved these two — a black evening dress (collab with Salvador Dali) and an evening jacket, with gold detailing.

Not true. The President himself has been in intensive talks with John Barron. www.thetimes.com/article/0b76...

Markets Surge After Trump Claims He Had Sex With An Angel https://theonion.com/markets-surge-after-trump-claims-he-had-sex-with-an-angel/

Can he blush?

Wow. A Lutyens house and Gertrude Jekyll garden. And a lot of mats. So MANY mats.

No relation, but I like the cut of her jib... (Thread)

babe wake up the new "destroy the village to save it" just dropped

Currently weighing in the scales the current gloom-weight of thinking about going to the gym against the future gloom-weight of what I'll feel about *not* having gone to the gym.

I knew that you could add "-AI" to a search to avoid the slop. But there are a lot of very neat tricks here.

The helium gag was funny #SNLL

I liked the movie press junket sketch. That spoke to me.

Oh God. They’ve made the audience do the mad screaming thing. #SNLL

“The heavily topped tubers…”

I’m a good four glasses beyond where I should be right now. Hope you had a good night too.

Four dimensional chess. But they’re playing with custard pies and a clown car.

Rare above-the-board use case for the nifty note...

It has got me wondering just how many work-hours are now devoted to checking that the Bank of Mum and Dad is not actually a front for the Sinaloa cartel. Meanwhile the Bank of England continue churning out £50 notes, which have no obvious legitimate use, but are handy for criminals.

Having to go through Money Laundering checks because we gave our daughter a small sum of money (genuinely small) which she's used as part of a deposit. The solicitors now know more about my financial affairs than I do. I expect they will require a colonoscopy next.

The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser econ.st/4bAtZby

"Mo! How much are the possums? There's no price tag on this one." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

I disagree. National pride isn’t my big thing. But it matters to a lot of voters. And framing Britishness so that it isn’t about race and ethnicity but about basic decency and values is important.

Fascinating open.substack.com/pub/creative...

Mucus gone woke innit…

"ChatGTP...what is chutzpah?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

RIP Len Deighton. Read Bomber, a brilliant forensic description of what was involved in flying bomber raids over Germany. And of what it was like to be subjected to them.

rare image of a director moments before devouring its prey

All about consciousness and the sense of self on Start the Week today, explored by means of everything from magic mushrooms to the literary novel and the selfie. Join Mary Costello, Michael Pollan, Fay Bound-Alberti and me just after nine on Radio Four.

Almost caught me having an opinion about the Oscars there. Reminder: be careful, it could happen to any of us.

I went to see the piglets at Hackney City Farm today. And they presented an image of (relatively) peaceful coexistence that I think we could all learn from.

First lawn-mowing of the year and the annual feud between me and the garden is re-launched.

Naomi does not lie. Imagine Ignatius P. Reilly gets tenure teaching creative writing in a minor US college. And it’s the first of a trilogy…

This is delicious. Seriously. Dee...Lish...Us.

The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.

majestic

I’d quite like someone to properly number-crunch this fabulously idiotic post. Number of trucks needed, consequences for the world haulage industry, infrastructure costs, pollution output, security risks. The whole schmear.

A compromise we can all get behind surely

I still think about this a lot.

Today’s mitzvah: picking up SOMEONE ELSE’s dog poo. (I mean, I have a dog, so I feel implicated. It’s not a hobby.)