I, for one, am happy to take my health advice from a man who suggested that injecting bleach might fight off Covid.

At any moment, on a whim, to feed the base, the President may decide to destroy your business.

Watching the first episode of The Guest. Wife: “I’ve *never* wanted to kill you… Well…hardly ever… I wouldn’t act on it, honestly…”

Join us on Radio Four in 15 minutes for Start the Week from Bradford. Catherine Clarke, Saima Mir and Andrew McMillan all on great form talking about putting where we live and what happens there into words.

I call first dibs on Party-R-Us.

The speed at which the Trump Administration is outpacing satire is…not very funny really.

He probably thinks this is Putin’s greatest crime. Will no one think of the real victim here?

Regenerative braking for phones, so when you think better of a message or tweet, the process of furiously deleting it charges the battery.

The fire-alarms are gaslighting me. "OK -- I'll make that little beep while he's downstairs, then you wait till he comes up here and make a little beep down there. And Pete, whatever you do don't make a beep while he's actually ON the landing. Just wait until he's waiting for one of us to beep."

Watching Three Days of the Condor. Faye Dunaway is being forced at gunpoint to spend time with Robert Redford. On the upside he really gets her art.

Lord, Nixon could be self-pitying… but he was a man of steel besides this crybaby.

RIP Robert Redford, who has died before, in style.

Just interviewed Leonardo DiCaprio re One Battle After Another. He looked *amazingly* realistic. Seriously. 16k pixel count at least.

I have no idea what this is trying to tell me. This Oxford Street as opposed to the other one? The IS Oxford Street? Th’Oxford Street Is?

I thought I saw some auks, but it was just a skua flying backwards.

It’s a wicked world. But there are pure souls in it. If you’ve not been watching the Twiggy documentary on BBC2 I do recommend catching up with it.

Delighted to inform you that Alan Moore is on tonight's BBC Front Row, discussing The Great When, psycho-geography, comics, fascism and the trouble with superheroes... 715pm Radio 4 or link after.. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Clearing drawers my wife finds my father’s slide rule. It doesn’t have sentimental value, but I find myself reluctant to simply bin it. What does one do with these tenacious, interstitial objects? Is there a slide-rule collector out there who might want it?

Not buying them until they go full Groucho Marx. I want eyebrows AND a moustache.

Say it ain’t so Joe! www.thetimes.com/article/759e...

Went to see Theatre Picasso at Tate Modern. Dark, theatrical hang full of wild, colourful art, from which you emerge through a proscenium arch to these studies in monochrome. L: The Acrobat (1930), C: The Painter and His Model (1926) R: The Minotaure (tapestry based on Picasso’s design from 1928)

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

What a depressing day. Indecency with a megaphone, decency apparently struck dumb.

I really hope someone’s working on Rock Against Racism: The Comeback Tour.

Latest from the champions of free speech…

Charlie Kirk’s widow talking about “those” responsible for his death. Why the plural?

Well Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is an absolute blast. Driving his tank onto Tarantino’s lawn and doing donuts….

The absolute gall of Trump lecturing people about civil discourse. That hydrant of invective and demonisation.

Quite a range of objects at V&A Storehouse’s David Bowie Centre, some stirring some not. Left, autograph lyrics for Heroes. Right, Cook Island driving licence, acquired during the filming of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.

God this is a depressing statistic.

The new Apple phone appears to be a tribute to the President’s face.

I haven’t really dug into the substance, but he’s sure got style…

I can recommend Gail’s work. We bought a big version of her print of Forton Services and it looks great on the wall. Northern Brutalism classic.

Start the Week is back! And if today’s programme isn’t excellent I’ll only have myself to blame: Arundhati Roy, Lea Ypi and Sarah Howe, prize-winners all, on the stories we’re told (and tell) about family history. Join us just after 9.00 on Radio Four.

Oh he’ll soon fix that. I mean the numbers, obviously, not the underlying reality.

Been reading this. H.L. Mencken would probably have despised social media, but he would have stormed it. Many resonances with the swaggering imbecility of our own times.

Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.

What a standard bearer he’s been. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Its more of a saxophone solo than a question really

Wise thread on open letters. Writers shouldn’t really join gangs, even if they’re good gangs.

Had a lot of fun on air last night: St Etienne playing live and talking memoir with Sebastian Faulks and sketch comedy with @gralefrit.bsky.social and Charlie Perkins. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I wonder what I’ll ask him? Join us later and find out…

My advice to you, if you want James Norton and horses and grisly battles and real historical figures, is to watch War and Peace on iPlayer. It’s actually pretty good.

Maybe he’s dead. Or maybe the gibberish has reached such a level that even the cultists realise he won’t get away with it.

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean’.

I fear that The Thursday Murder Club may give a misleading idea about the level of residential care available to retired trauma nurses and trade union firebrands. Unless the final reveal is that they were all in on the Brinks-Mat job.

Last Wainwrights of the summer for me: 1/ looking north from Dalehead 2/Lovely veil of rain over Crummock Water, 3/ Keswick and Skiddaw from Hindscarth, and 4/ Crummock Water from Robinson (dog essentially saying “Shall we get back before the lovely veil of rain gets here?”)

Fresh from shouting at the man on the radio promoting rights for Artificial Intelligence I return home and tell the Robot vacuum cleaner what a good boy it is for working so hard while I was out.

Funniest line in this is “Liz Truss has thrown her weight behind President Trump’s efforts…” Like a gnat landing on an elephant and expecting it to stumble… www.thetimes.com/article/9a55...

Watching the last episode of Channel Four’s Operation Dark Phone. And it’s gripping. But the drug dealers keep pronouncing ‘excavator’ as ‘escavator’. And I want a couple of years added to their sentences for it.