Concept art by Graham Bleathman for various TV shows by Gerry Anderson, on show at London's Museum of Brands.

Slightly sobering when the first LP you owned turns up in a museum exhibition 😬

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

The yellow orb in the sky, IT BURNS. We must worship it.

Memo to self: stop reading Soundohm emails 😬

Love this response to Ratcliffe's comments by @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Well, this is interesting: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

Right, I'm going in: pencil and Discogs want list at the ready.

Disqualified Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych said, “This is price of our dignity” as he left the Olympics before his first run.

Pinnumber O’Maidenname

I've just noticed the similarity between the pattern of the tabards from Dinnerladies and the sleeve of Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) by Cecil Taylor.

Good lord, I wonder why?

Curry bread: I have tasted the future* and it is GOOD *well, a popular Japanese food item that's been around since the 1920s

Uncharacteristically mild wording from Ian but unerringly accurate as always.

Orange album covers

"Even men with steel hearts love to see a dog on the pitch" - Half Man Half Biscuit This was, for the duration of this clip, the happiest dog in the northern hemisphere.

Remind me of that oft-quoted statement about people's feelings?

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

This is the funniest headline I seen in a long time. And bravo to whoever underlined the desperation with the juxtaposed link.

Thread. 🧵 (1/x) On the superiority of water as the primary decontaminant for tear gas and peppery spray on skin and eyes. To make it clear to people, this is a thread. Some of you are not clear on the concept. I will reply this with another post and mark it with a number in (x). And so forth. (1)

Some genuinely good news - Home Office does the right thing. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Ah, that's better

Reform UK are seeking to fob off blame for their illegal leaflet on a printer error. That won’t stand up with the police - responsibility for making sure the law is followed lies with the party commissioning and distributing the leaflets.

British values

In this photo, taken #OTD in 1984, Bruce McCandless is an *football field away from the space shuttle with no safety tether.* No astronaut, before or since, has been that far away from their ship while in orbit. (2/n)

So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony. This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Yes. In fact I have so far written two books about it, which you should immediately buy! (bsky.app/profile/nick...)

Letter in this week's Private Eye. "Just what I always wanted" 😆

Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Working from home today and in between meetings so giving this one a workout. Happy listening, all. #NowPlaying

A 3LP/2CD Cecil Taylor live set — FRAGMENTS: THE COMPLETE 1969 SALLE PLEYEL CONCERTS — will be released in April. Two full concerts, 92 minutes and 50 minutes long respectively, featuring Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers, and Andrew Cyrille. This one will blow your house down. (I wrote the liner notes.)

Courtesy of the fine people at Reckless Records, I now have an LP copy of this, one of my favourites - a little crackly in some places but it knocks the, erm, spots off the CD version.

Half a million children will be pushed back into poverty. For maybe 5p off a pint. What a shitty thing to do… www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Parris lost all credibility after he disparaged Derek Bailey in the vicinity of Stewart Lee. Truly a forgotten man.

Enjoyable intro from Reece Shearsmith to Psycho II at the BFI, a (perhaps surprisingly) decent sequel made 22 years after the original. A good script and excellent locations, let down by some terrible acting: Perkins is excellent here, but Meg Tilly is vying for the Sofia Coppola acting awards.

A lot going on here and all ugly, but one thing I still can't get my head around is how any British government can do business with Thiel at this point.

The next time I see the headline "Ricky Gervais calls out" it had better end with "in horror as a komodo dragon sinks its teeth into his neck"

Has Mandelson been nicked yet?

BREAKING: Gordon Brown says he has asked Cabinet Secretary to investigate disclosure of "confidential and market sensitive information" allegedly from Peter Mandelson to Jeffrey Epstein. Former PM says he first asked CS to do this in September but biz department found no records.

Les mêmes

Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN

I don't know what is going on in the usual desert of our local charity shops, but I am a very happy man.

Posters for "West Side Story", "Terror of the Tongs", "Spartacus" and "Psycho" in the disused tunnels under Euston Station.

The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."