Hadn’t known Tom had passed away but this is great. He’s done his dad proud www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That time Nancy Pelosi almost signed to play rugby league for Warrington

Time to read this again. How I love this book. One of the absolute greats

I, Tonya

‘This place is beginning to smell like an owl’s foot’

He is, and always has been, a faithful

Folk who think sport is just people messing around with bats and balls are like folk who think music is just people making noises

Love this film. High recommend 💣

Wrote this the other month about The White Bus davehaslam.substack.com/p/shelagh-de...

The White Bus, a short film written by Shelagh Delaney & directed by Lindsay Anderson, has just come on Amazon Prime, should you be interested

If you are interested in the history of sport, class and British culture, this little @itvx.com documentary may be an eye opener. Rugby has never just been about throwing a ball around www.itv.com/news/border/...

How had I never heard of this book by Frankenstein’s grandad? It’s terrific - absolute page turner. Any film directors out there? Get on it

Rock on, Tommy! Launch day for 'This Is Me', Tommy Cannon's memoir, at Blackpool Waterstones. Ask for a copy in your nearest Waterstone's and they might stock a few too! #RockOnTommy #Cannon&Ball

Telling Hollywood like it was! #DickVanDyke stars in THE COMIC (1969) at 9:55pm #TPTVsubtitles Co-starring #MicheleLee #MickeyRooney in this comedy-drama.

STEVE NALLON’S GHOST STORIES – now in Waterstones shop window – is a darkly humorous collection of tales with modern takes on classic supernatural story traditions. Haunted houses, enchanted mirrors, spooky graveyards… as the nights grow longer, why not share them with a fiend? #Halloween

This means nothing to me

Absolutely love Old Grey Whistle Test repeats this time of a Sunday, especially after half a bottle of red. Whispering Bob introducing Emmylou tonight #mellow

Hawk just tore past with a bird in its claws. Quite the sight. Too fast for my phone camera. Wild, fierce and not bothered about anybody, as someone from Barnsley once said (not Dickie Bird)

I am now so old I no longer have any idea whether this actually means something or not

Richard Hines, hawk-keeping brother of Barry, directly inspired 'A Kestrel for a Knave', adapted for film by Ken Loach as 'Kes'. 'The Place That Knows Me' is a touching memoir of the family's South Yorkshire roots – roots that seem set to be pulled up www.scratchingshedpublishing.com/products-pag...

This is really quite something - a magnificently odd watch. You don’t have to have haunted second hand bookshops in the 1970s, but it helps

New Alan Bennett diaries in-coming early next year - praise be to heaven, Booths’ supermarkets (where he does his shopping), mam, dad etc www.waterstones.com/book/enough-...

I’m past the point of caring if older films and music “hold up” or not. I love it when art is a perfect product of its time.

Three favourite Banksys

I deplore your taste in 19th century French artists, but I do so more in Seurat than in Ingres.

‘Tolkien and Lewis moved their pint glasses from the Eagle and Child to the Lamb and Flag when the landlady installed a dartboard – you can imagine their reaction to today’s modernising horrors…’ www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/opening...

Listening to Michael Smiley on BBC Ulster via BBC Sounds and delighted to hear how, in the 1970s, he was a driver for Fox’s Biscuits in Batley

It's August 1 – Happy Yorkshire Day! Out now, the collected writings of the late great Jake Thackray. Paul Thompson has done it again. To buy direct from Scratching Shed, please visit: www.scratchingshedpublishing.com/products-pag... #JakeThackray #Genius

1968. Ena Sharples, on a fire escape above Moss Side, Manchester. 📸 John C Madden

Trigger warning

If you’ve never seen this enjoyable jazz oddity from 1961, you’ve got about three hours to do so before it leaves Amazon Prime…

Only now discovering the Ralph McLean Show on BBC Ulster. Old school, themed radio. Don’t know how I missed it. Anyway, there’s a really nice Brian Wilson two hours still up on BBC Sounds, among other such treats, should anyone need joy in their working day

The Isle of Wight festival’s gone downhill

"The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade." 🖊️Anthony Trollope

Bradford City, eh? Never a dull moment. The Corn Dolly will be rocking tonight

This is a very good film. Completely charming and quietly radical. Highly recommended for morality police everywhere

All right Leo, calm down, I only asked.

Why aren't you wearing a suit?

Who knew there was a John Peel Bill Oddy 'beef'?! 30mins in. 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkRR...

Starring Sydney Tafler, who Ian Dury’s other half isn’t in ‘Common as Muck’. You have not been charged for this information

I’ll tell you something no one is fussed about importing from the USA - their chocolate. Tastes like that bit of sick that comes up sometimes when you gip

Think I’ll have one finger of tariff-free Jack Daniels tonight. It’s been in the cupboard at least five years

Wrong Dennis the Menace, but a great cover anyway

Complicated Life amid scenes of NOLA youtu.be/ME4NX4qDG6w?...

I am here for the fun stuff. I ran away from the other place for that reason. But I cannot believe what we have just seen in the White House. The petty, snide smallness of these monstrous cretins. Slava Ukraini.

Madame Arcarti would have loved it on here

Zelenskyy should have just accidentally on purpose sneezed on cheesy Wotsit powder and blown his wig off

Donovan and Byl’s masterclass in tomfoolery youtu.be/ydjvOp1r460?...

Ernest Arnley and Gloria Day. This is what they want youtu.be/Mf_zUd4xRCg