If anyone can't manage to put together a mid-budget Brit scifi/horror movie about a man trapped in this lookout post after a nuclear war in the 1960s, trying to escape before it falls in to the sea, then we should close down our film industry www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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A huge chunk of our political class has "book-you-see-in-an-airport" brain. Just no interest in rigour.

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:

1909 - Macclesfield are the first non-league team to eliminate the FA Cup holders since Crystal Palace knocked out Wolves in the 1908-09 first round. Fairytale.

You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK

The new Jurassic Park movie about a zoo where every exhibit is Da Vinci clones (spliced with frog DNA obviously) will be my film of the year www.science.org/content/arti...

Gonna end my papers this way

Lots of Blue Tits in the garden this morning #birds

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'British food is bad' has been untrue for like a generation and a half at this point but really sticks around in the U.S. U.S. supermarkets are inferior to their U.K. counterparts!

Lots of Blue Tits in the garden this morning #birds

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Take for instance English dogs Vs the dogs of other nations

I used to think that historical English illustrations were fanciful, but then I moved here and discovered that, no, in fact, the living creatures here are in fact slightly fucked up looking and the pictures are largely accurate.

The Celtic board quietly loading an old Football Manager save

Snow in Lancashire! Still exciting despite living in far far more snow in Ohio

I’ve always thought the one thing that would turn things around for Labour is for all it’s frontbenchers to adopt the amazing people skills of Kemi Badernoch

Snow in Lancashire! Still exciting despite living in far far more snow in Ohio

UK: Hey EU, we’ve had a great idea. EU: OK. UK: We think our national interest suggests we’d be better off in the Single Market. EU: Don’t say it! UK: But … EU: DON’T SAY IT! UK: Obviously no Freedom of Movement. EU: ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH

As someone who was very very Twitter poisoned, it's wild to see Kemi open a statement on a hugely significant international incident with the preface "lots of people on the internet are wrong!!!!1!". It's time to log off, for the love of god.

This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.

People say it’s odd that governments still use Twitter/X to communicate, but it’s only like how the John Major government announced its ongoing Maastricht negotiations through the readers’ erotic stories pages in Men Only magazine.

First bird spotted of 2026 (because I didn’t go outside yesterday) is a Eurasian Jackdaw

Khan's managed in 5 minutes to give a more clearly defined progressive sense of Britishness than Starmer/McSweeney have managed in 2 bloody years.

Good to see Sadiq turning the piss off Reform dial to 11

This firework display is peak Sadiq Khan and I love it

under a 1769 act of parliament, it is technically ‘illegal’ for someone to die between recording an appearance on hootenanny and its broadcast

his final message…

Still going through this year’s photos. Earlier this year I read in a field guide that Mountain Quail are skittish and difficult to photograph as they’ll quickly run into undergrowth just moments before about 5 stood around posing for me #birds

Rest in peace to Mike F, one of the all-time greats

I would never do the "Here comes the airplane" bit to feed my child. Embarrassing for us both. I would calmly explain the importance of adequate nutrition and they will yield to unimpeachable logic

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

Gosh, you can see why Premier League football managers get paid the big bucks

Wisdom from the old man

👇 This sums up underlying problem with actually existing Brexit. The ways you actually maximise the benefits of Brexit run against the electoral coalition for Brexit, are not popular enough with Remainers, just end up with 'you're divorced, but you refuse to join Tinder or move out of your home'.

It’s an hour after the local bookshop opened for the first time after Christmas and I have already overheard somebody returning a copy as the person they gave it to received multiple

The juxtaposition between the headline and the photo in the mobile article is off the charts. “Yes I am! For treason and murder. :)”

talking of Necromunda, I do love it when they're like 'BEHOLD, the latest recruits for your gang, who will you choose? Alexastabus Constantinpolis the Tenchnarchimatrix of Kaladorianis, an immortal eldritch prince beyond all knowing or this filthy pig man with his bucket of space slop?'

This book I received for Christmas has the best cover and title I’ve ever seen

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

My coolest wildlife experience this year was seeing a whale for the first time (Gray Whale)

I know this is actually just a puff piece advertisement by the Betting Industry, but jesus christ this would be a damning indictment of modern Britain rather than a feel good story if it was true anyway

And Tiny Tim, who did not die. Yet did not live. Trapped forever in his tiny body, never growing older, cursed to survive only on the blood of the living, never to see sunlight again

"And Tiny Tim, who did not die" = heartwarming, Christmassy. "And Tiny Tim, who would not die" = sinister, alarming.

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

British voters when it comes to funding public services:

Alexander Pope decried the cruelty of cooking lobsters alive in 1713. 313 years later the practice will finally be banned. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

If he can't get off on a "personal use" excuse then I don't know what Europe's coming to.