some good news buried among the horrible behavior listed: “The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”

Queen! See my previous post on this

Hope everyone is having a nice day aside from the lady in the V&A members room who had finished ordering, heard me say “oh good, there’s one coronation chicken sandwich left”, turned back and said, “oh and a coronation chicken sandwich, please.”

Interestingly cryptic email from Jeffrey Epstein to Peter Thiel, 26 June 2016: "Brexit, just the beginning"

Peak Emery

Ooooo-kaaay, Oatly.

British traitors fans watching Irish traitors wondering why the prize money is only half. And why is the budget not as much Ireland is 10% of the U.K. population lads. Relax a bit and enjoy the more… direct exchanges of opinion

Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour. Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'. Nick Timothy – the great genius at the.... Morgan McSweeney – the great genius at the.... Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?

Fun fact: the Reform candidate in Gorton and Denton - race-baiting grifter and fraud Matt Goodwin - does not believe the Labour candidate is English.

Everyone. The man who got least recognition for his input (and without whom, the entire peace process would have fallen apart), was Albert Reynolds. When Thatcher was having her hissy fits and absolutely refusing to talk to Sinn Féin or IRA, Reynolds always coaxed her back. Whatever plamás he used.

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

I think the number of people who don’t like, and never liked, jostling at a bar is underpriced They travel more and they don’t have to do it anywhere else and don’t understand why it Has to Be This Way

My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange: 'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?' 'Yeah, you can do it.' 'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'

Peter Mandelson is still a Labour member. Peter Mandelson is still a member of the House of Lords Peter Mandelson is still a salaried* Labour representative.

No water, no heating, no power, -15 degree weather outside. It is not on the front pages of your newspapers, but Ukraine is living through a humanitarian disaster right now because of Russian bombardment and the world has barely noticed.

Johnson also continuing to use posh sounding words like pettifoggers to make out he's cleverer than us peasants.

So not so much that AI is taking jobs but companies are laying folks off to pay for AI in the hope it takes folks jobs.

Microsoft stock tanked -12% after revealing 45% of Azure’s backlog is OpenAI. Meanwhile, Oracle is struggling to secure loans for its $300M AI deal, risking layoffs to pay for it. The theme is clear that bankers don’t trust OpenAI’s solvency, and it’s dragging down every partner attached to it.

(The bloke had been employed there for 2 years prior to that. Not sure how precisely Keir Starmer is to blame here. Meanwhile, I am *pretty sure* any improvement in worker’s rights will be attacked by one Johnson, B)

I enjoyed reading this column, which somehow blames Keir Starmer for the result of an employment tribunal following laws passed under the Tory government regarding an incident and suspension that took place before the last election.

Once again asking how anyone is remotely surprised Chomsky is this guy.

I could no longer wait and so finally read @bowiegod.bsky.social ‘s book this week It really does stand out amongst the many books (anyone still reading this post is likely to have read many many Bowie books) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

It's all happening again isn't it, and just like 2016 there's not a thing anyone can say or do about it. You have to let people walk on the coals themselves. You can't tell them.

Delighted to be a part of this year’s Cranleigh Bookfest. I’ll be giving a talk about David Bowie’s collaboration with the legendary mime artist Lindsay Kemp, and the impact it had on his career. Tickets on sale now! cranleigharts.org/event/david-bowie-lindsay-kemp-and-the-birth-of-ziggy-stardust/

So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.

@bowiesongs.bsky.social Hi Chris. Just read the Patreon update today and wondered if you have access to this book? No doubt you have but a reminder as a day to day of the tours up to 1983 it’s immensely useful

Pomposity. You have a new name

A friend of mine, Matthew Barry, asked me to reflect and write on what's been going on in the Twin Cities, and how it intersects with the football culture I'm a part of here. So I did that. Here it is, for #HeartOfAFan. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Lewes People Pat’s Pizza website says launching in new location soon? Anyone know where? Second site or a complete relocation?

“Coding Is When We’re Least Productive” https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/coding-is-when-were-least-productive/ > if I hadn’t made that trip and seen for myself, & had a chance to talk to a department manager in that store, those three lines would have been applying special offers wrong

Also. Casting for Verso in the Clair Obscur movie sorted

Deep drag on cigarette "Just when I think I'm out... they pull me back in."

You can see the woman directly behind him, in the green jacket, trying to maintain her composure having caught a whiff

😂 love the urgency of the ushers as they try to get the press out before he shits himself.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

Proud father speaking. Very proud indeed. My daughter Camille has just completed this large canvas (oil and gouache), and I invite you to visit her online gallery at www.instagram.com/p/DTvX1OBjW0.... After living and working in London, Oaxaca and Mexico City, she is now in Paris.

I’ve finally had enough and blogged about the new Civil Service Pensions website @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @janethughes.bsky.social @zsk.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social bearoneill.com/2026/01/29/bad…

No. No. No. Stop this.

Good thread - really resonates as the dad of teenage boys, this culture is everywhere and variants on “the perfect is the enemy of the good” is probably the advice I try to instil the most (often vainly!). Just get on with it and learn from doing it etc etc

This is meant to portray him in a bad light But it reads to me like because he was known to ICE, instruction/permission was given to assassinate him

ordering gig tickets online in 2008: here is a PDF to print out ordering gig tickets online in 2026: Here is a code to use with the EVENTO app, which can verify the order with your LOTSATIX app. Reminder: in order to enter the venue you'll need VEN-U installed. (VEN-U will require a passport scan)

In a probable fraud on the rights of Tesla shareholders, Musk has begun stripping the assets of Tesla and transferring them to his AI operations. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

To no one's surprise. www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/29/h...

Check out my new piece on the intimate value of Best-Of collections @ihavethatonvinyl.com viva ABBA! ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/the-b...

All those farmer's with huge "VOTE LEAVE" signs in their fields... I haven't forgotten

The UK farmers union is fascinating, almost all higher ups knew brexit would be a disaster, their staff had experience with EU negotiators and knew how it would play out against Lord Frost but membership was so split and the brexit crew were so loud they dared not say it! Still stuck in that limbo

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

Everything about this article is weird. All the “quotes” are very generic and in line with a prevailing “screens are bad mkay?” mood Plus the old school “cash in hand” vibe

For context, the UK has a cap on credit card interchange fees of 0.3% and debit cards at 0.2%, the average bank charges 1.5% to bank your cash. Make of that what you will.