The Sooty Show (21st January 1987). Soo is in an especially bossy mood today whilst Sooty and Sweep share an intimate moment.

Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me

“Henrietta. Did he, did he? I’m sorry to hear that.” Damn! The Night Manager, series 3

Thinking about him (the man standing in front of me at a The Fall gig, who, about two songs in, loudly exclaimed “oh, no. No thank you” downed his pint and left

Sometimes I get imposter syndrome in my job… then again …

If it's Cary Grant's birthday, it must surely be time for me to post the "puppy in the jacket pocket" picture again. Be rude not to, really.

Ah man, the late great Clem Burke making the difficult look effortless as usual #totp

90s download buffering #TOTP

Multiple injuries reported in central London as Alistair Campbell stampedes to the studio to record an 🚨EMERGENCY PODCAST🚨

Turns out I followed most of the #TOTP team already… 😉

Real Soupy Twist in The Night Manager

Avanti at Blea Moor. 2 January 2026. #railway #photography

Graffiti in hell

This is a tremendous thread and with watching the videos

"Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy..." #DavidBowie

The most ambitious TV crossover event in history? I. Think. Not. #corriedale

Remembering Sandy Denny on her birthday youtu.be/gvdr_kilrw4

And, as the mighty @paulsinha.bsky.social informed us, the man who came up with the word Labradoodle.

Found out thanks to Cookdandbombd that there's a new series 'just dropped' of Things You Should Have Done, with reportedly absolutely zero BBC promotion. I really enjoyed the first series, it had an inspired level of daft to it. Anyway, it's here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I presume over in the Bad Place it’s all “yeehah, woo, this great”.

Ark melting face

Just some of those we lost in 2025. The gaps are there for us to remember those close to us. Wishing us all a better 2026. x

Not Proven dies today. Decades too late but a good start to ‘26

Thirty years ago today. The most beautiful, hopeful farewell.

An absolutely wonderful, versatile, powerful and powerfully funny actor who enlivened everything he was in, and a huge loss. I'm not going to say the word, but we're all thinking it in his honor. RIP Isiah Whitlock. deadline.com/2025/12/isia...

#sgtpepper2025 v2

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Your annual reminder that if you want someone to chat or have a laugh with over the Christmas period there will be lots of folk on the #JoinIn and #DuvetKnowItsChristmas threads. 🎄

Chris Rea finally got home… RIP

You know it is, it really is

I know it’s very well known and popular but it’s still amazing … perfect for the solstice

Jaw broken but still won’t shut up 🤐

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

As witnesses later recalled, two small dogs just waltzed into the place, grabbed the cat, and waltzed out.

He saw the light.

Twenty-five years since the wonderful Kirsty MacColl was killed. A singer-songwriter who just kept getting better and better. One of many favourites, this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZE4...

Quartic! The Allegro lives

This is where we are. A publicly-funded organisation which routinely platforms vile and dangerous individuals is now too craven to continue to employ a man whose main crime seems to be to point out, in his own free time, that maybe being shitty to other people is a bad thing.

Touch of the Sir Michael Gambon here #TOTP

Bros turns to dross #TOTP

Actor facial expression blah de blah none better …

Slept in my T.Rex t-shirt and couldn’t feel my arm

this has become a very important video to me

It’s not online, because slow news is a good thing, but a Scottish Sunday paper ran a heartful op-ed about real journalism in the age of AI, alongside an AI-generated article. It amused me.

Happy St Andrew’s Day fellow Scotch.