(1/4) We have become aware of a fraudulent website - ospreypress (dot) com - that is misrepresenting itself as Osprey Publishing. This site is not affiliated with us in any way.

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We will still put up our breaking news and investigations for nothing on the free news site, but we also have to find a way to pay our journalists now that advertising is broken by Google/Facebook etc

Reminder that the main owners of that club donate to Trump. Club is rotten to the core.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Man Utd have a UK owner who backed Brexit and is openly racist and American owners that give money to Trump. Lovely people.

Looks like there’s more to come about Epstein in the Trump files. And still no word about any kind of justice for the victims.

9/ All eight #Detectorists covers available as a pack of postcards from here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

Interesting idea…

A collection of abandoned noises, drones and haunted recordings taken over the last 12 months from various times, locations and liminal states. Free to download. autumnhang.bandcamp.com/album/discol...

For those keeping score at home:

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Jeez.

Gary Larson was right after all….

As Pratchett said:

This should share the Pulitzer photography prize with the subject

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

ICE is claiming that the officer feared that Renee Good was about to seriously injure or kill him at this moment.

Number crunching: Pay and dividends of Bet365 chief executive v total fiscal cost of gambling-related harm. From the new Private Eye, out now.

I remember the New Year's Eve party we had on the night 2019 became 2020. Feels like a thousand years ago.

If you think you might have a tenner available at the beginning of March for a paperback (or under a fiver for an ebook) what you could do is pre-order SCRATCH MOSS today -- you won't be charged until it's shipped and if there are loads of pre-orders it'll make me look dead good. amzn.eu/d/d44qIuw

Inspector Madden on the case…

Happy Gauda Prime day to all who celebrate.

Big news from the world of Withered Hill

NEW. Will your energy provider pass on the Budget 1 April £150/yr price cut to ALL tariffs including fixes?... Here's our firm by firm round-up www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/12... including my full explanation of what's happening.

If you missed this week's Geek Grotto, where I talk about all the winners and reveals from this year’s Games Awards, the Listen On Demand is available here: www.mixcloud.com/bruthavoodoo...

At the beginning of the year I had to face up to the fact my ex-publishers were imploding & would never pay me what they owed me for the 7 books I wrote for them. It's been a battle. There's still a lot of repair work to be done. Bluesky has helped. If you bought one of these in 2025, thank you.

Moves…

An ancient underground race seemingly destroyed by UNIT decades ago. Now, in 2025, they rise again to clean up the planet. Coming soon to BBC1 and Disney+ 'The War Between Underground and Overground'. #DoctorWho Watch the prequel now, exclusive to Bluesky:

Tune! artillerysaints.bandcamp.com/track/contro...

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WIN! - a Norman World Exclusive copy of 'HAYWARDxDÄLEK' by HAYWARDxDÄLEK Like, share, and give our page a follow for the chance to win a copy of our limited exclusive of this class industrial hip-hop collab. @relapserecords.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2117...

New single, on Bandcamp from next Friday! youtu.be/9aYbPVzMyFQ?...

If anybody is at a loose end I have a stall upstairs at the cafe in Crystal Palace park this weekend.

Our perennial Christmas bestseller! The year's best cartoons, jokes, parodies and topical sketches from the UK's most successful satirical news and current affairs magazine, illustrated throughout with cartoons, sketches and photo-bubbles. ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/books/annual

It's Black Friday. Boo. There are no discounts on our wonky football shop. We have however not raised our prices in 6 years, which feels like a long time when [gestures at everything] So yeah, ignore Amazon and buy something weird from somewhere small. Like us! Or someone else! 🛒 noscoredraws.com