Morrissey, love him or hate him, was a great creative force in English music. But if he'd never met Johnny Marr he'd be a weird cult figure known only to 500 people.

Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 58% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 81% at 04:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 36% of demand. 3% of generation was exported, 9% of demand was met by imports.

Superb.

Stewart Copeland is the coolest member of The Police and I will be taking no further questions on this matter.

Many people like to play air-guitar, or even air-drums. I like to play air-cowbell. My favourite is “Free Your Mind” by En Vogue, especially that sweet solo at 3:44.

UK and Ireland here we come

On enabling presidential candidates. Some thoughts [A] I see you’re in favour of eating babies now Oh no. [A] But you’re nominating the Baby-Eating Party for President. Ah, that’s democracy. [A] Do tell. Well, baby-eaters are a part of our society. They deserve a seat at the table. 1/10

So RFK *is* the dead cat then?

Bringing in Armando Iannucci to script the final seasons of The UK was a wry choice

On monday a reshare of a disturbing Twitter post turned up in my feed in Bluesky. I wrote this in response because this is about people. People who are being harassed daily on our streets and attacked and assaulted. Its on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/standi...

Performative microphoning.

“Are yiew lookin ah moy moh?”

Fuck all the way off.

“You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful... I just start imposing tariffs on them. It's like a magnet. Just tariff. I don't even wait. And when you're a President they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the mineral rights. You can do anything.”

He’s making a list…

The dark stretches its hand across these weeks, encroaching on the day. Swallowing the thin wan light, leaving us straining through shorter and shorter bursts of daylight. In Newgrange, the stones wait.

Well they asked...

Food FACT: The original name for 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter', 'Butter, My Arse' was rejected due to problems with punctuation.

Have to disagree with the second half of this. First half - let's make something like best Twitter absolutely yes. Second half nothing to do with "I don't have the energy for that" and much more "wouldn't it be nice if our social media spot of choice wasn't a fascist sewer"

There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

We'll see.

Well, this seems nice…