"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace".

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

I very nearly made one of my New Year's Resolutions to only read Agatha Christie & Stephen King in 2026, alternating between the two. I doubt I could resist other books for that long but it's proving a satisfactory arrangement in the shorter term.

Does anyone remember the classic "ICE vs The Viking in a Bathtub" sketch on Monty Python? Good times!

The absolute accuracy of this.

Have they tried giving him a Blue Peter badge as a consolation prize?

I think I understand #BlueMonday now. Apparently it's when everyone is a little bit depressed, because it's cold and dark and the glow of Christmas has faded and it's the start of World War Three.

What a great time to be staking your entire institutional infrastructure on a US company.

in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing

I've seen it in Hong Kong 2019

Peter Cushing for Nescafé in 1957.

Just realised the final scene of Fantômas Unchained is virtually the opening scene of Moonraker.

I don’t care what you say, Exorcist II rocks

Happy birthday to John Boorman youtu.be/AmbYFUEoDqQ

And the guy was banned from driving for a year! What would he have to have done for it to be permanent? Drive back and forth over Stephen King's body?

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Finished His & Hers. In the words of Russell Mael, "That's a Mom!"

When you lose Piers Morgan.

Reading On Writing by Stephen King and just got to the bit about the accident. Dear God! And the guy who nearly killed him already had 12 driving offences on his record.

I’m just glad the US military is finally focused on the real threats - Minnesota and Denmark.

My impression is that much of the UK - leaving aside the quisling scum at the Telegraph - is very happy for Starmer to tell Trump to go take a flying fuck at the low-rent shithole he's turning the White House into. Ideally in those words.

Off to see my favourite 1930s horror film in Picturehouse's Pre-code season. "Do you hear that, Vitus? The phone is dead. Even the phone is dead".

ENDS TODAY!

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Donald Trump threatens 10% tariffs on UK and Nigel Farage who has positioned himself as the president's best mate in Britain drops out of a much promoted interview on the BBC. Strange. Almost like the two things are connected.

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The Telegraph now seemingly edited by Lord Haw-Haw.

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

These so-called "patriotic" 🇬🇧newspapers who brought you Brexit were never really patriotic at all. They are driven by a disdain for Britain's European neighbours, and a fawning obsession with America. They do not really want 🇬🇧 to be sovereign. They're content being a 🇺🇸vassal.

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A little concerned that Trump might get confused and try to take Greenford.

The inescapable view that on both the UK and USA, Charles de Gaulle was absolutely right.

Off to see my favourite 1930s horror film in Picturehouse's Pre-code season. "Do you hear that, Vitus? The phone is dead. Even the phone is dead".

How it started ... How it's going

What makes this statement by Emmanuel Macron so unprecedented is, for the first time, a leading European ally is equating Trump with Putin. “No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.” EVERYTHING has changed.

Y'know, if I were Netflix and buying a major studio and trying to convince people I was going to release movies in theatres. And I had a new movie starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and a Best Supporting Actress frontrunner. I would, like, maybe put that movie in theatres.

Keir Starmer often takes 2-3 days to issue very mild criticism of US actions. This is both direct and issued fast. I think there is a serious risk that the US miscalculated quite what a big deal the Greenland thing is to Europe (and in Europe).

Congratulations to 🍊, the revised Crufts Best in Show 2025 winner!

Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing.

The Come Play With Me of languorous art cinema.

One of my upcoming History Month events...

Today's charity shop purchases.

Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing.

This is the kind of #TOTP episode where you can do something else while it's on. And also turn the sound off.

So I watched this because @mattleys.bsky.social kind of told me to, and I’m very glad I did. Perfect Friday afternoon “draw the curtains and pretend the world isn’t on fire” viewing.

Today's charity shop purchases.

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

Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.