They’re all duplicitous, weak, immoral shitbags aren’t they? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Today I did the Surrey Hills Three Peak Challenge. In this heat. I have never sweated so much. (Apologies for largely cliched photos. Feel free to imagine other, less-ordinary, visual stimuli in addition)

Adam Curtis: “But Helen Lewis could not have been more wrong. Not only was Terry Pratchett not the funniest English writer since P.G. Wodehouse, but in the years since his death, he had become more powerful than Lewis could possibly imagine.”

Yes, in a world where there is such a thing as ‘best’, Middlemarch is it.

Based on the layout I think we're supposed to imagine this is a poem Based on the replies we're supposed to imagine this is also good advice It's neither

Who is reviewing this wild piece of art?

St. Michael’s Mount, Cornwall

In response to the risible claims being made by Reform:

Have lost John Lennon’s hair on my Lego Yellow Submarine, and now Lennon looks like he did in that terrible issue of Q magazine where it tried to reconstruct images of pop stars if they’d lived.

Okay then: Couldn’t Call it Unexpected No.4/Elvis Costello I am Afraid/A House This is What She’s Like/Dexys As I Sat Down to Play the Organ…/Sparks Vanity Fair/Squeeze Grey Skies and Work Things/The Lilac Time Golden Slumbers/The Beatles Wrapped in Grey/XTC Wonderful/Beach Boys One Season/Roches

Saramago, telling us what he’s doing.

Is there *any* literary fiction from Cornwall, aside from Du Maurier and Dunmore? Yes, I *know* lit fic is a most unlovely definition but you take my point- must I read another Daphne on my trip to Cornwall next week- surely there’s something else out there…?

Charity shop find: a selection of Arthur C Clarke stories “for readers of twelve and over”, published by Puffin in 1974. Introduction by J.B. Priestley, cover by Peter Jones. And Denise Watson, where are you now?

tomorrow is the last day you can register to vote in the UK, just saying

I obviously love the @myfavebeatles.bsky.social podcast but the latest, with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social is a delight. Could listen to her talk about the Beatles all day long.

L-R: Daytime book, nighttime book, general jump-in-at-anytime book. Also featuring: 1 x beer and 1 x glasses

BRING. IT. ONWARDS. The new AK Blakemore is an hour-by-hour account of the Peasants’ Revolt. Some 650 pages, but I’m strapped in and ready.

Love this version of Rogue Male.

You, sir, are a cunt.

I don’t think he’d have been seen dead in these, frankly.

Space holds no interest for me.

What’s the point of HBO Max if they aren’t showing Dream On?

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My geography teacher introduced her to me when I was 16 (think they had had a dalliance) and she was lovely.

This is a no-Winn situation.

Revelation: Tenby is a lovely town.

Putting the FUN in Barafundle.

An item spotted in my local mini mart. I wish this toy existed when I was a nipper. Back then, I always dreamt of flinging a face. I'm also curious to know what it reminds me of.

With Dylan Moran this Friday, and @cmatbaby.bsky.social the following one, I feel like I deserve the keys to County Meath or something.

Pretty sure that the pollster on BBC just said of the likelihood of Green’s success today being an indicator of any General Election success, that “it’s very hard to expectorate”. How very phlegmatic of him.

Final weekend. One last push. This is about whether you want local plumber Hannah Spencer or the extreme Reform candidate. It's hope vs hate. It's Greens vs Reform. Hope can win.

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Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen. (Sorry lads it’s an obvious one)

One day I will also be able to walk slowly along narrow canal footpaths holding my partners hand and be surprised when other people want to get past us. *grumpy*

I neither knew that Self had a new novel coming, nor that he had (pretty bad) cancer. Has this gone underreported or am I following the wrong accounts? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Where am I (now)?

Alfred Molina in the shop today. Was tempted to throw an imaginary cat at him, see if he could do *that* performance again.

I’m really enjoying John & Paul but even for me, an annoyingly overzealous McCartney fan, he seems to be over-egging the influence Paul had on every one of John’s songs. Maybe I’ve just underestimated Paul. Maybe he’s *better* than I thought. Actually, yeah. No worries, as you were.

Catherine O’Hara. God. Made me weep in A Mighty Wind. Such a joy to watch.

I’m three-quarters through a Henry James novel and one day I swear I’m going to find out what’s happening. Not directly, I’m sure, I’ve given up all hope of that, but afterwards. Afterwards, perhaps someone will elucidate.

So I read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and am sorry to say that I knew who the murderer was within three pages, and I’d worked out how it was done within thirty pages or so. I’m rarely down on books on here, but needed to share my dismay. A not great book.

Where am I?

My early thoughts on the new Barnes are Christ it’s good to have him back, and god he’s such a confident writer. Knows all the little tricks to relax you into a story. Also, so funny. Unpretentiously intelligent too.

Walked past two low(ish)-level famous people today. Perhaps you’d like to guess who they were?

Thought this was superb. Out in May. Ostensibly a fiction, but so much more than that.

Does Donald Trump deserve the Peace prize because he always said “shhhhhhhhh stay quiet ” to the children on Epstein Island

Hullo from the Hangers Way.

Favorite Bowie songs as of 17:14, 11/01/26 ‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore “Heroes” Bring Me the Disco King Station to Station Fantastic Voyage Blackstar I’m Not Losing Sleep Sons of the Silent Age Boys Keep Swinging Aladdin Sane

Poll after poll is showing us as the main challenges to Labour in Islington South & Finsbury - and the polls show the gap is narrowing everyday! The work to elect one of London's first Green MPs has already started. Graphic from MoreinCommon MRP polling

David Bowie: Blackstar in RECORD COLLECTOR January 2016 #review www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_recc...