As someone who has been a tax professional for 28 years, might I say that this is the worst thing I have ever seen with my human eyes.

As a man, you know you’ve hit middle age when you find yourself in the garden at a kid’s party with dads of a similar age drinking 0% beer and discussing each other’s VO2 max ratings.

If anyone fancies coming to see Sugar at O2 Kentish Town on 23 May…managed to get one more ticket than I needed.

I used to do this when I was 18 in a pub in the East Yorkshire village of Allerthorpe, but with Buddy Holly’s ‘Raining In My Heart’.

Seen the force that is Bob Mould live a few times, so when they’re over in the UK next month I’m seeing Sugar twice in a week. Just to finish off whatever is left of my hearing and the stability of my innards. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

Weighty in-tray…

Switch of gears for the afternoon…

Went to the bakery for some crossie-Bs.

I win life

What do you call a Dianna Ross tribute band at Cowes week? The Wight Supremacists.

Sheffield’s DIY hardcore club Lughole is the latest small music venue at risk. Would encourage anyone interested in grass-roots community-based music to help support it. www.gofundme.com/f/the-lughol...

Cleaners (white dudes) running 2.5 hours late. Previous excuses have been Ramadan, Eid, road closure due to serious incident (used several times), car breakdown. Half suspecting they’re busy commemorating the feast of St Rupert of Salzburg from an Air Ambulance.

Would I like to go back to uni for a 6pm opening of a commemorative garden on a Friday night? Hmm. 6 total hours of travel and the cost of a hotel for 2 glasses of wine, shitty nibbles, speeches, and requests for donations.

Lovely to see my friend Mike in the NY Times today, though it marks an anniversary of a personal tragedy. Doubt I know anyone whose art has touched so many as his and Minutemen’s has. One of life’s true forces. Long may he sail. archive.ph/2026.03.26-1...

It took a labour of love, but my daughter’s finally managed to remember the phrase ‘hue and cry’.

Someone has been happier since the sun came out.

I have an author joke but it was stolen by Anthropic

Most popular area to own a house in Pennsylvania.

Sunbathing weather here in Sheffield.

My first @thetls.bsky.social byline! But I’m afraid it’s for a book that will infuriate most historians. (That’s why you can read almost all of the review in the preview - you probably didn’t want to read 1500 words of my head exploding.)

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Bc4

Won a small claims judgement against a bland Sheffield-based shyster, only to find he placed his bullshit and now insolvent bathroom company into creditors voluntary liquidation the day that we lodged our claim against it.

Left without comment.

Why are all you fuckers getting up, asks Rosie.

While I have your attention, this is ONLY available today. bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

For anyone disappointed by how their Equity for Punks investment turned out, I’ll point out i) you can claim a capital loss for tax purposes to offset future gains, and ii) I have some amazing magic beans that you may be interested in.

As a student I was working in a library, and turned round to see Yasser Arafat looking intently over my shoulder at the book I was reading.

DogsPunkIPA is no more. Perhaps there is a God after all?

I hope as Tommy Robinson flees Dubai he settles in the first safe country he arrives in

I remember having The Beano, Buster, Funday Times, Transformers, Battle Action Force and Eagle, and Oink delivered to the house as a kid. Having to shake whatever daily newspaper my folks had at the time to locate where it had been concealed. The disappointment on those days it failed to come!

Can someone report Matt Goodwin to Trading Standards for false advertising?

Cleaners left cat hair in the sink.

Mandeeee Do you remember me? Mandeeee Do you remember

Male bishops of Lincoln just keep on being suspended. Maybe time for a female to take the reins? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bet Paddington Bear is keeping his head down today.

Share ownership has never been high up the list of priorities for the punks I know. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Wonder how many of the X Games competitors at the Winter Olympics are busy lauding their own achievements on LinkedIn?

I hear Matt Goodwin has drawn something controversial into the condensation created by his own breath again.

Ah if only Butthole Surfers would hit the road one last time…

Family of three - plastic build up over 2.5 months that the council don’t collect, so for most it ends up in their rubbish bin.

Welcome to your late mid-late late thirties (49) fucker, says my right Achilles tendon.

Meanwhile, down in the cellar.

Something compelled me to make this

Chased by urban badgers in the very early hours of this morning on my way home from watching the worst Super Bowl on record. Wasn’t expecting to get my adrenaline hit that way.

Phoebe Schecter styled in a desperate plea to US television to get her the fuck away from Sky Sports’ dreadful NFL coverage. #SuperBowl60

Maye-be Not. #SuperBowl60

Why am I staying up to watch this dogshit? #SuperBowl60

Vonnegutted for her.

Steve Cram’s inability to realise that he’s now commentating on GB vs USA and not GB vs Canada (this morning’s match) in the mixed pairs curling has gone from amusing to irritating to ever so slightly concerning.