Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

In the top ten of Christmas songs, without doubt and on some days No 1. The Kinks - Father Christmas www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPPC...

If Gen A are ever interested in what Teletext felt like, I'll ask them to tell me what the 5th bus to arrive will be

Get a load of this. 😆

Was at a funeral earlier where a @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social poem was read: “I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress”.

I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.

@deserterblog.bsky.social Not just a Bum Dosser, but an AI Bum Dosser that fibs when caught dossing.

Watching a brass band play in a brewery in The Black Forest as a warm up to watching Crystal Palace play in Strasbourg later this week.

@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social I just listened to your most recent podcast (how I found…), one of your best ones to date.

This image of The Slits by Terry Lott is apparently from a 'Photoshoot At Home Of Band Member In New Cross'. I've seen it dated from 1981 and 1987, former seems more likely as they split up in '82 - for the sake of my completist SE14 obsession, does anybody know who lived where?

As we move into “foreigners are cancelling Christmas in the name of political correctness” season it’s worth remember that Christmas was indeed once banned in England, by Christians and the man who enforced the ban has a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament.

If the Tartan Army don't start singing "With those goals you are sending Scotland to America" they are missing a trick.

To all you Palace supporters out there, I have come up with a song to the tune of I’m a believer by The Monkees.

Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.

BLOG POST: “It’s still a breathtaking to stand on that beach. To hear water lapping over stone, intensified by the passing of passenger boats, and the cries of seabirds. And to sense that beneath your feet, no doubt, are the stems of a million clay pipes.” boakandbailey.com/2025/10/the-...

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

The Epstein Ballroom it is

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums. Thank you. An Aston Villa fan.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Fresh ink.

There used to be an "indice de performance" in the Monte Carlo rally, which rewarded the car which performed the best in relation to its engine size. In football, Oliver Glasner's Crystal Palace would win it almost every round of the PL. Chapeau.

I used to be in a band called Eponymous Debut, we split up after an argument about the what to call our first album.

In Crystal Palace’s all time history we have now won one more game that we have lost (1776 vs 1775), our goals for and against are equal (6642). Screenshot from 11vs11.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

I live in Beckenham, a leafy suburb of south east London, a place where David Bowie lived for several years. Beckenham doesn’t have any decent kebab shops. I put this down to the fact that no one has yet had the vision to open one called “We Could Be Gyros”.

It’s one of my favourite days of the year on Saturday and this year it’s a WORLD Tram Drivers’ Championship!! AND there’s now EIGHT disciplines! AND tram bowling is BACK! #TramWM tramwm.wienerlinien.at/en/ @mrtimdunn.bsky.social @geofftech.bsky.social

Banksy mural now 👇 Do not talk about Gaza. Do not humanise Palestinians. Do not make art that exposes war crimes. Move on. See it. Say it. Censored.

Autumn's here when it's #GreenHopSeason. Brewers start to produce "wet" hop beers fresh from the fields. Hop Projects & Collectives Manchester to Bristol harvest the bines they've grown. If you can get to Kent, heart of famous hop fields, Spa Valley Railway Beer Fest will include 30 Green Hop beers.

A colourful glowing orb, with a lunar eclipse in the background.

Having a sundowner, waiting for the eclipse.

Rayner is gone so where is the media outrage at Farage and his taxing dodging scams? Home bought in his partners name avoiding stamp duty, GB News pay via a company to avoid 40% tax rate on his 92k pay from them.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

He’s here He’s there He’s every fuckin where Marc Guehi (One for the very old school supporters)

Cleanse your timeline with the most wholesome Velvets cover ever. Worth watching all the way through.

I saw someone painting a red cross on some white dog poo earlier. Made me proud. And nostaligic.

Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties

There where more Bass players in The Fall

Fucking awesome. With a few blasts of red spray paint you can turn the English flag into the Dead Kennedys logo As the band said: Nazi punks, fuck off!

“If I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats