From 2019, after the Emily Maitlis interview (I share a page with something called ‘Kids Quiz' in the guardian, which is why we used the phrase ’sex trafficker’ here, and not ‘paedophile’. You can't really throw that word around on the Kids Quiz page)

Forty years since Ted Hughes wrote his single most excruciating Laureate poem, for the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson

Remember: Andrew Windsor won’t see your posts, but other unconvicted absolute Grade A shits will. So: keep at it

The bravery of this woman. Today belongs to Virginia. RIP

She Who Is Not Called Mrs Coates was joking the other day that revelations would keep trickling out, and Mr Windsor’s accommodation would keep shrinking until eventually he was in a caravan parked up in Sandringham somewhere, but: police custody? GOD, THIS IS FUCKING MARVELLOUS

Seconded

Gurgling with pleasure at this wording

“They don’t need you to read that book doing your stupid voices, although I still would” is such a lovely sentence. One of many

It’s the 102nd anniversary of the birth of Lee Marvin, which can only mean one thing: yes, it’s time to trot out John Boorman’s story of him going home on top of a car, utterly arseholed... 🧵

It’s the 141st anniversary today of the US publication of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Why had this famously American author’s work already come out in Britain and Canada (on 10 December), though? Well, because someone had drawn a cock in the US version... 🧵

It’s the 141st anniversary today of the US publication of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Why had this famously American author’s work already come out in Britain and Canada (on 10 December), though? Well, because someone had drawn a cock in the US version... 🧵

Roses are red My gravy won’t thicken

This is (the silly person) who runs this account (and whose new T shirt by @captainhowdy.bsky.social just arrived)

Roses are red Dogs have bad breath

I love how one headline can have so many varieties of stupid in it

It’s 17 February! Yes, that’s right – it’s exciting because it’s the 21st anniversary of the publication of a scientific investigation by four men at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into the effectiveness of tinfoil hats to protect you from government mind control... 🧵

It’s 17 February! Yes, that’s right – it’s exciting because it’s the 21st anniversary of the publication of a scientific investigation by four men at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into the effectiveness of tinfoil hats to protect you from government mind control... 🧵

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake And a happy year of the whores to you all

I made this postcard move - Bembridge Windmill, Isle of Wight

Absolute joy

I owe you all an apology. I failed to mark the 11th anniversary yesterday of the 20th anniversary of the Great Northern Jerk-Off. I also missed the 30th annual Great Northern Jerk-Off in 2024, and have been unable to establish when the 2026 Jerk-Off was or is being held

It’s the 211th anniversary of an editorial in The Times which “deplores the credulity of Londoners”. Apparently, they’d fallen en masse for a rumour that there was a gentlewoman living in the capital who was unremarkable but for the fact she had a pig’s head 🧵

Tempted though I am by the Lloyds Bank Coprolite, the diorama of the execution of Louis XVI featuring taxidermied grey squirrels, Vermeer’s View of Delft, the Magdeburg Unicorn, George V’s Fabergé aardvark, and the hat made from a mushroom at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, it has to be...

It’s the 211th anniversary of an editorial in The Times which “deplores the credulity of Londoners”. Apparently, they’d fallen en masse for a rumour that there was a gentlewoman living in the capital who was unremarkable but for the fact she had a pig’s head 🧵

Ladies and gentlemen: the weekend / Monday

Remembered this gif exists. Morning

EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably. CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.

Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets

Classic sci-fi movie Saturn 3 celebrates its joyful 46th anniversary today. Obviously, you’re familiar with it – directed by Stanley ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ Donen, it starred Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and Harvey Keitel, and had a script by Martin Amis. It couldn’t fail. Ah, and yet, and yet... 🧵

My sister sent me a photo of some of our ancestors. Not a clue who any of them are, but have been making snap judgments 2. Is well aware that you’re thinking of the granny from the Giles cartoons. Will clip you round the ear later 3. Has read Oscar Wilde. Will be disowned 4. Syphilis, clearly

Just been reminded that this video exists. Morning all

Currently watching this deeply weird thing, and I haven’t read any interviews in which he’s said so, but surely Kinski’s Dracula is where Rami Malek got the idea for the voice he does in No Time To Die?

Lest we forget to have a shit

See Ravilious, RT Ravilious. It’s a rule

Good morning please enjoy these French porcelain sphynxes, they can’t believe you would actually post that, they are both repelled and intrigued

’Oo remembers casting a shadow? What were that all about?

Oo The London Nobody Knows! youtu.be/vj4d7rI3A84?...

Or the Dave Allen one about the British Eccentric www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RX1...

This is a fantastic interview:

Well, happy 13th birthday to this immaculately timed headline

Reminds me of this from the old place a few years ago

27 years ago today, artist John Myatt was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud, after painting around 200 fake works, including Chagalls and Matisses over a period of eight years, which convinced buyers despite usually being rendered in household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly 🧵

Instantly ordered one of these, obviously

For anyone who by some incredible mischance has not read / or listened to this, one of the most striking and influential books of this century.

Hahahahahahaha like fuck

27 years ago today, artist John Myatt was sentenced to a year in prison for conspiracy to defraud, after painting around 200 fake works, including Chagalls and Matisses over a period of eight years, which convinced buyers despite usually being rendered in household emulsion mixed with KY Jelly 🧵

Roses are red Hives have bees in

12 February, or – as it’s also known – 188th anniversary of the day Lady Hester Stanhope wrote to Queen Victoria in high dudgeon to say “Few things are more disgraceful and inimical to Royalty than giving commands without examining all their different bearings” 🧵