Nobody asked for my opinion, but if they had I’d have said that Lena Dunham’s Too Much is not enough.

[trying to hold it together but voice is audibly several octaves higher than usual] huh, did you guys know Jonny Lee Miller's a firefighter when he's not acting, and he enjoys rescuing cats

Blimey… Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

was about to get mad at a guy cycling past and doing kissy noises in my direction then realised he was doing them at a dog down the street don't mind me my good sir, as you were

My freezer stopped working today (today! 32C!) so I’ve just tried changing the fuse in the wall switch and IT WORKED. I had to stand on a chair and use a screwdriver and everything. Feel like a bit of a hero, tbh

Or flowers always go down well

I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.

In addition to Harvey Weinstein’s conviction on Wednesday in Manhattan, he has also been convicted of similar charges in a criminal case in California. Here’s what to know.

Good god. Read this and look forward to never sleeping peacefully again.

Tell me your five favourite childhood books about fictional animal characters. Mine are: 1 A Dog So Small; 2 The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark; 3 Charlotte’s Web; 4 Gobbolino the Witch’s Cat; 5 No Roses for Harry!

The happy world of Haribo

A fantastically hokey old TV serialisation of Sense and Sensibility has just started on BBC4.

George Wendt, best known for playing Norm on Cheers, dies aged 76

I do not fear the semi colon

Tiananmen Squirrel

Why are so many bars closed on Mondays don't they know it's Monday

Oh, Danny Dyer on Desert Island Discs today. I like him

THIRTY-NINE

As I wrote this morning, a rare alignment of Labour factions now opposed to Reeves's economic strategy: Blue Labour, Red Wall, soft left and hard left. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

#1C000LEST Day 36 "Paid In Full" by Eric B & Rakim (1987) Their early work stands up as brilliant anyway, but if you hear it in the context of its time it was streets ahead of everything else and prompted Public Enemy to raise their game. youtu.be/E7t8eoA_1jQ?...

In Norwich, a man in khaki trousers was talking loudly on the bus and a bloke at the back said “pipe down, Tenko”.

Kneecap are not the story. Genocide is the story crackmagazine.net/2025/04/mass...

Genuine question: hearing lots in the news about trans women being banned from playing in women’s football games, but has anyone spoken about trans men playing in men’s football teams?

Fearless London robin. #birdsoftheworld

Charlie Brooker (I think it was) used to call Mumford and Sons the 'trust fund Wurzels' and tbh, think it's a tad unfair on the Wurzels.

The original two series of Talking Heads are due to drop off the iPlayer soon - there's eight days left to watch them. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Gorgeous photo from The Color Nature Library: CATS by Peggy Wratten, 1977. I can't find the photographer's name, unfortunately. None is noted anywhere in the book.

I suppose if Pride and Prejudice *has* to be remade, Jack Lowden is not a bad choice to play Fitzwilliam Darcy

This evening my ma casually mentioned that we have a Scottish ancestor named Priscilla Porteous and now she is all I want to know about.

Librarians pressured to remove books by LGBTQ+ writers. Librarians harrassed at work for putting LGBTQ+ stories on their shelves. This is the UK-not Hungary, not USA. It's here and now. What can you do? Invite LGBTQ+ writers to your schools and libraries. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

If there's a bigger thrill than an M&S yellow sticker glinting at me from across the aisle then I'm yet to experience it.

Prada announced it was buying Versace for $1.38 billion on Thursday. The deal is a big bet on the value of "Made In Italy" at a time when the financial markets are in chaos because of President Trump’s whipsawing tariff policies.

The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.

Social care is crazy. What I didn’t know is that say you sell your house to fund it, and that goes, then the care home fees comes from council tax funds. Money goes directly from us to private services. That is an urgent fix.

Great comic timing from the Danes here.

More than 230 passengers and crew members have been sickened in a norovirus outbreak during a 29-day round-trip luxury cruise from England to the Eastern Caribbean, according to the CDC.

Special BBC Front Row tonight on freedom of expression in the arts. 715pm R4 or on the link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Frank Lloyd Wright adopted climate adaptation strategies from desert flora and fauna decades before sustainability was a buzzword

Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express (Film4 now) has a great cast and terrific design, but the CGI is a blunt instrument and really spoils it.

My ma sprained her ankle when she tripped on the stairs in WHSmith York on Christmas Eve 1984 and the staff weren’t very sympathetic, so don’t tell me karma isn’t a thing #RIPWHSmith

Series 2 of The Change by @bridgetchristie.bsky.social is making me howl with laughter. Surreal Housewives of the Forest of Dean #channel4

I love listening to Counterpoint on R4 every Sunday, really just because of Paul Gambaccini’s voice.

Words To Live By Number 200

Jeremy Vine on the radio, interviewing DryRobe w@nkers about being DryRobe w@nkers. As one woman has said, it’s like seeing someone wear a beekeeper’s outfit to buy honey at the farmers market.

Some nice-looking books I own, for #WorldBookDay. Please reply with some nice-looking books you own.

no shit. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tom Courtenay, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1937, in Hull, England

Finally some good news