Tomorrow!

A reminder that my book on the history of protest is now published. It is superbly produced with a great cover. Buy it now from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true. It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately. If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website. gailmyerscough.co.uk A repost would be lovely too.

And if you like that, you'll love @whenisbirths.bsky.social's new book (probably; I've not bought it yet but will when I'm not skint). #80sOverload bsky.app/profile/when...

Anne Wood's first ever TV credit. Twenty years later: Teletubbies.

Compared to thudders like John Redwood and Michael Portillo (yes before all his trains), Major was considered almost moderate but we seem to have forgotten that he used to say things like 'We should judge a little more, and understand a little less'.

You don't have to share screenshots of columists, you know. They only speak for themselves, most of the time, and sharing their burblings merely enables them to continue.

Thanks for all the nice messages and replies. A difficult week anyway, but we've also had a death of someone far too young in our extended family recently, and so getting up today felt hard. But you have to, I suppose.

Ep 3 of Through the Square Window is available wherever you get your podcasts. @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social discuss Bob's Full House, Ray Davies' Return to Waterloo, Juliet Bravo, The Gentle Touch and, in the company of Richard Marson, the last-ever episode of Rentaghost.

My brother died on this day. It’s a long time ago now, I suppose, and the ripples from that still have an impact, not always directly. It would also be his birthday this week. So it’s always a tough week to get one’s head around. 1/2

I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything

My attempts to connect my written work with a feline audience have taken a giant step forward. This review for my last book, #DontStopTheMusic, perhaps the sweetest I’ve ever had, from the United States. Thank you Rob, Myra and Mr Tiddles.

‘Complete and utter bollocks’ you say, Mr Johnson. Oh well, we’ll put all the actual evidence in the shredder, shall we?

Bob Larbey later said that ‘you might meet one out of a thousand people who’d seen it and said, Oh I loved that’. Briers’ favourite comedy part of all, it turned out, because it was so against type.

Everyone hates this show, but they're wrong, it's great. Utterly bleak and depressing, but great.

People who think Tom Good’s a monster haven’t seen this. Two series and BBC4 should get on it. Wonderful series.

Boxing Day: ‘God it turns out he was insufferable.’

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‘James Bond’s Day Off’

Like really that was Wile E Coyote’s job, an in-tray of frustrated pursuit which never got emptied.

Every morning at 6am, he’s woken up by the radio playing this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN86...

Just start again the next day like Wile E Coyote.

LRT: it’s why they’ll never be happy or secure. That ‘be grateful for what you’ve got, especially you’ message just never reached them.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Those risky seconds when it could be either Jealousy or Kokomo.

Some very exciting news! The Big Midweek - which follows ⁦‪@stephenhanley‬⁩6.bsky.social 19 years in The Fall is available to pre order from TODAY in Audiobook form! 💥 Narrated by Stewart Lee! Published on 26th November! 💥 www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Big-M... or www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Midweek-... !!

My attempts to connect my written work with a feline audience have taken a giant step forward. This review for my last book, #DontStopTheMusic, perhaps the sweetest I’ve ever had, from the United States. Thank you Rob, Myra and Mr Tiddles.

‘The goal with this, perhaps, is for us to actually *be* in panto.’ ‘Is it?’ Laughed a lot during this.

Gadzooks! Our podcast is out tomorrow, looking at TV from Nov 1984, including the last-ever episode of Rentaghost. Former Blue Peter editor and now author Richard Marson joins @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social to talk about it.

Back to Now! New Episode! 🎧 Revisit the first NOW of the 21st century with guest @ricardoautobahn.co.uk - it’s NOW45! Millennial hangovers and pop tunes aplenty! Episode and full album playlist available here or where you get your podcasts. linktr.ee/poprambler

I regard this as a badge of honour. Thank you, Gideon. #IntoTheGroove

This is very good. I rattled through it. At times it made me sad and wistful and I'm all for that. Recommended.

I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything

11 November 1994: The death of Elizabeth Maconchy. The birth of Ellie Simmonds.

‘Recycling By’

The Arena documentary about the Ford Cortina is just starting on BBC4 #WeirdCarBS

Exactly what happened with the 'misleading editing of the Queen' nearly 20 years ago. Again, it was an independent production (RDF in that particular case).

I suspect if you can't even wash your hands after using the toilet, you're unlikely to EVER wash your hands. (When the pandemic kicked in and we were told to make sure we did this as often as possible, I wondered what HAD people been doing before.)

A couple of nice reviews on Amazon for books of mine, one in particular involving a cat, which frankly will always spark my interest.

'DO HOTLEGS'?

A perfect thing to read on your journey home, although maybe not if you're driving. #FirstLastAnything is back.

It doesn't have to be this way. Even if it is trending downwards (and I'm not sure whether I agree it is or not, overall) it can't trend upwards if it doesn't survive, and it's certainly too valuable and worthwhile to slaughter, disregard or take for granted.

My god, that Goodall piece is scathing and then some.

This is full of mildly astonishing revelations about right-wing influence at the BBC, but foremost among them is the fact that he was advised that writing for the New Statesman was effectively unacceptable but doing so for the Spectator was fine - indeed, advisable. I am flabbergasted.

I've had people tell me they used to go to these, and I've been so envious.

And also books occasionally - yes, look impressed - though coincidentally they're always ones about how to make somehow yet more money.

Love it. Thank you both That Jonathan Harvey piece... OMG ❤️ (Not allowed to listen to 4 Last Songs if Mr S is in the house. Too beautiful to be actually played out loud)

Going to put this on front of you again. The news moves on, but the problems faced by those living in Jamaica are still there.

A perfect thing to read on your journey home, although maybe not if you're driving. #FirstLastAnything is back.

This weird (bootleg?) Spanish Velvet Underground comp has the most demented/brilliant track sequencing I have ever seen in my life.