Who's at the Stoke game? Is the formation 3-7-0?

We can all get things wrong, but if I had been this consistently and catastrophically wrong about such important issues I don't think I could carry on publishing my opinions every week. I'd want to go away and think about how I'd so badly misunderstood the things I write about.

Board of Peace - Season 1

"For the British left, this presents an initiative to be seized. If the question at the centre of British politics is “who broke Britain?”, let’s be clear and unequivocal. The four horsemen of Britain’s apocalypse are deindustrialisation, privatisation, austerity and Brexit" A. Burnham - 22/1/26...

In case you missed it: My suggestion that Farage was whispering to Trump behind the scenes while Trump was going after Greenland has been essentially confirmed. As @jamesdaustin.bsky.social notes: Working against your country's interest with a semi-hostile state - there's a word for that.

My word, that Carole King gig in Central Park in 1973. Utterly breathtaking. BBC4 tonight. If you didn't see, then do so and enhance your life. Apologies if that sounds arrogant.

Well @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social I have finished this book. It's a triumph. It has never failed to keep me engrossed, but more than that, emotions of pride, anger, hope from the stories of courage you tell. I hope that "Travels.."will come to Andalucía to tell the story here too. ¡No Pasarán!

Now here's a tune, particularly this time of year. open.spotify.com/track/2PkC4v...

Mark Rutte has handed Donald Trump a piece of paper with ‘turn over to read our Greenland offer’ on both sides & that will occupy him for weeks

Genius.

As a teenager I loved the winter. Football every weekend somewhere in the country. A life led in monochrome, as though permanently in an Ultravox video. I fucking hate it now. Cold, wet, cold, dark, cold. What's the point of anything?

Sensational ♥️

I mean, this is utterly pathetic, just a dismal standard of reporting

BBC News now, only top story trailing for 45 minutes, Trump about to speak. But the sack of orange shit still hasn't turned up. I'd go to the weather or Bargain Hunt or something.

I see that the news this morning is dominated by both #DiegoGarcia and David #Beckham. Did they ever play in the same side at Real Madrid?

An employee cleaning the floor of a Roomba store.

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Do you know how much of your bottle spend is actually going on the wine?! If you buy an average bottle in the UK, less than 15% is spent on the wine. That goes up to 42% when you spend £15. If you care about what you consume, value what you consume. Drink less, buy better, support producers.

The Buffalo Bills are out of their minds....

Since our inception East Street Wine Co have worked hand in hand with Darling Cellars, just off the Atlantic coast and about 50 miles north of Cape Town. A small co-op but the largest employer in this sleepy old frontier town. Just fantastic people. They have started the 2026 harvest this morning!

Nobody is saying it's easy. But Starmer just spent fifteen minutes saying absolutely nothing.

35 years ago today - what a night it was. Wouldn’t get many Wembley gigs with a line up like that for £12.50 these days!

Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” variety.com/2026/music/n...

January 18, 1972 - David Bowie Sounds Of The 70s David Bowie's ninth session for BBC radio was recorded on this date, for Sounds Of The 70s. This edition was hosted by Bob Harris and aired on February 7, 1972. #BowieForever

Trumpton (17th January 1967). The brave boys of Trumpton fire station leap into action once again.

Truth

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

@firefoxperformance.bsky.social have tweaked their logo. All I can see now is Trump in profile.

Worth an airing today I think m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcJq...

In these troubling times, we should never miss any opportunity to be reminded of the utterly joyous genius of Kevin Rowland. This is just fabulous ❤️

Prophetic . . . What a field-day for the heat A thousand people in the street Singing songs and a-carrying signs Mostly say hooray for our side Paranoia strikes deep Into your life it will creep It starts when you're always afraid Step out of line, the man come and take you away

This is exactly the sort of public service broadcasting that social media should exist for.

If at auction I buy, I don't know, say Stanley Matthews FA Cup Final winners medal does that mean I played in, and made a match winning performance in that Cup Final, even though it was fourteen years before I was born? Asking for Trump.

Ian McKellen to star as LS Lowry in documentary revealing trove of unheard tapes. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Top trolling from the TUC! 👏

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First episode broadcast OTD in 1996. For all its faults, the BBC does some great things...

Under UK electoral law Robert Jenrick remains the MP for Newark because it is an anagram of wanker.

I have met so many Dans, and female Dans, and they always blow my mind

The great thing about this recipe is that it still leaves 650ml of the wine unaccounted for

Neil Coyle MP has written a brutal takedown letter to Nigel Farage for his breach of parliamentary protocol, because Farage visited Coyle's London constituency without notifying him. 10/10 no notes. (H/T @simonpegg.bsky.social)

Tessa Sanderson @ the Snooker. My word. Swoon. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ What a fabulous role model to us all.

What sort of a scumbag must you be to threaten a fundraiser who cares about the women & girls of Afghanistan? I’ve just donated to her GoFundMe. Let’s annoy the racists & raise even more than Sarah hoped for. Please share. www.gofundme.com/f/sarah-port... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Major Bummer ! 🤣

Three Tuns, Sheffield.

Sting Stung For Not Paying Police Bung

"F*ck ICE" among Virtus Verona fans yesterday in the Italian 3rd division match against Arzignano Valchiampo.