Not that this is anywhere near the most important or necessary thing to say but they shot someone called Good. And you’d have to kick the scriptwriter in the nuts if this was a film.

I see Mandelson’s been promised a sex igloo then.

Day 8 - a song beginning with H Horse and Rider by Richard Dawson. Weird proggy folk that gets under your skin in a good way…. youtu.be/dYFrpG9VqU8?...

You can tell a seventies England footballer because their name always sounds great if you imagine Kevin Rowland singing it. #martinchivers

Meanwhile, Igor is sneaking back to the castle with a bag full of washing.

Where there’s brains there’s a claim

Not for a game of Cluedo.

Someone (I think it might have been Giles Smith) once wrote a column suggesting that Roy of the Rovers had done the same thing to English football and we were hard-wired to expect a talismanic hero to get us out of trouble all the time (Keegan, Robson etc etc)

Mrs Dalloway said she'd call Interflora herself

Paranoid semi-drunken thought from last night - that the rise in superhero movie genre is a move by Big Business to soothe people worried at the state of the world by giving credence to the idea that someone or something will save us and that good always triumphs in the end. Which it doesn’t/won’t.

Day 7 - a song beginning with G PJ Harvey - Good Fortune youtu.be/YZA1NnY4FPE?...

Just for the record I hope Donald Trump and all his supporters die today.

Day 6 - a song that begins with F Get more live music down ye Factory - Band of Horses youtu.be/au46bxrxJeI?...

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

"Are you sure we don't have *anybody* else to write up this story?"

Give it to Truss. It’s the only logical/clearly the funniest outcome.

Krapp’s Last Game

Awful politicians getting the songs of The Smiths slightly wrong: 1. I Know It’s Dover

Give it to Big Sam etc

I can now enjoy a Mediterranean diet while I watch those wall-to-wall gambling adverts.

"Sidney Sweeney, Elon Musk, RFK, cybertruck Six-seven, Bowsette, Jeffrey Epstein's private jet Skibiddi toilet, Isabelle's titties, fear of 15 minute cities Space lasers, covid doubt, keep my wife's name out your mouth! (chorus) We didnt start the fire..."

It should amplify what Keir has already proven his position on most things is - his position is what the media here and Trump there tells him what it is.

Every football story framed as "so and so SHOWS TRUE COLOURS about player or club X", which turns out to be former professional says perfectly reasonable thing that we've all moved on from.

Day 5 - a song that begins with E One of the best live bands I’ve ever seen. Widowspeak - Everything is Simple youtu.be/-J7c3SW74UQ?...

Our work internet home page is the msn news thingy and it is all “if you do any of these 9 things you are a narcissist” and “26 films that you need to see if you think your wife is a paedophile” and “the 11 hairstyles men buy guns after”.

This one time an Italian man made a song out of nonsense sounds and got it into the charts. That song was called Nessun Dorma.

I’d like to apologise to the world for singing Alison Hammond to the tune of Honky Tonk Woman just then.

Connections Puzzle #938 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Day 4 - a song that begins with D. Well, seeing as he turns 70 today, should pick something touched by the hand of Bernard Sumner. Dream Attack - New Order. youtu.be/iXbe_PXSoCI?...

My favourite Beautiful South song about camping is Perfect Tent!

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

Is there a word for that feeling where you really fancy some quality doom scrolling time / socials etc and your phone is low on power and you can’t be arsed to charge it so you just watch your phone battery die instead?

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Don't be sad. He'll be back in the shower in a couple of weeks.

Thinking of starting the new year by booking a trip in a tropical paradise? If you want a holiday stay on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica in the middle of secondary rainforest with views like the one below (or you know somebody who would) take a look at our Casita: airbnb.com/h/casitaanya

Good win that. Confidence restored. Up to second. #UTV

Vodka powered dancing in a confined space is ill-advised. You should've taken yourself off to a derelict factory like Kevin Bacon where nothing could possibly go wrong.

Still, in good news there’s a Cat Power cover of Nothing Compares 2 U out soon.

Gone these 15 years today. Pete Postlethwaite… youtu.be/lKx3MUqzCcQ?...

Regretting now my late night decision to have a vodka powered dance around my kitchen whilst washing up…

Day 3 - a song that begins with C. Another live one. Calexico take on Corona… youtu.be/S8yrq0zIvi0?...

Cancel the World Cup. Cancel the Olympics. Isolate this evil nation now.

You gotta fight for a shite in Parli….

Day 2 - a song that begins with B Babe I Know - Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats youtu.be/1rhV6xv8mL0?...

One position on a 22 night stand.

Flat rate joke here

Another month, another #musicchallenge #davidsmonthofmusic Day 1: A song that begins with A. Cate Le Bon - Are You With Me Now? youtu.be/KdIZ0V91Rvg?...

No one played Jenga after 9/11 with the same giddy innocence.