One of my earliest memories is being four years old and finding Rentaghost a bit childish.

Fascinating. And obv it gives the lie to the old "Nobody could have imagined that home video recorders would come along" excuse for junking.

I seem to have gone a little bit viral in Germany, one of my most favourite countries.

Muting “FIFA Peace Prize” – the risk of someone making the joke remains alarmingly high after more than 9 hours of the joke being made

Look, just because 'Paul' works at a circus on the wall of death with a toothless lion in the sidecar, let's not assume it's based on real life.

#EveryAlbumIOwn Hotel Shampoo. Gruff Rhys. 2011. Top 3 tunes: Honey All Over, Sensations In The Dark, Take A Sentence You can skip: Rubble Rubble Rating: 8/10 I was a bit wary of this but, no, this is a solid album of melodic pop. Christopher Columbus, Patterns Of Power also top. £1 at carboot.

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Remembering Sir George Martin the way he would wish it.

Labour whatsapp: For god's sake don't say anything, with a bit of luck this will all blow over in a couple of days, we don't want to piss him off again. Conservative whatsapp: Say nothing until Trump has given his reasons, at which point Keni will declare that she agrees with them wholeheartedly.

Lost amid the discussion of why the Government should get off X is its utter uselessness as an engagement tool and the fact departments are wasting vast sums making content for it. Take this:

Is anyone else getting the thing where every post gets an instant like or is it just me?

"The Prime Minister of the UK, Sir Keir Starmer, is a registered user of an app used for CSAM, conspiracy theories and inciting racial hatred and violence."

"Moby! Moby! It's Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Moby. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this!" #totp

Her, as Paddington, holding hands with TV programmes.

Is he another one of Michael Jackson's nephews? #totp

NILE RODGERS LEAPS INTO A TAXI. "BBC TV CENTRE - AND STEP ON IT!" #totp

Robbie dances like a six year old at a wedding. #totp

Side eye from the sceptical cello player #totp

"This is torture, this is pain." They're singing the #totp motto!

even dink ain't doin as id foo #totp

It was around this point that the world of pop ran out of Bee Gees songs to cover. #totp

Who remembers Wonderbras? Hello boys! What were that all about? #totp

The great thing about Steps is that each member looks like they have just won a competition to be a member of Steps for the day. #totp

Geri flicks popcorn at her telly and eats another buffalo wing. #totp

The horror of bland pop. #totp

#totp Key change!

❤️ the Attics. They should get back together. #totp

Pop fact: Alisha's Attic are the daughters of 60s skiffle star Lonnie Donegan. #totp

Pop fact: this song was about Robbie's heron addiction. No Egrets. #totp

Watching the new Traitors and I don't recognise any of these so-called "celebrities".

#EveryAlbumIOwn (Revisit) The Miracle. Queen. 1989. Top 3 tunes: The Miracle, I Want It All, The Invisible Man You can skip: My Baby Does Me Rating: 7/10 Not quite their worst album but almost, as they succumb to the clinical sheen of David Richards' 80s over-production. Breakthru also okay.

New Years Resolutions: #1 Stop obsessively making lists. #2 Damn.

"Drive carefully, guys," says KT Tunstall. "It may be suddenly icy."

Ok hear me out, shopping cart horns

The copyright protection that Labour intends to remove from artists is the one that also protects people from having their holiday snaps turned into porn on twitter. If it is fair game for generative AI to slopify books, films and music, then your personal photos will also be fair game.

I would nominate this too.

Keep thinking it's Friday.

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hello, I’m a bus travelling at 50mph around a blind corner.

What's the paper quality like, I am not against the idea of using one of these for toilet hygiene.

Time to look back at 2025 one more time. My annual Doctor Who In Memoriam is on You Tube now. Please watch, like and circulate. Oh, and please just be nice about it and Doctor Who as there are plenty of other places you can be otherwise. youtu.be/mfNDgewmlEU?...

I'm pretty sure the year is never specified in Metropolis actually.

Tonight's SF classic.

Idea for Doctor Who story: The Barbarians. The first Doctor's schoolteacher companions are fused into hybrid entities that run amok.

New Year's Day walk begins...

"People who say my Hootenanny show is pre-recorded couldn't be more wrong" protests groovy fucker Jools Holland. "And tonight's show with David Bowie and Kirsty MacColl promises to be the best one yet."

Set out six months ago to investigative some dubious evictions. Ended up writing a sprawling story spread over 450 years about London property deals, the ethics of money lending, Tommy Robinson, Barbary pirates, Jacobean earls, and wealth in the capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/henry-smit...

Dreamt there was a new Sparks song called Watering Can. Chorus goes: Watering can Watering can Watering can make your garden grow (Repeat) I would sing it to you but you can probably guess the tune.

No Roland Rivron in the audience for Jools? Did he die?

By the look of it, London is regenerating into Colin Baker.