Didn’t realise Reform were standing in Miami

Boomer wisdom that I’m reluctantly forced to concede on: as a kid, did you ever get told to have a glass of water first, if you wanted a fizzy drink? Every time I do, I discover afterwards I don’t really desire a Pepsi Max Zero Cherry Fudge Sundae Extra Caffeine Aspartame Goblin Froth 😑

Writing a detective who’s mediocre at his job but has solid mental health and achieved a good work-life balance

Also maturity is realising Miles should’ve told Anna how he felt but they’d still have had the worst divorce.

I still love This Life but it’s uncomfortable to remember you thought you had real problems when you were 24

If I was making Duke Shelby the lynchpin of my Peaky Blinders spin off I simply wouldn’t have had the character played by three actors by this point

Roast beef for dinner and now the Peaky Blinders film. The lifestyle that so-called liberals want to ban

asking my followers to stick with me as my account won’t really takeoff until season four

That sinking feeling when you realise the whole episode is a back story flashback about a character you don’t care about.

Happy Birthday Gary Oldman

Failing the ‘Can you name the current US president’ cognitive question is particularly bad when you’re the answer.

Kemi has now had more positions on this war than Prince in a one night stand

Screen cliche: opening a scene at an airport with a child playing with a toy airplane, despite the fact kids are on tablets now

Extraordinary piece, brilliant writing.

Discussions about ‘Adolescence’ focused on violence & misogyny in young men but it was equally interesting about how you deal with the stigma, notoriety and pain of being a relative of the perpetrator

Ian Huntley’s family all appear to have responded to his death in a way that is entirely in tune with public feeling, so naturally the press is trying to whip up needless antagonism towards them www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

The Elizabeth Taylor story about her near death experience in 1961 where she saw her deceased third husband waiting for her suggests that heaven is polycules

Reminds me of my local history book about Dartford asylum where it says they experimented with not giving the inmates beer and saw an improvement in behaviour

I’m not lamenting loss of Ian Huntley but why are prisons allowing Category A inmates to build ‘three foot spiked metal poles’ in ‘recycling classes’? As outcomes go it’s not the biggest surprise, is it? Next week: shock as the clay pigeon shooting tutorial takes a dark turn

Your boyfriend looking at a meme

Ranting about how much I hate nihilism as clever in TV shows, and said = betting on people being good sometimes, isn’t emotionally naive. Omg that’s it. Not everything has to be Succession

I invent a Time Machine but instead of killing baby Hitler I’m finding out which clothes I don’t wear on holiday so I can pack lighter with confidence

Dudes I get spread bookers are awful people, but it’s a bit much to be shouted at with multiple asterisks like drill sergeant for crime of finding your menu appealing & providing my card details

I’m very pro restaurants protecting themselves from curse of no shows. But just had most ornery Ts & Cs I’ve ever seen. CONFIRM U ARE STILL COMING?! OR WE’LL JUST CANCEL UR TABLE AS ‘SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET’ & YOU WILL BE GONE BY **9** WHEN WE WILL BE GLAD TO BE RID OF YOU. RUNNING LATE? EAT SHIT

A piece of wisdom I’ve accrued: don’t confuse someone agreeing with you for someone supporting you, it’s not the same thing. And in some situations, don’t confuse it with them agreeing with you, either.

This feature disturbing my calm again: if the analysis is based on best in class then why are you downgrading a more expensive product? Best Value is a different competition entirely surely www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

Mike Leigh is 82. I often think of this scene from Naked to remind myself to keep things in perspective as we’re only in the first few moments of the 1st of January after all. Thewlis gives one of the all time great performances.

Reminder that my friend’s Tory Dad said Labour only have one real policy: ‘free pies for the scruffy’

Not to sound 92 but the coats & jackets industry is missing a trick by not producing ‘warm but still has a shape’ variety of outerwear. It’s assumed if you don’t want to be cold you must also want to look like a vertical bivvy bag

This feature continues to confound me. Why would you expect a supermarket quiche in a box to measure up to a Michelin starred restaurant version? www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

In How To Get Ahead In Advertising they said, as law of selling junk food: ‘if the nosh pot is not high in one thing, it must be low in something else’ & I think that every time I see this high protein mania. You’re eating rebadged chocolate porridge & strawberry Yop nosh pots for breakfast

Industry has spawned an industry of people who ask if you watch Industry

Just beyond parody at this point

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

Is it me or has there been zero buzz about this series of Bridgerton? Has it been surpassed on the filth frisson front by Heated Rivalry

“Hi Tony, project management office here. Just wondering if we could schedule a catch-up re progress on this one. Showing as overdue on our tracking systems.”

absolutely fuck this sideways so hard a fucking kidney pops out

Night Manager 2 that rare beast, a sequel as good as the OG. Worth the ten year wait

One minute you’re young & the next minute you just had to Google if Stellan Skarsgard alive or not because you honestly can’t recall. Remember when your parents used to say things like that or not be exactly sure what age they were & you thought they might be pranking you

The thing is, subscription model, I do want to read the article & I’d pay you for, say, a month’s content to do it - but not risking 6 months & inevitable slip into annual fee when I don’t notice trial is up. In the old world we bought one copy of a paper or magazine, can’t this be better replicated

This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies. Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.

Not only did this feature give No 1 place to Heck vegetarian sausages over Cauldron Lincolnshire, in a move critics branded ‘unhinged’ - &their smoked salmon choice questionable- this is utterly wrong. Had Doughboys & Crosta M last night. CM leagues better: www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

Credit to @mooseallain.bsky.social for this immediate thought

One of the best to ever do it

Annual reminder that my Dad was once found by the radio in the kitchen, saying: ‘I will NOT let the beat control me, thank you very much’

Seven years since I watched one of the most important documentaries ever made. A masterpiece

A friend made her 71 year old Dad watch A Very Jonas Christmas Movie. I asked him if he liked it & he said ‘John Lennon was assassinated and yet those three live’

Category: etiquette guides that make considerate people think they’re getting it wrong. ‘Anything I can do to help’ shows willing but allows for the fact the cook may just want everyone the fuck out of the kitchen? www.theguardian.com/food/2025/de...