George Michael died in 2016, not 17. #bbcradio4 #frontrow

All Starmer needs to do is to say he knew all along what a slimy, duplicitous, nonce-adjacent little shit Mandelson was, which is exactly why he was the best person to be ambassador to Trump's America.

Never thought I had much in common with Rupert Everett until I reached this sentence: "The butter-cutting cheekbones of old have gone." I feel ya, Rupe.

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Having much fun on Facebook with people who complain about pronouns despite not being able to recognise a pronoun at five paces.

Next week, the CEO of Waitrose has to tackle the climate crisis and the woman who runs that nice branch of Gail's in Notting Hill gets the Middle East.

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Vanilla Ice is still playing though. So that's good.

I have told some people on a Facebook group that Top Gun is rubbish and it's as if I punched their mums.

I am reliably informed by my under-butler that it is no longer One-Nil To The Ars-e-nal.

The best ever Morse, Masonic Mysteries, is now on ITV3.

Always thought it odd that both guitarist brothers in UB40 played left-handed. #totp

Is that Myleene Klass on the end? #totp

My vision of hell is Gail Porter introducing Robbie Williams for eternity. #totp

I JUST SAW A JUST EATS RIDER STOP (or at least slow down on purpose) AT A ZEBRA CROSSING.

Did anyone else know the novelist Lawrence Norfolk is the nephew of the artist Peter Blake? #bbcradio4

"Natasha makes plans for the future." Does it involve going a long way away? #TheArchers

I once fixed Boris Johnson's future mother-in-law's computer and she took me out to lunch as a thank-you.

That Tony Blair, eh? What's he like?

I wrote something about a rather splendid teacher, who died at the weekend.

I swear seeing my cats cook themselves into a sort of Dali flopped clock, weepingly ripe Brie puddle across impossible distances of carpet makes me feel ten times more stiflingly hot in my own baking body

Hoping she hasn't said anything nasty about Carol Vorderman's bottom.

Just helped someone on a Facebook group to identify a French movie she last saw as a child in the 70s. Not with AI (which coughed up a cartoon from 2012). By having seen it and remembering it.

Just heard Nick Robinson describe Sonny Rollins as "the last jazz great of the 20th century" and I suspect Herbie Hancock will be wanting a word.

If you think broadcast journalism might have lost its sparkle, go to the 1 hour 23 minutes spot and listen to Emma Barnet kicking the living shit out of the preposterous Danny "Dunning" Kruger of Reform. Contains swears.

What if the cheese melts? Can you get a prize for cheese spreading?

PEOPLE'S FRONT OF JUDAEA KLAXON!

Today is the sort of day when I appreciate living in a draughty, abysmally insulated Victorian conversion. Remind me of this in January.

Movie alert. The Small Back Room, one of Powell/Pressburger's less famous efforts (unjustifiably, IMHO) starting on TPTV now.

Is there a single social, political, legal or economic problem that isn't blamed on Keir Starmer? #bbcradio4

When I was that age I would have *loathed* the whole idea of going to Disney World. #the1%club

Irons looked buggered. This is my contribution to football discussion for the day, probably the year.

Just heard LL refer to Emily Watson as a "character actor". Does that mean "too old to play leads now"? #desertislanddiscs #bbcradio4

"And why not tune into Any Answers?" I'm guessing this is intended as a rhetorical question. #BBCRadio4

This just in: man goes to theatre.

The Dark Knight iteration is all very well, but did Nolan ever get his characters to go surfing?

Today I learned that this exists and my flabber became somewhat gasted

This morning, an 18-year-old Slovakian student suggested that the present post-literate age can be traced to the creation of Dada in 1916. Sometimes I bloody love my job.

Instagram is trying to sell me ostomy panties.

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The best thing that happened to Pompey all season.

A quick pre-work brew in my favourite coffee shop and uh, they're playing Starship ffs

Guardian are running a list of the 100 best “is Britain now ungovernable” articles next weekend

#DesertIslandDiscs production team. ONLY PICK CASTAWAYS WHO LOVE MUSIC AND LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IT. That is all. Doesn't even need to be great music. Gary is a prime example.

I want to hang out in Gary O'Donoghue's bedroom drinking beer and playing old records. This is a rare compliment. #DesertIslandDiscs

I like the daft, slightly postmodern Curry's TV ads and I'm not sorry.