If you ever need cheering up, I highly recommend firing up YouTube and just watching different clips of Italians going fucking nuts for Ricchi e Poveri doing their medley of Sarà perché ti amo and Mamma Maria. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLqZ...

I’ll be honest, I’ve seen more appealing ads.

Please enjoy two German ladies absolutely BELTING out ABBA’s Don’t Shut Me Down accompanied by a full orchestra. youtu.be/R3YjsW_eVgM?...

Describe your Bluesky account in one image.

He’s doing teeth whitener now!

I have more G-A-Y Bar stories than care to remember, like the time I got off with *REDACTED* up against the pillar at the bottom of the stairs while Big Brother’s *REDACTED* looked on, furious.

They’re showing Emmerdale in Comptons.

Every single Gaga clip I’ve watched this week has had some tone-deaf gay droning away tunelessly just out of shot.

In memoriam...

Just signed up for this on the promise of a feature about DREAM TEAM. Get involved (there’s Doctor Who too if that’s your thing).

I would love to know how the new song by Robbie Williams, an artist I never listen to and do not follow on Spotify, ends up at the top of my “personalised” new releases playlist ahead of songs by artists I listen to every day.

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

I didn’t even know he had an album out.

Not sure quite how you would ever explain to anyone who wasn’t there that someone called Doris was briefly the biggest character on television.

I did always like to think that the mad twin she was sent back to the parallel universe with arrives there and immediately offed himself by stepping on a rake.

Oh hi! Does anyone fancy…. 🎃 The Spooky Halloween-branded Food Thread of 2025 🎃???

Can’t believe they went with Skeets when Bleets was right there.

I have a name!!

This only happens to you once

My daughter just sent me this 😉

Donkeys at my local animal sanctuary having a party to celebrate one of them living there for 20 years.

God, imagine being that old. Luckily something I’ll never have to consider.

The 8.36 was cancelled so all those fuckers are on my train like they own it.

"If there was a general election tomorrow, Nigel Farage would be prime minister!" YES BUT THERE BLOODY ISN'T!!!

Apparently it’s going to be the Rapture on Tuesday, so at least that’s something to look forward to.

Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General

My mum came to visit last week and at one point she said “have you got something for your high dusting?” and I thought “my WHAT now?”

I was responsible for making sure Cuddles never walked around independently ever again.

I used to work on this newspaper and while I was there the editor decided he didn’t like the “v” and “g” of the word Evening in the logo so had them swapped for ones that don’t match and I’m delighted that they are still there looking too thin and too fat respectively, more than 25 years later.

This song’s whatever the Swedish for A BANGER Is. open.spotify.com/track/4JAjSs...

It’s publication day for The Glorious Dead, my dark, twisted melodrama on grief, greed, and deceit. Buy it wherever you like. And if you enjoy it, please leave a review on Amazon (even if you don’t buy it there, it helps a lot). Links to buy: geni.us/TheGloriousDead ♥️♠️♦️♣️

This ad is a rollercoaster.

I would probably have had another go at this picture research.

Have never seen this queen before but those four screengrabs are now in my favourites.

BBC news showing the Trump protest in London, Sylvester McCoy has just appeared on a vox pop.

Buy me a drink first!!

Beano #618, May 22, 1954

@robmesure.bsky.social ooh you’re on ITV Quiz now.

I know a lot of people have expressed similar sentiments but I’ve lived in London for 20+ years and never felt threatened or a even a bit scared to be here until today. This needs to end.

This one sent the Popjustice messageboard absolutely crackers.

Every now and then I remember that Sarah Brightman once covered Elbow’s One Day Like This and I’m amazed all over again. open.spotify.com/track/6TTMOy...

We’re pleased to announce that Richard Marson’s long-awaited history of BBC Children’s TV will be published on November 17 in trade paperback and a collector’s hardback, limited to 300 copies. Order Box of Delights: The Story of BBC Children’s Television now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

The effectiveness of this rebrand is so dangerous to gay men in particular. Please be cautious! Do you have his bone structure? Access to a major movie studio level personal trainer? These are not pleasant questions but they are necessary!

The bestselling phenomenon @amateuradam.bsky.social – alongside the not quite as phenomenal but still very personable me – will be hosting an evening of book chat and furthering the gay agenda at Waterstones TCR on Wed 17 Sept. Do come and see us! www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

A colleague of mine has been given a logo redesign brief summarised as follows: "Think global, act local, but don't forget we're perceived as regional"

Whoever invented Wotsits Nuts will never see heaven.

On Friday at 5pm we'll be revealing the covers for Box of Delights, our new book from Richard Marson chronicling three decades of the BBC Children's Department, and opening up pre-orders. Along with the standard paperback, there will be be a special edition hardback, limited to 300 copies. Be there!

Fuck off, Uniqlo.

Fascinated by this image of Blue.