Remembering when I worked at the BBC and there was a competition to name two new office buildings in White City. Suggestions included “Redundancy Holding Pen #3” and “Building Full of C**ts”.

Glad to see they’re finally listening to me.

Another diva.

I have just gone through referencing for renting and the company they use has switched to a fucking AI chatbot instead of a form. I can’t tell you how annoying it was to interact with, some snippy little snitchbot quizzing me about my finances, how dare it.

We have an exclusive interview with Theo’s killer on the Inside Soap Podcast NOW! #corrie youtube.com/watch?v=RLqS...

I’m sorry but we can’t have a prime minister called Darren Jones.

Guess which guy took his work from home week last week and has to get the train in every day this week? 🥵

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This week on my Substack, I’m falling down a vertical drama rabbit hole, refusing to throw anything away EVER and revisiting 1970s Coronation Street. Come along for the boring, old, gay ride! open.substack.com/pub/boringol...

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The dog is sulking because he can tell we’re getting ready to go out (he doesn’t know he’s coming too!).

Did Reform lose because they were too woke? A columnist earning 8 times your salary assumes the answer is yes, and investigates from there.

Call me old-fashioned but I just don't think a single by-election should decide the next PM.

Knicks fans put Elmo’s head on a pike after winning the NBA Championship The NYC native previously said he hoped both teams “have fun 🏀”

Have just learned that most of the UK’s fried chicken shop signs are designed by the same man, Morris Casanova.

My new substack BORING OLD GAY is back for a mildly thrilling second instalment, featuring a Scottish YouTube icon, some nasty swimwear, a bit of Esther Rantzen, and a couple of heartbroken twinks whose music has been soundtracking my own emotional decline. open.substack.com/pub/boringol...

I mean Keir Starmer ain’t gonna be introducing shit is he but this is still very funny.

My new substack BORING OLD GAY is back for a mildly thrilling second instalment, featuring a Scottish YouTube icon, some nasty swimwear, a bit of Esther Rantzen, and a couple of heartbroken twinks whose music has been soundtracking my own emotional decline. open.substack.com/pub/boringol...

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A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

If anyone is wondering about potential timescales, Casualty was put out to tender by the BBC in May 2025, BBC Studios were awarded the contract in December 2025 and filming was due to begin in Spring 2026 (don’t know if it actually did) #doctorwho www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

This week we’ve made Inside Soap’s first-ever Pride Month bumper issue!

In the first edition of my new Substack, I go to the launch of an album from 1993, review a big squeegee on a pole, witness Betty Boo trying to catch a rat and share something very gay from Finland. It’s free to read! Let’s be boring, old and/or gay together. open.substack.com/pub/boringol...

Americans be like “Can I get an eggplant and oregano pitta in aluminium for Craig?” 🤪🤪🤪

In the first edition of my new Substack, I go to the launch of an album from 1993, review a big squeegee on a pole, witness Betty Boo trying to catch a rat and share something very gay from Finland. It’s free to read! Let’s be boring, old and/or gay together. open.substack.com/pub/boringol...

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“Remember Mrs Bobbitt, do ya?”

Was wondering why Lee and Jenny were on Celebrity Gogglebox then put my specs on and realised it was Nigel Havers and Julian Clary.

I didn’t believe in witchcraft until I tried that Korean eye bag cream.

I bet they are.

What I ask you is the actual fucking point of a letting agent’s website that is full of houses they’ve already fucking let?

A picture that captures your essence.

Now he’s flogging stackable storage boxes for Must Have Ideas!

I really wasn’t expecting the Susan Boyle teaser campaign to be in service of a dance version of Just One Cornetto but, well, here we are. www.instagram.com/reel/DZDBlUl...

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Someone was posting the other day about how it all went to shit for Brookside after it started favouring spectacle and shock issues over proper storylines, which reminded me of this “ad” from Viz.

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

Good to see those dumb image carousels didn’t last long on here.

Yet another Westlife greatest hits album released with the album version of Fool Again instead of the single remix.

Well I guess it depends.

I blocked Norma Major’s motor insurance application because she had failed to mention her husband was Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Enjoyed the low-key realism of Whitney’s visit in #EastEnders (only two people around there who even remember you versus the entire population of a postcode turning up to watch you arrive in a the pub you used to sometimes drink in).

16 years today #Corrie has had them rotten titles.

Dog is furious that we won’t take him outside to die.

The idea that they would not make this because they’re struggling to find an actor to play the Doctor is absolutely ridiculous. They might be having trouble getting a PARTICULAR actor, who knows, but the Sun story is trying to suggest that no actors at all anywhere in the world want to do it.

This is amazing.

They have certainly got their money's worth out of this Photoshop job, I was using it 20 years ago.

I keep boggling at this. The Westminster bubble does something to people’s minds. Was this really why you joined the Labour movement? Was this what moved you, when you were young, and you heard the word “equality”? Do you see what has happened, in that last sentence?

Interesting work challenge I faced recently - due to licensing changes I had to switch out every single font in Inside Soap, basically a full redesign to make it (hopefully) look exactly the same!