Money where mouth is? I wrote this for him a few years ago. I don’t know if it’s any good.

One of the best who ever. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

I’m glad there’s never been a Nigella backlash. Her food is great, her writing is fun and engaging, she clearly loves what she does, and success seems to have left her substantially the same person. (If she’s done something horrible please don’t tell me till I’ve made the Christmas cake.)

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

Any histories anywhere of the role of 'servers'/'altar servers' in Catholic ceremonies? Not just during mass.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

Someone was told to make the bullets look anti-ICE, and because of the legendary brainpower of the FBI, they wrote “anti-ICE” on them. I’m only surprised they spelt it right.

Steen, Sheridan, McGregor et al had YEARS to do the work but they didn't, preferring instead to hurl from the ditch and then blame the referee. They are not serious political people. They are a bunch of staggeringly entitled pick-mes, and the system worked as it should to weed them out. #speirgorm

Some great advice I got. When a landlord or boss wants to move an email conversation to the phone, take detailed notes of the conversation, then maybe write them up and email them, either to the person involved or to a friend. Even just the written notes will carry huge weight in any proceeding.

If Jesus went to my school and we found out his mother was a virgin, it would have made the crucifixion look like a spa day.

Is it time to boycott any business or outlet with a Twitter account? And should the same go for Meta?

From that Dugdale book. Dan Breen’s will always be the classic of casual anti-Irish racism in a British wanted poster, but it’s fun to see that the tradition survived.

This is a great book, and the audio version is superbly read by Gerry O’Brien. Even if you’re not particularly interested in Dugdale (you callow nit) it provides an oblique but coherent history of the Troubles and after.

Virgil to Maecenas:

Worth a read, whether you’re an artist or just value life in Ireland.

Zuckerberg is the digital Epstein. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I’ve been working on this for a while. (I tried to find Bobbie more than a decade ago and failed.) Please do give it a read.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Too many people learn music so they can “express themselves” or “make fun noises.”

When Geraldo opened Capone’s vault in April 1986, Capone’s widow had been dead for five days.

This is a brilliant article about how the Rik Mayall Nintendo ads came about. www.timeextension.com/features/how...

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

This is a work of genius.

Top-class service from Aer Lingus here. But at least they gave me a voucher for none of the shops I have access to.

Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived

delightful www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Being on the left, for some, means you're not allowed to celebrate the misfortune of your enemies, while also knowing that they would crack open a cold one while they watch you and your entire family tortured to death.

Ethel Le Neve (Crippen's mot) almost certainly heard Sgt Peppers.

Samuel Butler's been around to the Carlyles' again.

Ghislaine Maxwell was born at Christmas 1961. In 1976, say, she was probably fourteen.

I had a blood test today. The doc said “Do you have to go back to work?” I said I couldn’t really write the day off at ten past nine. He said. “Yeah, you can. Tell them I took LOADS.”

I’m genuinely curious. In the Bold Man’s trial in London, did the judge ask “What is a sissy porn?” or did they already know?

you know how it is; you’re out of condoms and you think “oh, it’ll be fine, just this once”, and before you know it, the cartel is refusing to pay you for the heroin

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

Not even the best Irish comic writer to disastrously undermine their own defence in a London court

Whaddaya mean, it's not a word?

We need to talk about the way Irish presidential elections create a space where unsuitable candidates with no chance of a nomination, let alone the Áras itself, get access to airtime/coverage that is not available to real, elected politicians doing valuable but slightly complex/dull work.

A friend of mine called RFK “Freddy Dunning-Kruger” and it’s funny but depressing.

Solemn Lying-In at the Four Seasons Funeral Home. (Checks email.) Correction, that’s Solemn Lying-In at the Four Seasons Kerrazee Golf Rink and Bathing Facility.

Is St Catherine’s on Meath Street a grow house? There’s a massive bang of reefer there. Frank Duff would be rolling (up) in his grave.

Seldom has a lament been sung with such joy. This will be blaring from my house when the great day comes. youtu.be/m6KHkEb8fQ0?...

I know it’s because it’s Trump, but it’s weird to see decent people using “draft-dodger” as an insult.

Trump walking through the pearly gates

I hope there's no breaking news in the next hour and a half because I want to buy some champagne before the price triples.

Pretty nice narration you got there, would be a shame if it became… unreliable

Are you my toes? Because I want to bang you on all my furniture.

Trump’s dying, isn’t he? I’m going to say he exits the presidency around the new year.

What cannot you and I perform upon Th’unguarded Dunkin?

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!