Stephen Farrow

It's going for a second time now.

Fun fact: the dishwasher gets the dishes cleaner if you put detergent in before you switch it on.

Influencer faces backlash over 'refusal' to fly economy while 'stranded' Viewers told him to 'read the room' after the travel video on the day the Iran war started.

Twat.

My dinner plate. Clockwise from top - Baby corn stir-fried with red pepper flakes Rice pilaf Lemon chicken Roasted vegetables (courgette, aubergine, red pepper, red onion)

Greece is the word, is the word, is the word…

(Boneless skinless chicken thighs cooked with lemon, garlic, paprika, and oregano, rice pilaf, roasted vegetables, baby corn with garlic and red pepper flakes. No, baby corn isn’t particularly Greek, but it was yellow-stickered and I like it.)

Pet Shop Boys - DJ Culture (Official Video) [HD Upgrade] YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone

Imagine a war
which everyone won
A permanent holiday
in endless sun
Peace without wisdom
One steals to achieve
Relentlessly
Pretending to believe...

(This was written about the 1991 Gulf War, but this week it seems to run through my head every time I switch on the news.)

Don Lemon on Instagram: "Trump: Is Rubio better in Spanish? Hegseth: I only speak American" 6,146 likes, 3,425 comments - donlemonofficial on March 7, 2026: "Trump: Is Rubio better in Spanish? Hegseth: I only speak American".

Your regular reminder that it's too bad stupidity isn't painful:

In a dry frying pan, orzo, being toasted.

In a dry frying pan, flaked almonds, being toasted.

On a green plastic chopping board, two small glass bowls - one containing toasted orzo, the other containing toasted flaked almonds.

Stand back. I have a dry frying pan, and I am not afraid to use it.

'Don't die': the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now | Anonymous In a park overlooking the city, I ran into a group of young people chatting and joking. As the bombs fall, fragments of life remain, writes an anonymous Tehran resident

A postcard from Tehran. Short, moving, worth a couple of minutes of your time:

Cartoon by Matt Reuter. A hardcover book: 'Limited Combat Operations and Peace', by Leo Tolstoy

Literature, innit?

Not bad.
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Ron Schantz on Instagram: "03/03/2026 Current situation: Everything's 💩💩💩 BBC sums it all up - even for your local area !!! #shit #currentsituation #news #comedy" 443 likes, 8 comments - gibraltar.2026 on March 3, 2026: "03/03/2026 Current situation: Everything's 💩💩💩 BBC sums it all up - even for your local area !!! #shit #currentsituation #news #comedy".

Accurate.

Went out.

There were people.

Ewww.

Vile.

In the bathroom in a Japanese hotel room, the toilet - seat down, with a paper seal across the lid on which is written the word 'SANITARIZED'.

Travel flashback. It's wonderful how digital cameras allow us to preserve these special memories:

Image: Donald Trump sitting at a desk. Half a dozen people - apparently pastors - all laying hands on him. Caption: Pictures Moment pastors put their hands on Donald Trump as they pray over lran war

If you want absolute, definitive proof that there is no God, let's start with the fact that nobody in this picture was struck by lightning.

Headline from the Daily Mail showbiz page: ALISON BOSHOFF: Quentin Tarantino to bring 'classic British trouser dropping’ farce to the West End 00:08, 06 Mar 2026, updated 03:46, 06 Mar 2026 By ALISON BOSHOFF, EDITOR AT LARGE

Not absolutely sure the world is waiting for a Tarantino take on "Whoops! There Go My Bloomers!"

(I know, I know. Don't believe anything you read in the Mail - including the date - until you get it corroborated by a more reliable source. And no link, obviously, there isn't enough disinfectant.)

Cartoon by Jim Benton. A woman watching TV. News announcer on TV: "Researchers today finally revealed that nobody actually knows what the fuck." The woman yells, "I knew it!"

Today's inspirational message:

Headline from the Independent: Trump’s luxury New York golf club hit with five health code violations after inspectors find ‘insects, rodents, report says Initiation fees at the Westchester club can reportedly range between $50,000 and $100,000

And that was just the paying guests. It got worse when they went into the kitchen.

Britain’s war hawks are very upset that Keir Starmer isn’t personally riding a bomb all the way to Tehran | Marina Hyde Didn’t you know? True British patriots are the ones who want to join an obviously disastrous war on behalf of Israel and Donald Trump, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

"Kemi Badenoch’s entire demeanour since the war was launched has been that of a teenager who discovered from social media that some of her friends got together without her at the weekend and vaporised an ayatollah."

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Charlie Stayt Just Schooled Kemi Badenoch — Live on BBC YouTube video by VoxPopuli

Car-crash television. The BBC's Charlie Stayt - not necessarily someone you'd think of as an incisive political interviewer - hands Kemi Badenoch her arse on this morning's BBC Breakfast. This is glorious, and you'll want to watch it over and over again:

Cartoon by Tom Toro. The Oval Office. In front of an alcove, a tailor's stand with a suit jacket, a white shirt, and a tie hanging from it. In the alcove, a bowl piled with oranges and dead yellow canaries. Donald Trump stands opposite. Two aides are present; one whispers to the other, "You're accidentally debriefing a bowl of mushy oranges and dead canaries."

Plausible.