Kevin Sargent

Cheap drones. I knew it …

And how all the License-Objectors think that they don't pay for ITV or C4. Every single packet of Weetabix or any branded goods or services have the cost of the advertising priced in.

Totally is. Those shocking 'Indeed' bumpers do not get any funnier. I reckon we saved several hours of our life skipping the adverts watching all of Frasier and The West Wing.

‘Othering Heights’, amiright?

‘Koala Tea’ birthday might at least conjure an image.

Don’t forget Scooby Doo too.

Yeah, SPOILER: the real vampires are not what/who you think.

Ahem. Yes.

The use of Wild Mountain Thyme threw me a bit as it’s much more modern than you think but maybe that was deliberate ? Something out of a future?

Yes I enjoy trying to piece it all together, it’s not all laid out neatly.

Yeah I took a while to process it but it’s grown in the remembering and the echoes. Vampires as extractive forces. Music as transcendent of time and mortality. ‘That’ sequence was like a Sistine Chapel made of music.

If you can watch this on headphones, I would suggest you do. The sound is everything.

Something Ludlum about these

I refer to my stepson, swanning in to raid the fridge, as The Dauphin ...

Nice ...

Here's to the mid-tier! All the best, friend.

Thrashing Doves doing just fine, thanks.

Be more Joel, people.

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Je$u$ on the Payroll (Unreleased Instrumental Version) YouTube video by Release - Topic

First Thrashing Doves release for many many years - previously unavailable instrumental of Jesus on the Payroll, part of Paraíso: The True Sound of Ibiza, Rebirth Records. youtu.be/dwYpMIXXy6Q?...

We opened for them for a few nights in London, great gigs: Porchester Baths and I think Town & Country.

Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay authors $3,000 per book in a landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

"The company has agreed to pay authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.

"As best as we can tell, it's the largest copyright recovery ever," said Justin Nelson, a lawyer for the authors. "It is the first of its kind in the AI era."

Reasonable assertion.

Correction, before anyone else does: 'Cwddylddy'.

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Despite his pretensions to the English gentry, HP Lovecraft's ancestry was mainly Welsh, which he discovered to his dismay. The correct spelling of Cthuthu is evidently 'Cwddlyddy'.

(Breathlessly) "Hello! Melvyn Bragg was born in Carlisle in 1939 and spent his childhood in Wigton, Cumbria before attending Wadham College, Oxford then going on to becoming arguably one of the country's leading broadcasters ..."

Worth the license fee on its own

This is tremendous, Joel.

I learnt this week that in Paris under Nazi occupation, students would carry two fishing rods as a secret sign of protest: ‘Deux Gaules’ …