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Editor @harpoon.productions. Chair @wansteadfringe.bsky.social. Hinde Street. “One of the most impressive beards I've ever seen” - forensic psychologist Sohom Das

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Ohhhhhh. Tom Allen …. Kenneth Williams. That’s why it works.

13.03.2026 22:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Definitely Chat GPT phrasing

13.03.2026 08:26 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Excerpt from Clive James The Blaze of Obscurity about how easy it is to make ‘a city of contrasts’ documentaries and how hard it is to say something worth saying

Excerpt from Clive James The Blaze of Obscurity about how easy it is to make ‘a city of contrasts’ documentaries and how hard it is to say something worth saying

Clive James on making travel documentaries (and the effort he made in his Postcards to say something worthwhile)

12.03.2026 23:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@outonbluesix.bsky.social Can I DM you Tim?

11.03.2026 23:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - the BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation The government is consulting the public to aid decision-making on the terms for the BBC Charter’s renewal and any changes needed to help the BBC to continue to serve the public.

Tonight is your last chance to respond to the public consultation about BBC Charter Review
www.gov.uk/government/c...

10.03.2026 21:08 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

She did a Theroux

07.03.2026 10:38 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Charlotte Edwardes comes out it rather well. Good for her

07.03.2026 10:36 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

A monochrome ‘spot the mistake’ scene featuring a postman cycling along a lane besides a half timbered thatched cottage

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

07.03.2026 08:19 👍 1311 🔁 421 💬 168 📌 71

Features *director*, Dorian.

06.03.2026 14:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wordlebot score shows unsolved puzzle

Wordlebot score shows unsolved puzzle

Wordlebot flunked it today. Not seen that before.

06.03.2026 08:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Turns out boycottthehundred.com was still available

05.03.2026 22:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve been one of the biggest fans of the Hundred. I was at the first game. I love it, and I don’t care what anyone says about that. But I feel a boycott coming on. #boycottthehundred

05.03.2026 22:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh well *done* ECB. You really played a blinder there.

05.03.2026 22:09 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Sam Billings: I didn’t even get a text message from the Oval 
Lauren Winfield-Hill: It’s quite savage, really. There’s been no communication whatsoever

Sam Billings: I didn’t even get a text message from the Oval Lauren Winfield-Hill: It’s quite savage, really. There’s been no communication whatsoever

Both Oval Invincibles captains from the 2025 season have said that they were released back into the auction pool without any contact from the franchise’s new ownership, with the team now rebranded to MI London

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05.03.2026 19:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 6

What a guy

05.03.2026 18:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nicola Jennings cartoon in the Guardian using the Roosevelt punchline

Nicola Jennings cartoon in the Guardian using the Roosevelt punchline

Close but no cigar

05.03.2026 08:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Life follows art

Wordle 1,716 2/6*

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01.03.2026 10:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He wasn’t called Jacob was he??

27.02.2026 19:10 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A Clive James phrase to remember: ‘the end of the sentence was slower to arrive than a school holiday’

27.02.2026 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He should mention it on the big stage when he gets the chance

27.02.2026 11:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Another Polanski where the environment isn’t mentioned. #r4today

27.02.2026 07:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Advert showing dozens of brand logos madly squished together.

Advert showing dozens of brand logos madly squished together.

Oof. Page 18 of today’s @theguardian.com causing spluttering this morning for 100 brand people.

26.02.2026 07:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Veep girls’ night in in the White House eating pizza vibes

25.02.2026 23:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ECB can kiss goodbye to the post-Covid warmth with Pakistan if it doesn’t get a grip on this

24.02.2026 15:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What are the chances that four teams have exactly no Pakistan players?

24.02.2026 13:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My stress dream last night — I was somehow in another remake of The Producers but I couldn’t see the point, which did not go down well.

24.02.2026 06:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I blame the NME

22.02.2026 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On the other hand, which other voices are getting noticed for saying this about Ukraine?

21.02.2026 16:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just been reminded that Charles M Schulz lived on Coffee Lane, Sebastopol, California.

20.02.2026 17:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well you’ve got to admit that vigorous boycotts and demos against half the teams in the Hundred will add to the sense of spectacle.

19.02.2026 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0