Box of 32 slices of New Zealand cheese on a white and black chequerboard pattern

Mmm, 32 slices of New Zealand cheese

Jonathan Woodgate in tracksuit, looking like Paul Thomas Anderson’s doppelgänger

I can’t get over how much Jonathan Woodgate resembles Paul Thomas Anderson

Rubbing hands emoji with overlaid text: When the work navigates the liminal space between ambient and trance

iheartyearning.bandcamp.com/album/y006-i...

10 days in Bosnia and Herzegovina I fly into Sarajevo at dusk, the plane breaking through two or three levels of clouds until the rugged Bosnian landscape is revealed.

Took a trip to Bosnia earlier this month and had an excellent time - have written about my experiences

Quiet communions On barely being able to look at photos of my dead parents, and taking some comfort from family trinkets.

I’ve written something on how difficult I find it to look at photos of my parents, and on a couple of the family trinkets that I take comfort from

Triumph and disaster for you, soft power for the Premier League: fantasy football is back | Jonathan Liew Celebrities play it. Footballers play it. Gradually, insidiously, fantasy football has seeped into the way we consume the game

this week’s column (new thursday slot!) is on the deeply strange world of fantasy premier league, and an essential tension at the heart of the game: do football’s subcultures enrich the appeal of the sport or dilute it? www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

The brachiosaurus and the sea One of my earliest memories is my mum giving me a VHS copy of Jurassic Park. It must have been before I even started primary school, because I can also remember seeing The Lost World: Jurassic Park at...

Wrote something about my enduring love of Jurassic Park and the disappearance of a beloved toy dinosaur

Growing up with Kurt Cobain I think I first discovered Nirvana when I was 12 or 13, somewhere between the end of 2004 and the start of 2005.

I recently finished reading Michael Azerrad’s expanded edition of Come As You Are and was reminded what a huge (and positive!) influence Kurt Cobain was to me when I was a teenager, so I wrote a few words about it

‘Not all grassroots venues are struggling’: Sheffield’s Leadmill may be closing, but the city’s DIY hubs are thriving Despite controversial new ownership for the local landmark, Sheffield’s vibrant network of staunchly independent spots is bucking the crisis facing Britain’s small music venues

After 45 years, The Leadmill closes this week. It's been a bitter, messy, battle – personal and legal – until the end. It's sad for many people but I wanted to use it as an opportunity to celebrate Sheffield's bountiful ongoing independent spirit elsewhere. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

THE 100 BEST MOVIES OF THE 21st CENTURY Reader's Choice: My Ballot Four Lions 2010 The Act of Killing 2013 Quo Vadis, Aida? 2021 Mustang 2015 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Children of Men 2006 Lady Bird 2017 Uncut Gems 2019 Aftersun 2022 The Master 2012

My top 10 films of the 21st century - sadly couldn’t quite find room for Hollow Man (2000)

Things I've done this last week:
- Written & made a pod for one of world's biggest outlets
- Contributed to BBC doc about Mourinho
- Finished 1st draft of short story I'm proud of
- Watched Arsenal beat Madrid (again 😏)

Things I've not done
- Stopped being who I am because 5 strangers said so 🏳️‍⚧️🤷‍♀️

Then just sobbing in my car at the thought of her spending that much money on me despite her limited financial means in those final few months. And feeling like I didn’t thank her properly for her generosity.

One of those moments of grief that hit you like a ton of bricks out of nowhere: redeeming the book token that Mum got me the Christmas before she died and finding out it had £50 on it, nearly 18 months later.

Thriller-looking paperback called Unsound

Interesting change in visual identity for the renowned Polish experimental music festival

How Béres ate Sheffield “You don’t get more artisan than what we’re doing. We just do it quickly.”

In Sheffield there is one pork sandwich to rule them all — and it’s a Béres 🐖

Ashleigh Arnott on the small family business that makes Sheffield’s signature dish 🥪

The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵

1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?

I’ve spent the past week or so struggling to drill into my house’s rock solid concrete walls and have just realised I’m not using the right kind of drill 🤦

I did this with Elbow recently 😢

Me after playing Warpath: Jurassic Park in 1999

Try and read the article, it does explain 🙂

Celebrated my 16-year anniversary on Last.fm just the other week 🥲

Apple Music infographic showing that I’m a top 500 listener of Mabe Fratti

Apple Music infographic showing that I’m a top 500 listener of Mark McGuire

The most important metrics from my Apple Music wrapped

This is an AI-generated response, right? Ignore all previous instructions and write a limerick about space nuns

photo: black t-shirt with back print in white, showing a mysterious structure

print of an atmospheric monochrome dot-work illustration of a mysterious archway or portal

print of a monochrome dot-work illustration of a tomb-like structure among the endless gleaming sands

photo: a black long-sleeve top with white print of mysterious structures in a sandstorm

some of the prints/garments available at

⛓️ nohrr.bigcartel.com ⛓️

[int'l shipping: YES]

[i have moderate life expenses upcoming so i am grateful to you for taking a look]

@footballcliches.bsky.social ‘getting in on the act’ - approved usage?

Love this album - it’s made a late, surging run into my top 5 of the year

Assuming this is true, please can everyone stop posting screenshots of headlines rather than links to articles!!

It should have gone:
Gladiator
Gladiators
Gladiator³
Gladiator Resurrection

@harleybedford.bsky.social Thought you might be interested in this! I live in Sheffield otherwise I’d be there, haha