but you are right that the first UB40 record is really really good.

this is an excellent test because when your kids reach a certain age, and you're desperate enough, you'll let almost anyone babysit. 15 year old kid you've never spoken to whose family live down the road and you sort of know the mum? fine. 87 year old aunt who can't do stairs any more? fine.

death of christopher for me was the lightbulb moment. i couldn't believe i'd been rooting for this guy for that long. what a work of art.

greatest ending ever. we're in Tony's head and we see every person, even in an innocuous deli, as a potential lethal threat to him or his family. it's that Mephistopheles line "this is hell, nor am i out of it". Tony has always had what he deserves, which is to be constantly living a life of fear.

Talk Talk playing on radio 6. brilliant. i was, of course, a member of the Talk Talk fan club as a teenager, and still have the membership card as well as a collection of Talk Talk picture discs.

fantastic article. an absolutely brilliant read. well done @mckaycoppins.bsky.social

Yes. I think the first ever live game of basketball i saw was in 2010 and KD and Russ had me hooked from then. i consider myself an unlikely but die hard Thunder fan. i have a pair of Steven Adams OKC socks.

an excellent take i now intend to pass off as my own original thought i should add.

i think that's an excellent take. (though i will always and forever love Russ).

i went to game 5 in Oakland in 2016 and i swear Durant tanked that game deliberately and i will never forgive him. although i just looked it up and it says he scored 40 points, but still...

this article should win the Oscar.

hahahaha

does he fit 'the model'?

‘Freak of nature’: how James Milner closed in on Premier League record People who have worked with the midfielder at his six clubs reflect on his career as he prepares to make a 654th top-flight appearance

I met and interviewed James Milner over a couple of days a few years ago, at the height of the 'boring james milner' thing. he was anything but boring, and i found him intelligent, funny, and fascinating. only issue with him is that he's never played for QPR. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Los Feliz Estates. really nice. Used to be the 'Japanese Gardens' and was a flower and plant nursery before development apparently.

Putin isn’t really winning. Europe needs to make that clear Behind Russia’s victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain. To fight back, the ‘middle powers’ must work harder on their own story

Behind Russia’s victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain.

To fight back, the ‘middle powers’ must work harder on their own story, says Peter Pomerantsev: ft.trib.al/wIR5seZ

@jemaineclement.bsky.social

shortly after they tarted counting the beans in that big jar the tally was fourteen and by the time they were done they said it was fourteen hundred… smells fishy to me, but I can't come up with any so-called evidence to prop up my ignorant undermining of reality even though I am a congenital liar

im building machines that i keep saying will both throw you out of work and allow masked special police forces in service to a lunatic i bought and paid for to recognize your face and check if i agree with your beliefs. im part of a pedophile ring that put this into motion. why are you rude to me

THE SLEAFORD MODS INTERVIEWED BY STEWART LEE AT ROUGH TRADE ON TUESDAY NIGHT 20 JAN 2026 YouTube video by John Murphy

Stewart Lee interviewing Sleaford Mods is so great. really, honestly, so funny and interesting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN2q...

i think you've put this brilliantly. I've read Lolita three times. one of my favourite books, but the picture on the cover of the penguin classics edition from a few years back made reading it on the tube a nightmare. it certainly didn't help the overall impression people have of the book.

I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.

Genuine huge laughs from just the front page of the new print edition of @theonion.com "U.S. Reaches Trade Deal with Pedotopia" and "Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again" just two of them.

Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.

Unless the Melania documentary has an in depth section about how she got her visa as a 'supermodel' it's probably not for me.

a general strike is the way forward. the only thing that these people care about is money.

Gary Le Strange - Is My Toaster Sentient? YouTube video by garywhicker

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrQH...

one of my favourite songs ever

Los Angeles! Our Greek Theater (Theatre) show has sold out but we've added a show! Artist pre-sale starts tomorrow at 10am PT. Password: FOTC

amazing work. the possibility that Musk heard, and remembers, stories of the war genuinely makes the nazi salutes and supporting european fascist parties all the more horrendous.