Moseley gets a train station, the day of a nuclear apocalypse. Page Alanis Morrisette

It's Blue Monday

Like a stopped clock PR companies are sometimes right. Also like a stopped clock, they need two AA batteries shoved up them and the knob twisted until their hands point in the right direction.

Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, Reason No 12: Mr Blue Sky

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It's Blue Monday

Like a stopped clock PR companies are sometimes right. Also like a stopped clock, they need two AA batteries shoved up them and the knob twisted until their hands point in the right direction.

Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, Reason No 12: Mr Blue Sky

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Jeff Lynne meme format just dropped.

The entire Paradise Circus publishing list in an Xmas stocking: Birmingham It’s Not Shit at the front, 101 things Birmingham Gave the World and Staring Death in the Face in the sock

This Christmas you don’t have to ask “when is BiNS?”. You can buy it

Birmingham: It’s Not Shit: 50 Things That Delight About Brum

Foreword by Adrian Chiles

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Makes a perfect gift for someone you’d like to take up The Ackers.

Christmas was better in the 80s. An 80s Noddy Holder pointing at you Kitchener-style, while wrapped in gold tinsel.

We found some copies of 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World at the back of a cupboard full of Ozzy the Bull baubles and Roy Wood Christmas wigs.

We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3.

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This was our first book, and we still love it. Just like the OG copies from the Kickstarter, these were printed here in Brum and feature a cover by Mark Murphy and a forward by Stewart Lee.

Buy one for Secret Santa, or as one reader said, you should get one for “your Nan and your milkman”

Christmas was better in the 80s. An 80s Noddy Holder pointing at you Kitchener-style, while wrapped in gold tinsel.

We found some copies of 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World at the back of a cupboard full of Ozzy the Bull baubles and Roy Wood Christmas wigs.

We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3.

paradisecircus.com/2025/11/25/s...

Was it Sutton?

Birmingham Evening Mail Chipper Club Membership card. (And badge)

Only ID scheme I'll accept

#ITV70 (Series 1-3 only)

Needless Alley | Jon Wilks (official video) YouTube video by Jon Wilks

Lovely www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennS...

A gray wheeled bin with text "DON'T BIN OFF BRUM" and stickers promoting "All Out for Brum Rally, 20th Sept" and a "Strike Map" icon.

🚯Don't Bin Off Brum this Saturday

Join the march and demo 👇

🚐London transport: bit.ly/LDNBrumCoach20Sep
🚐E.Mids transport: bit.ly/EMidsBrumCoach20Sep
🚐Sheffield tranport: UFWE@unitetheunion.org
🚐Manchester transport: bit.ly/MCRBrumCoach20Sep

#StrikeMap

Danny Smith of this parish heads to London in inappropriate footwear.

Supersonic’s Lisa Meyer holding a large mug with the words 'Live Laugh Loathe' printed on the side.

Ahead of this year's Supersonic, we catch up with founder Lisa Meyer to discuss the intensifying challenges facing independent festivals, the picks from a brilliant lineup they've put together in spite of them, and more

#Supersonic’s Lisa Meyer on the Festival’s 2025 Edition

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From Rushall with Love

Night sweet prince of darkness. Left half a pint of Caffreys at the quiz machine, took Paddington’s hand and strolled off to the great 11 stop in the sky

Why I'm hiding from LinkedIn I'm starting again (again) and I need to own it.

You won't remember this – or maybe we hung around different Internets before this app – but this is a follow-on from a post I wrote on @paradisecircus.com 9 years ago. hellosteadman.substack.com/p/why-im-hid...

When Dr Who was axed by the BBC in 1969, no one expected Verity Lambert and former Crossroads writers Letts and Dicks to bring it back for ITV.
Cliff Richard was grounded on earth with his faithful hovercraft, Bessie and UNIT headquarters were based under Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction. #DoctorWho

Two men who are ten years older with tattoos of the brown sign symbol for a pier. One has it on his arm and is bending uncomfortably close to the backside of the other who has it on the back of his leg.

Nearly 10 years since Pier Review was published. (You can still buy it amzn.to/40NmadU).

As we drove round all 55 of England and Wales’s bloody pleasure piers in 10’days @probablydrunk.bsky.social and i often talked of getting marching pier tattoos. Last week we did.

Toksvig?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We used all of Wales’s water to make this satirical cartoon about the Bin Strike on Chat GPT, we hope it helps move things forward.

Hot enough for you? Bins emptied?

Just in time for their Xmas tip. :)

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

Wow! This bin man has has all the kept
promises from the council tattooed on his arm