My new album. Out in July:

'Izzy Wizzy Let's Get Bizzy'

How magic became...Magick.

@cherryredrecords.bsky.social will be available on vinyl/CD and digital trash

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION 🚨 Read Alan Rusbridger's report on how GB News effectively became Reform TV

@arusbridger.bsky.social
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Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

‘We’re a pub friendship – with songs attached’: deadpan dazzlers Black Box Recorder return, thanks to Billie Eilish Their unnerving songs about car crashes and suburban ennui, sung in a sparkling yet unemotional RP, stood out from the Britpop bloat. Now, thanks to a certain singer taking their streams stratospheric...

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Nice Graun piece on BBR. Much thanks to @luketurner.bsky.social

I just started watching ‘Small Prophets’. Gosh, it really is the TV show we’ve been waiting for, isn’t it? I wouldn’t have believed something like this could be made

BBC warns Russia is taking over World Service radio frequencies Russian propaganda is filling the void where the BBC has closed World Service radio services due to cuts

BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

BBC World Service - an IRL jewel in the crown…

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

our FT story from June 2023 showed:

Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s $77m townhouse in Manhattan in June 2009 while the financier was in prison for soliciting prostitution from minor

in 2010 and 2011 Epstein noted that “Petie” was with him in Paris, where the financier owned a sumptuous apartment

Newspaper clipping: MENTORING DAY Students get first hand job experience.

A reminder that punctuation is important.

Now THIS is a night out….

Thinking of the hundreds of London lobbyists, architects, PR advisers, engineers, etc who managed to buy a house in Clapham after a few years work on whatever this was.

I am very much enjoying the new pronunciation of Caracas…

As a mother who works full time, I'm sick of drudgery. Faced with a mountain of laundry, I refold the dirty towels and put them back to be used again. Let those thoughtless fools dry themselves on each other's filth. I use clean fluffy towels that I hide in my wardrobe

Join us for the 2026 Doomsday Clock Announcement On January 27th, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will reveal the 2026 Doomsday Clock time. The announcement will occur during a live, in-person news

Looking forward to this year’s Doomsday Clock announcement!

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Gino D’Acampo burgled Paul Young’s house and stole his guitars… #paulyoungat70 #ginodisgraced

Bananas (1971): Opening YouTube video by UNC Russia & East Europe

My internal world for four days…

youtu.be/eHA31M2zglQ

Wait til you try and arrange a convenient time for everyone…

Great to see that Five have been having a successful second career as bald car mechanics…

@lukehaines.bsky.social and I are the Fanny and Alexander of North London as the Christmas Fallbaules are on the tree and the I Am Kurious Oranj diorama from @heykidsshop.bsky.social is assembled.

Reality TV pitch: ‘Absolute Tripe’, a show reviving the traditional British tripe-eating contest (with an option of silken tofu for any vegetarian contestants)

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Oh, Frank!

I am finding Your Party to be problematic in that every headline about them reads like an accusation….

lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/bla...

Black Box Recorder are playing The London.Palladium next year. It's not nostalgia - it's revenge.

Is anybody going to see My Bloody Valentine tonight and would they like to give me their ticket?

Big news coming tomorrow. Watch this space.

Mistakes have been made…

This is now outside the paywall, please do read and share

'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.

The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

It begins…

If @lukehaines.bsky.social opens a Showaddywaddy box set on Christmas Day gifted to him by his son, I shall be holding John Lewis to account…