@andrewhunterm.bsky.social will be delighted!

I rarely fancy eating anything before about 11am, so I don't - unless I'm on a wine trip. Can't face wine tasting on an empty stomach!

Demented Orange Blob with Terrified Rabbit.

This Donnie Darko sequel SUCKS.

I’m sure many have drawn attention to the advice given by the Oracle of Delphi to King Croesus of Lydia, that if he should send an army against the Persians, he would destroy a mighty empire.

Just not in the way he hoped

Map of the UK, showing the huge proportion of land used for beef, dairy and lamb production and the tiny proportion used for crops, next to a plot showing that 68% of UK calories and 52% of our protein come from the plants.

Maybe these need to be put on a few menus/supermarket walls. These are from the UK National Food Strategy, showing the proportion of UK land used for different things (huge for beef/lamb, tiny for crops), & where we get our calories and protein (68% & 52% from plants). The difference is staggering.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

PIERCE BROSNAN WANTS TO RETURN AS A RETIRED 007 IN A NEW 'JAMES BOND' FILM

Oldfinger

Hooray!

At risk of getting tedious, once more, can we not use the phrase "child porn"? The accurate phrase is "child sex abuse material", which I know is two words longer, but it's what the NSPCC begs us to use, for many good reasons.

It only occurred to me to test when I was prompted by a phlebotomist who was taking blood (glad I wore a mask !)

No, but covid did. Sorry.

Sign the petition to end peat sales! No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.

It's ridiculous that the Government *still* haven't banned the sale of peat.

Peat bogs are still getting dug up and used for compost and in horticulture. Ministers say they'll ban it 'when time allows'.

Get on with it already! Sign the petition:

actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

I’m sure Andreas Whittam Smith would have wanted people to struggle to read his obituary in The Independent using a smartphone

Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

As it’s international man day, let’s have a quick look at the Man top ten.

Bat
Rocket
Isle of
John In
Mr
Spider
Neanderthal
Manfred
Gary Old
Gary Nu

Davina McCall hosting a big brother eviction

Andrew, you have been evicted. It's time to leave your big brother's house

The Guardian has gone TOO FAR this time. It's a British paper; we say "half-arsed", not "half-assed". FFS.

For those that have followed me from Twitter you will recall I put out many threads on the lunacy of the plan by Rishi Sunak to make the excise tax system for Alc be based on the strength rather than volume. This subtle change was devastating for the wine industry with yet more UK Brexit red tape.

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

War and wine: While Russia bleeds money and battles drones, Putin's wine business is booming The Krinitsa winery, just down the road from Putin's Gelendzhik palace, is estimated to be worth over 27 billion rubles ($330 million), making it Russia's most valuable winemaking operation. Plans are...

Astonishing piece about #Putin’s huge vanity #wine project, Krinitsa, just down the road from his vast and staggeringly vulgar Black Sea palace, Gelendzhik. The fruits of kleptocracy in a mafia state, on a grand scale theins.ru/en/inv/28560...

Yes, this is pub culture! We must stamp out this single file queuing nonsense.

all my love to the new waiter in this place who, when I ordered a glass of picpoul, went "a glass of......pickle? :("

This is just getting ridiculous. Nothing that has happened (or is reported below the headline to have happened) this weekend remotely justifies talk of an explosion or mass protests. The media are confecting a crisis, and, in some sections of it, hoping to provoke one. 1/3

*Lady Bracknell voice* “A HAM-bag?”

Why Is a Man Unsure About Humanity’s Worth Helping Design Its Digital Future? YouTube video by NowThis Impact

Don’t want to worry you unduly, but it’s very hard to find any footage of the techbros and datagarchs saying they really like people. Sure, ‘humanity’ as a concept gets positive reviews but nothing really warm and memorable about people. youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1...

Hooray, it's Private Eye week 🎉

Will John Torode and Gregg Wallace be featuring in a follow up #Masterchef cover to issue 1638 from December?

You can find out this Wednesday, available from all good newsagents

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