The Tuesday toast run with donkey, George

An advert from the latest issue for "The Bootleg Betjeman" - The UK's foremost poet laureate tribute act. With special guest support from "Fraud Byron"

From the latest issue (sorry no refunds). shop.viz.co.uk/viz355bs

Disney Pixar's 1984 coming 2027

This summer do it a la Julia.

The Most Important Thing Dave Chappelle Ever Did Was Walk Away On fearlessness, the limitations of any one narrative, and what a history of Black comedy can and can’t show

Geoff Bennett on fearlessness, the limitations of any one narrative, and what a history of Black comedy can and can’t show:

thatch finials were, historically, often used to indicate something about the resident- a hint at their occupation or the number of children, sometimes.

so anyway i have some questions, namely, where is this house so i can figure out who thatched it and offer them a round of applause

Pixies Gigantic meets the old Attack of the 50ft Woman poster. This took forever to draw, so please buy several prints.

Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline

UK-caught cod joins mackerel, as overfishing means loss of traditional British fish

Decades of this - each generation of politicians allows quota higher than ecosystems can take

It's not supporting fishing communities by doing so, in the end it's failing them

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Time to gather your entries together!

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid... Jeff Grant, the director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

David Squires on … Roy Hodgson staying down with the kids on his return to Bristol City Our cartoonist on the 78-year-old’s shock move to Bristol City and his attempts to connect with the young ‘uns

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and now, be preserved for ever in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive. Karlson’s declaration – “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! … What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” – is one of nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins’ 2004 hit Scar. Continue reading...

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

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All eight #SmallProphets covers are available as a pack of postcards. Buy here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop and love them. Forever.
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This tour has been so so fun, and now we get to bring it back to @sohotheatre.bsky.social in a couple of weeks! I'd love you to give this a share if you saw and enjoyed the show, let's pack this run out!

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Matchday!

Clapton CFC and the football pyramid 😍

Graham Dury of Viz produced these posters as seen in our match programmes which you can now download below:

Women's First Team: www.claptoncfc.co.uk/content/uplo...

Men's First Team: www.claptoncfc.co.uk/content/uplo...

43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes. It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

Me, being led away by the secret service after releasing thousands of gophers at the Capitol: "You don't understand! It's a scientifically proven way to revive a desolate place! I'm a patriot!"

www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

#blessed

Kim Jong Un firing a handgun.

“Coming soon to the BBC! Kim Jong Un is tough, uncompromising cop MONKFISH…”

Me entering my late 30's: aww shit my check lower back light just came on

Luchadors in their 40s:

Scientific Shot of a Peacock mantis shrimp eyes which are the most advanced in the animal world. Photo by Daniel Sasse.

the mantis shrimp has 16 types of color receptors.

humans have 3.

we see roughly 10 million colors and think that's impressive.

the mantis shrimp is sitting there processing a visual reality so hyperchromatic that scientists genuinely aren't sure what it's like to be one.

#addOcean

Rob Grant Friends and colleagues pay tribute Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant

reddwarf.co.uk/news/2026/03...

UK Gardeners Asked To Make 'Bee Baths' - All For Gardening If you want to help bees this spring, you can start by leaving your dandelions well alone. They’re especially helpful for rare Pantaloon bees.

UK Gardeners Asked To Make ‘Bee Baths’

www.allforgardening.com/1642062/uk-gardeners-ask...

If you want to help bees this spring, you can start by leaving your dandelions well alone. They’re especially helpful for rare Pantaloon bees. And, if you see a bee in distress, …

The pub as an outpost of home Travelling for work recently I found myself profoundly grateful for the existence of the pub – somewhere not my lonely hotel room, not the office, an outpost of home. My job burns a lot of social ener...

BLOG POST: Ray writes about feeling the benefit of the homeliness of the pub when you're away from home. 🍺🍻

boakandbailey.com/2026/02/the-...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

I invested £12,000 in Brewdog - I think I've lost it all More than 200,000 people bought Equity for Punks shares in the craft brewer but many now believe they are worthless.

I’ve invested money in a brewery and I KNOW I’m not getting any back www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A Time Traveller's Pub Crawl Round London's Old Boozers How to visit six centuries in one boozy afternoon.

A time traveller's pub crawl round London's old boozers

We’re bowled over to have been voted Lewisham Area pub of the year by South East London CAMRA!

Thanks to everyone who voted, to our wonderful staff, the amazing breweries and of course to our dear customers, without whom there would be no pub to vote for!

Also, these 4 would be decent pub crawl… 👀

This Tube Station Now Has Toilets... And More Are On The Way Less chance of being caught short.

New toilets at this Tube station mean the end of what was the longest stretch on the network without a loo 🚽