Complain to the BBC here (as I have):
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

The original Fawlty Towers hotel, seen from the outside.

Strong Fawlty Towers vibe...

Diana Dors - Parkinson with Desmond Morris YouTube video by Diana Dors Her Legacy

An extraordinary man. I recall seeing many of his distinctive artworks in the stacks at Southampton City Art Gallery. Here he is, reunited with the former Diana Fluck, in an unsettling appearance on the Parkinson show www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8gp....

Screenshot from The Simpsons when the gangster guy says "I'm seeing double here" and then delivers the best line ever written.

Photograph of the Loch Ness Monster (allegedly)

Failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin cannot understand why his pisspoor self-published racist paperback isn't on display in the hardback fiction section of Waterstones.

Failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin cannot understand why his pisspoor self-published racist paperback isn't on display in the hardback fiction section of Waterstones.

Fun fact that lying UK journalistic hacks won’t tell you because they hate Labour: Boris Johnson did not pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary. #UKPolitics

We're like two peas in a pod. But in a banana sense.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47594/...

An audience at Hodges Figgis bookstore, Dublin, for the launch of 'Multiple Joyce' on Bloomsday 2022 (marking the centenary of the publications of 'Ulysses')

Nuala O'Connor and myself in conversation at Hodges Figgis bookstore, Dublin.

Covers of 'Multiple Joyce' (designed by Anne Marie Hantho) https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/

Scroll down the homepage of the Bloomsday Festival and you'll see a short film of past highlights. Blink and you'll miss me (in Joycean white tennis shoes) with Nuala O'Connor at Hodges Figgis for the launch of 'Multiple Joyce' back in 2022. www.bloomsdayfestival.ie

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost a dance, or you’re eliminated.

Dada Deux: A Joycean Cabaret - Bloomsday Festival Kick off The Bloomsday Festival celebrations at The James Joyce Centre on Thursday, 11th June at 8.30pm with a Joyce-themed cabaret of readings, performance, music and natter, hosted by author David C...

I'm delighted to be hosting 'Dada Deux,' the opening event of the 2026 Bloomsday Festival at the James Joyce Centre in Dublin, with guests David Bremner, Suzanne Savage, Rónán Hession and Gerry Fialka. Thursday 11th June at 8:30pm. www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/dada-d...

I cannot for the life of me imagine any security vetting that Peter Mandelson could ever pass.

Absolutely stunning.

'29th verse of the 14th chapter of the Book of Genesis'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0qO...

V good.

Vinaigrette Everything

Perhaps it's printed on the kind of onion-skin paper favoured by Bible publishers?

And a 'Postface' by ... er... John Cowper Powys.

Thank you Flavie - I was unaware of the Terrinoni edition. I look forward to this new French translation. Do you happen to know what English version it's based upon?

Surprised to learn there has never been a bilingual Ulysses before! I wonder which version of the original forms the basis for this new translation. (It's a contentious issue.)

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

Author and publisher Nicholas Royle and some of the audience at last night's online gathering to mark the publication of 'Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand books' published by Salt: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/finders-keepers-9781784633417

Author and publisher Nicholas Royle and some of the audience at last night's online gathering to celebrate the publication of 'Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand books' published by Salt: www.saltpublishing.com/products/fin...

"Culloden" (1964) Scottish Jacobite Rebellion Classic Docu-Drama YouTube video by LionHeart FilmWorks

Today marks the 380th anniversary of the bloody Battle of Culloden, so you should watch Peter Watkins' 1964 docu-drama: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1TZ... Few broadcasts over the past sixty years can match the impact of this.

This very night at 7pm (BST)

Private Eye's veteran sports journalist E. I. Addio regularly refers to 'one-legged netminder Wally Foot' of Neasden F.C., an under-performing club in the North Circular Relegation League led by ashen-faced manager Ron Knee and supported by loyal fans (Sid and Doris Bonkers).

Latest figures:

King will not meet Epstein’s victims on visit to Epstein’s friends and accomplices

CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social will have a desk at this poetry Fair on April 25th.

St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry.

It works better if you tap THEIR temple.