Darren Waters
@darrenwaters.bsky.social
BBC News journalist.
Growth, analytics and social.
Growth, analytics and social.
No it's not! Get the Dragons result in there!
Moments of the Year is finally finished.
Tuesday 23rd December 2025.
Tuesday 23rd December 2025.
December 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
No it's not! Get the Dragons result in there!
I wonder how long Microsoft will keep reference to initiatives like the one attached available on their website.
www.theverge.com/news/838002/...
www.theverge.com/news/838002/...
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I wonder how long Microsoft will keep reference to initiatives like the one attached available on their website.
www.theverge.com/news/838002/...
www.theverge.com/news/838002/...
Takes me back to my ONS days and the backup site which was also Wordpress, as was (are?) the ONS blog and Data Science Campus website. Oh the fun that caused!
Only people who spent the weekend building a new website and discovered it had been live the entire time will recognise this.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Takes me back to my ONS days and the backup site which was also Wordpress, as was (are?) the ONS blog and Data Science Campus website. Oh the fun that caused!
I'm almost indifferent to Wales shipping 73 and getting nilled at home. To be honest, we're now in the same relative category as teams like Portugal and Spain.
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm almost indifferent to Wales shipping 73 and getting nilled at home. To be honest, we're now in the same relative category as teams like Portugal and Spain.
We have a winner for the worst decision ever taken by a team of officials in a pro rugby match.
If you didn’t see the game, watch the genuinely insane leaps of common sense, physics and duty of care that all four officials are fully in agreement in making to class a dynamic, avoidable shoulder direct to the head as a rugby incident.
Angus O’Brien is all of us here. It’s genuinely shameful.
Angus O’Brien is all of us here. It’s genuinely shameful.
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We have a winner for the worst decision ever taken by a team of officials in a pro rugby match.
I've never seen one side commit so many cynical offences. There should have been at least 2 more yellows.
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I've never seen one side commit so many cynical offences. There should have been at least 2 more yellows.
The laws say a player should have been sent off following that penalty try.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The laws say a player should have been sent off following that penalty try.
Absolutely
Carley just bottled a 4th yellow for that penalty try.
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Absolutely
That should be a permanent red. Makes a mockery of the whole review and TMO system.
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
That should be a permanent red. Makes a mockery of the whole review and TMO system.
This is a disgraceful refereeing performance. Disgraceful.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is a disgraceful refereeing performance. Disgraceful.
This. What am I meant to do for the next 4 hours?
I am once again asking for all sport yo be played in the morning so we can get on with our lives
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This. What am I meant to do for the next 4 hours?
Who could have predicted that England's headless 20/20 approach to Test cricket could have led to today's result? Shocked.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Who could have predicted that England's headless 20/20 approach to Test cricket could have led to today's result? Shocked.
I have belatedly discovered The Family Stone and I think it's already one of my favourite Christmas films.
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I have belatedly discovered The Family Stone and I think it's already one of my favourite Christmas films.
This feels like a scrambling and reactive PR effort. I'm interested to see console sales this Christmas. My hunch is that PS5 will stretch to 3 to 1 vs Xbox.
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This feels like a scrambling and reactive PR effort. I'm interested to see console sales this Christmas. My hunch is that PS5 will stretch to 3 to 1 vs Xbox.
It was worse, somehow. This is what I think it feels like to be in a car crash in slow motion but you still perceive it in real time. The central reservation is coming. It's coming. It's... Oh never mind.
Genuinely that half was as bad as it has ever been from Wales
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It was worse, somehow. This is what I think it feels like to be in a car crash in slow motion but you still perceive it in real time. The central reservation is coming. It's coming. It's... Oh never mind.
This
Anyway, it’s always a lovely emotional moment when a team gets their first win in Cardiff - congrats in advance to Japan for this and I look forward to welcoming the likes of Spain, Belgium and literally anyone else who fancies it over the next 5-7 years
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This
I'm inclined to agree with Polygon. Years of self sabotage by Microsoft has given Valve the confidence to do this. Xbox can't be a brand without an actual console strategy.
www.polygon.com/microsoft-xb...
www.polygon.com/microsoft-xb...
Xbox is screwed
The Steam Machine could eat Xbox's lunch if Valve plays its cards right
www.polygon.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I'm inclined to agree with Polygon. Years of self sabotage by Microsoft has given Valve the confidence to do this. Xbox can't be a brand without an actual console strategy.
www.polygon.com/microsoft-xb...
www.polygon.com/microsoft-xb...
A terrific list. Can I humbly add Peter Gabriel's Us. A more heart breaking collection of post relationship soul searching and reflection you won't find. Honest, painful and also beautifully performed, sung and produced.
Hooked on the new Lily Allen album and crave more vicarious heartbreak in your life? Charlotte Curran, one of our a PhD students, has written a fantastic @uk.theconversation.com guide to the best breakup albums: theconversation.com/seven-albums...
Seven albums to listen to during a breakup – from Lily Allen to Marvin Gaye
These breakup albums can help listeners to grieve previous relationships.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A terrific list. Can I humbly add Peter Gabriel's Us. A more heart breaking collection of post relationship soul searching and reflection you won't find. Honest, painful and also beautifully performed, sung and produced.
Any journalist giving credence to the notion that Earl or Pollock should play in the backline or Ford at 9 should question their life choices.
Ok.
November 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Any journalist giving credence to the notion that Earl or Pollock should play in the backline or Ford at 9 should question their life choices.
Shameful
This is one of the worst Scarlets performances I've ever seen. Just heartbreaking to see how poor we've become. I just don't see it ever getting better. Is there any point in fighting to continue. Llanelli rugby is dead.
October 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Shameful
This is one of the worst Scarlets performances I've ever seen. Just heartbreaking to see how poor we've become. I just don't see it ever getting better. Is there any point in fighting to continue. Llanelli rugby is dead.
October 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is one of the worst Scarlets performances I've ever seen. Just heartbreaking to see how poor we've become. I just don't see it ever getting better. Is there any point in fighting to continue. Llanelli rugby is dead.
So those of us who had downgraded or cancelled our Ultimate subscription are sold short, it would seem.
Microsoft is delaying Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hikes for some subscribers. Current subscribers in some European countries won’t be affected by Microsoft’s Game Pass price hikes just yet. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/794032/...
Microsoft delays Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hikes for some subscribers
Some European countries won’t be impacted by subscription price hikes
www.theverge.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So those of us who had downgraded or cancelled our Ultimate subscription are sold short, it would seem.
Microsoft really doesn't want to be in the console games business any more.
BREAKING: Microsoft is announcing big changes to Xbox Game Pass today. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is getting more features, but it's going up to $29.99 a month. PC games + cloud are also coming to new Game Pass Essential + Premium plans. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/789424/...
Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month
All Xbox Game Pass tiers are getting big changes
www.theverge.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Microsoft really doesn't want to be in the console games business any more.
More than one hour in a Google support chat thread taking to three different teams trying to do one simple thing: activate my Nest Aware account. Failed attempt to connect me to fourth team. This is really shoddy service from Google.
September 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
More than one hour in a Google support chat thread taking to three different teams trying to do one simple thing: activate my Nest Aware account. Failed attempt to connect me to fourth team. This is really shoddy service from Google.
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September 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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