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Ian Peacock 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇬🇧🇩🇰
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Misanthropic idiot. Personal assistant to small dog. Manchester. You might have heard me on Radio 4.
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This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...
Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)
YouTube video by Avie Sheck
www.youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain
February 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)
February 15, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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A truly magnificent sight (slightly ruined by Windsor Castle).
#WorldBollardAssociation
February 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday #NewOrder
youtu.be/cHLbaOLWjpc?...
Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts
YouTube video by BBC
youtu.be
February 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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I think I’ve been scammed….My Rottweilers haven’t grown in months 😱😱
February 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Small Prophets review – Mackenzie Crook’s magical new comedy is pure, pure pleasure
Small Prophets review – Mackenzie Crook’s magical new comedy is pure, pure pleasure
Wonder lies below the surface of this truly fantastic sitcom from the creator of Detectorists. It’s an impossible marvel of TV making
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.
February 13, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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I thank you for this entirely convincing account. But your answer also compels me to point our readers to James Thurber who so astutely observed that ping-pong was clearly spelt backwards since gnop-gnip so perfectly describes the sound of the game being played.
February 14, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Re ‘Mortar and pestle’, the English language conventionally adheres to the rule of ‘ablaut reduplication’, where the ‘i’ or ‘e’ word comes first, the ‘a’ or ‘o’ word second: hip-hop, clip-clop, ping-pong, ding-dong, sing-song, riff-raff. ‘Mortar and pestle’ is an abomination unto the Lord.
A question for my American friends especially @bcdreyer.social:
Without coming over all Mildred Natwick - although, why not - may I discuss pestles? I just read a recipe in the NY Times which suggested using a mortar and pestle.
In the UK we always refer them as a pestle and mortar. Discuss.
February 14, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! 😆
February 13, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Today’s Pupdates:
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Frankie has an announcement. 👑
February 12, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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As one does
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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😂
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Billboard in Dundee. Pic: Alistair Heather
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Saw this wonderful wee car in Edinburgh's New Town

#Edinburgh
February 11, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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I say we shut down Jersey until we can work out what’s going on.
February 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Post a banger not in English.
(If you’ve never seen this before then prepare to have your mind blown)
youtu.be/unYu22Ign1E?...
French Kids Paying Tribute to Serge Gainsbourg (1988)
YouTube video by Back to the Past
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February 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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For anyone who needs cheering up... here's Britain's smallest bird having a bath today in a woodland puddle. 😁😍🐦❤️
#birds 🪶
February 7, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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It’s a mystery how this happened.
February 7, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Please note that there is no suggestion that my existence implies any wrongdoing.
February 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight
July 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM