I have seen two different types of responses to Brigitte Bardot’s death: she was a fascist, but she was hot, OR she was hot, but she was a fascist.
December 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I have seen two different types of responses to Brigitte Bardot’s death: she was a fascist, but she was hot, OR she was hot, but she was a fascist.
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South Park alumnus Toby Morton saw the rename on the cards months ago and bought the trumpkennedycenter domain (com and org).
https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org
https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org
HOME | Trump Kennedy Center
www.trumpkennedycenter.org
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
South Park alumnus Toby Morton saw the rename on the cards months ago and bought the trumpkennedycenter domain (com and org).
https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org
https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org
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Another of Brian Bolland’s fine covers for London’s Time Out magazine, this time for September 23rd 1987’s issue.
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Another of Brian Bolland’s fine covers for London’s Time Out magazine, this time for September 23rd 1987’s issue.
@daveyjenkins.bsky.social can’t believe I have been sitting behind your mum at Chelsea for the past god knows how many years.
December 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
@daveyjenkins.bsky.social can’t believe I have been sitting behind your mum at Chelsea for the past god knows how many years.
Why the hell did I buy my daughter a kazoo for her stocking?
December 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Why the hell did I buy my daughter a kazoo for her stocking?
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The reviews and recommendations ‘on here’ were all bang on: this was excellent. Fantastic writing. The tension, the sense of place, the slang and the pacing of the whole thing; nothing wasted at all.
December 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The reviews and recommendations ‘on here’ were all bang on: this was excellent. Fantastic writing. The tension, the sense of place, the slang and the pacing of the whole thing; nothing wasted at all.
Overheard in a book shop today a bookseller and a customer discussing The Salt Path, ‘it’s a really beautiful story if you overlook the fact it isn’t true’.
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Overheard in a book shop today a bookseller and a customer discussing The Salt Path, ‘it’s a really beautiful story if you overlook the fact it isn’t true’.
Rare four cat stand-off.
December 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Rare four cat stand-off.
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'Tells pop's neverending story brilliantly' DAVID QUANTICK
'Like a treasure chest of pop riches' SAMIRA AHMED
'Reminded me how much I loved the 80s' GIDEON COE
'A delightful, curious compendium' JUDE ROGERS
‘Downright unputdownable’ IAN WADE
'Invaluable for pop fans & pop historians’ DAVID STUBBS
'Like a treasure chest of pop riches' SAMIRA AHMED
'Reminded me how much I loved the 80s' GIDEON COE
'A delightful, curious compendium' JUDE ROGERS
‘Downright unputdownable’ IAN WADE
'Invaluable for pop fans & pop historians’ DAVID STUBBS
OUT NOW, my month-by-month guide to 1980s pop, from ABC to XTC, and from Madonna to Neneh. #IntoTheGroove, published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social.
December 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
'Tells pop's neverending story brilliantly' DAVID QUANTICK
'Like a treasure chest of pop riches' SAMIRA AHMED
'Reminded me how much I loved the 80s' GIDEON COE
'A delightful, curious compendium' JUDE ROGERS
‘Downright unputdownable’ IAN WADE
'Invaluable for pop fans & pop historians’ DAVID STUBBS
'Like a treasure chest of pop riches' SAMIRA AHMED
'Reminded me how much I loved the 80s' GIDEON COE
'A delightful, curious compendium' JUDE ROGERS
‘Downright unputdownable’ IAN WADE
'Invaluable for pop fans & pop historians’ DAVID STUBBS
No Reece James in the Guardian’s list of Top 100 players. Apparently he’s not as good as Joao Pedro, Antony or Scott McTominay. That’s a big lol from me.
December 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
No Reece James in the Guardian’s list of Top 100 players. Apparently he’s not as good as Joao Pedro, Antony or Scott McTominay. That’s a big lol from me.
I’m a big Ballard fan but remember thinking at the time that Kingdom Come was a bit overbaked. Sounds like it was actually right on the nose - will have to give it a reread.
Another work of art from twenty years ago that now seems like reading the news headlines: JG Ballard's Kingdom Come.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I’m a big Ballard fan but remember thinking at the time that Kingdom Come was a bit overbaked. Sounds like it was actually right on the nose - will have to give it a reread.
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The current issue of The Fence has a page of those facts and legends you had at yr school
December 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The current issue of The Fence has a page of those facts and legends you had at yr school
WeTransfer offering me a "2025 recap". Spotify Wrapped has a lot to answer for.
December 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
WeTransfer offering me a "2025 recap". Spotify Wrapped has a lot to answer for.
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Hey all you Hastings/St Leonards heads and Sussex Syd people. I'm making a 600 mile round trip to do this gig. Drop by and say hello.
dice.fm/event/k6nm58...
dice.fm/event/k6nm58...
Syd's Last Stand - celebrating Syd Barrett Tickets | £6 | 17 Jan @ The Piper, Saint Leonards | DICE
Q&A with Syd biographer Rob Chapman.
plus DJs and dancing
Celebrating 58 years since Syd Barrett's last ever performance with Pink Floyd on Hasting's pier.
dice.fm
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Hey all you Hastings/St Leonards heads and Sussex Syd people. I'm making a 600 mile round trip to do this gig. Drop by and say hello.
dice.fm/event/k6nm58...
dice.fm/event/k6nm58...
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Counterpoint: Rowans should be listed.
NEW: Iconic Finsbury Park bowling alley and nightclub Rowans is facing demolition as part of new plans to build a 190-home development.
More details in today's briefing, plus the war between a Farringdon kebab shop and its wealthy neighbours.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/beloved-bowl...
More details in today's briefing, plus the war between a Farringdon kebab shop and its wealthy neighbours.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/beloved-bowl...
Beloved bowling alley Rowans is under threat from a 190-home development
Plus: Dalston's best hidden pub, a war between a Farringdon kebab shop and its neighbours, and more in our Monday briefing
www.the-londoner.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Counterpoint: Rowans should be listed.
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I really like Barts Pathology Museum, some of the specimens are amazing and icky. You medical people out there, I don't know how you do it, and I respect you so much for it www.qmul.ac.uk/pathologymus...
About us - Pathology Museum
www.qmul.ac.uk
December 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I really like Barts Pathology Museum, some of the specimens are amazing and icky. You medical people out there, I don't know how you do it, and I respect you so much for it www.qmul.ac.uk/pathologymus...
£££
20 stores have closed. Including the large one in Bloomsbury. How were they not packing in students? www.ft.com/content/7202...
Leon heads for administration as co-founder plans to cut jobs and outlets
UK healthy fast-food chain bought back by John Vincent last month has struggled to recover from Covid
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
£££
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Begs the question: what's the least customer-friendly song you've ever heard or played on a pub jukebox?
(The below is 'Sense of Doubt' by Bowie, btw)
(The below is 'Sense of Doubt' by Bowie, btw)
Once found it on a pub jukebox, on the B-Side of 'Beauty And The Beast'. Put it on twice in a row. Landlord unplugged the jukebox.
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Begs the question: what's the least customer-friendly song you've ever heard or played on a pub jukebox?
(The below is 'Sense of Doubt' by Bowie, btw)
(The below is 'Sense of Doubt' by Bowie, btw)
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I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.
New Coke: A Warning from History
If, like me, you’re British then your knowledge of New Coke is likely to be (a) it was a massive failure, (b) everyone hated it, (c) it was a terrible business decision, and, if your go-to re…
excelpope.net
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.
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In The Observer, I’ve reviewed Songs Of Seven Dials: @tricksterprince.bsky.social’s fascinating, detailed history of the changing streets of Covent Garden through the early c20th. From race to jingoistic media to gentrification, a book full of resonances today
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Lament for a lost London | The Observer
observer.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In The Observer, I’ve reviewed Songs Of Seven Dials: @tricksterprince.bsky.social’s fascinating, detailed history of the changing streets of Covent Garden through the early c20th. From race to jingoistic media to gentrification, a book full of resonances today
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Another Saturday another Arsenal women game, shaking my head sadly during North London Forever.
December 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Another Saturday another Arsenal women game, shaking my head sadly during North London Forever.
My 68 bus which was being held at a stop to ‘regulate the service’ has now been overtaken by another No 68. It’s a scam!
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My 68 bus which was being held at a stop to ‘regulate the service’ has now been overtaken by another No 68. It’s a scam!