Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

inevitably, the dots

and now, it's time for this—thank you Bill

The 1970 Rupert the Bear puppet series title sequence, but with Algy Pug replaced by Simply Red singer, Mick Hucknall.

Some actors capture an aspect of their historical moment. The combover, the knitwear, the wheedling and fussing - Brian Murphy was the absolute exemplar of a certain kind of postwar masculinity - the salaryman born slightly too early for the Permissive Society. RIP.

Outside a Grocer's Shop, by Harold Sandys Williamson, c.1930s.

Two great things combined.

The theme from Van Der Valk with Matt Monro singing over it.

#VanDerValk #MattMonro
youtube.com/watch?v=ZFRt...

Early on Tony Slattery had a go at Saturday morning presenting with shortlived ITV effort TX, where he got to play straight man to the national TV debut of Frank Sidebottom (and Stanley Unwin) www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQ...

(h/t @benbaker.bsky.social)

Tony Slattery
May he find peace❤️
#TonySlattery

My daft little project that I work on with @seanreynard.bsky.social @frasergeesin.bsky.social @georgyjamieson.bsky.social @vaun.bsky.social Lucia Tomlinson,
Elvis Herod and Bliv Substantial is lovingly reviewed in Bob’s fab Haunted Generation segment of @forteantimes.bsky.social

OUT NOW!

The Christmas edition of France’s Spirou comic from 1959 with its absolutely gorgeous seasonal cover by Eddy Ryssack.

Not a Christmas poem, but a great poem from Seamus Heaney

m.youtube.com/watch?v=HhBK...

Blimey. One for fans of Network Distributing.

incredible plot summary

snoopy image of the day