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Yesterday btw I gave Stig of the Dump to an eight-year old boy, saying "You are eight, it's time you read this"
To which he said "I've been meaning to read this"
To which he said "I've been meaning to read this"
January 2, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Yesterday btw I gave Stig of the Dump to an eight-year old boy, saying "You are eight, it's time you read this"
To which he said "I've been meaning to read this"
To which he said "I've been meaning to read this"
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Me making sparkling smalltalk at parties #TheTraitors
January 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Me making sparkling smalltalk at parties #TheTraitors
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She knew the pain was going to start again. And, sure enough, it did.
January 1, 2026 at 1:44 PM
She knew the pain was going to start again. And, sure enough, it did.
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My TV round-up of 2025: I really enjoyed some great telly this year, thanks to all the people who make telly
December 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My TV round-up of 2025: I really enjoyed some great telly this year, thanks to all the people who make telly
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“I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,” said Toad.
December 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,” said Toad.
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On this day in 1972, episode one of The Three Doctors was broadcast.
December 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
On this day in 1972, episode one of The Three Doctors was broadcast.
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Here for those interested is the answer to my most frequently asked question of 2025 (and every other year till I die). I'll keep trying for a new set. MERRY BLOODY CHRISTMAS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mwj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mwj...
🎄 Christmas Special 2025 – No More Jockeys with Alex Horne, Tim Key + Mark Watson
YouTube video by No More Jockeys
www.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Here for those interested is the answer to my most frequently asked question of 2025 (and every other year till I die). I'll keep trying for a new set. MERRY BLOODY CHRISTMAS.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mwj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mwj...
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#AdventMovies2025 The Holly and The Ivy. Did anyone ever have more delicacy than Celia Johnson? boxd.it/c23IeL
A ★★★★ review of The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
Strikingly melancholy yet warm, funny and ultimately uplifting drama in which the family of a village parson gather together for Christmas. The dynamics between them are convincingly strained: one dau...
boxd.it
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
#AdventMovies2025 The Holly and The Ivy. Did anyone ever have more delicacy than Celia Johnson? boxd.it/c23IeL
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This is an exceptional essay which I think everyone could do with reading, critic or not. A reminder of how to appreciate art even if you don’t like it.
The paragraph about TV Tropes is spot on. I can't bear that approach to criticism where the main aim seems to be asserting superiority to the work. People who'll identify an influence and be like "Ah, rumbled!" episodes.ghost.io/art-criticis...
You are not smarter than the art you critique
Here's my best advice for young critics: Don't presume you know better.
episodes.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is an exceptional essay which I think everyone could do with reading, critic or not. A reminder of how to appreciate art even if you don’t like it.
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God, I love cycling in December. Sure? it’s cold, it’s muddy, the wind knows your name, and there’s only 2 and a bit hours of daylight, BUT the world has the soft grainy look of Super 8. Everywhere looks like a Sunday.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
God, I love cycling in December. Sure? it’s cold, it’s muddy, the wind knows your name, and there’s only 2 and a bit hours of daylight, BUT the world has the soft grainy look of Super 8. Everywhere looks like a Sunday.
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I never even made it that far. Once it hit me that they’d killed off Watson’s wife because she’d turned out to be Sherlock’s intellectual equal and physical superior, and the show couldn’t abide that, oh no, I was done. The misogyny was rank to begin with, but that was the breaking point for me.
December 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I never even made it that far. Once it hit me that they’d killed off Watson’s wife because she’d turned out to be Sherlock’s intellectual equal and physical superior, and the show couldn’t abide that, oh no, I was done. The misogyny was rank to begin with, but that was the breaking point for me.
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The biggest pause in my life was when I spoke to somebody who'd worked with Palin on a book tour and I asked what he was like. The two seconds they took to answer felt like an eternity before they said "If anything, he's probably nicer than most people think."
The *relief*.
The *relief*.
November 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The biggest pause in my life was when I spoke to somebody who'd worked with Palin on a book tour and I asked what he was like. The two seconds they took to answer felt like an eternity before they said "If anything, he's probably nicer than most people think."
The *relief*.
The *relief*.
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this is the type of gadget a man would use to murder his wife in an episode of Columbo set in 2025
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this is the type of gadget a man would use to murder his wife in an episode of Columbo set in 2025
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A racist might forget, but a victim of racism never does.
"My most vivid memories of my school life is Farage repeatedly coming up to me, knowing that I was Jewish, saying 'Hitler was right' and 'gas em' and that was frequently followed by imitating the sound of escaping gas."
Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.
Peter Ettedgui, ex classmate of Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage.
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
A racist might forget, but a victim of racism never does.
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Happy Anniversary to ‘The Five Doctors’ (which was first broadcast in the UK on 25 November 1983)
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Happy Anniversary to ‘The Five Doctors’ (which was first broadcast in the UK on 25 November 1983)
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She had severe seizures, blood clots and uncontrolled hypertension.
She saw 90 doctors and 21 OBGYNs.
No one would terminate.
That’s not malpractice, that’s doctors following the law.
The abortion ban is the problem and it killed Tierra Walker.
Her fetus died too.
She saw 90 doctors and 21 OBGYNs.
No one would terminate.
That’s not malpractice, that’s doctors following the law.
The abortion ban is the problem and it killed Tierra Walker.
Her fetus died too.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
She had severe seizures, blood clots and uncontrolled hypertension.
She saw 90 doctors and 21 OBGYNs.
No one would terminate.
That’s not malpractice, that’s doctors following the law.
The abortion ban is the problem and it killed Tierra Walker.
Her fetus died too.
She saw 90 doctors and 21 OBGYNs.
No one would terminate.
That’s not malpractice, that’s doctors following the law.
The abortion ban is the problem and it killed Tierra Walker.
Her fetus died too.
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There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.
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How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.
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Happy Doctor Who day!
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Happy Doctor Who day!
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
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Is there a name for that literary trope where every chapter ends on a portentous sentence.
Just like this one.
? Once I started seeing it I couldn’t unsee it
Just like this one.
? Once I started seeing it I couldn’t unsee it
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Is there a name for that literary trope where every chapter ends on a portentous sentence.
Just like this one.
? Once I started seeing it I couldn’t unsee it
Just like this one.
? Once I started seeing it I couldn’t unsee it
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He stees you when you're stleeping.
November 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
He stees you when you're stleeping.