I’ve switched on Sky’s deadline day show for the first time in a long time and I’m now so old that I’ve only heard of about 10 per cent of the players being transferred.

Bundesliga live on the BBC iPlayer! Bayern Munich v RB Leipzig. Tune in now!

Important thread about the rise of churnalism and how young journalists are being actively deskilled by many of the news organisations they work for. 🧵

I know who I’m voting for tonight. #Eurovision

On VE Day, I remember my parents and the life they forged as Dutch immigrants in America, refugees from a war that could so easily have destroyed them.

@groovydegroovy.bsky.social Just reading The Burden of Memory.
You should put “Honour your past but choose not to live there” on a T-shirt. And then send it to, let’s see … the Middle East, Russia, east Africa … actually everywhere.

Get Carter is on BBC2 right now (and iPlayer afterwards). Quite bleak but Michael Caine is brilliant in it. Always fascinated to see and feel what Britain looked like 55-odd years ago.

In Trump’s America, cruelty is government policy, designed to stoke fear. This was not always the case. In 1954, the Senate, the media, and the American people rose up against Joseph McCarthy, exposing his cruelty. ‘Have you no sense of decency, sir?’ asked Joseph Welch. A bully was vanquished.

I think I prefer winter to autumn. Everything is dying in autumn, coming apart, darkening. In winter we settle in and wait it out.

Morning! If you need a lift and a laugh here’s Eddie Murphy as James Brown in a hot tub.

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I guess the kinda sad thing is that if Trump had won in 2020, we’d be rid of him now. #InaugurationDay

My friend just called me condescending and narcissistic. He’s wrong, but at least he’s talking about something interesting for a change.

This must be the easiest Only Connect question ever … and neither team got it right!

We need a new name for the smartphone. Few use it to call people any more. There must be a better, catchier name.

In the mood for a few Christmas tunes? The General Store Christmas special is on LCRUK at 3pm today. It’s 1hr of great country songs guaranteed to get you feeling festive. www.lcruk.uk . There are songs from Blake Shelton, Kacey Musgraves, Kate Rusby, Cody Johnson, Little Big Town, Lady A and more.

Great show at the Barrowlands in Glasgow by Nile Rodgers and Chic. Non-stop hits all night.