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Big £3 price sticker covering the hole in an LP

I feel your Weltschmerz record shop employee but this is too far

Please, please everyone humour me
The word aitch does not begin with the letter it represents any more than m is mem or n is nen
H is AITCH and when I hear government ministers talking about the HAITCH ESS 2 railway project. I realise the time has come to speak out. To shout out in fact.

Launching tomorrow, 'Too Hot For TV' a brand new podcast looking at the expanded media of your favourite franchises.

TWO uses of the phrase “mid-term by election” in the same letter would be disqualifying for a British PM in a just world

Everyone has better things to be happy about than this, but I watched #Stan&Ollie last night: Steve Coogan and John C Reilly as one of the most fondly remembered comedy duos of all time. It's a lovely film, with great performances and a genuine friendship at its heart. Just not Stan and Ollie's.

There's nothing for you here!

Turns out you can in fact be born in the 1980s, attend a British University and avoid reading Foucault

It's a good job Walliams wasn't a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef otherwise the BBC would just transmit it.

As Christmas looms ever-closer, we remember that Jesus was born in a stable, fled as a refugee, grew up in provincial obscurity amidst working folk, denounced wealth, called for radical acceptance of those on society’s margins, and was tortured to death for it.

You say "AI assistant". I say "uncanny valet".

“Yes, I would do it!”

It’s telling that with all their lavish funding Reclaimed et al don’t simply make the “balanced” history programmes they whine about not getting. Not even a “but we built the railways” podcast. It’s almost as if their peccadilloes only hold together as a gossamer of criticism over real academic work

Doctor Who art prints by Scott Gray.

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Troughton in The Gunfighters because he would like a hat like that

Sure you’re not watching Enemy Of The World In Colour?

This is how I find out Darren Grimes is Deputy Leader of Durham County Council. How much longer before people cotton on to “Vote in Twitter shitposters to run things = life gets appreciably worse”?

American exceptionalism is a hellava drug, but if Trump winning a second term wasn’t cold turkey it’s not a habit you’re going to kick

Glasman is in outlier in many respects but there isn’t a UK politician in 2025 talking about class who isn’t a patronising tosser. It’s never a heuristic for capital/labour relations. At best it’s a vestigial cultural tribe, at worst a rhetorical veneer giving pet bigotries a salt-of-the-earth gleam

Lisa Nandy: “Why shouldn’t the next target for nuclear annihilation be Wigan or Barnsley or Bradford?”

This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.

Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are

The Terrance Dicks Archive

John Woodnutt’s delivery of “I thought you were a Scotsman” is the eye of the duck of all of Doctor Who

When listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl leads you to hit upon a foundational conceptual flaw in the American Experiment 💯

No, I’m not wondering “how things are going in the other place” - I didn’t walk past the Nazi bar to the cosy pub down the road because they’re showing a live feed of Nazis in the Nazi bar

I don’t care what constituency it’s currently part of, Kingston is not and will never be in London. Boundaries change, postcodes are immutable, Kingston is in Surrey! (I enjoyed the piece otherwise, but someone had to take a stand for observable reality)

Most casuals/researchers will go to Wikipedia before the biography section of a band’s official website - more reliably updated!

Band promo copy is hard! It’s written as the canonical account, but an act with long history & member churn has competing recollections/egos to satisfy. Outside hard metrics (dates/charts) it takes time & delicate negotiation, & fans/press know it all anyway. Laborious + low pressure = easy to defer

Now I’m out of the loop too, but the video is just the ai upscale side by side with the DVD