Darren Adam

Played this Air album for the first time in literal decades today. However, I’d forgotten that side two had been pressed so queasily off-centre. The last track sounds like Ivan Wyschnegradsky. I suspect it’s a bit late to return it now.

Blinding Lights is a pop song that will outlast time itself. It is a machine-tooled, bulletproof, utterly inevitable thing.

The long 2010s are finally over

Ofcom to force stations to create local news locally All local analogue commercial radio stations will have to carry a mandatory amount of local news on weekdays under new Ofcom rules implementing the Media Act 2024. Even those stations that are current...

Farmer to ‘review equine accommodation security’ after repeated mass breakouts

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Lists are fascinating; one could almost do a list novel.

Schools of architecture and design like Art Deco and the Modernist movement were engines running forward into the future.

I daren’t check just how old Melody AM actually is. I don’t think its release date starts with a 19, but I can’t be entirely sure.

Brutalist Southbank Centre finally listed after 35 years of refusals The government has finally listed London’s Southbank Centre ending a 35-year battle to secure statutory heritage protection for the 1960s Brutalist landmark

A wonderful building, now properly protected. Probably disliked by dull philistine Charles Windsor; always a strong sign of architectural merit.

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/brutali...

It rather depends what you’re using them for.

I don’t understand sport but the final score of Bad Bunny 128, Kid Rock 6, seems pretty decisive.

I presented a UK commercial radio breakfast show from 1996 to 2003. It was not a good period for pop music: Steps, Westlife, Bob The Builder. Truly however, the nadir was reached by Kid Rock’s All Summer Long; a record of such unending stinking hatefulness I swear I could actually taste it.

What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents – bots built by humans – to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers only

Yes, this is fine. I'm sure this is fine.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Fallegt Borgarnes

Perhaps only gratuitous madness can define who we are.

Just a Þorri snack, really.

Visit of the Prime Minister of Denmark 22nd Jawary 2026 We'll get by with a little help from our friends

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

I suppose it might be theoretically possible to give less of a shit about the Beckham family, but I genuinely can’t imagine what that would feel like.

I still think GPS is one of the greatest and most astonishing inventions. Pure and utterly fanciful Q-gadget sci-fi fantasy somehow became ubiquitous reality, in large part thanks to this genius.

This is the kind of journalism we need

5% sweat and tobacco frosting

But a tunnel connects, which is why the headline is absurd. Technically - on that basis - it is also a tunnel “between the UK and Russia”, depending where one starts and ends! If we were taking about, say, an area of low pressure “between the UK and Iceland”, that would work just fine.

They might as well have written “between the UK and the Moon”…

I've never tried 0.0% versions of alcoholic brands; what with not drinking, I suspect I have gone off the taste too, so Pepsi Max suffices. I do wonder what an alcohol-free Stevo might taste like though? (I don't wonder enough to actually want one, obviously.)

There is, of course, no tunnel between Iceland and the UK, despite the ludicrous implication of this ludicrous headline. The tunnel is in, and arguably under, the Faroe Islands.

Bluesky! Is this gaffer tape, or gaffa tape? They sound identical, but in written form one is surely wrong?

The UK drink-drive limit is to be cut. Excellent news; long overdue. I don’t drink - haven’t done so for about 5 years - but when I did, I never combined it with driving. What’s the point of having “just one or two” and then fretting about whether you’re over the limit? Drink or drive - pick one!

What format have you settled on?

Flying Tiger in Kringlan (and I assume Smáralind too) are shifting loads of their festive tat at 70% off.

1100 ISK for all this. Feels almost illegal.