My heart weeps. RIP Fred Smith (left), bass player on arguably the greatest guitar album ever. Just listen to the opening notes of the monumental title track. That's Fred. That's music. One by one, the brightest leaves of my youth flutter to the ground.

Better let Corky know!

Two Students From Same School as 5-Year-Old Taken by ICE Are Also in Custody

America, 2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Richard Littlejohn wrote about fly-tipping in yesterday’s Mail, today Boris Johnson turns his attention to a bus driver sacked for beating up a thief. Anything, literally *anything*, to avoid addressing the now utterly undeniable shame & humiliation of their pathetic cheerleading for Donald Trump…

Delighted to be a part of this year’s Cranleigh Bookfest. I’ll be giving a talk about David Bowie’s collaboration with the legendary mime artist Lindsay Kemp, and the impact it had on his career. Tickets on sale now!

cranleigharts.org/event/david-bowie-lindsay-kemp-and-the-birth-of-ziggy-stardust/

Here is a temperature map (in celsius) of the USA today, during what is being called the "Big Freeze". Ukraine was colder than this basically every day from Jan 5-23. And thanks to the USA helping Putin, the country was starved of heat and power.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

No one writes like @adamserwer.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I repost not for sensationalism but because this terrible picture may well become a defining image of the Trump regime.

Screenshot of an X post by AlexandruC4 with a “BREAKING” claim about French judge Magali Lafourcade and alleged pressure from two Trump envoys in May 2025, referencing the US Embassy in Paris and France5. The post includes a TV still of a woman speaking on a French program; lower-third text reads “MAGALI LAFOURCADE” and “MAGISTRATE.”

Trump’s goons don't just put their fingers on the scales of justice here in the U.S. They do it in cases involving other countries’ corrupt leaders, from France to Brazil, who face prosecution. Shameful.

Pathetic little man

Added to which, as he has a blue tick he can still create sexualised images of dead people and children and to stop him having the right to do that is an infringement of his basic civil liberties, right?

Oh hang on. No. It’s deeply twisted shit which any sane human would utterly condemn.

@lordshortcake.bsky.social @davidhepworth.bsky.social @billyreevesok.bsky.social @dannykellywords.bsky.social
So gents,we going?

Thanks Paul.

#cricketsky
#media

Wrote something today on the wider significance of the #Ashes defeat - might even be decent?

Let's see if I can find a 'mainstream' home for it.

7.45pm

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Brigitte Bardot’s death means there are now just three people mentioned in Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire who are still alive. Gotta love the internet

Life really does come at you fast when you're Liz Truss

The Telegraph • • Sir James Dyson has said he may not be able to pass his business down to his children because of Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax changes.... See more Sir James Dyson: Rachel Reeves has put my family business at risk

Some people do my head in.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.

This ludicrous Telegraph piece calls the bonus Labour’s bit.ly/4j2gEwg it was introduced in 1972 by Edward Heath (Conservative) and was worth far more than a week’s pension which was £6.75. It has never been cancelled by any govt (Conservative or Labour) or uprated.

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The hero of Bondi: Ahmed el Ahmed, a 43 year old fruit shop owner from Sutherland. He grabbed the gun off one of the terrorists shooting at Jews during a Hanukkah celebration.

Ahmed was then shot in the leg and shoulder by another terrorist. He’s being treated in the hospital and expected to be OK.

Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket eBook : Stone, Duncan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Its that time of year when you might be considering getting the #cricket fan in your life a book? 🏏📗

If they want to understand the roots of England's persistent #Ashes failures, look no further #cricketsky:

www.amazon.co.uk/Different-Cl...

Is this Musk's version of Blondie's Parallel Lines?

Our Granddad is 100 and fought in D-day and he thinks Farage is the right man to sort Britain out. He says he reminds him of one of the commanders he fought alongside with distinction. In the next few weeks he's going to auction off his medals and donate all the money to Reform. Anyone know how much an Iron Cross is worth?

Absolute perfection. #Reform

Looking forward to receiving stacks of apologies from the countless listeners who insisted the train stab perps were migrants...bet Farage is gutted he can't make capital out of this atrocity.

A message from Virginia’s family:

“Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary courage."

Virginia deserved better, and while she was still alive.

Release the Epstein Files.

Blimey!! Man City are boring.