Paul McDowell

Rats!

Well 10cc had one of that title

Africa Cup of Nations too... (on E4)

And in completely separate news, one of today's #pointless clues was "One of a pair of bean-shaped organs responsible for excretion".

Love the homage to Lewis Carroll!

Turnover of £50,000 or more for 2026/27, £30,000 for 2027/28, £20,000 for 2028/29, no details given beyond that date.

When I was a lad, TV Christmas adverts stopped as soon as the shops closed on Christmas Eve. Ironically, just as Christmas started. Christmas Day TV ads were wall-to-wall Boxing Day sales, get-the-first-of-a-series-of-200-at-a-knockdown-price, etc.

Well, that's what my heart yearns for now.

Thanks for publishing it Alan, but it would have have been nice to have had it before Christmas. And was it really necessary to print the solution on the *same* page? I've managed to fold it out of the way, but not before I saw some of the answers...

With the answers on the same page! What the actual...

We got it by the skin of our teeth. Fully expecting the answer to be NATCH.

Smith not out in both of today's innings!

And there's also Lincoln Abraham, who works on Strictly Come Dancing.

And a chance of being out twice in the same hat-trick, if Tongue doesn't open the bowling - has that ever happened before?

Fun fact: the Floral Dance composer had a very famous name.

A pair of glasses and a smile. Somewhere under that detritus.

Is it fair to say that is a lot of b******s?

"Je les streamerai", moi aussi.

King Booty Rush would make a cracking DJ name

Two Bluesky users to boycott BP from now on!

Let's hope so.

Yep. One of last week's #totp editions had two consecutive songs where the lead singer played bass guitar left-handed. Paul McCartney obvs, and can't remember the second one.

Not before my time!

My boss used to be able to punch the cards without looking at the guidelines. Alchemy, I tell you, alchemy.

39 for me. If I need it a bit louder, 42. For Friday night's #totp (which seems to have been recorded at the bottom of a very deep well) 51 or more.

I greatly prefer Buy Nothing Day to Black Friday

That's the one!

Just as long as it isn't that other version that hit the UK charts

Parasite actually. But yes.

That's a great trivia nugget. On closer investigation, and assuming Wikipedia is to be trusted, the unrelated singer, with the same surname, emigrated from Glasgow to Australia in the 1960s.
And so, independently, did all the musical brothers.

Eagle and the Victor were around when I was a kid, but they left me cold. I bought (or was bought) the first ever Whizzer and Chips and never looked back.