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This might be my single favourite shot in the history of cinema.

Gutted about this. One of my favourite performances in one of my favourite films.

Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of his executors

US syndication deals didn't really favour actors until the mid-1970s. A lot of the Love Boat guest contingent were actors from shows being syndicated ten years on, who had stopped being paid after the first couple of years of screenings.

reading austen is important for a number of impractical life skills but mostly in how to call someone a wanker to their face in the 18th century — "I send no compliments to your mother" — the recipient would carry that around for 20 years and then kill themselves

The first book I can remember reading on my own. Relentless waxy porridge will conquer all.

John Alcorn, 1971. From: “Circues - A Book To Begin On,” by Mary Kay Phelan.

#illustration #1970s #JohnAlcorn #MaryKayPhelan

Nigella to GBBO is, and will be, the best piece of business in the January transfer window

Imagine being that bad at your job.

In practice, though, the experiment has not been a success. Take copyright. The government’s pursuit of economic growth is laudable, even if the chosen route, of piling taxes and regulation onto businesses, is eccentric. In that context, what could be more natural than to open the door of Number 10 to every Silicon Valley huckster who came knocking? Unfortunately, it turns out that writers and musicians weren’t fully persuaded that giving up all their present and future income is a good idea, even after it was explained to them that this was the only way Sam Altman would be able to afford a new lair under a volcano. Last month a consultation on the government’s proposals to give very rich Americans everything they want found they were supported by just three percent of people who wrote in. If the Department for Culture had still existed, someone there would have been able to save time by warning ministers that creative people – many of them instinctive Labour Party supporters – need m

Getting rid of DCMS meant there was no one in government able to warn the prime minister that creatives can't live off thin air. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

What a beaut.

‘The Shortest Day’ illustrations by Carson Ellis

Margaret Rutherford and Celia Johnson photographed here in the stage version of “REBECCA” taken at The Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1940

Margaret Rutherford and Celia Johnson photographed here in the stage version of “REBECCA” taken at The Queen's Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 1940

Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas A collection of traditional recipes, together with Fanny's practical know-how, make for a successful Christmas.

50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas, her final series (and first in five years so she was probably on the way out anyway) airing every day over a working week.

A 2kg book of Olivetti’s design history.

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Our final restock on these for 2025.

RIP Martin Parr. Here are two of my favourite photos of all time. I get such a Proustian rush looking at them that I can hear the “fzzt” of a can of Quatro being opened.

Bar’s open!

Photographer Martin Parr Union Hotel. Manchester, 1974.
Martin Parr, always making the ordinary extraordinary.

An illustration of the horrible horned head of Krampus, with green skin, bright yellow staring eyes and with a long protruding tongue emerging from his fanged grinning mouth. He has a beard (but not a moustache - always a bit weird) and long pointy ears. His eyebrows are raised presumably in glee at the prospect of beating up some kids with twigs and carrying them away in his basket. The background is a dull scratchy red.

Spooky advent day 6: Krampus, a traditional figure in Central and Eastern European folklore, is basically a terrifying horned bad santa, accompanying St Nicholas on his visits to children on the night before St Nicholas' Day (6th Dec) and punishing the bad ones by whipping them with birch twigs.

Knock-off green and pink popcorn in the Co-Op too.

when MUSCLE BEACH PARTY winds up being one of the most beautiful looking prints you’ve ever seen…

This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".

Thanks Paul.

Cover design for Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

Internal spread from Radio Times: Doctor Who Insiders – The Early Years.

It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...

I wrote and drew a magazine at the age of nine, which my headteacher refused to photocopy for me. Foiled by distribution, then and now.

The Addams Family all dressed as Santa…

Copying an I Love Lucy episode where everyone ends up dressed as Santa.

Christmas with the Addams Family, which is an adorable pastiche/spoof of an I Love Lucy Christmas ep from a decade earlier. And the Peanuts animation, obviously.

Moon set with painted backdrop for Fritz Lang's Woman in The Moon

Fritz Lang's Frau im Mond (Woman in The Moon, 1929)

This production photo is beautiful, and the film is important: first countdown, multi-stage rocket... A visionary sci-fi movie.

The cover to My Beloved Other by and copyright (c) Nick Abadzis and Angela Watson. It shows two hands forming a “heart” symbol. The hand on the left is Angela’s (who is Black), the hand on the right is mine (which is white. Sort of Greek, actually, but please read the book to find out more about that.) All rights reserved under protection of EU copyright laws.

Announcing the title and presenting the cover of mine and Angela Watson’s forthcoming book, #MyBelovedOther
#comics #graphicnovels #BookSky #book #books #book2026 #antiracism #BlackSky

More info and links:

www.nickabadzis.com/blog/2025/10...

The old assumption was that could make it as a creative if you had enough persistence and a small amount of talent. Now, I'm not so sure.

Write it!