Brendan O'Grady

WAF*debut*R...

Not going to pretend I understood every ohm of this article but loved it deeply anyway

great read, this

🎵 "chill's always hiding, I've looked everywhere"

(also, where can I get one of these...)

our fan base does also have zero chill though

changed a tyre for the first time ever today

A five by five bingo card, here are the things to look out for: Top row: 80's bed linen, obscure musical instrument, bed too small for over 6ft person, CRT TV/Monitor, tumble dryer Second row: exercise bike (as clothes horse), DALEK, 90s or earlier games console, too much crafting stuff, single beds for long term partners Middle row: old cuddly toy, bed on tiles/lino, DUVET, multiple labubus, bare plaster board Fourth row: bed next to fridge, 4+ Jilly Cooper novels, definitely dead house plant, caravan, large collection of jigsaws Bottom row: giant buzz ball, "curtains" that are not curtains, scary dolls, bed under table, power tools.

Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!

This is a brilliant, gripping story, and at once inspiring and very sad.

Superb list! (*humble assertion = You Could've Been A Lady beats Every 1s A Winner as Hot Chocolate 's finest work)

Whatever would Bruegel the Elder think? (read the quote in yr previous piece and thought - this PR person is *wasted* in current role...)

This is really very good. And weird. Best opening paragraph...ever?

Essential listening, especially if you have been waiting for decades for someone to say this to Parris, starts from 23 minutes in.

Record-breaker: Leonard Barden’s chess column celebrates 70 years and a place in history Now 96, this week marks a milestone for our columnist, whose astonishing career has set a Guinness World Record

‘After 70 years, 14 prime ministers, and nearly 4,000 articles, Leonard Barden is still going strong. In all that time he has never missed a week – rain or shine, in sickness and in health. And now, officially, he is a record-breaker.’

By @seaningle.bsky.social

Many people are saying this (in West Ham WhatsApp groups)

@sarahoconnorft.ft.com exposé on the internet form-filling hell of the apostrophe-haver

Apollo 11 lunar lander in front of the moon. The earth is half a distant blue ball over the moon's horizon. Photo was taken from the Command Module by Michael Collins

This photo contains every human who was alive on July 20, 1969.

Except for Michael Collins

I for one welcome our new Trisolaran overlords...

Saw BDB play it in full a few months back in a little theatre style venue in London - transcendent

Looking at a French festival lineup... the Lads have been absolutely bodied here by Google Translate

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Lava [Instrumental Intro: 0:00-2:06] / [Intro] / Death smells like boiled eggs / Death, a hot stove glowing red / Lava, sticky like peanut butter / Lava, the ultimate stonecutter / [

genius.com/King-gizzard...

This is just the lyrics to a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard song?

Can’t praise this enough - it’s a beautiful, profound, wise, moving piece about what it means to have a disabled child, and about love. Do read it …

*chanting*

crosstabs, crosstabs

Crosstabs, Cross tabs

CROSSTABS, CROSSTABS

What a day to be in Manchester...

Essex roundabouts that could also be Metallica albums:

...Lincoln-centric?

THE NEW INDIE 2008-2010 - the further we get away from this the more it's obvious it was a very good era
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6Pw...
Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

super list, cheers! A pretty great era for indie, sandwiched between two pretty bad ones...

I was at this, my first festival, aged 16. Wiiiiiiild. Bookmarking to rewatch in full...