Nick Hall

how, on earth, does THIS cause the DG to resign

made a change from another Hans Christian Anderson reimagination though

well I've seen K-Pop Demon Hunters now and given that it has been the talk of the playground and the topic of reenactments and singalongs I wasn't expecting there to be so much "cheerfully slicing people in half with agricultural implements"

apparently the children yearn for the ultraviolence

A very famous rock festival is held in the broad vicinity of my house and I can't tell you how far it is down the list of things to worry about

What percentage of the property is brick. What British Standard does the lock on your bathroom window conform to. Do you have confidence in the leadership of your Neighbourhood Watch. Has a weasel ever burrowed within 400m of the property?

"the councillor for Sheffield"

Watched it last night and I am still trying to work out whether I was supposed to think at the end of act two that the President had been drugged by his aide and forced to read out his code

So I watched House of Dynamite and I thought it was a fantastic pilot episode for the sort of big budget limited series that Netflix doesn't make so much any more

Imagining that series is really the only way I can get over the disappointment the actual film creates

After reading this thread even the most committed hotel-shouting roundabout-flagger would conclude that there's room for Sheffield City Council to dial the Christmas stuff back a bit

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

At last we are recreating the Mad Men office environment from the hit TV show “don’t recreate the Mad Men office environment”

A screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet, the words in the cells say "Why are we using Excel for this AAAARGH"

seriously, ban Excel

Oh and also JD Vance's brother lost the Cincinnati mayor race.

YouTube video by The Value of Nothing How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere

“That’s right - HS2 have been forced to build a two-lane, state-of-the-art, multi-million pound road bridge to join what is essentially an overgrown footpath to a sort of bridleway with delusions of grandeur.”

Wow: martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-bu...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=qNPF...

is this a weekly feature to be enjoyed over the next thirteen years

And in that same year there was also a knife attack at a nursery school in Wolverhampton

The Ban

This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.

www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...

Facebook comments in particular are an unmoderated sewer of racist cliches repeated over and over

I thought it had been debunked as a myth

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

it's because there is a particular section of political campaigning that exists in perpetual opposition and therefore hates any evidence of human warmth in a leader or candidate because it makes it more difficult to justify monstering them

Why is this made??? £62.99

At top, a black and white chart labeled "Normal Distribution," showing a curved line that starts low at the left, curves up and peaks in the middle, and returns to the same low position on the right. At bottom, a black and white chart labeled "Paranormal Distribution," showing the curved line transformed into a typical ghost (a floating white sheet draped over an upright body) with two dark dots for eyes.

Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:

Mini Mars bar with a YouTube still of John Virgo from his 1992 Noel’s House Party Gotcha where he had to record a single with Right Said Fred. Honestly look it up it’s class. We used to be a country you know

Make sure you check your kid's Trick or Treat chocolate tonight. Last Halloween my son bit into a mini Mars bar and found a John Virgo ‘Gotcha' from Noel's House Party inside

fast happening as a certain GB News presenter might say

Quite. However, since I posted the letting agent has provided an alibi and the King has provided a distraction so perhaps she lives to fight another day

I didn't expect them all to be dodgy landlords

How much trouble is Rachel Reeves in over rental rule break? The PM may have ruled out an investigation but key questions remain about the chancellor's housing rules admission.

I feel a "but over the weekend, the Chancellor's position became increasingly untenable, and following further revelations in the Sunday papers, it was clear the Prime Minister had to act" coming on
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've taken the paywall off this eulogy I wrote for my magical, mysterious ex-stray cat George - who died last year - in case anybody would like a read: www.tom-cox.com/lots-of-peop...