I can’t bear her. I’m sorry Nemone, I’m sure you’re a lovely therapist, sorry I mean person – hey everyone did you know Nemone’s a therapist? Probably news to you as she never mentions it. It’s not her choice of music – that’s 100% dictated by the extremely limited playlist most 6 Music presenters are…

I love Meaco devices. I’ve got their Arete Two 12L de-humidifier and their Sefte Pro 10″ table fan, and they’re fantastic. Well designed, well built, and a British company too. Somehow I managed to add the Arete Two to the Meaco app when I got it last year. Not sure how though, because I got…

The IDF murders Palestinian civilians waiting at aid points for food deliveries. They are genocidal war criminals. Bob Vylan’s lead singer merely chanted “Death death to the IDF”. There is nothing even remotely antisemitic about vocally protesting a genocidal army that commit war crime after war crime. And nobody at Glastonbury is now heading overseas…

There’s a bunch of subreddits dedicated to ‘am I the asshole?’ type posts, not sure why so many need to exist but there’s at least three off the top of my head: AITA, AITAH, and I think even a couple of ‘am I the butthole’ clones. The idea is that someone who has done a…

I learned to drive in 2019, in my early 40s. So in the grand scheme of things I’m not a super experienced driver for someone my age. And I’ve made some mistakes, oh boy. And I have to admit that the first few times I went on a motorway I didn’t actually know what the…

Inspired by the tremendously useful subreddit r/BuyItForLife, here’s my own occasionally-updated list of not-inexpensive purchases I’ve made over the years that continue to be worth every penny:

The WGA writer’s strike in protest of the AMPTP’s refusal to negotiate in good faith (putting it gently) is into its 100th day today, I think. The SAG-AFTRA actor’s strike is a few weeks in. One of the many issues they’re campaigning to resolve is fair residuals in the streaming age. And there’s a lot…