Lloyd Shepherd
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Books like The English Monster. Podcasts at The Curiously Specific Book Club
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I cannot say I enjoyed this movie.
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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ (dir. James Cameron 2025)
Ire and Fash
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December 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I cannot say I enjoyed this movie.
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Chris Rea is about parents for me, too. Specifically my Mum singing Fool If You Think It’s Over and getting the words hopelessly wrong. I was years older before I properly listened to it and wondered if she was actually trying to tell me something.
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RIP Chris Rea. Thanks to my parents having about three music cassettes between them, I always associate this song with - ironically enough - driving away from home for Christmas, somewhere around Wetherby on the A1(M), on the way to my gran’s house.
RIP Chris Rea. Thanks to my parents having about three music cassettes between them, I always associate this song with - ironically enough - driving away from home for Christmas, somewhere around Wetherby on the A1(M), on the way to my gran’s house.
Chris Rea - Auberge (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Chris Rea
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December 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Chris Rea is about parents for me, too. Specifically my Mum singing Fool If You Think It’s Over and getting the words hopelessly wrong. I was years older before I properly listened to it and wondered if she was actually trying to tell me something.
This feels like a sinister escalation. Paging @janinegibson.ft.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This feels like a sinister escalation. Paging @janinegibson.ft.com
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He's making a list,
He's nailing it high,
Indulgences,
No longer apply,
Martin Luther's coming to town
He's nailing it high,
Indulgences,
No longer apply,
Martin Luther's coming to town
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
He's making a list,
He's nailing it high,
Indulgences,
No longer apply,
Martin Luther's coming to town
He's nailing it high,
Indulgences,
No longer apply,
Martin Luther's coming to town
‘I’m telling you, there’s no more room in the recycling bin,’ I assure my wife as she totters out of the house under a cardboard mountain.
December 22, 2025 at 11:21 AM
‘I’m telling you, there’s no more room in the recycling bin,’ I assure my wife as she totters out of the house under a cardboard mountain.
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Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived
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Okay, but this was a recording studio in the 1970s, my sense is that “snow” is not “snow” here, and the “snow man” is another kind of man who “puts a great big smile on somebody’s face” with what it is that he brings.
"The snow man doesn’t bring the snow. The snow man is a product of the snow. Roy Wood and Wizzard are thinking of rain man."
Every dumb thought I have ever had about Christmas songs
Ho ho bleedin’ ho.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Okay, but this was a recording studio in the 1970s, my sense is that “snow” is not “snow” here, and the “snow man” is another kind of man who “puts a great big smile on somebody’s face” with what it is that he brings.
All I can say is that today I’ve done my level best to change the direction of this chart.
Britons are drinking less alcohol than before, as financial pressures, health concerns and an ageing population lead to cutbacks in consumption ft.trib.al/rad0Hny
December 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
All I can say is that today I’ve done my level best to change the direction of this chart.
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This logo really works if you think about the typefaces left from right. This thing you think is normal and modern? Punchline, it's a Nazi.
December 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This logo really works if you think about the typefaces left from right. This thing you think is normal and modern? Punchline, it's a Nazi.
Back from the cinema, glass of red, into the 20’s of December - must be time for @andrewmale.bsky.social’s Have Yourself a Desolate Little Christmas playlist. I made an Apple Music version music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...
Have Yourself A Desolate Little Christmas by Lloyd Shepherd on Apple Music
Playlist · 39 Songs
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December 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Back from the cinema, glass of red, into the 20’s of December - must be time for @andrewmale.bsky.social’s Have Yourself a Desolate Little Christmas playlist. I made an Apple Music version music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...
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I really feel like they could/should have worded it differently?
December 20, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I really feel like they could/should have worded it differently?
This is brilliant. And I don’t read enough.
He's been! Here's everything I read this year (and a few things I wrote): Henry James! Joseph Heller! Penelope Fitzgerald! A biography of the unsuccessful 1928 Democratic presidential candidate, Al Smith!
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December 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is brilliant. And I don’t read enough.
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Peter Ustinov, Christopher Fry and Kenneth Tynan drinking in the Nag’s Head pub in Covent Garden, 1955
December 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Peter Ustinov, Christopher Fry and Kenneth Tynan drinking in the Nag’s Head pub in Covent Garden, 1955
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Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner
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Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.
December 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.
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I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs
July 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs
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What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man
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This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
I’m a father of teen girls. I don’t want misogyny lessons for boys
The government is planning classes to combat prejudice against women. Andrew Billen isn’t sure it will work
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December 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This piece is billed as ‘father of girls thinks misogyny lessons are unnecessary’ but right at the end he actually asks the girls he is confidently speaking on behalf of and they…disagree. Amazing. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
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Three years since Terry hall passed. What a lovely man. Oh, and a reminder that all the cool kids love United.
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Three years since Terry hall passed. What a lovely man. Oh, and a reminder that all the cool kids love United.
Charity shop gold. No I’m not giving it to anyone else
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Charity shop gold. No I’m not giving it to anyone else
I know this is screaming into the void, but will there *ever* be a reckoning for Johnson? I can’t think of another man whose hands are so clearly all over such a country-wrecking sequence of events - and he’s just going to walk away from it? The judgement of history is too long a wait.
Britain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book
December 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I know this is screaming into the void, but will there *ever* be a reckoning for Johnson? I can’t think of another man whose hands are so clearly all over such a country-wrecking sequence of events - and he’s just going to walk away from it? The judgement of history is too long a wait.
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I've never ordred something as fast as I just did when I discovered that the entire collection of Tom and Jerry cartoons (up until they got crap) has just been restored, all uncut, and are now in one budget-friendly boxset from @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social:
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WarnerBros.com | Tom & Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940-1958) | TV
The Complete Collection of Hanna Barbera’s Oscar Winning Masterpieces At Last! <br />
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December 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I've never ordred something as fast as I just did when I discovered that the entire collection of Tom and Jerry cartoons (up until they got crap) has just been restored, all uncut, and are now in one budget-friendly boxset from @warnerbrospictures.bsky.social:
www.warnerbros.com/tv/tom-jerry...
www.warnerbros.com/tv/tom-jerry...
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I just can’t get my head around the fact that over 40% of Americans ‘approve’ of this scumbag.
Donald Trump, the man who rode to the White House last year on a promise to fix America’s cost-of-living crisis, is now struggling to convince voters that he even thinks it is a real issue after dismissing it as a Democratic 'hoax'. ft.trib.al/k4sD8qk
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I just can’t get my head around the fact that over 40% of Americans ‘approve’ of this scumbag.