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Sam
@sammetcalf.bsky.social
Journalist. Don't believe in cod.
Nice views from possibly the world’s worst serviced apartment in Liverpool. Fancy an amateur game of The Crystal Maze? Here’s the clues to find and collect the key!
February 14, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Have a listen to the latest from this crashing waste of space. Optimum bellendry.
Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Game’s gone.
February 13, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Nothing could have prepared me for the shocking news that Jim Ratcliffe is a prick. Nothing.
February 12, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Soon be Spring! #nowplaying
February 11, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Those crazy guys in Westminster have me in stitches most days.
February 10, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Post a banger that isn’t in English.
February 9, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Bloody hell, Middlesbrough are good. #punditry
February 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Coronation Street - written by Leslie Duxbury (9th February 1972). Albert Tatlock - not a fan of Jason King.
February 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Fair play, Strand Larsen’s debut is a great day to hide bad news for Morgan McSweeney.
February 8, 2026 at 2:17 PM
A rather apt typo.
February 8, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Another normal news day.
February 7, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
#nowplaying Still very much missed.
February 5, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Don’t know how your life’s going but I’m sat watching some reindeer drink Bruce Parry’s piss on BBC4.
February 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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And yes, that last one is from the programme with the greatest cover maybe ever.......

#Aberdeen #AberdeenFC
February 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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for connoisseurs of local journalism traffic farming, this is the latest frontier – you reprint ancient facts from Wikipedia and present them as news, in order to create curiosity gap headlines that appear in Google Discover / Apple News
February 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
THIS HAS GOT EVERYTHING.
2nd February 1977). Hilda's hopes that changing their address from No 13 to No 12a might halt their run of bad luck is short lived. Stan manages to lock them out, which means curtains for Hilda's leg of lamb ....
February 2, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Having a bath at half four on a Sunday afternoon like I’m Barbara Cartland.
February 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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On this day, 2 years ago. I sat in bed and said to myself, 'Why haven't you finally made that compilation of Jim McDonald from Coronation Street, absolutely battering people to Motörhead? So I did.'

Enjoy! It will forever be my greatest contribution to society.
January 31, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Another cracking night in front of the telly.
January 31, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The Germans must have a word for this.
January 31, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Remarkable that my lovely four year old already knows how to draw an anus at nursery. Money well spent.
January 30, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Happy 45th birthday to Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads, released as a single on this day in 1981. Here's David introducing that video
January 30, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Huge, if true.
January 29, 2026 at 9:28 PM