The carnival of bad teeth, semi-illiteracy and misguided-grievance, mixed with the flagrant smell of fresh urine on the cobblestones.

It would appear that nobody on @dailymail.co.uk has ever read ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’.

Listening to Nell Smith’s debut album a-lot lately. A wonderful, warm album. For those who don’t know Nell, made an album of Nick Cave covers with The Flaming Lips at 14, died in a car crash at 17. This album released posthumously. Such a terribly sad loss.

Genetic drive to overeat found in labradors and humans via BBC.

I think I must be 50% human, 50% labrador and therefore 100% portly.

Only this..

Football commentators - where metaphors go to die.

…..jug? Has he be cancelled because he looks like the secret love child of Van Morrison and Donald Trump?

Erling Haaland celebrates his first goal against Real Madrid.

One takeaway only: Trump is mad, bad and ever so slightly into ethnic cleansing.

“We need people who believe in pixies, fairies and Nigel Farage not being an absolute grifter”.

I recently discovered Ethel Cain (just before her even more recent comments on CEO’s). If you like haunting Americana, this is a good place to start.

More than 100 artists from Adrienne Lenker to Sade contributed to Red Hot’s Transa, and it is very, very good.