Added Sutherland! Added Spall! Is it up? Can you see it???? youtu.be/Lb6ilAdvqcc

By the way, there is no way the Court of Appeal didn't know that Suffragettes planted bombs. They're not ignorant. They're just lying. An official rewriting of History. Basic tyranny.

NOO BLOG! A little bit of Tom Lyall being brilliant while I swing a lightbulb at him, from 26 years ago. slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/0…

Banning under-16s from YouTube mostly means banning them from logging in, which means YouTube will treat them less like kids and more like anonymous adults. Great job, UK.

NOO BLOG just because I haven't been able to stop thinking about this jester. slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/0…

Sure. Clamp down on people not companies. Nothing suggests more to me how little this marginalising, populist, data-harvesting initiative should be trusted to solve anything than the fact Wes Streeting loves it.

Wes is absolutely GAGGING for a) weirdoes to be spaceless, b) tech companies to have all our data. Absolute corruption. God I loathe him.

Do you want Elon to have a copy of your biometrics? Do you want Zuck to scan your face? That’s what we will all be doing. This isn’t reigning in Silicon Valley power. It’s gifting them even more power. Of course, parents want these companies safe and regulated but that’s a job for govt, not the end user.

Read this from @signalapp, one of leaders in tech privacy to understand the implications of Starmer’s announcement. This is going to hand even more surveillance powers to the very companies that already know way too much about us.

Children have utterly let down to date. But what does a ‘social media ban’ actually mean? Is this really age verification for all? And what does that entail? Because on the surface this looks like rushed populist techsolutionism that will hand *more* power to the platforms. 1/

Someone’s already done the John Cage’s 4 minutes 33 seconds no notes joke, right?

NOO BLOG. No trousers. slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/0…

Lmao they didn't feel the need to edit out the part where they're depicted as the KKK

Jesus. I think I just converted to Christianity for 40 seconds.

BBC: “What advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Enjoy life and fuck everyone.”

NOO BLOG. One last tribute to Fred "and Sharon" Spencer slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/0…

NOO BLOG. Hockney has many associations for me, all kindly overwhelming, but this might be my favourite. slepkane.blogspot.com/2026/0…

Anthony Head = elegance and charm. we first met at drama school in 1974. much more of a giggler than you see on telly. But I loved him as the sound engineer in our Comic Strip Bad News films. We had a little harmony singing group together in the early days after college. He also did a bit on my comedy podcast during lockdown which he left on a phone message, brilliant. A very old pal. 50 years! RIP Tony

I'm sorry WHAT?!!! There was a Young Sherlock PRE-Nicholas Rowe? And it starred GUY HENRY??? youtube.com/watch?v=UJIcxkz0…

The constant banging on about DEI is an infuriating American import into the UK. In the UK we call it EDI. And EDI training is essentially summed up like this: ‘Don’t be a knob to other people, and realise some people face barriers you don’t.’ It’s not some woke conspiracy.

medieval Muslims were obsessed with the symmetry and beauty of the Moon and left behind one of the most advanced records of its motion of the and phases which had a substantial influence on astronomy. Here’s one of my favorite diagrams from the famed 11th c polymath al-Biruni