I was once whingeing to Paul McCartney that I'll always be known primarily for the Wombles. Straight-faced, without irony, he said, "Yeah, I have the same problem with The Beatles".

Brexit five years on…

Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

Man With Fogged-Up Glasses Forced To Finish Soup Using Other Senses theonion.com/man-with-fogge…

The average British person holds six grudges.

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The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.

Great review for Town in the Standard. Well played everyone. standard.co.uk/going-out/rest…

I said “Is that Johnny Rotten?” He said “I’ve only used it three times”

“If the Epstein scandal teaches us anything, it is that America needs a dedicated and decently funded group of people whose job is not just to ask questions, but to find answers,” Helen Lewis writes. “Let’s call them journalists.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Fascinating!

Me @baddiel, Nick Hancock and part of Danny Kelly at an 'ideas meeting' in Blacks Club mid-90s.

Automatic parking robots make life much easier

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Lmfaoooo it’s so unreal 📡😆

More health advice from the hack who once spent a couple of decades championing bad health - this time I've turned my kitchen, and gut, into a bubbling cauldron Tim Spector finally convinced me that kimchi is the answer to good gut health telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…

This scene from All The President's Men could not but remind me of working at The NME in the late 70s. Proper typewriters clacking away, paper being scrolled in, hacks arguing about style. Only difference, they brought down the President. We brought down the new Queen LP.

After giving a lecture in 1884, Freud wrote: ‘Despite a lack of preparation, I spoke quite well and without hesitation, which I ascribe to the cocaine I had taken beforehand’.

"If you have signed up to membership of the revolutionary Bolshevik party based on Trotsky's erroneous email earlier today, I would urge you to cancel your direct debit."