West Ham played Grimsby once - in the proper cup, in the nineties I shared a District Line carriage with their many fans who were excitedly singing and waving inflatable haddock “How sweet that they’re so committed to enjoying their big day,” I thought Then they knocked us out

New on my Substack. Part One of The Book of Airdrie: A Life in Pieces. Subscribe to read or redeem your one-off free read here: reversediorama.substack.com/p/the-book-of-…

This is 100% how we treat whistleblowers and it is appalling and corrupt. Lawyers, judges and NHS prioritising their careers over patient lives. We all suffer for it.

Whenever people mention ‘poached eggs’ they always have an almost imperceptible- but somehow distinct- hushed reverence. Listen for it! I swear this is true. They kind of whisper it. ‘Poached eggs’ etc

The problem was the belief, between about 2016 and 2022, that it was possible to achieve ideological decontestation via content moderation. As though conservative viewpoints were like the other forms of non-compliant behaviour (abuse, trolling, hate) on the dashboard.

PM picks former OpenAI exec as new AI adviser, and within days it is reported that a $2 Billion govt deal is in discussion with Open AI. There is a word for this. civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

Butchers always look like they sample freely and gaily of their wares; fishmongers never do.

The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Isaac Crystal Clean Windows 🙏

This (gift) article from the nyt gives you some background on the Irish scene that we have picked most of our guest Pogues from inc Lisa O’Neill, Daragh Lynch (Lankum) & John Francis Flynn. nytimes.com/2023/03/25/art…

More squinting and whispering.

Gregg Wallace been in the tan can and is wearing his jim jam top looking motherfucker

Heard on French public radio this morning: an editorial explaining that there is a major economic crisis in the three biggest EU countries, France, Germany, the UK, with the extreme right at the door to power and massive popular dissatisfaction. But not one word about what

He looks like a really pompous Hawkwind roadie from 1986 who’d refuse to lend anyone a lighter because: ‘my kindness has been mistaken for weakness too many times’. He’d also claim to know ‘the London knowledge- but for Bristol, York, Exeter and Oxford’

One of Edward Hopper's Sheffield paintings.

The new Viz has some bits by me in it, including this exclusive scoop on Kim Jong-un and Gordon Brittas. Out today!

Cool and suave.

Genuinely one of the harshest is in Quantum of Solace when Bond drops matey off in the desert and chucks him some petrol and says ‘I’ll give it half an hour before you drink that’ and drives off 😂

Note that the real, historic county of Cambridgeshire represented here is the old county of Cambridge plus the Isle of Ely; Huntingdonshire is a separate historic county, with its own distinct character