Michael Glasper

Lenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.

I am coming to the conclusion that this might be the greatest book ever written in the English language.

I'm in Italy. 10/10 would recommend.

New profile pic.

Lovely to see Charlie Hawtrey on Have I Got News For You.

"That looks like a Job Centre over there."

Going to write a thesis on how this was the greatest cultural juxtaposition of the 1980s.

The mighty Len Deighton has passed away aged 97. What a writer and what a man. My bookshelf here speaks for my love of him.

Good Bye Lenin! is on Prime! Do yourself a massive favour if you've never seen it.

If Spurs turn that around in the second leg, it'll be the greatest Tudor comeback since Henry VII landed at Milford Haven in 1485.

There was a 1987 episode of Wogan on BBC4 tonight featuring Jenny Agutter, Laurie Lee and this guy. Culturally, 1987 feels like a million years ago.

"Good birthday?" "Pretty quiet." "You do much?" "Ten hours in a police station."

Another Level? Subterranean presumably. #totp

When you're opening the batting for Ireland at 2pm and appearing on #totp at 8pm.

Watched Palin twice this week and realised that when he goes that's the real ravens leaving the Tower of London moment.

Chile? She looks frozen.

When Jeremy Corbyn and his missus go on holiday to Greece.

When Lord Sugar cracks a joke on The Apprentice.

Reading a biography of Brezhnev. The caption for this 1971 photo is 'I look like Alain Delon'.

Hitler having a copy of the Beveridge Report in the bunker is a lovely bit of trivia.

This is like that time when Henry Tudor landed at Milford Haven and explained that he simply wanted to join Richard III's cabinet for the greater good of the country.

"... for an hour!"

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...

"l no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

That's a hell of a paragraph.

Listened to Bob Monkhouse's Desert Island Discs episode again. He picked this, which I had forgotten about entirely. Fucking incredible. open.spotify.com/track/20U4KB...

Imagine seeing the not-so-slow death of NATO in your lifetime though. The entire western postwar consensus, tossed on the bonfire.

"Do you have any dandelion & burdock?"

Latest performance review at work.

Imagine explaining The Masked Singer in 1977 and John Lydon appearing on it.

I love The Traitors, but there should definitely be a 20 mins highlights show where they show the breakfast, round table and murder.

"Four cakes, Jeremy? Four? That's insane"

Me describing my brother-in-law when he comes for Christmas dinner.

Just finished watching It’s a Wonderful Life, and I’m not being funny but this guy’s a right cunt x

"And from the crew of Apollo 8 we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth."

If I was Pat Cummins I'd declare now and get this all done by lunch.

Stephen Collins in today's Guardian.

Please enjoy this photo of my granddad, Ernie, and the telegram he sent to my nana the day he came home from the war. Nine months later, my dad was born

"Trump & Orban will appear at Blackpool Palace of Varieties from May to September. Contact the box office for ticket prices."

The new Charlatans album is terrific, really terrific. And 'We Are Love' is so obviously a lost Smiths track that I went looking to see if Johnny Marr is playing on it.

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

Absolute filth from Nigel Slater in today's Observer.