James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Siedah Garrett has had quite the career. Helped make the two best tracks on Bad in her 20s, then joined the Brand New Heavies (???), popped up on various funky house classics in the 00s and helped write Dreamgirls. Hats off. 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Going to see my favourite ever band Saint Etienne on their last ever tour at the weekend. Thrilled. One final chance to try and work out what Bob does 020
Reposted by James BCJohn Henderson @enigmatistelgar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Did you know that @the-independent.com is planning to shelve its cryptic crossword at the end of October? Get involved, by contacting the Indy directly, by retweeting this post and/or by commenting at fifteensquared.net/2026/09/21/i.... Save the Indy #crossword!!fifteensquared.netIndependent Cryptic Crossword – the future – Fifteensquared 22730
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Listeners have always played the same songs over and over again (with streaming, choices might even be slightly more varied) but crucially it didn't count for the chart - so why does it now? 120
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 22/09/2026If I don't like the way I'm treated at the shopping centre you know I can just phone up the boss and get my way. That's right! ONE RING TO RULE THE MALL 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My debut as a published (cryptic) crossword setter! 🖊️⬜⬛🎉🍾 www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...churchtimes.co.ukCrossword No. 1790The Church Times 010
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I don't think the lead news story on Radio 1 should be "some rich b-hole is moaning about Britain" 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's pretty obvious a hefty chunk of US Spotify accounts are wrongly marked as British for chart purposes. Ella Langley is one clue but the smoking gun is Iris being the third most reliable evergreen chart entry, after only Mr Brightside and Dreams. No way are British people that crazy for Iris. 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Bob Vylan flying out to replace Macklemore last minute 021
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Snk...youtube.comFuerza Regida x Becky G - Te Quiero Besar [Official Video]YouTube video by Rancho Humilde 010
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Beating Penta in Mexico City is probably Roman Reigns's most impressive victory since he beat Brock Lesnar in 2022. 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 13/09/2026How about a nice not-too-challenging themed cryptic crossword this afternoon? greengrocergames.uk/xwrds/rabbit... Share and enjoy, and let me know how you got on. 012
Reposted by James BCWrestling Brain @wrestlingbrain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Will be posting this every year for the rest of my life 8469139
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Latest #TOTP on the iPlayer has the most incredible coup de theatre. Lisa Lopes's silhouette on a video wall for most of the performance, then it comes to her verse and... it wasn't a video wall! It was just a screen! She's here! Never seen anything like it 131
Reposted by James BCMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/09/2026god I'm actually quite gobsmacked by Starmer's decision, it's just so......small, so revealing of his complete and utter lack of interest in Parliament and parliamentary politics, until the very end 1081094120
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Don't think I would have done very well on an Antarctic expedition. I'd be too worried about the risk of frostbite. Definitely lacktoes intolerant 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Crazy that if it wasn't for Rein Me In, it would be the so-so anthem from the World Cup of a month ago that was still at number 1 111
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The Spectator printed my tribute-cum-pastiche of Michael Rosen! @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social if you saw it I hoped you liked it, if you didn't like it I apologise to you 130
Reposted by James BCDavid O’Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social · 12/08/2026People with Meta glasses can look directly at it. You’ll be totally fine. Have a good old gawk 340373
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I hope Kula Shaker still have the sacred items they blessed in a ceremony in Cornwall during the last eclipse. That's the only thing I remember about it 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I don't care about the eclipse BUT the rest of my family are going to see the Minions when it's on and I don't not care about it enough to join them 000
Reposted by James BCMichael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I like social media a lot and think it makes my life better. I get that I'm the only one though so I really can't thank you all enough for logging on day in and day out just for me 161
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This AI thing often seems like a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. A turbo uber sledgehammer that uses more power than a train, and sometimes it hasn't cracked the nut and it tells you to eat the shell instead, which you then do 010
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Pity the US electorate, getting clobbered with billions of dollars worth of election comms 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Look at this Joey Negro song - UK top ten hit several months before One More Time or Discovery came out. Daft Punk smoothed out the sound but Mr Negro seems a bit of a pioneer www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8V1...youtube.comMust Be The Music (JN Original House Radio Edit)YouTube video by Joey Negro - Topic 010
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I wonder what % of these unhinged doctor comments were made by the one guy who made the highest % of 'em 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A lot of Restore's poll numbers have got to be confusion with Reform. They should have picked a name alphabetically earlier (Reboot? Redress?), they'd probably be doing twice as well as now 021
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I always said Rod Liddle was one of those people who is a great writer when he wasn't writing about the things he was always writing about. Toby Young is a little like that, though not as good as Liddle was. Great writer anyway. 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It was so great when people would come on #TOTP and perform an alternate version. Like DJ Luck and MC Neat doing this remix (featuring, I have just learnt, Cathy Battistessa): www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RkN...youtube.comDJ Luck & MC Neat - A little bit of luck (Feat. Cathy Battistessa)YouTube video by scottie8181 011
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"Trust not ye the man who bulges". Yet I look at Bezos and I see bulging muscles, bulging veins, bulging eyes, bulging pockets. Never has a man so bulged 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Kelly is better than Beyonce and has had a much greater influence on music 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Kind of wishing I lived somewhere with a less prominent official language so that I wouldn't be top of the list to get a lot of new tech foisted at me 000
Reposted by James BCDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Yesterday I learned that during appeasement French journalists mockingly called Chamberlain Monseur J'aime Berlin, which is exceptional work. Well done France. 1234159
Reposted by James BCNick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026In case you need reminding, this is the man who went into the Brexit negotiations with a bookie's pen and a used envelope and had his pants pulled down so firmly he still waddles around like a penguin to this day 414835
Reposted by James BCEd Can Do @edcando.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Holy fuck this could easily be the highlight of Kier Starmer's political career. Total cinema. 25713
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Second in the Euros, now third in the World Cup. These are the glory days 🍾🥂🥈🥉⚽🦁🎉 🎵🎵 Three lions on a shirt Low on serotonin Four years of success Haven't stopped me moaning 021
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Seems likely most of the Madonna bit was a pre-tape. If so all she did live was walk 10m and sing one line. ALMOST AS LITTLE AS MESSI 043
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 19/07/2026And you know, with this big half time show and everything, the final isn't really a serious sporting occasion. If you really appreciate football the third place playoff is the tournament's big finish. No real footballing side or fan would touch tomorrow 010
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Honestly I think going up against France is the major challenge of this World Cup. Spain beat them 2-0, fair play. But if England beat them by a bigger margin tonight, I say we win and that's the real quiz #WorldCup 010
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 18/07/2026As we await the thrilling Bronze Final, why not take my World Cup quiz and argue about my Team of the Tournament? sharonandjames.co.uk/blog/260718-...sharonandjames.co.uk 010
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 17/07/2026But why would you be on random events on Kashi if you didn't have inside info? WHO is taking the other side of all these bets??? 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Tuchel did NOT have bad tactics. Scoring one goal and then inviting the world's best attackers to ping balls at you while you all stand in the pentalty area is a strategy, not a tactic 032
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 15/07/2026The difference between England vs Argentina and England vs Germany is that the sense of a rivalry does genuinely seem to exist on both sides 000
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I've got a pretty good first draft for my team of the tournament (rules: must use a plausible formation, max one player per country). Let's see if the last seven games change anything. Will an Argentinian, Norwegian or Swiss player make the cut? 110
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Still smiling from David O'Doherty @phlaimeaux.bsky.social last night. I've seen him four times now and he is still a hero of mine, my spirit animal, a peak seldom revealed amid the wisps, the pinnacle of something all but ungraspable 010
James BC @jbcworldwide.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I bet Farage never even goes to the Manor of Northstead once 020
