Christmas Day is probably a terrible day to upload a video if you want anyone to see it, and Christmas Day afternoon even more so. But as this video what I have made for you is very much a Christmas Day thing, there’s not much option really. So here’s my Christmas Message:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Oh yes, I have a blog, don’t I? So I should probably take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and direct you to my new song on the subject of what should be this year’s Christmas number 1 (warning: contains a swear).

And, for balance, here’s Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun, which, should you wish, you can buy from iTunes here.

Here’s a very short video I made on Saturday night. It’s an old joke, although it is one of mine: I wrote it a decade ago for a comedy show on my university’s radio station, Leeds Student Radio. I hesitate (no I don’t) to mention that said comedy show won that year’s Radio 1 Student Comedy Award for Best Spoken Word programme.

So now that I’ve lowered your expectations, here’s a joke that will only work if you’re the right age to have watched the Children’s ITV show Knightmare.

I’m back on The Pod Delusion podcast this week. Or rather, my nationality-non-specific alter ego Professor Wilhelm Howells is on, explaining, in a manner of speaking, what the Large Hadron Collider is and how it works. You can listen to this week’s episode on the Pod Delusion website; by subscribing on iTunes; by downloading the MP3; or by using the player below. My bit is 25 minutes 49 seconds in, but you should, of course, listen to the whole half hour show.

I think I also neglected to plug my previous two appearances, so: I did a piece about astrology at the end of October in episode 7, and I guest edited episode 5.