Right, so that’s another year wrapped up. We’re obliged to type this pre-amble here so you can get a sense of time and space. Blah, blah, blah. Yadda, yadda (insert further witticisms here). Now, on with what we “achieved” in 2025.

Blogging Mayhem! January to December 2025

Here’s a roundup of our favourite posts from the last 12 months. Do you remember any of them? We sure as hell don’t.

NB: All our content is written (typed) WITHOUT the use of AI. Take that, tech bro dickheads.

Cultural Highlights of 2025

Now we’re going into some of the stuff we did this year. Yes, we managed to fit in a few things despite the relentless bombardment from our working life.

Fave Moment of the Year: Spiritfarer the Farewell Melodies in Concert

It was one hell of a nice surprise when Thunder Lotus Games announced a live event for Max LL’s brilliant Spiritfarer soundtrack at London’s Cadogan Hall. Definitely our moment of the year.

It marked our first trip to London in four years, zipping down from Manchester in October for a few days to take in the concert. Cadogan Hall is beautiful and Sloane Square a place we’d love to visit again.

Plus, that one-off performance by the Lambert Jackson production company was really something. More, please!

Our Fave Art Stuff

Art this year for us was a mixture of jigsaws, a frog, and finally getting our hands on a Hilma af Klint artbook (Visionary). T’was a good year indeed.

TV Show of the Year: Adolescence

Arguably the best production of anything in 2025 is Netflix exclusive Adolescence. There are four episodes and you have to watch them all in one go, making for a timely and traumatising portrayal of toxic masculinity.

Created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, the incredible technical achievement of the show isn’t to be ignored. Every episode was shot in one take, with one error by a cast/crew member meaning a start from the beginning. Daring stuff, then, and an ideal way to mark such a landmark piece of television.

Our Film of the Year: Summer of Soul

We saw some amazing films in 2025, what a year it’s been. But! Our absolute favourite is the 2021 musical festival doc Summer of Soul.

Featuring amazing footage of ’60s era musical acts and audience member recollections, it’s a thoughtful, inspiring, moving, and bopping ode to creative talent and cultural release.

Best Film of 2025: One Battle After Another

For us, the best new film of 2025 is One Battle After Another. With a madcap and riveting script, plus Sean Penn’s batshit insane performance as Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw, you won’t forget this one in a hurry.

Song of the Year: I Want to Take You Higher

Thanks to Summer of Soul we really got into Sly and the Family Stone this year (see the 2025 documentary Sly Lives!). And this full on performance of I Want to Take You Higher at Woodstock in 1969 is really something.

It captures a band at their very brief peak, also marking the peak of ’60s counterculture and the sense, or need, for revolution. Goddamn hippies…

Dance Moves of the Year: Sean Penn

The balletic poetry of Sean Penn as Colonel Lockjaw really must be seen to be believed. You will be moved to tears by it all. Truly an elegant, gracious man strut the likes of which we may never see again. Except we will (as RFK Jr. exists).

Game of the Year: Donkey Kong Bananza

We knew this game would be great, but what continues to amaze us with Nintendo is how they overdeliver. Donkey Kong Bananza is the Switch 2’s masterpiece, a towering achieving of relentless creativity, and a magnificent game.

Video Game Soundtrack of the Year: Silksong

Despite our major reservations about Team Cherry’s contrived difficulty settings, there is one thing magnificent about Hollow Knight: Silksong.

That’s down to Australian composer Christoper Larkin’s incredible Silksong score. Highly classical in its structure, there’s so much to the music with its multi-layered brilliance.

Book of the Year: Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series

This was on sale in Waterstones (a UK book chain) and we picked it up for a £5. We weren’t expecting it to be quite as brilliant as it is.

Conundrum: Puzzles in the Grotesques Tapestry Series (2015) by Charissa Bremer-David is packed full of tapestry intricacies. The works were created by the French Beauvais Manufactory between 1690 and 1730. Genuine works of art and joy to ogle in the modern age.

2026: WE HAVE BIG EXPECTATIONS!

It’s fair to say 2025 was a bit of crap year on an economic and political front. There have been some ghastly events happening, late-stage capitalism gets worse and worse, and politics is leaning to a worrying hard right stance.

But… it does feel like the tide has changed slightly. The man baby “running” America has plunged in popularity and, as a knock-on effect, the popularity of Reform in the UK seems to have dipped somewhat. The maniacal surge has waned as the harsh reality of that type of regime kicks in.

Thus, and lo, we hope 2026 continues this trend. At the very least to more centrist ground, with certain other events paving over the fractures of the human condition.

Rest assured, Professional Moron will lumber on through it all spouting completed and utter satirical drivel. Join us! It’ll be glorious. 💝