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North, but not North enough.
He kept that quiet...
December 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Honoured for being celebrities for a bit.

BBC News - Idris Elba knighted as Sarina Wiegman and Lionesses lead New Year Honours
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Year Honours 2026: Idris Elba knighted as Sarina Wiegman and Lionesses recognised
Ice skaters Torvill and Dean, and members of the winning Lionesses and Red Roses receive gongs.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I see that Hero Beauregard Faulkner Fiennes Tiffin will be in the upcoming Young Sherlock. One marvels at his struggle to make it as actor.

BBC News - 2026 will have some of the best TV in years - here are the highlights
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
TV lookahead for 2026 and beyond
We look ahead to 18 notable shows and events to look out for in 2026, from drama to sport.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A must watch.

Nae Pasaran: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0002wsm via @bbciplayer

#naepasaran
Nae Pasaran
Forty years after their peaceful act of solidarity, Scottish factory workers discover the incredible impact of their action.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
@bbcmaryam.bsky.social
Looks like you're being defamed...
December 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This hasn't happened, right?

Do we know who is behind this account?

@bylinetimes.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Reposted by Mivart
Reform UK Review 2025

List of Reform UK politicians and candidates racism revealed.

This isn’t exhaustive…

Nigel Farage, MP
Antisemitism, multiple examples including childhood, 2009, 2010 (x2), 2012, 2016 and 2018. Racist comments about Romanians.
December 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Councillor Darren Grimes trying to be clever by dressing up an attack on immigrants as a story about grey squirrels' impact on red squirrels. Animal Farm it ain't.

No point complaining to DCC, cos "free speech".

@josiahmortimer.bsky.social
@luke-akehurstmp.bsky.social
@blackhallrob.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I haven't seen this show, nor have I been on a Hackney bus recently. But I think Cllr Darren Grimes might be getting upset because there are some non-white musicians polluting his TV.

Durham CC thinks this is OK. Don't believe me?... try making a complaint.

For info: @luke-akehurstmp.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Is it wrong to draw conclusions about the BBC hobbling its excellent Ukrainecast podcast in the face of charter renewal and Trump's $10bn extortion?

But Aunty can still keep some wheels spinning...

#BBCpriorities

@jameswaterhouse.bsky.social
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social
@meanwhileua.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Our future leaders on Carols from King's.

#tonedeaf
December 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
@schwarzenegger.bsky.social on BBC News talking about the importance of the environment to @bbclaurak.bsky.social.

Aye, right...

#climatehypocrite
December 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Pavarotti sang sharp.

#pavarotti
#BBC4
December 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Reminded me of a recent delivery. I was so pleased to see it was Royal Mail that I said "if you were from EVRi, i'd've kicked your shins".

@ip33.bsky.social
Only abused by two members of the public yesterday as I delivered their parcels. And called a C**t because I had stopped outside a house to deliver letters. But (I try to keep this in the front of my mind) most people are lovely and polite.
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
@lewisgoodall.com "We" continue to benefit from slavery? I wonder just what sorts of people are in that "we"? The sorts of people whose antecedents went up chimneys as eight year olds?
December 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A reminder that Aled Jones didn't sing "Walking in the Air" on the Snowman film. Peter Auty's original was far better than Jones' single.

#BBCsongsofpraise
#walkingintheair
#thesnowman
December 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I do hope the posh one and the one with significant dance training don't win.

#strictly
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Good try, but this is over. He's escaped again because, on the whole, this country doesn't think it's a big enough deal.

Lots of good, well-meaning people in the UK, just not enough of them.

#farage
December 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social In response to the glottophobia bit, I immersed myself in French radio before our summer holiday. What a world that opened up. Some sublime music from the 70s-90s that never got anywhere near my ears. How much we miss.
December 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
What's this thing that middle-class folks do when they seem to effect a mild lisp when they think they're saying something profound? Forming the "s" sound by raising their lower lip towards their upper teeth. Jeffrey Archer's the worst offender.

#speechtherapy
#lisp
#affectation
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Another one off the public-school/Oxbridge conveyor belt. Pathetic.

#oxbridgehegemony

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MI6 chief: 'We are operating in space between peace and war'
Blaise Metreweli's first speech heading the agency focused on the multi-faceted threat posed by Russia.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
And in response to headlines like "there is no need for masks", here is the 1 minutes from my interview where I discuss basic preventative measures (including masks!).

Also note that NHS stats like A&E and Ambulance waits are lower than same time 3 years ago, even with earlier flu wave.
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A nice bonus of clamping down harder on protests, in response to antisemitic chants, would be that Tommy Robinson would have to put his megaphone back in its case.

That's assuming that the clamping-down would address broader issues of being offensive/inciteful.

#politicslive
December 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
@skysportspl.bsky.social can neither spell nor pronounce Régis Le Bris. Disrespectful.

#SunNew
#Franglais
December 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Thought I'd catch up with BBC Football Focus, ahead of tomorrow's Wear Tyne derby. The programme finished at 12:45pm but it's still not on the #BBCiplayer at 14:25. I dread to think what they're having to censor.

#BBCFF
#BBCFootballFocus
#SUNNEW
December 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM