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This is too much. NATO cannot authorise the use of Jude Law.
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Hey America. When Zoltan does his communist plan to turn New York into London, all your train stations will have names like this.
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Scoop from @cjayanetti.bsky.social - Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea 'Madness'
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madne...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Why is the Royal Court advertising Tilda Swinton in a theatre run that won't start still next September? Is she now bigger than Taylor Swift and Star Wars? Steady on.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
As a patriotic Brit, I've decided my retaliation against American attacks on the BBC is to start hating on Pluribus immediately without bothering with the phase of liking the earliest episodes.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
All these people who sneer at the Royal Family for being "obsolete", yet they never question why Radio Times and TV Times still exist as separate publications, interesting.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Of course if Elon Musk really wanted to own Joyce Carol Oates he'd start promoting this blog, but he hasn't got the nerve
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November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The original pilot of The Sweeney was wild.
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I know a lot of you are expecting me to write a blog about the BBC, but I'm not going to.
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Ridiculous that the Schumer didn't insist the new BBC Chief had to commit to finally doing the 3rd Tripods series.
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Yes, he's been left to his own Devizes.
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The wikipedia page about Black Dwarf stars is highly speculative, and perhaps the "artists impression" might be the most reliable bit.
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Only 23% of Python was any good. And Tom Baker was pissed most of his later seasons.
As with the NHS, I think part of the problem is how the institution has been so thoroughly sentimentalised in both the public imagination and its own imagination, to the extent that even a minor infraction is greeted like the Werthers’ grandad going on a five-day ket rampage.
The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks.

No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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A story of grief, community, and hope... 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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#OTD sixty years ago, a truly offbeat play with actors of heft was broadcast: THE TRIAL AND TORTURE OF SIR JOHN RAMPAYNE, starring Jack Hawkins and a 26 year old Ian McKellen, no less! A viewer erroneously felt this was a "protest play" & while it maysbritain.home.blog/2025/11/10/e... (1)
Exploring The Wednesday Play’s Legacy At 60 – 03:05: ‘The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne’ (BBC1, 10 November 1965)
The Wednesday Play (1964-70, or 1965-70) was a landmark BBC drama series, following ITV’s lead with Armchair Theatre (ABC & Thames, 1956-74) in amplifying working-class voices. Canadian m…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Snob = Radio 3 better than Classic FM but can't say why

Elitist = Radio 3 better than Classic FM and can say why

Theodor Adorno = Radio 3 is better than Classic FM because late capitalism, under communism the breakfast show will be fully atonal
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Mosquito B Mark IX, LR503 from 105 Squadron at Bourn airfield, with Flight Lieutenant T.P. Lawrenson on the left and Flight Lieutenant D.W. Allen on the right. "F-Bar for Freddie" went on to complete 213 sorties, a Bomber Command record. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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#OTD in 1942, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in #WW2, credited with 309 confirmed kills, is visiting Great Britain. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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1943, North Africa. Indian Long Range Squadron (ILRS ) performed some missions with the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) but was not a part of it. #WW2 #HISTORY
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The BBC leadership resigning now is too little too late. They should never have allowed that Billie Piper regeneration ending.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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This is quite the coincidence on my feed:
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM