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Chancer On A Bike
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Nottingham to SW France, not the moon and back (geddit?)
It's strange where life takes you.

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November 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Petition to honor Michael Shannon every Jan. 6
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Finally HM Gov has found a spine
NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I will restate my modest proposal to save the BBC: ban the BBC from covering itself.

Every BBC scandal goes huge, because every BBC News show wants to assert its independence by covering it prominently, even if several other shows already did. So it gets blanket headlines.
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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A man has been cautioned for making off after stealing 100 helium balloons from other bus passengers.

I think he got off lightly.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Channel 5 all round on every channel
if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I planned a ride today. Bag some tiles to the east of me.
Cat woke me at 4:30, little git.
Not slept since.
It’s 5 deg outside.

I do not feel very motivated….
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Where to start…..
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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This is a great listen!
Another Edinburgh Fringe podcast, this one with the sublime David O Doherty is now up here shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo... or wherever you pod.
More live dates coming up. Details here. Support us if you can richardherring.com/rhlstp
RHLSTP 587 - David O'Doherty | RHLSTP with Richard Herring
That’s F***ing Bonkers
shows.acast.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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You’d need to reinstate Radio 4 Longwave in order to cover all the councils with alternate week collections in different parts of the borough.
‘SE7, dry recycling only, becoming non-recyclable waste later.’
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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There was a Futurism exhibition in London à few years ago - missed it

Fascinating ethos behind it
Recent highlight of the @coolbikeart1.bsky.social feed: fantastic painting by Enzo Benedetto from 1926 in the Second Wave of Italian Futurism. #procycling
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Why is it called a lie detector machine and not a defibillator?
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Marvellous
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Dear friends, do me a favour and please spread the word on this. Times are tough, but so is this record...
I've not plugged this in a while, but if you still haven't got yourself a copy of my Rodigan endorsed Sleng Teng rework of Eddie Cochran's Somethin' Else, then what are you waiting for? rongorongorongo.bandcamp.com/album/someth...
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Giving this one another plug, for anyone needing blowing away some cobwebs after the weekend…

2+ hours of chuggy reworks of rave classics..it shouldn’t work really, and yet…

www.mixcloud.com/julian-foddy...
Time Machine: The Third Rewind
www.mixcloud.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM