John Deans
@jjbillyd.bsky.social
Pearls before swine (no, not you).
Tim Stanley "doesn't much enjoy talking at all" he says on #r4today thought for the day.
Well, have I got a win-win-win suggestion for BBC bookers!
Well, have I got a win-win-win suggestion for BBC bookers!
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Tim Stanley "doesn't much enjoy talking at all" he says on #r4today thought for the day.
Well, have I got a win-win-win suggestion for BBC bookers!
Well, have I got a win-win-win suggestion for BBC bookers!
Jesus effing christ!!!!
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Jesus effing christ!!!!
Silent blank-paper protest in Oxford today. Plenty of police, including cameras.
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Silent blank-paper protest in Oxford today. Plenty of police, including cameras.
The Kindertransport is *precisely* an example of a narrow safe and legal route when the need was much greater and the border generally closed. #r4today
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The Kindertransport is *precisely* an example of a narrow safe and legal route when the need was much greater and the border generally closed. #r4today
The centre-left and centre-right keep falling for this: the far right only needs to increase the salience of an issue for half a dozen news cycles, and then the centre jumps on it and amplifies it. Partly because they're terrified of their imagined lumpen proletariat who swarm outside the M25 #bbcpm
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The centre-left and centre-right keep falling for this: the far right only needs to increase the salience of an issue for half a dozen news cycles, and then the centre jumps on it and amplifies it. Partly because they're terrified of their imagined lumpen proletariat who swarm outside the M25 #bbcpm
How far will Labour go? I can't see why they'd stop until the prodigal return to the party of Lee Anderson - that's the "voter" they clearly have in mind, after all. Short of that, where will they have got?
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
How far will Labour go? I can't see why they'd stop until the prodigal return to the party of Lee Anderson - that's the "voter" they clearly have in mind, after all. Short of that, where will they have got?
Since when has Netflix been changing the language of text in realia to match the user's locale language? Maybe it's not a problem if you're watching with dubbing, but it's really jarring in VO.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Since when has Netflix been changing the language of text in realia to match the user's locale language? Maybe it's not a problem if you're watching with dubbing, but it's really jarring in VO.
Just think that this person was fleetingly our prime minister, and not so long ago. Amazing. How utterly reckless and ideologically bankrupt the party was that foisted her on us.
Liz Truss on Fox News supporting Trump suing the BBC
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
"There are lots of people in Britain who are cheering President Trump on and want him to sue the BBC"
"And I believe the organisation needs to be defunded"
November 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Just think that this person was fleetingly our prime minister, and not so long ago. Amazing. How utterly reckless and ideologically bankrupt the party was that foisted her on us.
40% of America's young women would rather live somewhere else, compared to 19% of young men. Stark.
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
40% of America's young women would rather live somewhere else, compared to 19% of young men. Stark.
If it's on the news and chart topping, I'm going to be less shy about sharing my own AI-sung country. youtu.be/gn5ayxiSVaw?... #bbcpm
Falling down — Boxcar Billionaires
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November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If it's on the news and chart topping, I'm going to be less shy about sharing my own AI-sung country. youtu.be/gn5ayxiSVaw?... #bbcpm
America: names of bits of cars/automobiles are from after our Englishes diverged yet before modern comms meant they started to reconverge. Perfect field of battle to work out who does English best.
"car" v "automobile": clear 🇺🇸 win.
"car" v "automobile": clear 🇺🇸 win.
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
America: names of bits of cars/automobiles are from after our Englishes diverged yet before modern comms meant they started to reconverge. Perfect field of battle to work out who does English best.
"car" v "automobile": clear 🇺🇸 win.
"car" v "automobile": clear 🇺🇸 win.
How is Keir Starmer going to recover from coming off the worse in a leadership battle against himself? Incompetence in this case not a better answer than malice.
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
How is Keir Starmer going to recover from coming off the worse in a leadership battle against himself? Incompetence in this case not a better answer than malice.
Minimal business name changes in my town:
Liaison the Chinese–English cuisine » Liaison the Chinese–Chinese cuisine (new menu)
Penultimate Picture Palace » Ultimate Picture Palace (new management)
Mediterranean Fish Bar » Atlantic Fish Bar (2016... new mood? 😢)
Liaison the Chinese–English cuisine » Liaison the Chinese–Chinese cuisine (new menu)
Penultimate Picture Palace » Ultimate Picture Palace (new management)
Mediterranean Fish Bar » Atlantic Fish Bar (2016... new mood? 😢)
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Minimal business name changes in my town:
Liaison the Chinese–English cuisine » Liaison the Chinese–Chinese cuisine (new menu)
Penultimate Picture Palace » Ultimate Picture Palace (new management)
Mediterranean Fish Bar » Atlantic Fish Bar (2016... new mood? 😢)
Liaison the Chinese–English cuisine » Liaison the Chinese–Chinese cuisine (new menu)
Penultimate Picture Palace » Ultimate Picture Palace (new management)
Mediterranean Fish Bar » Atlantic Fish Bar (2016... new mood? 😢)
A big part of the problem is that you Evan (the press) and you Amber (the politicians) acceot this premise that "many listeners" are turning to their tiny violin. Just because voters express frustration with politicians, it doesn't mean we're constantly baying for blood. #bbcpm
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A big part of the problem is that you Evan (the press) and you Amber (the politicians) acceot this premise that "many listeners" are turning to their tiny violin. Just because voters express frustration with politicians, it doesn't mean we're constantly baying for blood. #bbcpm
Whether or not the BBC is embarrassed by its editorial decision,it must not settle with a foreign head of state who launches an extortion suit: its responsibility to us would then become impossible. #r4today
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Whether or not the BBC is embarrassed by its editorial decision,it must not settle with a foreign head of state who launches an extortion suit: its responsibility to us would then become impossible. #r4today
Sackcloth and ashes continue to prevent #bbcpm from saying the obvious: the Panorama editing boiled down Trump's speech into what he was impeached and indicted for.
The resulting fancy-free agonising this week is much more misinformative than the original editorial shortcut.
The resulting fancy-free agonising this week is much more misinformative than the original editorial shortcut.
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Sackcloth and ashes continue to prevent #bbcpm from saying the obvious: the Panorama editing boiled down Trump's speech into what he was impeached and indicted for.
The resulting fancy-free agonising this week is much more misinformative than the original editorial shortcut.
The resulting fancy-free agonising this week is much more misinformative than the original editorial shortcut.
So has the BBC decided that its penance for editing a two-hour speech down to a representative 10 seconds is to platform voices from the US right, unchallenged? #wato
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
So has the BBC decided that its penance for editing a two-hour speech down to a representative 10 seconds is to platform voices from the US right, unchallenged? #wato
The BBC should not be "negotiating" with Trump, who was impeached and indicted for leading an insurrection. They took a dubious editorial shortcut to illustrate a truth.
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The BBC should not be "negotiating" with Trump, who was impeached and indicted for leading an insurrection. They took a dubious editorial shortcut to illustrate a truth.
Anybody listening to the BBC over the last few days might be expected to think that Trump hadn't been impeached and indicted for his role in organising an insurection on Jan 6th 2020. And yet he was. #bbcpm
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Anybody listening to the BBC over the last few days might be expected to think that Trump hadn't been impeached and indicted for his role in organising an insurection on Jan 6th 2020. And yet he was. #bbcpm
Baffled by the rash of news stories from residents and councils up and down the land who want to change the name of their "Prince Andrew Road". Why *now*, at the very moment the name has lost its association with failed international business strumpet and paedo-adjacent teddy worrier Andrew M-W?
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Baffled by the rash of news stories from residents and councils up and down the land who want to change the name of their "Prince Andrew Road". Why *now*, at the very moment the name has lost its association with failed international business strumpet and paedo-adjacent teddy worrier Andrew M-W?