Jonny Morris
banner
jonnymorris.bsky.social
Jonny Morris
@jonnymorris.bsky.social
Writer and producer (mostly Doctor Who-related things).

Winchester City Councillor for St Barnabas ward. 🔶

For council enquiries email: jmorris@winchester.gov.uk
Pinned
Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes, I've produced two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN.

Extremely proud of this. It will make your Christmas 100% more Christmassy!

Order here: averageromp.com
#TheTwen2ie5

Day 36.

Debbii Dawson, You Killed The Music

(2025,🇺🇸)

youtu.be/aFLh58plBYg?...
Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music (Official Video)
YouTube video by DebbiiDawsonVEVO
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I'm wondering if any reviewers of that Panorama documentary noticed the supposedly egregious edit. I suspect not. Because it was just a bit of context for a documentary about something else. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Trump: A Second Chance? review – why his rise, and his return, make total sense
From Front Row Joes wanting control to the leader of the Proud Boys wanting to ‘make America hate again’, this documentary interviews Trump fans – and takes more time than most films to show why his p...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Reposted by Jonny Morris
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Reposted by Jonny Morris
No, fandom got it from the holy text:
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Me when the AI bubble bursts.
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Reposted by Jonny Morris
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso

www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Take cover! Truth bombs incoming! 🧵 ⤵️
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I miss the old, high-quality version of Panorama when they would 'bothsides' the subject of global warming, and give equal weight to climate scientists and the tiny number of climate change deniers. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC One - Panorama, What's Up with the Weather?
Panorama asks what we really know about our climate and how it will affect us.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Michael Prescott's career is amazing, to go from being a press spokesman for Vladimir Putin's close pal Gennady Timchenko to advising the BBC on political independence.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Ah, I was wondering why I'd not heard from Ed recently.
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Reposted by Jonny Morris
The two child cap is a test of the government’s seriousness: if you are serious about child poverty, you lift it, and if you are serious about not wasting money, you don’t fritter away cash on dumb things like vouchers to try and manage the PLP.
If the government chooses to keep the 2 child limit and spend money on vouchers and parenting programmes instead, child poverty will rise and this will be a conscious and deliberate political choice in defiance of all the evidence
Scrapping the cap entirely is both good policy *and* good politics.

Half measures will "save" some money short-term, but will piss *everybody* off and still leave very large numbers of children suffering from a policy designed to make them poorer.

inews.co.uk/news/politic...
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Ofcom's board consists largely a load of right-wingers with a background in banking. There's only one person on the board with a background in journalism and one person with a background in TV production* and unfortunately they're the same bloke. It's not fit for purpose.
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.

GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Jonny Morris
Floella Benjamin for DG.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#TheTwen2ie5

Day 35.

Dubstar, Tectonic Plates

(2021,🇬🇧)

Ice Spice quota: 9

Geological themes: ✔️

youtu.be/tZN50XYHYUQ?...
Dubstar - "Tectonic Plates" (Official Artist Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Dubstar
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Jonny Morris
Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes, I've produced two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN.

Extremely proud of this. It will make your Christmas 100% more Christmassy!

Order here: averageromp.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Reposted by Jonny Morris
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Unfortunately Kamala Harris wasn't responsible for a similar, balancing insurgency. I'm sure if she had been, the BBC would have dedicated a programme to it. Christ this Prescott guy is a moron.
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
TBH right-wingers are always accusing the BBC of left-wing bias, it's like white noise, you tune it out.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Davie didn't resign because the BBC misreported anything. He resigned because he didn't want to *defend* the BBC from right-wing criticism.
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Floella Benjamin for DG.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This must've been the final straw.
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
#EveryAlbumIOwn Elysium. Pet Shop Boys. 2012.
Top 3 tunes: Ego Music, Hold On, Give It A Go
You can skip: Memory Of The Future
Rating: 7/10

Winner and Your Early Stuff are also okay, but some of these songs are plodding and melodically negligible. Have the Pet Shop Boys boys run out things to say?
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Not sure how this will affect planning decisions, as we do not live in a world where councillors and council officers rely on the public to bring planning laws to their attention. Resident objections are more a useful gauge of 'strength of feeling'.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM