Phillip Tipton
@mrphilliptipton.bsky.social
Eurovision, Linguistics, trains, maps, TV history.
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It's indicative of the way the British media establishment works, but the best chance for a reprieve for Modern Languages at Nottingham is the fact that lots of media types will have kids or friends with kids studying at Nottingham. No-one cared about Salford in 2013 when 50 years of provision died.
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It's indicative of the way the British media establishment works, but the best chance for a reprieve for Modern Languages at Nottingham is the fact that lots of media types will have kids or friends with kids studying at Nottingham. No-one cared about Salford in 2013 when 50 years of provision died.
Why is the BBC News website full of 'explainers' like 'What is a bus and why is everyone talking about them?' or 'Eating yoghurt is revolutionary but where does it come from?'
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Why is the BBC News website full of 'explainers' like 'What is a bus and why is everyone talking about them?' or 'Eating yoghurt is revolutionary but where does it come from?'
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
Sean in Classic Corrie explains Eurovision to the Rovers crowd.
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Sean in Classic Corrie explains Eurovision to the Rovers crowd.
Bonsoir, fans!
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Bonsoir, fans!
Fascinating thesis here by Chris Brady looking at the phenomenon of the 'Northern Fun Pub' 1973-1993 and its mainstreaming of queer culture. It seems that Disco Tango, the 1979 Danish Eurovision entry by Tommy Seebach, was apparently the most popular 'tambourine song' in the pubs all over the North.
October 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fascinating thesis here by Chris Brady looking at the phenomenon of the 'Northern Fun Pub' 1973-1993 and its mainstreaming of queer culture. It seems that Disco Tango, the 1979 Danish Eurovision entry by Tommy Seebach, was apparently the most popular 'tambourine song' in the pubs all over the North.
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Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one
Today I played my students, most of whom were born in around 2005, a Cissie and Ada sketch. I felt very old.
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Today I played my students, most of whom were born in around 2005, a Cissie and Ada sketch. I felt very old.
Teddy on her pouffe throne, surrounded by her favourite cardboard boxes.
October 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Teddy on her pouffe throne, surrounded by her favourite cardboard boxes.
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Reaction to Badenoch's speech is everything wrong with Britain's policymaking community. Mostly couched in terms of the politics and her survival. Nothing on the utter garbage of policies that would leave us in an even bigger mess. UK policymaking may be irredeemable.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Conservatives would scrap stamp duty, Kemi Badenoch says - follow live
The party says it would scrap the
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Reaction to Badenoch's speech is everything wrong with Britain's policymaking community. Mostly couched in terms of the politics and her survival. Nothing on the utter garbage of policies that would leave us in an even bigger mess. UK policymaking may be irredeemable.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
The full, extended Hetty Wainthropp theme. Never mentioned when iconic TV music is mentioned, but for me it's up there with the Suchet Poirot theme for best ever TV theme.
youtu.be/UHk1aaZEDcQ?...
youtu.be/UHk1aaZEDcQ?...
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (BBC)
YouTube video by Nigel Hess - Topic
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The full, extended Hetty Wainthropp theme. Never mentioned when iconic TV music is mentioned, but for me it's up there with the Suchet Poirot theme for best ever TV theme.
youtu.be/UHk1aaZEDcQ?...
youtu.be/UHk1aaZEDcQ?...
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
The fascinating thing about this is that it demonstrates that the quality journalists in the BBC don't work for the flagship Westminster operation. If she'd said this on the Today programme, I doubt it would have been challenged as the presenter wouldn't have been across the facts either.
October 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The fascinating thing about this is that it demonstrates that the quality journalists in the BBC don't work for the flagship Westminster operation. If she'd said this on the Today programme, I doubt it would have been challenged as the presenter wouldn't have been across the facts either.
Dame Patricia Routlege - what a life well-lived. 96 years of bringing nothing but joy to millions of people all over the world.
October 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Dame Patricia Routlege - what a life well-lived. 96 years of bringing nothing but joy to millions of people all over the world.
This is the same kind of journalist who would write, with great surprise, that a council house was immaculately clean with a 'neat' garden when on a safari interviewing some 'ordinary people'.
September 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is the same kind of journalist who would write, with great surprise, that a council house was immaculately clean with a 'neat' garden when on a safari interviewing some 'ordinary people'.
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I started watching a low budget Christmas film on tv, but I got distracted and when I got back a new one had started and I didn’t notice because they all have exactly the same plot
September 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I started watching a low budget Christmas film on tv, but I got distracted and when I got back a new one had started and I didn’t notice because they all have exactly the same plot
Today I learned that Frédéric Etherlinck, singer of the very unsuccessful 1995 Belgian Eurovision entry, is the host of the Belgian 'Traitors' franchise.
September 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today I learned that Frédéric Etherlinck, singer of the very unsuccessful 1995 Belgian Eurovision entry, is the host of the Belgian 'Traitors' franchise.
Friends fear he's replying to clikcbait threads on the Channel 5 Jeremy Vine Show Facebook page.
September 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Friends fear he's replying to clikcbait threads on the Channel 5 Jeremy Vine Show Facebook page.
People are assuming that Andy Burnham would be looking for a seat in Greater Manchester. A much more realistic possibility would be St Helens South and Whiston, where the incumbent MP, Marie Rimmer, is 78. Burnham went to school in St Helens Borough and lives very close to the borough boundary.
September 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
People are assuming that Andy Burnham would be looking for a seat in Greater Manchester. A much more realistic possibility would be St Helens South and Whiston, where the incumbent MP, Marie Rimmer, is 78. Burnham went to school in St Helens Borough and lives very close to the borough boundary.
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This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.