even Kipling's ghost is going "oooff"

He sure loved emphasising a guy wasn't white

(Plus the news arm is sent overseas, which we presumably want for our own grubby purposes, _and_ has been handy for foreigners in dodgy nations - the World Service has been cut and cut again, not sure the full end of news broadcasts would help)

We do have major news providers that are not the BBC (nor GB) but are we willing to rely on them to fill the vacuum and _not_ GB, a foreign broadcaster who'll almost certainly be an American company & vulnerable, or the worst internet forces of all time, all of whom are constantly circling?

Morbidly hoping it's full of people wondering what cool tattoos he'd have if he had tattoos

"The prison area has access to a ventilation system that leads directly to officers' quarters?"

Killcrazy and Co can't be _that_ upset about being prisoners, I guess

I saw the episode when it first aired and this is the first time I've actually realised they were spoofing Beadle

The sport of kings

"to a South Asian security employee"

What an odd thing to say.

my understanding is generally the first ones _do_ go in, that's one of the reasons Uvalde was a huge scandal: everyone knew the first on scene weren't doing what they were trained to do and everyone can see they had the equipment for it, they weren't some guys with handguns.

There was an interesting spat between a Picard S3 actress and the Memory Alpha wiki where she wanted them to not say her character was dead, as that wasn't on screen, because future writers would go look at wikis to see who was dead & who wasn't and that could decide who got rehired

Make his mother Jamaican and we've got a new twist on all the times Bond goes to the Caribbean under Fleming