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Your loss, whether you value it or not. Prime and Netflix and Apple are not saints, and they're certainly not free.

I know but I still value their arts, drama, music, and nature/wildlife programming and I'd hate to see that sacrificed on the altar of news. None of the other UK channels are up to it and the major streamers are all in thrall to Trump's America.

And you'd probably have to pay Amazon or Sky for your bias and lies, anyway.

Nonsense. We'd also lose some great drama, brilliant wildlife programmes, decent music coverage like 'Later' or Glastonbury or the Proms, even Strictly which many of us enjoy despite the attempts to attack it with spurious reports of 'scandals' snd 'fixes'.

OK thanks for that!

You are not alone.

Thanks, interesting as well as disappointing, but I suppose it is the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation. Its news may be biased against us, but I'd hate to see the BBC as a whole fail due to domestic fascists and Americans.

Trouble is, given that we can no longer believe anything we see, how do any of us know you haven't confected this yourself to attack the BBC?

Thanks! In 'Body Positive' a woman finds an alternative childhood history as she clears her late mother's house - lost memories, vanished family, hidden in a packet of photo negatives. I loved 'The Last Waltz of Arnos Finchley' by Laura Cooney - a disorientating horror tale with powerful atmosphere.

Thank you!!

I'm sick of A.I. being pushed on me like drugs at the school gate. Wanted to check my Microsoft 365 subscription today, and only got to see my payment history after I'd had to punch Copilot in the face about three times. Felt like escaping the advances of a drunken harasser in a bar.

Brilliantly evokes that feeling you have sometimes when you're a new adult and every day feels like a morning in Spring to taste and explore. Or when you're old, and something makes you remember how much courage you've let fall away, how much agency you've let lapse.

Haha!! Reminded me of this:

Thanks Merril!