Phil Tinline
@philtinline.bsky.social
Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times' Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - The New Yorker)
https://tinyurl.com/Ghosts-Iron-Mountain
Last on Radio 4: Societal Collapse https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lppp
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - The New Yorker)
https://tinyurl.com/Ghosts-Iron-Mountain
Last on Radio 4: Societal Collapse https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002lppp
Yep: not least concentration of unaccountable power in the hands of people visibly incapable of using it wisely.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Yep: not least concentration of unaccountable power in the hands of people visibly incapable of using it wisely.
Reposted by Phil Tinline
Half of British culture is quoting lines from BBC comedy at each other.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Half of British culture is quoting lines from BBC comedy at each other.
See also Tony Benn's criticism of the BBC in 1977 as being like the medieval church, soggily smothering dissenting voices - an image also used iirc by Rupert Murdoch in a lecture in 1988.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
See also Tony Benn's criticism of the BBC in 1977 as being like the medieval church, soggily smothering dissenting voices - an image also used iirc by Rupert Murdoch in a lecture in 1988.
Congratulations!
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Congratulations!
I made a lot of docs for Radio 4 when he was Controller. So I'm pro.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I made a lot of docs for Radio 4 when he was Controller. So I'm pro.
Fair. Though it could be explained. It's quite a good story. Meanwhile, yes, fake patriots.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Fair. Though it could be explained. It's quite a good story. Meanwhile, yes, fake patriots.
Yep, and not, unlike some, ashamed of it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Yep, and not, unlike some, ashamed of it.