Stephen Darlington
@srdarlington.bsky.social
The concept of the BBC DG being Editor-in-chief - and therefore expected to resign quickly at the first sign of big trouble seems like a bad design.
First of all, to lump that in with the role’s huge scope is excessive.
Second, it leaves the Corporation leaderless just at the point it needs one.
First of all, to lump that in with the role’s huge scope is excessive.
Second, it leaves the Corporation leaderless just at the point it needs one.
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The concept of the BBC DG being Editor-in-chief - and therefore expected to resign quickly at the first sign of big trouble seems like a bad design.
First of all, to lump that in with the role’s huge scope is excessive.
Second, it leaves the Corporation leaderless just at the point it needs one.
First of all, to lump that in with the role’s huge scope is excessive.
Second, it leaves the Corporation leaderless just at the point it needs one.
Reposted by Stephen Darlington
For @theipaper.com I wrote some thoughts about the brilliantly dark new A24 joint Friendship, which was out in the UK on Friday, and which has moments that recall Scorsese's King of Comedy in their comic discomfort. It's vis-a-vis the male loneliness epidemic:
inews.co.uk/culture/film...
inews.co.uk/culture/film...
Middle-aged men are in crisis - Paul Rudd's new film Friendship gets it
By satirising traditional masculinity, the film shows us a lot about how men do - and don't - make friends
inews.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
For @theipaper.com I wrote some thoughts about the brilliantly dark new A24 joint Friendship, which was out in the UK on Friday, and which has moments that recall Scorsese's King of Comedy in their comic discomfort. It's vis-a-vis the male loneliness epidemic:
inews.co.uk/culture/film...
inews.co.uk/culture/film...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not now Egyptologists!
Not now Egyptologists!
Thutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's
It is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhaman's over a century ago.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not now Egyptologists!
Not now Egyptologists!