The Digester
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Committed dilettante
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While other organisations brush off minor mistakes, the BBC spends days self-flagellating like a mentally-disturbed medieval monk - but only if the criticisms have come from the right. They literally couldn't give a toss if they're being attacked from the centre or left.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
While other organisations brush off minor mistakes, the BBC spends days self-flagellating like a mentally-disturbed medieval monk - but only if the criticisms have come from the right. They literally couldn't give a toss if they're being attacked from the centre or left.
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was tim davie wearing a poppy when he resigned
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
was tim davie wearing a poppy when he resigned
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November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Back to work after two week break to find hundreds of emails drafted by AI selling AI services claiming to help you tackle email overload.
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Back to work after two week break to find hundreds of emails drafted by AI selling AI services claiming to help you tackle email overload.
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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
Crab for breakfast eaten with chopsticks. Defeated in more ways than one.
October 31, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Crab for breakfast eaten with chopsticks. Defeated in more ways than one.
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Voting against Restore Trust in the annual NT elections is becoming a pleasant annual tradition, like Guy Fawkes Night. We should commemorate it.
🌳 As a #NationalTrust member I’ve just voted for the recommended slate to keep out the bogus, right-wing entryists of “Restore Trust”. Anything this creep wants is bad for Britain and bad for our heritage.
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
🌳 If you’re a member, vote Recommended Slate now: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
One vital reason to vote in the National Trust elections and for the NT endorsed candidates. We can't risk the Restore Trust candidates getting any influence on it.
October 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Voting against Restore Trust in the annual NT elections is becoming a pleasant annual tradition, like Guy Fawkes Night. We should commemorate it.
Offal bar (breakfast buffet, Shanghai).
October 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Offal bar (breakfast buffet, Shanghai).
Hell is other people's children.
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Hell is other people's children.
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I think this is a tragedy for the CofE. It means they are still a long way from where the country of which it proclaims it is the national church is on gay marriage. How should gay people, or those of us who have gay friends or family members, think of an institution which doesn't respect them?
FULL STORY IN @THETIMES:
Gay couples hoping to have special blessing ceremonies in church have seen plans for a trial halted by CofE bishops
Bishops have also extended ban on gay priests having civil marriages: www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...
Gay couples hoping to have special blessing ceremonies in church have seen plans for a trial halted by CofE bishops
Bishops have also extended ban on gay priests having civil marriages: www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...
Church of England bishops halt plans for blessing services for gay couples
The ban on priests marrying same-sex partners will also be extended because changes would require the rewriting of canon law, say leaders
www.thetimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I think this is a tragedy for the CofE. It means they are still a long way from where the country of which it proclaims it is the national church is on gay marriage. How should gay people, or those of us who have gay friends or family members, think of an institution which doesn't respect them?
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In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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See if you make an announcement such as “There is fixed, structural damage in the ticket hall at Mornington Crescent” I am going to spend the next 35 minutes trying to decode it
October 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
See if you make an announcement such as “There is fixed, structural damage in the ticket hall at Mornington Crescent” I am going to spend the next 35 minutes trying to decode it
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That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988
Casablanca - Marseillaise Scene (extended edition)
YouTube video by Jeremy Limb
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Phew, that's ages away, I'll worry about it later
October 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Phew, that's ages away, I'll worry about it later
Bit of a departure for Nige but I guess everything is political.
October 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Bit of a departure for Nige but I guess everything is political.
Nosferatu accompanied by Radiohead's Kid A & Amnesia was excellent. Now obsessed with Hutter's coat.
October 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Nosferatu accompanied by Radiohead's Kid A & Amnesia was excellent. Now obsessed with Hutter's coat.
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It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
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I find it amazing that we live in societies where pretty much everyone thinks they would have been in the French Resistance/Rebel Alliance/Sufragettes or would have ‘shot Hitler if they had had the chance’, and yet even the mildest acts of political dissent and protest are vilified.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I find it amazing that we live in societies where pretty much everyone thinks they would have been in the French Resistance/Rebel Alliance/Sufragettes or would have ‘shot Hitler if they had had the chance’, and yet even the mildest acts of political dissent and protest are vilified.
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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
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We already have a system where unwilling, unpaid "volunteers" are made to do work in the community. It's called Community Payback, undertaken by convicted offenders.
So Labour's message to people wanting to come to the UK and build a life is literally "We'll treat you like criminals."
So Labour's message to people wanting to come to the UK and build a life is literally "We'll treat you like criminals."
September 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
We already have a system where unwilling, unpaid "volunteers" are made to do work in the community. It's called Community Payback, undertaken by convicted offenders.
So Labour's message to people wanting to come to the UK and build a life is literally "We'll treat you like criminals."
So Labour's message to people wanting to come to the UK and build a life is literally "We'll treat you like criminals."
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Budget dilemmas look to be an ocean apart from ours just across the Irish Sea. (Just look at that sub-headline!)
September 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Budget dilemmas look to be an ocean apart from ours just across the Irish Sea. (Just look at that sub-headline!)
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Really wonderful evening at the Southbank Centre hearing wonderful performances of Beethoven’s third piano concerto and Saint-Saens organ symphony, plus a lovely new piece by Gabriela Ortiz. On Radio 3 on Monday and on Sounds for 30 days thereafter!
September 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Really wonderful evening at the Southbank Centre hearing wonderful performances of Beethoven’s third piano concerto and Saint-Saens organ symphony, plus a lovely new piece by Gabriela Ortiz. On Radio 3 on Monday and on Sounds for 30 days thereafter!