The Thompsonian
@thethompsonian.bsky.social
A living institution whose hills are alive with sound and music.
Most posts seem to be me shouting at the radio.
Most posts seem to be me shouting at the radio.
Amazing how GB News, Telegraph, etc. who all "fought" for UK sovereignty during Brexit now gleefully support the BBC being sued in a foreign court #r4today
November 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Amazing how GB News, Telegraph, etc. who all "fought" for UK sovereignty during Brexit now gleefully support the BBC being sued in a foreign court #r4today
Dear Blue Sky algorithm.
I do not support Leeds United.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I do not support Leeds United.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Dear Blue Sky algorithm.
I do not support Leeds United.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I do not support Leeds United.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
“BBC news should be exactly how I say it should be” says Baron Moore of Etchingham on behalf of Marshall Wace Asset Management Ltd. #r4today.
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
“BBC news should be exactly how I say it should be” says Baron Moore of Etchingham on behalf of Marshall Wace Asset Management Ltd. #r4today.
Lest we forget, no one at the BBC resigned over this editorial matter:
pressgazette.co.uk/news/bbc-adm...
#r4today #panorama
What were those “lessons”, and who learned them?
pressgazette.co.uk/news/bbc-adm...
#r4today #panorama
What were those “lessons”, and who learned them?
BBC admits ‘lesson to be learned’ over Remembrance Day footage mix-up which drew 2,000 complaints
The BBC has admitted it has a “lesson to be learned” after it used years-old footage of Boris Johnson laying a wreath on Remembrance Sunday.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Lest we forget, no one at the BBC resigned over this editorial matter:
pressgazette.co.uk/news/bbc-adm...
#r4today #panorama
What were those “lessons”, and who learned them?
pressgazette.co.uk/news/bbc-adm...
#r4today #panorama
What were those “lessons”, and who learned them?
Such a celebratory tone on #r4today, reporting the pay rise of a man who, in the last few months, has:
- called for the overthrow the UK govt
- paid the legal fees of a racist thug
- claimed that 1000s of asylum seekers are raping and pillaging UK villages
- called for the overthrow the UK govt
- paid the legal fees of a racist thug
- claimed that 1000s of asylum seekers are raping and pillaging UK villages
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Such a celebratory tone on #r4today, reporting the pay rise of a man who, in the last few months, has:
- called for the overthrow the UK govt
- paid the legal fees of a racist thug
- claimed that 1000s of asylum seekers are raping and pillaging UK villages
- called for the overthrow the UK govt
- paid the legal fees of a racist thug
- claimed that 1000s of asylum seekers are raping and pillaging UK villages
What happens to the microplastics caught in the filter? Basic question not asked by Emma Barnett. This Earthshot prize does seem more like a Greenwash prize. #r4today
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 AM
What happens to the microplastics caught in the filter? Basic question not asked by Emma Barnett. This Earthshot prize does seem more like a Greenwash prize. #r4today
Why won’t all these intelligent, innovative, entrepreneurial, motivated, resourceful, hard-working young men just stay in their damp hotel rooms and do nothing all day? #r4today
November 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Why won’t all these intelligent, innovative, entrepreneurial, motivated, resourceful, hard-working young men just stay in their damp hotel rooms and do nothing all day? #r4today
We interrupt this important budget announcement so deputy political jester Nick Watt can tell us what he thinks about the first few minutes of it #r4today
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
We interrupt this important budget announcement so deputy political jester Nick Watt can tell us what he thinks about the first few minutes of it #r4today
Sounds like your mentally ill man was as likely to randomly attack in a supermarket or shopping centre. Making it all about train safety is missing the bigger point about psychological abuse in Christian cults. #r4today
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Sounds like your mentally ill man was as likely to randomly attack in a supermarket or shopping centre. Making it all about train safety is missing the bigger point about psychological abuse in Christian cults. #r4today
“Nigel Farage. You’re calling Zarah Sultana a socialist?
Comparing her to President Tito of Yugoslavia?
Really?
Of course we did ask Zarah Sultana to respond to those allegations but she was unavailable”
#r4today
Comparing her to President Tito of Yugoslavia?
Really?
Of course we did ask Zarah Sultana to respond to those allegations but she was unavailable”
#r4today
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“Nigel Farage. You’re calling Zarah Sultana a socialist?
Comparing her to President Tito of Yugoslavia?
Really?
Of course we did ask Zarah Sultana to respond to those allegations but she was unavailable”
#r4today
Comparing her to President Tito of Yugoslavia?
Really?
Of course we did ask Zarah Sultana to respond to those allegations but she was unavailable”
#r4today
All of this because Henry VIII fell off his horse #r4today #chaostheory
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
All of this because Henry VIII fell off his horse #r4today #chaostheory
I once nearly ended up in jail in Turkey thanks to Turkish airlines staff pointing me through the wrong door at Istanbul airport #r4today
October 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I once nearly ended up in jail in Turkey thanks to Turkish airlines staff pointing me through the wrong door at Istanbul airport #r4today