This is sad. He was a thoroughly entertaining broadcaster. The Car’s The Star was a treat. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

He put a semicolon on a plate.

For those of you who get the Extra Bit, this is the Xmas ad I started crying about. It is the BEST XMAS AD EVER. And Lynda Bellingham’s final look to camera will *ruin* you. www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/re...

FUCKING NORA

The far right. Always on top of their game.

‘Are you sure this is right, Humphrey?’ ‘Well, I… er…’

I know the robin is a notoriously territorial bird, so it shouldn’t really come as a surprise to see just how much of the avian collective noun department it has marked out as its own.

The transformation of The Times under Gallagher from a true newspaper of record to a partisan pamphlet and, finally, a global joke is genuinely heartbreaking.

This is probably the funniest headline of the year.

Reform are into Day Three of Racismsplaining. It's harder than it looks. thecritic.co.uk/easy...

Can’t wait to read this. John’s writing is fucking delightful.

Very sad news about the death of Prunella Scales, whose Sybil Fawlty was one of Britain’s greatest comic creations. Hear @jasonhazeley.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social on the genius of #FawltyTowers: 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... 🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/2wKX...

I get it. I was driven mad by the overrepresentation of rabbits in advertising. Caramac. Duracell. Nesquik.

It’s the most unexpected thing to be struck by, but the new mix of ‘Real Love’ on Anthology 4 is ASTONISHING. A complete revelation. Sounds more Beatley than possible, and twinkles with detail. Wholeheartedly WONDERFUL.

26/10/25, 16.08. OH GOOD HERE COMES THE NIGHT.

This is one of those moments (a bit like playing Connections) when a Brit beholds the chasm between US and UK culture. Those cereals: Oysterettes, Holland Rusk, Honey Grahams… meaningless.

This is an excellent evisceration of Lam and the Tory Party's policies. It also shows why questions of "practicalities" should always be pivoted towards the morality of such retrospective remigration policies.

This is *absolutely lovely*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=viQK...

Mark’s passion and precision is spot on. And so very vital. The WAC is a *stunning* resource. It must be allowed — empowered — to thrive. SHARE. cstonline.net/defending-th...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Reform UK just pulled off the sequel to the Jackie Weaver Handforth Parish Council Zoom meeting, and it’s excellent. Are the cracks starting to show in Reform? Plus, is social media brainrot ruining British politics? Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow... #politics #brainrot #farage

One of the funniest headlines these glorious fuckers have ever written.

Hadn’t seen these before, from the third national lockdown. Excellent work by the Prince Charles and the Screen On The Green.

That’s not ’construction’. That’s destruction.

This is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen.

A sparkling BBCSO at The Barbican under a tireless, pin-sharp Nil Venditti tonight. The Respighi was a triumph. Jess Gillam was astonishing. And if @fazilsayofficial.bsky.social’s thrilling and *gorgeous* Grand Bazaar isn’t a repertoire staple within a decade, I’ll marry my printer and eat my hair.

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Shades of the Mitchell & Webb ‘After The Event’ (aka Remain Indoors) sketches here — and, more pointedly, The Bed-Sitting Room. Indeed, I wonder if Antrobus and Milligan saw this. youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k

I get the feeling this will prove to be an evergreen.

‘Surprising’

we’ll we’ll we’ll if it isn’t my old friend autocorrect

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

Forward in a Caimh McDonnell book... 🤣😆

“They call him ‘Trump Trump’.”

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

I… I don’t know. Have I? Excuse me: could you help me? I don’t know if I’ve tried… well, see for yourself.

I've said it before: anyone who runs down the job that teachers do, even for such nakedly political reasons rather than from any real place of conviction, (a) should try surviving even a fucking WEEK of it themselves and (b) should then go to the bottom of a well.

‘To teach is to believe in continuing.’ — Leonard Bernstein

This is EXCELLENT. An EXCELLENT programme about an EXCELLENT man. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social — help yourself to a medal. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Good news. You can buy stairs on eBay. And the postage is FREE.

For the first time in my life, this morning I heard a Bob Dylan song I *actually liked*. It wasn’t Bob Dylan. It was John Prine. The search continues.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

All subtitles should aspire to this sort of greatness.

All the others are busy doing their actual fucking jobs

Enjoyed doing this. There’s nothing like being surrounded by people who are WAY cleverer than you.

Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:

This is fucking GREAT.

Nick Drake delivered the lyrics to the designer of the Five Leaves Left sleeve long before the album was finished — and this verse of ‘River Man’ went unrecorded.

Here you go... Probably the last time David drew Mr Benn. It's a treasured souvenir.