Judge quashes antisemitism case against comedian Reginald D Hunter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

Tried a Christmas selfie.

Let there be no Division this Christmas

This day 57 years ago. Earthrise. A remarkable view of Earth hoving into view as the Apollo 8 command module flew over the lunar surface. That's us. That's home.

The Palace goalie is really earning his fee, tonight #TheFootball

Stonehinge

THESE DAYS, IF YOU JUST SAY "GOOD MORNING", YOU WILL BE ARRESTED AND THROWN IN JAIL

Happy Christmas to all. www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Tottenham v Liverpool match report (tl;dr version) Goal. Frank incensed. Mirth.

Awesome stuff as ever from Swede Mason

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

Happy Chris Morris was more prophet than satirist day to all who celebrate

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Ahhhh, l’amour!

A little past your bedtime, Cbeebies Radio, but you are now 11. Happy Birthday 📻

A thoughtful insight into funding Public Service Media, which I'm sure our political class will study and incorporate into future government policy ..... oh, who am I kidding. 🫤

Symbolism anyone?

I'm not familiar with the career of Emma Nielson, but she's playing really well tonight. #TheFootball

Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

Excellent stuff from @roystoncartoons.bsky.social

If you love science and comedy and @robinince.bsky.social, now is a great time to discover @cosmicshambles.com and everything they have to offer. And if you're in the vicinity of London, UK, check out their amazing holiday event, "Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People"

I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS. I'm heartbroken for him.

Next Saturday we've got two #NineLessons shows at Kings Place. A family matinee and then an evening show. Here's some of the guests joining @robinince.bsky.social inc @garwboy.bsky.social, @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social, @particleclara.bsky.social and more. Tix www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...

The concept of the BBC is a wonderful, beautiful, precious thing. Evil people know this as well as I do. Since Hutton, they've done their absolute utmost to destroy it, and, like with the NHS, they're winning. Heartbreaking. All the support to Robin but I hate SO much that it's come to this.

"I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer." What an ugly world we live in. Well done for taking a stand, Robin.

i first worked with @robinince.bsky.social in 2003, having first seen him as a stand-up in 1998 (in the glastonbury cabaret tent!) and you won’t find a kinder or funnier person in the comedy industry

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Interesting podcast on Emergency Planning - "Currently: Are You Ready?" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... The presenter is an emergency planner and disaster recovery expert, who is nearly called Lucy LeastHope 😁

for tiktok i normally slap some ragebait headline on the front of these, but realised that i couldn't do better than @rosieisaholt.bsky.social's first question about joan of arc anyway, please listen to our silly satirical podcast, we pay our guests which makes us better than other podcasts

"Fine me" -> Nationwide fined £44m for 'ineffective' crime controls. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Of course they do, they can't see over the fucking steering wheel. Accident waiting to happen.

A new feature from Antennapod? ...... well new to me anyway. Not sure how accurate this is, the pictures are a tad misleading, the spelling irks me, but at least @tonychurnside.bsky.social will approve

“Human rights were never meant to be optional or reserved for comfortable and secure times. They were designed to be a compass, our conscience, when the politics of fear and division try to steer us wrong. To weaken ECHR protections now... is not reform. It is moral retreat." @amnestyuk.bsky.social

Did you know about these young people currently on hunger strike ? www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

Harassment, 'untruthful' evidence, and 'unusual' legal questions. Our reporter Xander Elliards looks at nine points from the Sandie Peggie ruling that the rest of the media has left out

Heads up, you can apply to be Director General of the BBC through the job listing here: careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Director... And if you think you're not qualified, just remember that John Reith had to find out what "broadcasting" was before his interview.

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... ‘I do love a good line!’ Felicity Kendal talks about her life and her return to Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink - a bittersweet experience for the company in the light of his loss.

Congratulations to all nominated in the BBC Audio Drama Awards. Including me. Twice. I'm not normally one for such things. But two bites at this particular cherry feels nice. Or something. Go us!

C'mon Leeds #TheFootball

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on. Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.

just remembered a fact from one of @paulsinha.bsky.social’s shows: tom stoppard was born in the same town as ivana trump. (checking i’d remembered this right led me to discover he was also born in the same town as john tusa.)

Christmas at the BBC

I imagine the obits will talk about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Leopoldstadt and Shakespeare in Love, God help us. But for my money Arcadia was his best play: elegant, profound, intelligent, humane and deeply moving. There really was no one else operating at his level.

From Stoppard’s Arcadia: