Ban players talking with hands in front of mouth Jet boots for refs would allow enhanced mobility and thus, greater accuracy with decisions Teams must have one outfield player on a Bernie Clifton ostrich Ban agents & set piece coaches Teams must play for ten minutes with two balls on pitch

This week's 4 Extra repeat of "Great Live" - Isy Suttie chooses Jake Thackray. Broadcast tomorrow, but already available to hear www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

I guess I picked a bad day to start my new job as Steve Coogan's PR manager.

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

In BBC staff inboxes this week: How to be a trans ally" . Regardless of your views on trans ideology, it is NO part of a journalist's job to be an "ally" for one view.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

For me this is the most damning piece of evidence that the BBC wasn’t impartial in the gender/sex debate.

Come and do a PhD with us! Please RT! Funding opportunities and projects: I'm also advertising projects on "How can we tell which children might have later language impairments" and "Why are autistic people more likely to suffer from gender dysphoria"? www.lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/s...

“Leng alleges that a culture of fear developed among BBC staff, who dared not suggest any stories that threw a negative light on trans activism in case they were unofficially blackballed.” 🎁 www.thetimes.com/article/256f...

I'm a great fan of Robert Plant's solo work with Alison Krauss, and an admirer of John Paul Jones' collaboration with Diamanda Galás, but I have always found Led Zeppelin essentially unlistenable.

It's #TheArchers, not life or death. Most of us are here because we love it. And some of the scriptwriters are on this platform too. This kind of hyperbolic criticism of them strikes me as unnecessarily vicious.

So Ruth eavesdrops on Leonard before demanding to know what his 'little secret' is, and is then taken aback when he declines to share. Does anybody else find this behaviour peculiar, perhaps even disturbing? #TheArchers

Sonia Sodha: “What’s the point of the BBC if it can’t be impartial?” www.thetimes.com/article/4480...

'You and I both agree that pregnant people is a wider set of people than pregnant women.' Let me stop you there.

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"Recognising the pathological drive toward medical transition provides clinicians and clients with a clear diagnostic framework. When people try to shame mental health practitioners for using this terminology, they impede clinicians’ work." stellaomalley.substack.com/p/restoring-...

If I am appointed the new director general of the #BBC. I will abolish sending celebrities out to exotic places to film travelogues. Those of us who will never be able to afford such experiences should not have to watch celebrities who easily could, but instead actually get paid for it.

Hadley Freeman: “Anyone who was on Twitter in that weird period of 2018-23 will know how witchfinders operate, leaping on any perceived swerves from progressive orthodoxies by other writers with the enthusiasm of flies on excrement, demanding their banishment.” 🎁 www.thetimes.com/article/b33c...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

QUESTION: Which part of 'a biological male who identifies as a woman' is incorrect? COROLLARY: If not 'a biological male who identifies as a woman', then what IS 'a trans woman'?

Probably the most perfectly timed shot in television history…

God bless you Patricia, Prunella and Pauline 😇🙏 Three of our finest 🎭

The targeting of Martine Croxall: The headline (1) and what lies behind it (2, 3, 4). I love the #BBC, but right now they seem determined to repeatedly punch themselves in the face.

BBC really burying the lede there

Whatever your political persuasion, whatever your ethical boundaries, surely there is point beyond which the sheer misery inflicted upon ordinary people by exploitative bastards like Andrew Milne should make us question how society ought to protect itself from such people.

That band captured all of the excitement of being a teenager and went for it head-on. A contender for the greatest not-number 1 there ever was. There are a few others in their catalogue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDe4...

Even I thought this was one of mine!

It is clear that Chris overshared on what happened with Carly. But he did so for the best of reasons: to be above board, and to reassure Alice that he will always put Martha first. It is equally clear that telling Alice is going to come back to bite him big time. #TheArchers

Drain The Swamp! #SatireIsStillDead

Imagine being 60 years old but so full of venom that you attack three students for having the "audacity" of creating a group for women.

Parse the duchy, and he’s left outside. Encore.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4886a69... Confirms the obvious. Our National broadcaster is a propaganda machine every bit as efficient as Pravda.

My god I'd been avoiding this because, you know, John Lewis, Christmas etc... How fucking brilliant is that. Boom!

“A woman has been blocked by Bristol city council from asking Green Party leaders whether “predatory men” could enter single-sex female spaces by posing as trans women.” This q was deemed offensive, presumable because the councillors know the answer is “yes”. 🎁 www.thetimes.com/article/c573...

Nighthawks 2025 From the new Private Eye, out now.

The next screen grab on this thread is perfect.

"Howard Kirk is in many ways an opportunist, a reader of intellectual fashions and trends. He portrays himself as radical, but at heart he is still a career and company man." Malcolm Bradbury's greatest novel The History Man was published 50 years ago today. thelionandunicorn.com/2025/09/27/t...

Stoneware with sgraffito by Indigenous Australian artist Alison Milyika Carroll who is also a community leader on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia #womensart

It is uncanny how effective this strategy is when debating with gender identity ideologues.

'You lot had it easy! I were obliged to be referred to by my actual name, forced to accept a six-figure, one-off payment and an annual stipend, and made to go and live in a large house on a country estate paid for by my brother.' The Four Yorkshiremen meet the (former) Duke of York.

The musician @rorymcleoduk.bsky.social recounts a wonderful story that illustrates this fundamental truth. It's been a while, and I'm sure I won't do it justice, so apologies to Rory in advance. But if I remember rightly, it went something like this: 1/8

Tony Benn on the monarchy " … “I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. They simply stole land & property from the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles & have been wielding power ever since!” #downwiththecrown

#weekendsingles Getting the Beat together

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The Telegraph with its finger on the pulse of the nation once more.

Hey UK terven friends, will you email your MPs to ask for their support for women's rights? This link does almost all the work for you... sex-matters.org/take-action/...