Done. Gladly. Thank you for the advice.

I mean, there's a rich cocktail of powerful emotions going on - revulsion, horror, contempt, stupefaction - but ultimately, they're all swept away by a tsunami of cringe.

Nope. First we have to report on Irish pubs around the world #bbcpm

🤦COVID continues to exert a serious toll on national health. The virus can affect multiple organs. 🤷Meanwhile, the UK restricts access to COVID vaccines, despite their vital role in reducing severe illness and protecting public health. 💉 #LongCOVID #Ventilation petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

I’m sure this will be on #bbcpm any minute now

I expect #bbcpm will be covering Farridge and his schoolboy banter today won’t they? Won’t they?

I have to say this is the one time I miss Twitter. Why is the traffic so bad at Barons Court? No one knows.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social it will be interesting to know if it’s graduates or career changers becoming teachers James

1. There's going to be a lot of talk about over or under diagnosis and the conversation is going to be a mess. This is because how ADHD and ASD are defined has shifted. An ADHD diagnosis today isn't the same thing as an ADHD diagnosis ten years ago.

Yes but my most listened to artist was Giacomo Rossini so

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

If Peter Ettedgui wanted to sue, I'd willingly contribute to a crowd fund.

Pet owners' increasing tendency to see their animals as children rather than dogs or cats can have dire consequences. Owners, and veterinarians, should be wary, warns Eddie Clutton

A good bbc doc on the royal family at last. Hoping episode 2 begins to shed the light on just how ludicrous their wealth accumulation and failure to pay taxes is It’s all beginning to unravel www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Oh well, never mind, that was all fun while it lasted.

Ohh @tommckinney.bsky.social ask yourself. Would @petroc.bsky.social ask for pictures of listeners’ Christmas trees or say he doesn’t know the plot of the opera of which we’ve just heard the overture? And then Radio 3 gets defensive when we say it’s dumbing down 😭

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.

Even at the time, Johnson’s wild weekend in Umbria felt somewhat suspicious. With this new information, you can understand why some are now calling it outright treasonous

I see Nigel Farage seems to have survived evidence of overt antisemitic behaviour from his teens and constituents of Clacton voicing anger at his greed and dereliction of his duty as an MP. Can’t find any demands for his resignation.

The absolute state of the BBC news just now - which seems determined to drag the government down over the budget. Where was all this attention to minute detail and concern for absolute accuracy when the Tories were lying their way through their chaotic reign for 14 years? It's frankly absurd.

The BBC is now embarrassing itself. Most people have already forgotten the budget.But the BBC appears to be embarked on a Conservative track of trying to trash the Chancellor of the Exchequer and in that way undermine the PM. It's a clear political gambit from the Robbie Gibb BBC. #r4today #wato

Still going today tho #wato

It’s December 😳😮

Waste of time Gillski he’s never heard of you

Is welfare spending ''out of control''? It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year. That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u

All the worst people are calling into @lbc.co.uk to say they’re leaving for the Middle East because of taxes. This one says “vee-hickle”. 👋

@jim1132.bsky.social thank you Simon 😉

Oh well done Emma!

It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage won’t investigate the Russian infiltration of Reform. The Prime Minister must step up and launch a national investigation.

“Kemi Badenoch bore her teeth” Matt Frei on @lbc.co.uk there, confusing the past tense of “bear” with the past tense of “bare” Honestly. We need more teachers @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social

🔴Delighted to say I'll be doing more reporting for @bylinetimes.bsky.social over the coming months. My maiden piece is an interview with Lord Alf Dubs on the asylum proposals, which he says are an "historic low" for the Labour party.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I’m not going anywhere James. I’m not leaving Britain to the racists. It’s my home.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I used to be a media relations manager James. When I saw the writing on the wall I became a teacher. He’d be a good teacher. What’s his degree?

Message to working class families who can't afford the cost of living: "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE KIDS IF YOU CAN'T AFFORD THEM!" Message to middle class families who can't afford the cost of living: "REEVES SHOULD GIVE YOU MORE HANDOUTS TO RUN YOUR UNPROFITABLE BUSINESS" Fuck off.

Huh. Thought I already had. Happy to. It’s vital.

From Carole Cadwalladr in the other place. Right. Watch this whole video. The wheels are falling off the Reform press machine. Britain’s students are not tolerating the lies & bullshit about Reform’s relationship with Russia 🔥🔥🔥

If you’re looking for a list of racism apologist phrases look no further than #wato today. “It was a long time ago. I don’t remember. It’s important we all get on. It wasn’t directed at anyone in particular. Playground banter.” It’s all there.

There’s lots of stuff on Russian influence on the Leave campaign and their use of proxies, Banks, Wigmore, et al. Now there’s Gill. These are all mates of Farage but somehow Nigel was in the dark and knows nothing, pull the other one Farageski publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/...

Finally, after the persistent problems with logistics that have beset my book since publication, I understand that copies are now in the country. The kind people at Blackwell's have been monitoring the situation for me. May I recommend you buy from them? blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ…

@tommckinney.bsky.social oh don’t stop posting here Tom. Here’s the starlings at Steart Marshes yesterday to encourage you

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

Reform’s previous leader in Wales had been handed a 10 year prison sentence for being a Russian asset. Other prominent politicians happened to be making Kremlin adjacent statements at the same time, the question “why” should follow them around relentlessly.

I wonder if the same attention given to #Gill will be applied to other strange unexplained sources of income - the cash for 🐸's partner's Frinton house & Johnson's mini-mansion for example? Lots of loose cash floating around British politics but only for the RW. Funny that.

The sentencing hearing of Nathan Gill has begun. Follow @thenerve.news for updates throughout the day. 1/

I’m not convinced of the value of petitions but it is absurd to have the huge new development at Olympia with no proper tube service. Barons Court is already very busy. Please sign if you feel able. Thank you. c.org/kswGdQrKd2

Incredible. The Chancellor rents out her house without council permission and there’s an enormous fuss and people saying she should resign. Reform members talk openly about genocide on Muslims - and, well - relative silence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The UK prides itself on the imagined untouchable pre-eminence of the BBC, but I have just watched a segment on the TF1 evening news that is more sensitively presented, imaginatively filmed, scrupulously researched than any UK equivalent I have ever seen. And they do it every night.

I’m waiting in for a furniture delivery. Somehow I am unable to do anything else.