This Jessie J cover of Defying Gravity from today is incredible! You won’t regret watching it (unless you hate music and joy) youtu.be/lSPP5N7-2DE?...

I took this rather niche photo three years ago today. I started: “Would you mind sitting at this computer for a photo?” “…sure…why?” “Our editing software is called StarTrack” “Oh. Ok!” *Slightly bewildered*

Keir Starmer on Radio 2 - asked if it's right that we could have a social media ban for under-16s within months: "yes it is". Although he does add "...or take other measures", presumably referring to a potential ban on things like 'infinite scrolling' or u-16 access to AI platforms.

Cool guys don’t look at explosions #CelebrityTraitors

This Radio 2 listener sent us proof of their stress-inducing unread emails. But then listener Claire from Edinburgh took the gold medal with a staggering 523,321 unread. Beat that!

Happy 60th birthday to Thunderbirds. Here you go. A PDF instruction manual of how to create your very own Tracy Island: www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic...

A vital plea from the BBC, along with news agencies AFP, AP and Reuters, to allow journalistic access to Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cVK...

If you’re a uk politics/transport/urban policy person (you’re on Bluesky) then the winter timetable on east coast mainline will be such an interesting mess. The public in mid-sized towns slowly realising they’ve been sacrificed for faster London > Edinburgh trains. www.thecomet.net/news/2544425...

Loo scroll www.newscientist.com/article/2494...

Love the effort to make it local

That’s the first time I can ever remember a guest getting a parking ticket live on air

M8 GET OUTTA THERE

Might start a petition to make it illegal to tag @ everyone in Facebook groups.

Bit tricky with hooves

This dude landed on my hand and even hung around for a photo!

For radio journalists, the iPhone’s built-in call-recording facility (since iOS 18.1) is incredible. Today I called a contributor on FaceTime Audio and hit the record button, then emailed it to myself and it was on air shortly after. There have been other ways to do this for years but this is better

🧵 In February, I got a message from Anna*, a female police officer. She was a domestic abuse specialist, responding daily to calls from women abused by their partners. But she was also in an abusive marriage herself, for more than a decade - and her abuser was another officer.

Chapter #1329 in expensive rail travel. We're a family of four planning a three hour journey next month. Return trip fuel cost by car ~£40 (plus car wear and tear etc). Return trip by rail - if booked with advance fares over a month in advance: £242. Sustainable travel, unsustainable pricing.

Waiting to board a ferry and spotted this excellent passenger nearby

I have a lot of followers in America. If that’s you - why?! Am I on some random list somewhere?

My niece hand-stitched this birthday card for my daughter and it’s 👌👌👌 I think she should sell them!!

I’m open to roast potato pictures in return, thanks.

Someone’s getting great value for money from their delivery driver.

It never fails to bring me joy that one of London's top guitar repair/maintenance people is called Kevin, has a workshop on an upstairs floor, and so has called his business "Stairway to Kevin".

We took the decision today to voice up and read out, on Radio 2, every word of John Hunt's victim impact statement. At ten minutes precisely it must be the longest monologue we've ever broadcast. We did so with good reason - give it a read if you haven't: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nerd fact of the day: the ship and the tanker in the North Sea sea technically 'allided'. It's simpler to say it was a collision but some seafarers would say 'allision'. It's a nautical term to indicate a moving ship striking a stationary object - such as another ship.

Some people take recreational drugs and others get high off jet washing their patio.

Right who's in charge of the PR for mice, please? Because they're having a quite incredible week and it's only Tuesday. (At this rate I guess the whole PR outfit is run by the mice themselves).

It was well-known as Aberdeen before rebranding to Abrdn but is now returning to Aberdeen. The bosses complained of 'corporate bullying' after people ridiculed the lack of vowels. Guess the bullies won. www.fnlondon.com/articles/abr...

Today I blew my nose record-breakingly loud. I simultaneously acheived another first - I'd inadvertantly left myself unmuted in our work morning meeting. Took me a second to realise why everyone on the screen looked so shocked.

Can’t believe I didn’t have ‘sinkholes’ on my ‘perennial news stories’ list until today. What else am I missing? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Did you know it never rains in Scotland?

Yes please #sunset

It's Radio 2's 'Piano Room Month' which is all the excuse I need to post my absolute favour cover from last year's. What a banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCHz...

According to YouGov 86% of people think using speakerphone in public is unacceptable. Can we round up the remaining 14% and throw their phones in the sea?

If you want to recreate the feeling contestants get on the Traitors when they spot a ‘murder letter’ sitting on their hotel chair, peek inside your young children’s bags at the end of the day to see if they have received yet another party invitation.

Hmm I can’t find the setting in the news app to turn off the push alerts that aren’t news

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Presented with no context, I love that these two texts from listeners came in back-to-back

The story of the week that you might have missed is about the woman who set a reminder on her phone to smuggle a golden gun into Australia (she was travelling to Australia to attend clown school)

On the radio show today: we've done the merits of windfarms. We're about to discuss smartphone thefts. But currently Homes Under the Hammer's Martin Roberts is telling us that he was denied a mortgage because his house is haunted by a ghost. 🤷‍♂️

Amazing conditions

I find it strangely enjoyable that Google Maps now has a cute customisable car picture

My phone memories tell me that Chester made its castle-walls ‘pee proof’, and on this day in 2016 we simulated this in the studio. @thejeremyvine.bsky.social

Free air fryers! We've just had the (Conservative) leader of North Lincolnshire council on. They have quite an eye catching policy. They're using a government-provided fund (for 'vulnerable households') to offer every single pensioner-household in the county a free air fryer.

If you are looking for more news and musings from #BBCNews journalists, here are a few dozens of us on bsky, in handy starterpacks - for content produced in London and globally: go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD For Nations and Regions: go.bsky.app/KKH2HFp Hope you'll find some faves and new voices too:

We discussed ‘the worst ever winter wonderlands’ today. Delighted that we tracked down Emma Craven. She was an elf who got slapped by an angry customer at ‘Lapland New Forest’ in 2008. She said the organisers tried to put antlers on goats to make them into reindeer. @thejeremyvine.bsky.social

My three-year-old just exclaimed “this is the best day of my life!”. Because…I gave her a Weetabix in a ‘grown up bowl’. Worried what this says about me as a parent.

A really useful, informative article

Tidying up my inbox and just to say thank you to our very patient techincal team to whom I sent this email earlier this year