MITCH BENN performs Charles Dickens’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL Abridged by the author UK TOUR December 2025 Raising money for local charities Ticket links at mitchbenn.com/tour-dates (art by happytoast.co.uk)

Bring the family! Comedian Mitch Benn (BBC Radio 4) performs his acclaimed one-man show of Dickens' A Christmas Carol on Dec 14th at 2PM. He uses Dickens' original abridged text! Perfect 70-min Christmas treat. TICKETS: ow.ly/bpcf50XlrSA #FamilyShow #MitchBenn

Just Announced: A Christmas Carol - performed by Mitch Benn Monday 15th December 2025 Tickets on sale NOW: www.ticketsource.co.uk/macarts/t-xd... Doors 7pm This is a seated family show lasting approximately seventy minutes plus an interval.

it’s a real problem for the bbc that other news outlets have been successfully lying to their audiences for years to the point that the bbc seem “out of touch” to people who’ve swallowed those lies, and someone at the bbc should resign over this

Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.

In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2

When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”. Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

How by attempting to appease the forces on the right seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...

COP30 (the climate change UN meeting) is coming up, and every time I scroll past it, my brain initially sees it as...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart? Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC. (A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)

Beebgate demonstrates two truths: 1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever. 2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.

The Tory member and former election candidate that Boris Johnson appointed as DG of the BBC in order to make it more right-wing is now not right-wing enough to be DG of the BBC. Couldn't really ask for a clearer example of the Overton window being pushed rightward, could you?

i feel like this is a reasonable take that i would have held pre-2024 (the BBC did screw up therefore there should be accountability) but the fact that this trivial editing mistake should have such terrible consequences, while right wing media lies with impunity constantly, makes my head explode

MITCH BENN performs A CHRISTMAS CAROL Written & and abridged by Charles Dickens UK TOUR December 2025 Dates & ticket links at mitchbenn.com/tour-dates

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Written & abridged by Charles Dickens Directed & performed by Mitch Benn UK TOUR December 2025 Raising money for local charities #AChristmasCarol #Dickens #mitchbenn Dates and tickets at mitchbenn.com/tour-dates

LONDON-BASED PALS I have a spare ticket for the launch of the new Douglas Adams audiobook this evening at the Royal Geographical Society (see link)… comes with a copy of the audiobook… Anyone interested who can make it into Kensington for 7.30? DM me x howtoacademy.com/events/dougl...

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Written & abridged by Charles Dickens Directed & performed by Mitch Benn UK TOUR December 2025 Raising money for local charities #AChristmasCarol #Dickens #mitchbenn Dates and tickets at mitchbenn.com/tour-dates

MITCH BENN performs A CHRISTMAS CAROL Written & and abridged by Charles Dickens UK TOUR December 2025 Dates & ticket links at mitchbenn.com/tour-dates

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Written & abridged by Charles Dickens; directed & performed by me… UK Tour December 2025 mitchbenn.com/tour-dates #christmas #achristmascarol #dickens #mitchbenn

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Written & abridged by Charles Dickens; directed & performed by me… UK Tour December 2025 mitchbenn.com/tour-dates #christmas #achristmascarol #dickens #mitchbenn

Having a catch-up binge of SAS Rogue Heroes and astonished that in all the discussions about who (if anyone) will be the next James Bond, Jack O’Connell’s name doesn’t seem to have come up once. He’s got the exact right blend of broodingly masculine, weirdly erudite and bug-eyed mental.

HIVE MIND - I’m touring my one man version of A Christmas Carol this December; got a bunch of dates in BUT I’ve got an annoying gap: 14th - 17th. Been waiting to hear from some venues but can’t wait any longer. I donate 50% of my cut to local charities Any small (<100 seat)f venues interested?

"Woke NPC", that famous Sean Lock phrase

If you're wondering what Carbonara Spinster Graham Linehan is up to, he's currently putting words in a dead man's mouth.

Yeah. Definitely nothing Nazi-ish here... 👀

We are hearing some very troubling stories about trans exclusion, supported by the University, at Cambridge. We are making contact with affected societies and individuals and will fiercely protect the legal rights of trans students to live with respect and dignity.

Great gag, but the irony is that this would have been more tasteful that what he’s actually doing, given that in this image half the existing building hasn’t been bulldozed to the ground

That’s no ballroom…

I predict a spike in pitchfork and oil torch sales in Inverness hardware stores

NEWS! Brexiter annoyed by people pointing out that thing they were told 'would happen' is now 'happening' buff.ly/dFYLBNh

Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Genuine question: is Trump even remotely legally entitled to tear down one end of the White House? I realise this is a purely academic question as it’s not like anyone will DO anything about it, but it’s not his PROPERTY just because he’s currently POTUS… … is it?

If ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET did to our White House what Donald Trump just did to our White House, Republicans would be losing their motherfucking minds.

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

The “zero arrests” at the No Kings protests is perhaps an even more important figure than the sheer numbers: You can protest as peacefully as you like, but we all know, if the cops show up looking for a riot, then a riot they will have, even if they have to start it themselves…

To date No Kings protests: Zero property damage Zero assaults Zero Arrests Jan 6th Insurrection: 1 Billion $+ in property damage 1200 + arrested 7-10 deaths attributed to insurrection

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.