Volume up and try not to laugh challenge:

In setting the amount, Judge Richard Marks KC noted its finances were in an “absolutely parlous state” and a large fine could affect its services. The hospital is an arm of the state.

I immediately went to Bobby Ewing isn't dead, he just had a shower.

Not resiling from this one iota in spite of the feeding frenzy, the resignations, and the talk of a billion dollar law suit of the last few days. If those on the right in this country seriously think that lining up with Donald Trump against the BBC is a good call, then I say good luck with that.

It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback

Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men

I wonder if people know that Joyce the MuskDestroyer (she really did) is 87.

This is pretty wild, Turkey basically just nuked the lower levels of its football pyramid because everyone involved, from the players to the refs to club executives, were betting on matches www.reuters.com/sports/socce...

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Meanwhile, '3rd world' India has almost electrified all of its vast network in record time. infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/railway...

The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

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-...

Hospitals told reducing deficits more important than cutting waiting-list, i.e. treating patients www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-...

A good day to listen to our proud, joyous history of the BBC: One of the greatest British inventions of the 20th Century. An institution which, even at its worst, is far better than its detractors podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

A conscious and deliberate decision basically to weaken everything that demanded anything of anyone - whether it was effectively cancelling the old Newsnight, scrapping HardTALK, just at every stage a 'people won't get mad if we retreat from detail and rigour'.

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

" Para mis amigos, todo; para mis enemigos, la ley"

The Daily Rothno is a garden wall in Thriplow

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

A historic turning point for clean heating in Europe: For the first time, in the first half of 2025 sales of heat pumps in Germany have surpassed those of gas boilers. This is a big milestone, demonstrating that the transition away from fossil fuels in our buildings is not just a future ambition.

Alan Carr, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Woo, woo, woo.

The DECAF (Does Eliminating Coffee Avoid Fibrillation?) trial. Excellent acronym 👏🏾

Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too

Fantastic journalism.

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

““For a state that claims to be a Jewish state for all Jews,” said Strober, “if you just show up one day and stand in support of Palestinians by doing something as basic as picking olives together, actually, then your Jewishness is irrelevant.””

Now we know where all that Spotify money is going. Not to the artists - perish the thought. No, the CEO has invested it all in AI weaponry designed to kill humans. I wish this were a joke. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Fuckin idiots #traitors

Joey Barton’s lawyer questioning Lucy Ward about his posts likening her and Eni Aluko to Fred and Rose West. Just about the most perfect response I have heard in a very long time.

Capitalism, right?

Last night's setlist would finish me. www.setlist.fm/setlist/radi...

Got tickets. Listening to setlists. Fanboy November.

Election Night wasn’t just a Blue Wave — it was a Blue Tsunami. And the color that made it all possible was Black.

Clown

Tan Suit!

This is a mistake. Exam fees being paid is a significant win. It's an inflation proof gain.

to quote @slacktivistfred.bsky.social, vampires fear the cross *because* it is powerless.

I would go for the goat.

I’m afraid I’ve heard enough to take this seriously - No.10 is thinking of abolishing ECO, the main source of funding for upgrading fuel poor homes. There’s no way to sugar coat this: it would be a disaster. And it would mean this government spending less on upgrading homes than the last one

Kafka would think this too far fetched.

Day 3 of the “no more than 2” day trial of Sandwich Guy. The prosecution intends to rest; the defense hasn’t decided yet. Dispute over jury instructions continues, a few morsels (sorry) to follow.

What can you give your mate who’s desperately upset on missing out on the Nobel Peace Prize? FIFA announce new peace prize to be handed out in * can I shock you * Washington 🙀

To conflate Sadiq Khan and Mamdani is to make both of them primarily symbolic politicians defined primarily by faith and ethnicity. It is only part of their story that a 2016/2020s Mayoralty is possible. Maybe similarity/ contrast somewhat analogous to difference of say Donald Trump/ Boris Johnson.

The Turkish FA has suspended...149 (!) referees and assistant referees, out of a total of 571, for between 8 and 12 months after discovering that they were placing bets on football matches. www.mundodeportivo.com/futbol/inter...

Yep, this one is heart stopping.

Oooh - this is a dangerous recall KCl 20 mmol labelled as 10 mmol from the overwrap #nephsky #pharmsky #emimcc www.fda.gov/safety/recal...

OpenAI finally is going to make people in the real economy money.