The beauty of that syrup was its ability, when upturned, to hold a decent portion of soup.

Love this photo of Tom and @louisejameson.bsky.social What an iconic duo

Highlights from tonight’s #Crossroads.

Still possibly one of the greatest Armistice Day tweets of all time from the good old days on Twitter. #inremembrance #lestweforget #cockdestroyer

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."

Yep. This is it. Jettison BBC News.

The BBC, both as a radio broadcaster, and a TV broadcaster, didn’t start out doing news at all. News is the upstart department. Its job is to act as a national fireplace. And that’s properly vital now, more than ever.

Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked. We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.

I honestly believe we should be asking anyone who ever offered Farage a platform to explain themselves. All the way from news producers to Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. I refuse to believe any of them didn't know what they were doing.

The late Barry Took www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I shudder to think how BBC News will deteriorate from here. I'm at the stage where I really resent having to pay the licence fee to watch live TV on any platform. The BBC has been hijacked and poses a threat to the country and I'm not comfortable funding it any more.

Trump is just operating a protection racket. Which we'll all be paying into.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

Keep thinking of when Disney tried to sue the BBC when Alexei Sayle’s Stuff parodied Snow White and the BBC legal person was heard to say, ‘Fuck Disney, we’re the BBC.’

When asked for a response to the criticism for including Mackenzie, the BBC replied only to tell me that he wasn't a live guest ...which was not what I asked

This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …

The rememberbus

"Hello, yes? Yes, it is an emergency. I've accidentally..."

They NEED Noel Edmonds on this

Get him out www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Incredible shit here: the man who provided the template for stomping on the BBC when it displeases malicious actors in politics, complaining that malicious actors in politics are using his template for stomping on the BBC for displeasing them.

Balance isn’t the same as objectivity. The former can be done fairly mechanically. The latter requires analysis, clear thought, data and being prepared to present your conclusions. The BBC is very capable of the analysis, but scared of the presentation part, because it inevitably pisses people off.

Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.

A title screen I dreamed

This shot is superb. It's got a touch of the Caravaggio's about it. #BBCBreakfast

Live scenes from the BBC.

Tomorrow, we hear from Peter Sutcliffe as he launches his new Safer Streets campaign

I'm writing a biography of the tumultuous Coombs/Varney marriage. It's called Erotic Vagrancy 2 - Swinging in the Suburbs.

Unfortunately Kamala Harris wasn't responsible for a similar, balancing insurgency. I'm sure if she had been, the BBC would have dedicated a programme to it. Christ this Prescott guy is a moron.

Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement

***MARMADUKE HUSSEY***

I am fascinated to know which side of “systemic bias” the Gaza and trans rights angle is www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I thought this was the Question Time audience.

It’s getting to that point in my life where I’m starting to think if there’s actually been anything good on the television since Alexei Sayle’s Stuff 🤔

I'm delighted that the Tory cunt has gone. The problem is that there are Tory cunts everywhere, circling the wounded beast. Ultimately, I think that when it finally goes, the BBC's awful legacy will be that of creating Farage. And that's incredibly sad.

"Wirtz"(heavy on the V sound), "in vertical Manchester rain" - is there no sentence in the English language that Peter Drury won't strangle alliteration out of?

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Yes, most LFC fans agree with Neville. The only piece of analysis I have from the first half is that there is a lot of curly hair in the Man City team.

“WE REMEM WILL BEP THEM”

Is Neville laying it on a bit thick? I know Liverpool haven't been great, but is there a bit of extra relish being scooped on here? #LFC

More forensic, game-killing bollocks. #LFC

I used to think Paul Luty was Big Daddy.

Coronation Street - written by Geoffrey Lancashire (9th November 1970). Albert tells Minnie that Handel was a conscientious objector.

Great to see Theresa May's husband again. "WHERE'S ME WASHBOARD?"

My grandad Terry Carroll was part of the BEF, got cut off at Dunkirk, was sheltered by a French farmer, made his way home via Cherbourg, then went back after D Day to do his bit again, injured by shrapnel. Thought of him and his mates during the minutes silence at VP yesterday.

Hello.

"If every ex-soldier would tell his own children the truth, the whole truth, about war, the war-spirit would be stamped out for ever" — Ernest Mander, general secretary NUX @alwynturner.bsky.social on radicalism and remembrance after the Great War👇 thelionandunicorn.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/t...