"the pill was invented by men and taken by women" is such a brilliant line #CallTheMidwife

I think it's wrong to describe the World Service as "soft power". It's actually "info power". And these days that's a very hard form of power indeed.

Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV (15th February 1985). Then it was, what do you think of Marx? I said I think their pants have dropped off.

The basic appeal of Reform is as a "maybe smashing everything will work" party. But it just seems like insane nihilism to do that when even you think it will turn out terribly.

Was in Birmingham yesterday and saw a woman dancing to Whitney Houston in the Superdrug hair dye aisle, then she walked up to the counter and said ‘you don’t sell teeth do ya’

Two golds in one day for Team GB. Never done that before in a whole winter Olympics. And two for Matt Weston who becomes the most successful male winter Olympian.

EXT: Day. The grave of Noel Edmonds. A figure lies face down in the freshly dug soil, sobbing inconsolably. CAPTION: GREYFRIARS BLOBBY.

This is the kind of Olympic event I’m here for.

I dunno what prompted a clothing brand to launch a men’s sweater called the Rosa Parks with an advert featuring a man taking a seat, but we are where we are

Remarkable that climate change isn't mentioned anywhere in this article on the fragility of the Dawlish stretch of the SW main line BBC News - The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Coronation Street - written by Michael Lynch (15th February 1971). Nellie Harvey (Mollie Sugden) pays a visit to Mrs Walker, which means that another round of viciously genteel warfare is about to begin.

Minnie struggles with the concept of decimalisation.

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

Sunday repost for this, as I think it got lost in a Top of the Pops marathon, and I quite like it.

Just a total collapse of the right's cordon sanitaire! A Tory MP and the Tory leader in the London assembly are both on the board of this movement!

I have a jumper with this embroidered on from JW Anderson, which I love very much.

Don't want to be all "my diamond shoes are too tight" because of the silly car but there's a horrible sense that fully sorting out these roads now they've reached this state (and this winter has felt like a tipping point) is just miles and billions beyond our capacity.

Which gave us this. youtu.be/PNQ2Xx2jjCM

By way of contrast, I shot 1.41 terabytes of footage for 'Potholesville', a 12-minute film, which would require around 1,244,554 floppy disks. My main camera would fill 1 floppy disk every 7.4 milliseconds.

“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”

… and lost a general election.’

If you have not heard this before you must. It makes me proud to be british

The demands will be a) pls wash the dishes and remember my birthday or b) be a 6’2 clavmaxxer alpha non-chud, none of which is anything women remotely want or understand

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

I don't hate actual Nazis as much as I hate antivaxxers. At least Nazis have an ideology & a grudge; anti-science grifters have nothing but the certainty of their own ignorant narcissism.

Having been driven mad by The Discourse around a novel that’s been in my head since I first read it 35 years ago, I went to see the Fennell adaptation. May God have mercy on my soul. letterboxd.com/bohaynowell/...

Always explore ‘From the Archive’ on iPlayer. It’s full of delights.

Hello! I’m Gail, a one woman business, based in #Manchester My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares, cards and t-shirts. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk

This is a @dsquareddigest.bsky.social opinion I’ve stolen but: we should treat people who do this like people who blow up letterboxes or otherwise deliberately damage public amenities. It is vandalism!

To mark Valentine’s Day, here is what is believed to be the world’s oldest surviving love poem, written 1.5 million years ago by one of our earliest ancestors, homo unrequitus.

Catching up with @patrickmaguire.bsky.social's column this week. And if there's a better one published by anyone this year then I'm looking forward to reading it. www.thetimes.com/article/5cba...

Happy Valentines everyone. I bet you’ve all got smashing blouses.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Bloody hell #totp

If i wanted to win ice skating gold I'd simply not keep falling over all the time.

Oh, Palmerston! May his memory be a blessing ❤️

Once you start looking up pictures from Demis Roussos photo sessions, you can never stop.

Award-winning Dadding, there.

"It can still turn out to be… an utterly worthless experience." Brand new on Dirty Feed: a short piece about one of my favourite scenes in The Mary Tyler Moore Show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/02/an-u...

London is clearly in need of a modern Kojak to big it up.

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, / Thank god, the British neo-fascist. / But seeing what the man will do / Unbribed, there's no occasion to.

This halfwitted ket addict sticking his oar in would definitely see Starmer not only remain in office but probably score a landslide second term in 2029.

sun #sun #growth #change #love #peace #healingthroughart

Support for gay marriage is over 75% in this country and has been for years. The CofE should decide if it wants to be the national church or a sect.

The Notorious F.I.G.

I like to repost this every now and then, just because it's a lovely wee moment. From "The Navy Lark" - "Going Dutch", Leslie Phillips delivers a line which gets the biggest, longest, most joyful audience response I've ever heard. It just seems to keep building.