"They want to cancel Christmas" latest:

'The War Between the Land and the Sea' (2025) BBC1

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people. And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

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Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close. And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness. Musk is everything he hated.

He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Actress June Lockhart has passed away at the age of 100. Dr Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space (1965-8) Ruth Martin in Lassie (1957-64) Mariah Ramirez on General Hospital (USA) Dr Janet Craig in Petticoat Junction June Lockhart 1925-2025

Old Soviet joke: Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three? One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

Original versus new. Those new FX shots on #DoctorWho Terror of the Zygons from the new Season 13 Blu-ray in full.

#DoctorWho — 15 Doctors, 15 debut stories. Published by Penguin Books and based on #DavidPelham’s covers from the 1970s. 🧵 1/

It seems pointless to fact check someone saying "curry isn't proper British food like fish and chips", just like it's futile to correct someone saying "there are no pronouns in the Bible". They haven't made a mistake. What they're saying is, "Britain is a white country".

Signs a launderette is in an upper middle-class area...

When I was a kid, the middle aged fans hated McCoy. Younger ones loved him. 35 years later, the kids are middle aged and his era is seen as classic. After watching the final Gatwa ep in my local cinema with 300 people who are way younger than, I realise history will repeat.

This is mind blowing. Tastes of #oreo and #cocacola in the same taste. Madness.

Blimey @dirtyfeed.org . I can't remember the last time this happened. The lack of cheesy music is disappointing 🙂

My art teacher walked with calipers because of childhood polio An elderly gentleman, paralysed from the chest down, used to propel himself along the road in an enormous bathchair. We who grew up with this knew why we took vaccines, and gave them to our kids: Vaccines cause adulthood #VaccinesWork

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Maybe not in the 90s, more so now...

Dutch late night TV has its take

Well, managing to have your party fall to pieces before you've even decided what to call it must set a record for incompetence even by Corbyn standards... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Perfect for #caturday

My, my, my. How the tone has changed.

I see sellers of cheap, high-strength Polish lager are doing a cracking trade in London today... Bit unpleasant to see the cans getting thrown around but at least we can be sure they're empty.

Really makes you think.

The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

I think the creepiness of season 18 gets forgotten in discussion of the high scientific concepts and social entropy, the Marshmen, Melkur, Tharils, etc, all lurk in the shadows until their true moral meaning is revealed nodding to classic English ghost stories. RIP. #doctorwho

1989. So tell me again how it started on “October 7th”

Cunning plan to lower his neighbours house prices. Then buy them. Then rent to the Home Office as housing for immigrants awaiting appeal. Entrepreneurial spirit. It's what Margaret Thatcher would have wanted.

In a sane, normal country, Lucy Connolly would be treated as a contemptible extremist. Not in Britain. But then this is no longer a sane, normal country. Britain has lost its moral bearings My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Remember when painting pedestrian crossings in Pride colours could cause horses to drop dead from shock?

OTD 1975: En route to Loch Ness fifty years ago today, the Doctor stops to host Disney Time A BBC / Disney crossover? Imagine! Such crass modern commercialism would never have been permitted in the old days! #DoctorWho

Reform government and the chance of a Lib Dem opposition? Any countries where a 50-something solution architect can emigrate too? 😵‍💫

Said the aggressor in every abusive relationship, ever. "Harvard has to understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them, he added. "They're hurting themselves. They're fighting." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I don't think I shared this when I wrote it :-) The truth about the poll positions for late 1980s Doctor Who episodes after spending a few hours in the BFI library. #doctorwho thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2025/04/13/t...

New theory: an assassin from the future was sent in an experimental time machine to avert the Century of Pandemics, but he shot the wrong Kennedy and the do-over didn't go well, either.

#OnThisDay in 1944, Anne Frank wrote her last entry in her now-celebrated diary. Three days later her family were arrested and transported to concentration camps. Only Anne's Father, Otto Frank, survived the Holocaust. Learn More #HolocaustExplained buff.ly/8yUp2ik

Like Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn.

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

I read #doctorwho and the Space War on the train around #targetbookday. I recommend it to anyone who thinks classic Who was well plotted and never 'woke'. It also feels pretty liberal. I wonder if Malcolm Hulme was still feeling the love for revolutionary communism by that point.

Very fine, hot day at #doctorwho #targetbookclub although I do feel like I have eaten an entire Spiel Snake 🙂 Thanks @gossjam.bsky.social

First RTD brings #doctorwho into a shared fictive universe with EastEnders by legitimising Dimensions in Time. Now @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social has done the with Crossroads through Shughie McPhee! We live in dark times 🤯😱😵‍💫🙂 #targetbookclub

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

This week I learned that 2022’s average summer temperatures were 4.5° higher than 1976’s and this sort of thing really should be shutting down the 1976 nostalgia from now on.

A week until #DoctorWho #TargetBookClub! We have ONE MORE SURPRISE GUEST to announce tomorrow! I've just been reading one of the papers and it's about sex stuff and books! Tickets: bit.ly/escape2danger