Went the day well? #EuropeAblaze open.spotify.com/episode/7cIA... @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social

RIP Frederick Wiseman It’s late period Wiseman but still engrossing. Boring for some but I loved the contrast between the great works of art & the various staff going about their sometimes mundane jobs. It has a very calming and meditative effect. On here for free: player.bfi.org.uk/subscription...

RIP to the star of "Badge 373" who wouldn't take any crap from Puerto Rican leftists discontinuednotes.com/2021/11/14/h...

Look how much everybody loved you Bob... youtu.be/zJ_yoFHmwDU?... RIP Robert Duvall.

'morning!

Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.

Join us on Start the Week in ten minutes — George Saunders gets eschatological again in his novel Vigil, @oliverbullough.bsky.social follows the trail of the money launderers and Ece Temelkuran on redefining “home” to create a place that leaves no one out in the cold.

“My family joined me in the mess, somehow. That electrical storm of mental illness.” As someone who once lived with a “functioning” alcoholic I don’t think I’ve ever heard a better doc on the subject. Sympathetic, honest and vividly accurate. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

if only we had a media and culture secretary @roberthutton.co.uk

This is a safe space! Post a #Superman

In the mid 90s I spent some time in Bosnia, towards the end of the war there. What I absolutely learned is that people DO die defending a multiculture.

It's also worth remembering that this narrative is Nazi in a way that actually pre-dates the Holocaust. Hitler rose to power telling a story of a Germany shackled by guilt and shame (and of course the material concessions fallout) from WWI

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.

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...

My old pal @mortenmorland.bsky.social celebrating my 15th anniversary in Downing Street in style

Such a jolly scene. Young women in the countryside in summer eating blueberries. Where was it, who took it+who were they? Who’s the man at the centre? Find out more www.stratfordeast.com/whats-on/all... And please remember, it begins with words+images+we’ve seen where it ends. #Auschwitz

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

the chef. the kiss.

Why on earth..?! Not at all easy, like Sunday morning.

You can see for miles from here, across Morecambe Bay to the Lake District. It's a lovely spot for remembrance. If you'd like me to include your dead Mum, reply with her name and I'll put her on the list. Please use hashtag #Mums26. It makes it a lot easier to collect them all! ❤️👑

Is this from the same AI that said it was ok to use glue to attach cheese to a pizza?

Adored this film! boxd.it/6z8iz3

Or Babette's Feast. The sensual delight of #TheTasteOfThings runs deep.

Nominative quotidianism

Never mind the pleasure of looking, this is scoffophilia...! #TheTasteOfThings

Watching The Taste of Things #BBCFOUR and honestly, it's SO rich!

If anyone's concerned about BBC bias (sic) just wait til you find out that Ian LaFresnais is both Bob *and* Terry! #LikelyLad 👇

Scotch missed...

For everyone besieged by false consciousness... #Class -y discussion, as you'd expect from @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social w/added #IanLaFresnais, #AndreaDunbar @lauraminords.bsky.social @adellestripe.bsky.social #SamuelJohnson-Schlee @jacriding.bsky.social Scintillating! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@bsky.app What does #FailedToLoadBlob mean, but can I copyright it?

So last century. youtu.be/ZAe-ThowTvg?...

"Wheat, malt, double-sugar and salt". #FullEnglish

Nominative adverbialism: starmering & bleary bsky.app/profile/anot...

@iaingrant9.bsky.social Your timing is immaculate/schmammaculate... bsky.app/profile/anot...

in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut buttondown.com/theswordandt...

The inaudible heckling in Any Questions #BBCRadio4 #BBCAQ is like a parody late night in Glasgow. Ably handled by Alex Forsyth. Yeh, centrist dad is tired of shouty, sloppy low-diction righteousness.

You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes

Posts shared on social media have wrongly claimed Reform UK edited its own posters into an image of a house in Gorton and Denton. In actual fact, these claims are themselves based on an image that appears to have been edited to remove the posters.

Except by the universally loathed.

Roses are red Tomorrow's for lovers...

Farage's lies about people not speaking English factchecked here. NB Farage also claimed that "four million speak barely passable English" - this too is a lie. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Post a tree you photographed

Also discusses #starmering as the alternative to stumbling. The noun-adverbial possibilities of politicians' names remains strangely unexploited. bsky.app/profile/anot...

Sir Jim Ratcliffe has sparked criticism after claiming the UK was being “colonised by immigrants”. We’ve taken a look at what the figures show when it comes to immigration in recent years.

So do we all. But for anyone keen to get in some knockout blows to the BBC, contrast the response in this thread to the jeering nonsense GBeebies puts out to defend itself.

In short, while pointing out that breaking news with conflicting perspectives involves publication of competing accounts, pending clarification, BBC accepts it was slow to adjust once it became clear that only one side was engaged in to truth. Key paras in long email here …

Day after Alex Pretti killing I complained to BBC about presentation of White House statements and evidence as equivalent. Duty of balance doesn’t extend to complicity with clear lies, I said. BBC could and should report WH making false statements as a *fact of the story*. Today I got response …

Yes.