"BLAKE'S 7: Seek-Locate-Destroy" (transmitted 06/02/78) Vila (Michael Keating (1947-2026)) and Blake infiltrate a Federation base... Michael Keating's Vila was the only character to appear in every episode of "BLAKE'S 7" (1978-81). #scifi #sciencefiction #Blakes7 #1970s #1980s #horrorfam

Submitted for your consideration… #amwriting #fiction #Saturday

One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

www.westminster-abbey.org/worship-and-... A palpable sense of the choir having fun, especially in the Wheeler anthem @multitudeofvoyces.bsky.social. Plus Tallis, Leighton, Dyson.

Sun is hot. Sea is cold. Wine is 30p per litre.

Love this for her! Great to see one of the most important jobs given its place too www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cyclin...

"Keir, I'm sorry I've written your name down, I hope I'm wrong"

Voted Tory for the first time. I think a lot of like-minded people, all over Bromley and next-door in Bexley, probably decided they couldn't risk Reform winning, held their nose and did the same. In my ward, only the Tories and Reform bothered leafleting.

I am reminded of Elmer the elephant by the Birmingham political map of 2026 though the quite positive patchwork of harmony message of that storybook may be challenging to emulate in city local politics

Well, this is gratifying! Thanks to everyone who listens, likes, engages, reviews and supports the podcast. Not listened yet? Give us a go. Episode 75 and a bonus episode out later this month... www.doingsofdoyle.com #arthurconandoyle #sherlockholmes

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

www.westminster-abbey.org/worship-and-... St Margaret's Choristers and Consort Sunday evensong: Leighton, Purcell, Bach.

Do go & vote if you have a chance.

Earlier today the Romanian government lost a no-confidence vote. The voting procedure is quite unusual. Firstly, it’s bicameral - both deputies and senators vote. Each deputy and senator gets two balls (a white ball and a black ball), and a vote is cast by placing each ball in an urn. 🌑⚪️ 1/4

It's the UK local elections this Thursday, 7 May. Please vote if you can.

Illustration for "Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks" in the "DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS OMNIBUS" (1976). #DoctorWho #DrWho #scifiart #1970s #sciencefiction #Daleks

Oh Christ. I think I have to vote Tory on Thursday.

Spot the iconic Lincoln Imp high up at Lincoln Cathedral! He's come out in support of his team this week - thanks to Stuart Boyfield, the cathedral's longest-serving staff member and an Imp supporter! Stuart is pictured here with Lincoln City players Jack Moylan and Ivan Varfolomeev looking on

Nice bit of Schubert ftom the girls and men of @westminsterabbey.bsky.social yesterday, but the highlight here is Kristina Arakelyan's beautiful 'Christ, our Paschal Lamb'.

"Can you identify these monsters that have appeared in 'Dr. Who'?" "NAME THE MONSTERS" c/o "THE ARMADA TV QUIZ BOOK" by Peter Eldin (1976). Art by Colin Hawkins. #DoctorWho

BBC News - The Epsom rape crime that never happened - but sparked a frenzy anyway - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "stochastic terrorism"

A penguin is the god-king of space?!

Q: who could have possibly predicted it? A: anyone who has paid the slightest attention to the House of Lords. At best it's naive, at worst ignorant, but I don't see any appetite for politicians or the media to pay any more attention to how the second chamber works. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As a sustained sequence of action and tension, Jack and Stephen's escape from the States in THE FORTUNE OF WAR is as good as anything O'Brian--or pretty much anyone else, really--ever wrote.

Lovely evensong at St George's Beckenham last night, Tomkins, Sumsion, Bainton. How lucky I am to be able to turn up with some friends and make that music! Bainton must have been a tenor.

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK. First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

BBC News - League Two: Bromley promoted to League One as Notts County beaten - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Not much of a football fan, but genuinely excited for the town. Even if it does mean leaving the house on a Saturday is going to be even harder!

Box art for Nestle's "DOCTOR WHO MILK CHOCOLATE" (1971). #DoctorWho #DrWho #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart #1970s

keepbromleyinlondon.co.uk I worry slightly about giving the idea oxygen, but i guess this is about getting ahead of the game.

"My home is a Grade II Listed building," a local writes *in their objection to an expansion of a cancer hospital*. "The development would cause significant harm to its setting, character and historic significance, contrary to the statutory duty to preserve listed buildings and their surroundings."

I haven't read it in a while but I swear there are multiple parts of the Bible that are literally about how you shouldn't do this

Illustration from the prologue to "Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks" in the "DOCTOR WHO AND THE DALEKS OMNIBUS" (1976). #DoctorWho #DrWho #scifiart #1970s #sciencefiction #Daleks

A papal representative on his way to meet the US president

The Flyer of Dorian Gray.

Labour MP gets dragged publicly by a pub landlady for having the audacity to go into her pub, order food and spend money. Honestly no wonder decent people don’t want to go into public life. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Look, this is a grey squirrel of a solecism and I hate it. The correct expression is ALL MOUTH AND TROUSERS, implying front, bravado, brashness with nothing of substance within. The needful idiom here is ALL GONG AND NO DINNER. Something that promises much but delivers nothing.

The Nobel Foundation should organize a football competition.

sorry i have to interrupt whatever you're doing to tell you all that from 1994 to 2014 there was a political party in New Zealand called "Libertarianz"

youtu.be/BdWy-aD_l90?... Outstanding performance of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater yesterday from St Margaret's Choristers of Westminster Abbey.

David Simon said it best

April Fools? In 1971, a Texas legislator proposed a resolution highlighting Albert DeSalvo's work on "population control" and there was support... ... DeSalvo was the alleged Boston strangler.

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

exclusive: Nigel Farage has recorded Cameo videos in which he endorsed a neo-Nazi event, repeated extremist slogans and supported a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot. w/ @michaelgoodier.bsky.social

10 years ago today. Huge thanks to everyone who has listened and supported us over the last decade! 😍 We'll celebrate this big birthday by posting some of our favourite Mince bits throughout the day 🎙️

youtube.com/live/77v2SyZ... St Margaret's Choristers--Gjeilo, Smith, Byrd, Howells.

Cover art for "DOCTOR WHO AND THE CAVE MONSTERS" (1974). Art by Chris Achilléos. #DrWho #DoctorWho #scifiart #1970s