A legal expert explains how the case could play out.

So I was checking out an address for friends who have moved to a newish estate... and all the names of the streets are tv detectives.

'The Lighthouse.' James Fitton’s 1933 lighthouse painting reflects his distinctive illustrative style of the period, clean lines, simplified forms, and a strong, graphic sense of structure applied to a familiar coastal subject.

Traditional European Christmas Deserts by region. Being from Munich I am favoring the Frankonian Lebkuchen, the Italian Panettone and basically everything from Eastern Europe. Let’s just say that I’m no a picky eater... Source: buff.ly/2WxBIkC

[12hrs into my ice interrogation] agent: in 2021 you posted “they should call him matt hardcock am i right fellas” can you explain that? me: do you know who matt hancock is? a:… [43mins later] a: he had his own app? for parkour? me: no the parkour was a separate issue

I will not spoil what is written on Bernard Cribbins' card in the opening titles. (And no, the theme tune we all know is stuck in traffic.)

Yes, it's the wonderful @rufushound.bsky.social guesting in the Comedy Store Players improv show this Sunday. Plus Kirsty Newton on keys. See you there!

This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

Me: *makes a single small purchase from a brand* Brand: We are now betrothed

Tell your boss that I gave you the rest of the week off so you can explore this amazing interactive map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. This is so much fun to explore you can compare the Ancient and Modern road network for example. Your boss will understand... Source: itiner-e.org

Imagine being the second person to get the FIFA Peace Prize

"WELL TELL HIM TO PUT IT BACK"

Glasgow to stage a 10-hour improv marathon

BBC Audio Awards 2025 nominees: www.comedy.co.uk/radio/news/8...

This is great do listen in

From beginning, middle, to end 💙 @deldridgewriter.bsky.social's critically acclaimed trilogy, written and produced over a decade, explores love & relationships & is now available in one volume, with an introduction by @danrebellato.bsky.social Shop at 30% off in our sale: https://bit.ly/43QEuEF

🎧 New podcast episode 🎧 Our 2025 Christmas Lecturer, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, joins us on the podcast to explore the fascinating history of space imaging and her extensive experience in the scientific world. Listen here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

If you’re in central London over the next six weeks, there’s a Snoopy Trail in the Fleet Street Quarter. I’ve illustrated the map that shows where all 12 Snoopys are…

The last time America hosted a men’s World Cup, in 1994, purists sniffed that it wasn’t a proper footballing country—they had a point. But in 2026 things will look different

So, my home town is having a meltdown on social media because a 50 year old brick and concrete bus shelter is being taken down to make way for a modern replacement. Facebook posts commenced. Several a day on the Community pages. An online petition was started. And now... This.

Liz Truss: I would LOVE to join a club that would have me as a member

Lovely story that cheered up my morning 😍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Going to do a Christmas Ask Me Anything podcast that will go out to EVERYONE (not just badgers) and if your question is used then you get sent an exclusive badge. Email me at [email protected].

Just … fab

New #StrongMessageHere is up. ‘Spooking the markets’ and ‘Banter’ are the phrases up for discussion, with Natalie Haynes and Stewart Lee.

The Observer is no longer just a Sunday paper; you can now get a little bit of Sunday every day. Our new website and app are live, and we’re publishing daily for the first time in 233 years. Sign up today: https://bit.ly/3M6Okw3 Download our app here: https://bit.ly/4oE3ZAR

An Escape Room but it's just figuring out how to turn off the light in a hotel room

Exactly 75 years ago today, BBC Television began regular broadcasting at Saturday teatimes with the very first episode of Whirligig, one of its first well-known, long-running children’s shows. To mark the occasion, I’ve written a feature for the BBC website. But if you’d like to know more… (1/3)

For Algernon Newton buildings were living entities, vulnerable to the ravages of time, neglect or weather. period curiosities, timeless and unreal. This work, painted as a monotone picture, depicts 'Dovehouse Street, Chelsea,' in London, 1920.

Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer

Old Danish Christmas stamp sheets, 1960s/1970s. www.presentandcorrect.com/collections/... Shipping worldwide

Congratulations to @phoebemcindoe.bsky.social @redzi.bsky.social, Alan Hall and @mikemixes.bsky.social for winning this year's @savethechildren.org Radio and Podcasts award for BBC Radio 4's County Lines! www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-c...

Godrevy Lighthouse of To the Lighthouse fame (I know Woolf transplanted it to Scotland don’t @ me)

It’s always “YOU NEED YOUR HEARING CHECKED” and never “I’m going to get tested for mumbling”

If you’ve never seen it, this:

British Rail Travellers-Fare menu from 1975

"Nobody writes about the BBC board without observing that it is a strange beast." Ceri Thomas traces how the escalating attacks on the national institution read like the plot of a crime drama, complete with a cast of prime suspects. https://bit.ly/43x0QuN

The grimmer the news gets, the sillier the comedy antidote you require. We're here to help. All 4 episodes of The Abergele Files are now up on BBC Sounds. Stop doomscrolling and enjoy the show that puts the D into Cozy Crime! 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

This hurts so badly I can only assume Cenobites made it

This (and the rest of this thread) is a beautiful tonic.

“Each generation has had to learn how to work with its newly acquired cognitive prostheses, whether stylus, scroll, or smartphone,” Kwame Anthony Appiah writes—but what’s different with AI is its speed and the intimacy of the exchange with it.

NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...

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Marty Feldman on the nature of comedy