If one of them falls out of a tree, how long do you think the scream will be? Too soon? #TheArchers

#PrayForBrad #TheArchers

OK. I've seen pizza vans. Oven. Storage, ambient and chilled, for ingredients. But not vast. I also grew up in the rural where mobile shops were A Thing. And I just can't imagine the loo roll, lettuce and packs of pasta next to (or in the way of) the pizza oven. What am I missing? #TheArchers

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

Amazing letter on the passing of playwright Tom Stoppard... #cansky #BreastCancer

I’m struggling with The Great Ambridge Character Shift again. Brad, was being set up to be autistic spectrum struggling to make friends at college and uni, now he’s divining the true sequence of events from a momentary glimpse of a look on George’s face. Hmmmm. I love Brad, but…. #TheArchers

Ok, the beaver script was mildly amusing at first, but the forced innuendo is wearing a bit thin now. #TheArchers

May we never stop trying to write cricket bats.

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

Compliments can be just as dehumanising as insults if they are used to skate over the reality of the situation. #cansky 1/5

This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely

On the Prospect Podcast, investigative journalist Mark Wilding from @libertyhq.bsky.social explains how Peter Thiel’s tech giant Palantir has become embedded in the British state—and what it might mean for us in future: www.prospectmagazine...

Is this thing just Leonard winding up Ruth? If not: Does L live @ Brookfield? This consensual "open relationship" thing outwith my experience, but to live w yr "in-laws" *and* see other people seems to be pushing the envelope even further. Having yr cake and eating it on Stir Up Sunday. #TheArchers

I am still waiting for Peggy's executors to decline to foot the bill on the grnds that the trip didn't meet the criteria: not all descendants, not a holiday (i.e. they weren't even all in same place), not a week, etc. etc. All the way to highlands Scotland by road for 2 days is mad. #TheArchers

More evidence @hayleygullen.com is my (slightly 😉) younger, (much) more talented sister.* Buy her book!! SOOOO finely observed, beautifully emotionally drawn - funny too! Love it, recommend it wherever I go... #ThisMightSurpriseYou #BreastCancer #CanSky #Lymphoedema *full disclosure- we never met

Even though I’m no longer in active breast cancer treatment, my body continues to be extremely complicated and I have lots of tedious health admin. It must be because I’m special, right? Right? #cansky 1/3

You can’t assess a wicket until both sides have batted like shit on it #TheCricket

Oh here we go…. Phoebe’s going to pop. She was ALWAYS going to deliver on this trip, wasn’t she? #TheArchers

Blackpool’s not an obvious place to find themselves on the way to Scotland - it’s an obvious attempt to set up a competing holiday location, that’s what it is! #TheArchers

Uh oh…. the “how enormous is this baby” Chekhov’s gun. Phoebe’s having a surprise twin, is she? #TheArchers

Oh good grief! Not only did Ruairi stuff up the room allocations and beds, IT'S SELF CATERING 😱😱😱 Next phase, the executors decline to reimburse because the attendees are fewer than all descendants. #TheArchers

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

1) No, it isn’t. 2) This is performative cruelty and nothing else. 3) The people you’re pitching this for will never, ever, ever vote for you.

It's the Seasonal Reposting Competition! Repost this over the weekend, and on Sunday one lucky person will win a signed copy of one of my books. For you or the #crossword addict in your life: 50 fiendish @theguardian.com #puzzles and all the stories behind them: boatmancryptics.co.uk/crossword-bo...

Oh good grief, Kate. Robins appear every five minutes in the countryside. Do they portent anything? If so, we are awash with spirit messages. #TheArchers

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Are the judges on #Strictly ever divided on the dance-off these days? I can't claim to watch every week, but it's ages since I've seen them vote other than en bloc. #StrictlyComeDancing #SCD2025

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

08:22 - Another day, another “news” item fore-fronting Ref*rm on #BBCR4Today.

Super cool to get a review in Publishers Weekly ahead of USA publication! www.publishersweekly.com/9781399424745

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.

Bonfire Night can be frightening for pets. 🐾 Keep them indoors 🎶 Play gentle music or TV 🏠 Close curtains & windows- make them a safe space 🕯️ Keep fireworks/candles safely away 🦔 Check bonfires for wildlife before lighting Let’s keep everyone safe tonight 💛 #BonfireNight

Oh listen, Ref*rm getting airtime on a flagship #BBCNews programme three times a day. Again. And again. #BBCR4Today

Meet the Judges of the 2026 Women’s Prizes! A warm welcome to: Julia Gillard, @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social, Salma El-Wardany, Cariad Lloyd and Annie Macmanus, and Thangam Debbonaire, Roma Agrawal, Nicola Elliott, Nina Stibbe and Nicola Williams. #WomensPrize

See what people are saying about Introducing Mrs Collins… and then order it!! Signed and dedicated, if you like! Perfect Christmas present for the book-lover in your life! backstory.london/products/int...

*approaching cheese section in supermarket* oh I see. The fucking part timers have turned up because it's Christmas. Fuck you. Fuck YOU. I'm here getting stilton every damn day of the year and you useless fucks come along in November and want fucking APRICOTS in it. You SAVAGES. You SCUM.

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 4: There’s nothing wrong with writing fluff. Fluff insulates. It protects. It cocoons us from a world filled with sharp edges and sudden fires. It makes a warm bed to sleep on; builds soft ramparts; saves lives.

During cancer treatment I had to get used to the idea that there were often few certainties. Not many straightforward answers. #cansky 1/5

#WHUNEW #COYI #WHUFC

Who, since the premature passing of Jane Austen, introduces their cousin as “he’s due to inherit this place.”? #TheArchers

Freddie’s 2kg of white chocolate is nothing, he obvs didn’t watch #GBBO Bake Off semi final where a beehive which was light on the macarons took 12kg of chocolate! And anyway, Chels. Gloopy’s ok. It’s separated or curdled that I‘d worry about. #TheArchers

I’m not quite following the single wandering heifer SL. If a gate was left open, as a herd animal, wouldn’t she have brought her girlfriends with her? #TheArchers

🧵 On 17 May 1902, Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais sifted through some artifacts from a shipwreck at Antikythera. A 2,000-year-old corroded chunk of metal turned out to be part of the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient analog astronomical computer. Image by Logg Tand 🔭 🧪 #HistSci #Science 1/5

My Brutalist Christmas cards are back by popular demand! Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

I believe the cardinal measure of whether a country is civilised is how it chooses to treat its most vulnerable members. And I see with my own eyes, every day at work, how many dying people are being neglected & failed. It does not have to be like this, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social. Ends/

Heartbroken to read today’s National Audit Office report describing the postcode lottery of care faced by palliative care patients. Two thirds of hospices are in debt. Hospices are being forced to cut their staff & beds. 300 beds closed in 2024 alone. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...