Why does it look like Rachel Reeves is officiating a wedding between Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown

Keir Starmer's writing style is so robotic that Richard Dawkins has just fallen in love with him.

Very pleased for and very proud of my friend Tom today. He works so very hard and more often than not that sort of work means you get nowt for it. A well deserved award that will hopefully lead to more. Congratulations.

🏆 Crowley Time took the big award for Funniest Podcast of 2026 at the Golden Lobes last night! I can’t believe it. Here’s me talking about the whole situation ⬇️ youtu.be/IbKwebNJZZc?...

The Odyssey is one of the oldest, most enduring narratives we have. But this trailer looks like every blockbuster movie of the last 25 years. Very hard to elicit awe from your audience when you can be sure there’ll be another near-identical movie coming along within a fortnight.

Richard Dawkins may not be aware of the “sad lonely man falls in love with his computer / Siri / app” archetype, but his AI certainly is.

Quite genuinely the best King’s Speech since the one with Geoffrey Rush.

King Charles: "The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."

A depressing thread about the TV industry right now - and with a few words switched around, you could apply much of it to the audio industry too

Very pleased to hear that this is coming back. Another class on Tuesday 21st April! www.newactorscentre.org/products/the...

Looking forward to hearing Paul McGann on an episode of Real Dictators purring the line: “Trump even mocks up an image of himself healing the sick, in Messianic regalia. That’s on the same day he launches a bizarre tirade on the Pope, who’s apparently too ‘weak on crime’ for his liking.”

Tom Crowley and Viz is the crossover I never knew I needed until this moment!

House of Cards is the best piece of British telly made in the 20th century. When I learned that the director was also once a Doctor Who villain, well, I don’t know how to end this sentence, but it sure was something.

He's pulled off his betting market scam again, has he?

Trump may not carry out the threat. But the fact he even made such a threat means he should immediately be removed from office. For that is the purpose of a constitution with checks and balances.

Took a screenshot in case I ever forget what irredeemable evil looks like.

“My parts are showing?!”

Captured the moment when Peter Davison finally dispelled any doubts he’d had about leaving Doctor Who.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

To be frank, History & Policy is struggling to find a precedent for this. But we’re waiting to hear back from Suetonius who’s promised us a policy paper.

THIS is the kind of discourse that will revive Bluesky

buttondown.com/cooray_smith... It's time to begin again. Free for all, but why not subscribe afterwards, at Psychic Paper.

Doctor Who: Devil’s Planet More gripping stuff from Douglas Camfield, making the most of a few tiny sets; these episodes are so well directed. William Hartnell is full of energy too. His dynamic with Nicholas Courtney is excellent and it’s got such Brigadier & Doctor vibes!

Just WOW! The thing that really shines through in these episodes is the Direction of Douglas Camfield. Every shot is crafted so meticulously. These feel like era defining episodes. Adrienne Hill gets to shine properly. Thank you @filmisfabulous.bsky.social

Doctor Who: The Nightmare Begins For an episode that on audio seemed very standard set-up stuff, it’s amazing to see how tense and dynamic it is on screen! Douglas Camfield, you legend.

Had myself a Hammer Horror double bill this evening, lads. I know you’re jealous.

I was looking through fan art for Wooden Overcoats, and found some wonderful images drawn by Alice Oseman of Heartstopper fame! She tweeted us back in 2018 - I wish I'd seen it at the time! If anyone knows Alice personally, please do thank her for me!

The only Norwood I care about is Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Norwood Builder, in which a man attempts to defraud a naive young man while living behind a flimsy facade. No similarities to current events there.

The crafty bugger. It’s always the reptiles you least suspect.

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Doing some dramaturgy this afternoon (helping a writer with their script / series outline) - rather looking forward to it!

Rampant overuse of AI is even affecting Doctor Who on home media. Like an ocean of slop, ruining everything it touches.

An "AI" or CGI or whatever recreation of a dead performer is a massive, massive insult to them irrespective of what one thinks of the technology, simply because it is a statement that all that matters about the person in question is their likeness, not their actual artistic ability.

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

If anybody would like to commission the TV version of an award-winning independent British sitcom that ran for 4 x seasons, well, I've got one. It's a podcast, you can listen to it right now for free. We still get fan mail and donations every day. Let's make more narrative comedy, please.

I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:

Cor! Looking forward to seeing some Hot Peter Purves Action at Easter! #DoctorWho *swoon*

2 x missing episodes of Doctor Who are back! Daleks! Brett Vyon! Katarina! If you need some Master Plan fun to whet your appetite until Easter, I wrote an audio adventure some years back all about Katarina! With two Doctors! www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/d...

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

I want to be this cat when I grow up

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Squelchy things ahoy: the best Beano strip of all!

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

James Hamilton is off to the Emmys and I am so proud and in awe!

"The military actions obliterating Iran's nuclear capacity once-and-for-all were becoming more frequent."

They might as well call it Operation Tiny Penis. Pathetic.

Small Prophets: magnificent. Give Doctor Who to Mackenzie Crook.

A thorough - and thoroughly entertaining - article about the 1980s TV career of Kenneth Williams, the king (or jester) of the British chat show!