Just finished the latest season of Blue Lights. My spirit animal is Tina. Best TV series in years #bluelights

That was unsurprising, but also mildly disappointing. Tom won on the day. And Aaron won best outfit of all Bake Off time. Still, it's been a cracking series - not a single dud amongst them. Definitely time for a slice of cake! #GBBO

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I have a very bad feeling about this...

Watching State of War on ITV, such a powerful documentary, but utterly heartbreaking to see this level of normalised violence existing in Ecuador today. Even sadder that this could literally be filmed anywhere & I wouldn't be surprised #stateofwar

Catching up on the week's events in Ambridge. The Game of Aldridge is the intrigue we've all been missing. Who will win: who knows? But I am here for the DRAMA! #TheArchers #GameOfAldridge

Fork candles.

This is GLORIOUS #mercurymusicprize

‘Are the flags that now bedeck our suburbs and estates patriotic or racist?’ In his second weekly column, Stewart Lee looks at the changing significance of England flags over the years

In case you're not aware, Carole Cadwalladr is the journalist who exposed Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal in The Observer. Very excited to see what she and her peers will do over at The Nerve! www.thenerve.news Independent journalism is so important.

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“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick” Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Kemi Badenoch *literally* spelling out her policies on #R4Today. Pure comedy gold, I really needed a laugh this morning. Give us an 'E'. And possibly a second 'R'. And then some other letters.

"It was awful, but right", which is why I'm crying in my kitchen. I know he was the oldest pony in the world, but still... #Bartleby #TheArchers

For over 60 years, Jane Goodall was a force for research about our precious planet—and climate change action to protect it—while breaking glass ceilings along the way. I'll so miss her courage and commitment to help expand what we know about our world and preserve it for the generations to come.

I've been lucky enough to interview some amazing authors, but tonight was really special: this young woman is a shining star. Bright, beautiful, funny & fierce: the one and only Len Pennie take a bow, that was so life affirming! Happy Monday all! #poyumsannaw #poyums

For all the schlock, I see #Carrie as the ultimate expression of feminist rage. We are always too much and never enough. Plus it's just a really great movie... #BBC2

Great to be at the @transportscotland.bsky.social summit today with the SEStran gang in Glasgow! Really productive to be able to engage with transport leaders from all sectors across Scotland! #transportscotland

We've got to take our enjoyment wherever & however we can at the moment. And this is *gold* www.theguardian.com/politics/vid... #AndreaJenkyns #Insomniac #Reform

Melvin Bragg & In Our Time have been the best example of lifelong learning - informing, educating & generally entertaining us masses for 26 years! Thank you Sir & glad the programme carries on www.bbc.com/news/article... #InOurTime

And now for something completely different... Edinburgh PsychFest delivered in spades, stand out was Anna Erhard & Co: may we all be slightly taller than our friends & slightly disappointed in botanical gardens. The peacocks weren't even that majestic! #psychfest #summerhall #Edinburgh

Absolute THRILL to be asked to open the Linlithgow Classic Car Day, thanks to Dave & the team for organising & special thanks to Jim for letting me sit in his Morris Minor: my dream car! More than 100 classic, vintage vehicles on display & town buzzing, delighted! #classiccarday #linlithgow

The BBC enabling a climate of hate by constant stories about flag-shaggers as 'just ordinary people with legitimate concerns' without pointing out they are being co-ordinated by dubiously funded Facebook groups re-running the Brexit playbook

Either the BBC thinks this is what we want to hear, or they are trying to make it what we want to hear. In both cases they are wrong. But it works on some people. #r4today

I cannot believe #R4Today have given this amount of time to someone spewing such hateful crap. Challenge his language at least if you're not gojng to challenge his nonsensical claims that asylum seekers are the root of all our problems. I am sick of this normalisation of hate.

Fabulous evening with @samheughan63.bsky.social and all the good booksellers of Scotland: thank you Quadrille Books for organising & to @gleneaglesuk.bsky.social for hosting. Such fun! And you can pe-order the #CocktailDiaries now!

That was a fantastic interview with Richard Flanagan, thought provoking & really giving a sense of the human cost of war. Remembering everyone involved & thinking of the echoes still with us this #VJDay80

Letter of the day (in the Times)

This is a serious interview with a compassionate & intelligent former PM (thanks #R4Today). But Amol Rajan has missed a trick by not asking Gordon Brown if he's seen Make It Happen at the Edinburgh Festival. #makeithappen

Definitely a bit blowy out there today! Felt like all seasons at once. Baxter entirely unconcerned... #StormFloris

Why on earth do you think it's only 'young people' who are afraid of the willy waving by Trump and Putin? The whole world is fucking terrified, and so we should be when these idiotic megalomaniacs are in power #Newsnight

And we're off! It's Edinburgh festival season and we can Make It Happen! Fabulous sexy beast of a play, see it if you possibly can - Especially For You in the city where it happened... #edinburghfestival #makeithappen

This is why I love Broadcasting House. The sound of wild haggis is the perfect way to start a slow radio Sunday. #BBCBH

Top dog music today in #linlithgow - the inaugural Roots & Branches festival organised by the fabulous Low Port Records: cracking lineup, live music at its best! Baxter would like to attend the next one please? #livemusic #grassroots

NEWS: We may be witnessing the formation of a new supermassive black hole. #NASAWebb shows the Infinity Galaxy has a growing black hole between two galactic nuclei. It may have formed there through direct collapse of a gas cloud: webbtelescope.pub/4nQlWwI 🔭 🧪

Just heard Prof Catherine Heymans describe a black hole as the vampire corpse of a dead star and *now* I'm ready to start the week... #R4Today

Have kept off social media all day in order to watch the semis in real time, PLEASE can Agassi commentate on every match from now on?! And of course ... #VamosAlcaraz !!! #Grasscaraz #Wimbledon

Top 5 things about The Wicker Man: 1. Christopher Lee dismantling Christianity in one sentence. 2. Christopher Lee's hair. 3. Edward Woodward's general affrontery at everything. 4. Christopher Lee's hair. 5. Christopher Lee's hair. #BBC4

Sad to hear that much loved icon of childrens television Glen Michael has died at the age of 99. Here he is making a stylish entrance to the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. 📽️ STV

Christopher Lee's dismantling of Christianity in two sentences is possibly the greatest thing about The Wicker Man* #BBC4 *It's not, it's obviously his hair ... and Edward Woodward's general affrontery at everything, including *turquoise* broad beans (the very idea)

Happy Birthday surfer dude (husband not beagle) the perfect place to celebrate at Lost Shore Surf Resort ... and to break out the shark attack cardigan... #LostShore

Norrie may have lost some of his fizz from previous rounds, but I honestly think Alcaraz is unplayable in this form. Vamos #Grasscaraz #Wimbledon

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

Catching up on #TheArchers. Jazzer missed a golden opportunity there to say 'in the name of the wee man'. Hope the cakes were nice tho, cheers Martin.

Alcaraz is just pure tennis joy to watch. His shot making, his reading of what's coming, his amazing sportsmanship: thank you Carlito and onwards! Also props to Rublev, a stunning player in his own right. LOVING #Wimbledon (as always!)

Delighted to see Cam Norrie back where he belongs: difficult to think of a player who works harder on the court, he just never gives up! Delighted for him, well deserved QF at #Wimbledon

RSPB still prefers licensing scheme for driven grouse shooting rather than a ban, but its 5yr policy review is due in Oct 2025, based on whether it considers 'effective reform' has been delivered since 2020. No evidence of 'effective reform' that I can see.. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/05/r...