I feel like this should be the lead story on every news outlet. They're quick to tell us about the taxi rides that asylum seekers are given so waste is obviously high on their agenda

If any of you are watching the Sea Devils on BBC4, the fort that the Doctor and Jo visit is not far from the Mary Rose wreck site.

I did it! All 155 classic Doctor Who stories represented by a Simpsons scene 🤣 some easy, some very hard! Please enjoy!

This was so much fun to do. Give it a listen tomorrow! I can 100% predict the future, you wait and see.

There was a trans character on Coronation St in 1998(!) for a decade and no one gave a fuck apart from a small minority of bigots who were largely ignored. Image the #discourse if Corrie, or EastEnders introduced a trans character at the moment.

Interesting thing to take away here. BBC asked 5000 doctors to take part in a survey about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions. Only 15% of them responded. And what do you think the belief will be of that 15% who specifically wanted to respond to a study into overdiagnosis? 🤔

Crazy how much Netflix have spent just to get their hands on O Lucky Man!

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Don't let the story of Nigel Farage's overt racism go away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Admittedly, he didn't talk in specifics at the time, so he may just have been worried they were going to cut Basil's impression of his childhood hero.

Farage's sudden change of heart on outdated British TV shows is surprising given he was advocating for the n-word to be freely available on iPlayer and used in BBC Two repeats five years ago.

So one of the most viral British aggregators @PolitlcsUK (the second “i” is an L) is actually run by a former Tory MP turned lobbyist and Andrew Rosindell’s office manager? And they interview Rosindell? Such a great era.

people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think

Stonehenge! Where a man's a man And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan

The thing about both the WI and the Guides is that transphobia is best countered by like, meeting trans people and talking to them. It is far easier to stoke hatred when you have shut down avenues for normal daily interactions.

But at least the Women’s Institute will be safe now!!!!!!!!!

"I spoke to one 80-year-old woman who has been in our organisation for decades, who said it was one of the greatest experiences of her life, and the only place in her 80 years where she’s been treated as a woman with respect.” What does this do for women's rights?

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

A question for Beatles fans! Listening to Anthology 4 and not heard the guitar-backed Good Night before. Has it ever been speculated that the song grew out of Dear Prudence, or vice versa? Or was that guitar rhythm just an easy grounding when they knew it wouldn't be final?

This reminds me a lot of that Daily Express front page recently about migrants dancing to music. Clearly anyone who receives any state help, no matter how basic or insufficient, should just sit in silent misery.

Lee Anderson, who makes nearly £200,000 a year, repeatedly calls for benefit clampdowns, and described Britain as a “food bank for the world”... ...claims more in taxpayer-funded hotel bills than any other MP in England, billing the taxpayer for £22.5k in 2024/25 www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

"We were misled" - he doesn't mean the public, he means himself and his fellow political entrail-readers. He's now very grumpy that after a month of him soothsaying about income tax increases, it hasn't happened and he has been exposed as a complete charlatan.

On a related note, I briefly passed through a Christmas market today.

This is unkind and bigoted of me and I'm not proud of it, but I've started saying neurotypical when I mean thick

Can't burn the books if we do it first.

Didn't really enjoy Instant Dance, but think they can fix it next week with careful insertion of Mr Blobby. #strictly

I love Heaven Sent, not least because it made me realise once and for all the Doctor's literal age is immaterial so the character is now forever 900-ish in my head.

60 YEARS AGO TODAY: with a new Nigel Kneale version of Nineteen Eighty-Four airing the following day, Late Night Line-Up remembers the last time he had a go at it in 1954 and created one of television's first sensations and controversies.

Thinking today about how we all say the phrase "Mind your own business" with the wrong inflection. Should be "Mind your OWN business", or it doesn't make any sense. We all know it deep down but we never admit it.

So disrespectful that people read the leaked budget. The effects shots weren't even done yet, and no music. So unfair to the creatives who put it together.

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)

When I was doing my GCSEs, I heard a guy defending his creative writing coursework to our English teacher. "Yeah I mean, I asked a few people what they thought, and they said it was only a bit racist."

Another Spidey-Smersh, another joke I thought immediately after, "I regret saying that." Enjoy! Forgive!

A spidey special, from your friendly neighbourhood podcaster!

I would like to wish my fellow Doctor Who fans a very happy 43rd anniversary of the Young Ones episode 'Boring'. RIK: [to Madness] Do any of you know Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard? SUGGS: You hum it, and I'll smash your face in. 💙💙

EXCL with @geraldinemckelvie.bsky.social Johnson told Covid inquiry of the Feb 2020 half-term: "I was working throughout the period and the tempo did increase.” But log shows at country house Chevening, Johnson did not conduct any official government business on 15, 16, 17 and 21 February.

Dad's Army - Branded (20th November 1969). Godfrey reveals he was a conscientious objector during the first war and subsequently is cold-shouldered by the rest of the platoon. But later events force everyone (and especially Mainwaring) to revise their opinions ....

The man who inspired this six years ago I often still see round my neighbourhood, and he still hasn't found the rest of his car.

You're all very welcome.

💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers". Read on for more... www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Manchester Central Library is appealing for missing Piccadilly Radio tapes to help complete its digital archive of historic shows

Extraordinary film from the BBC’s archive. Marvel at Marty Feldman as he chats to pretty much everyone working in comedy in 1969. youtu.be/S0it6iARj64?...

Writing the new series of Into the Archives with Peter Fleming is taking time, but to tide listeners over, I have just written the line, "I’m sorry I beat you and smashed my paperweight into your head."

I coveted this so deeply. Still got my Cybermen and Master tins!

BBC should do the decent thing and hand Trump the £45m they raised for Children in Need last night

Amused that Trump's lawyers really sent the legal letter to: BBC Television Centre, London W12 8QT. I wonder if they included a self addressed envelope for a reply and called 018118055 to confirm receipt. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tru...

I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.

At a wider level 90% of the BBC's "stuff" is not the shit domestic newscasting, and it'll be that stuff - the Proms, coverage of regional music and events, BBC Africa, the World Service, choirs and orchestras - that will go first

A thread of informed observations.

The point is Panorama should have quoted Trump in full: "Look, we just have to accept it. I lost the election. This was a fair result, Biden won, and we must now have a peaceful transfer of power. You should all go home. I don't even know what you're all doing here. I certainly didn't invite you."