Iain Hepburn
@iainhepburn.me
Used to be a journalist but I’m ok now.
📌 Scotland
📌 Scotland
Kudos BBC Scotland and @jonmelville.bsky.social, that was a properly lovely tribute to City Lights.
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Kudos BBC Scotland and @jonmelville.bsky.social, that was a properly lovely tribute to City Lights.
Dave Anderson. National treasure. Put him on a banknote. #citylights
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Dave Anderson. National treasure. Put him on a banknote. #citylights
First Forfar, then Montrose. Hopefully this Scottish Cup campaign is just Thistle picking off Angus and Tayside clubs til we beat the tangerine menace at Hampden in May.
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
First Forfar, then Montrose. Hopefully this Scottish Cup campaign is just Thistle picking off Angus and Tayside clubs til we beat the tangerine menace at Hampden in May.
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if it seems a bit strange to you that an ostensibly ‘feminist’ organisation should be campaigning against free period products, I’d invite you to consider where said organisation is getting its funding and whose views it’s set up to promote
I guess when you're rich you can't comprehend people having no money, much feminism from Maya as usual. They are willing to see organisations that actually help people shut down if they don't follow their weird little ideology, but yeah, she's a "women's rights campaigner"
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
if it seems a bit strange to you that an ostensibly ‘feminist’ organisation should be campaigning against free period products, I’d invite you to consider where said organisation is getting its funding and whose views it’s set up to promote
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With original TX dates added by me and new synopsis from the Word Nerds
The first three series of City Lights are now on iPlayer, looks like series three hasn’t been repeated since 1988 according to the BBC website. It deserved a long life on VHS, DVD and iPlayer, sadly that wasn’t to be.
November 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
With original TX dates added by me and new synopsis from the Word Nerds
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That MSPs are now openly saying stuff like this is chilling. "Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland"? LGBTYS didn't need to be in my schools for me to be gay, but they sure as hell would have helped me avoid 9 years of fear and self-loathing if they had been. Despicable stuff.
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
That MSPs are now openly saying stuff like this is chilling. "Controversial groups like LGBT Youth Scotland"? LGBTYS didn't need to be in my schools for me to be gay, but they sure as hell would have helped me avoid 9 years of fear and self-loathing if they had been. Despicable stuff.
Wow. This is excellent, previously only the first series was up.
Hopefully the start of BBC Scotland making proper use of that comedy archive.
Naked Video is 40 next year. Just a thought…
Hopefully the start of BBC Scotland making proper use of that comedy archive.
Naked Video is 40 next year. Just a thought…
The first three series of City Lights are now on iPlayer, looks like series three hasn’t been repeated since 1988 according to the BBC website. It deserved a long life on VHS, DVD and iPlayer, sadly that wasn’t to be.
November 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Wow. This is excellent, previously only the first series was up.
Hopefully the start of BBC Scotland making proper use of that comedy archive.
Naked Video is 40 next year. Just a thought…
Hopefully the start of BBC Scotland making proper use of that comedy archive.
Naked Video is 40 next year. Just a thought…
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This is on the BBC Scotland channel and iPlayer tonight from 9pm, a trip back to the 80s and 90s in the company of cast, crew and creator of City Lights.
A few rarely seen bits of archive, including clips from the pilot with Billy Greenlees as Chancer and no studio audience.
A few rarely seen bits of archive, including clips from the pilot with Billy Greenlees as Chancer and no studio audience.
Dream jobs do come along… I’ve spent the last few months immersed in BBC Scotland’s City Lights as Assistant Producer on a new 60min doc telling the story of the show. With vintage clips + new interviews, it’s pure dead brilliant!
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is on the BBC Scotland channel and iPlayer tonight from 9pm, a trip back to the 80s and 90s in the company of cast, crew and creator of City Lights.
A few rarely seen bits of archive, including clips from the pilot with Billy Greenlees as Chancer and no studio audience.
A few rarely seen bits of archive, including clips from the pilot with Billy Greenlees as Chancer and no studio audience.
Amazon taking all the Bond films off Prime and onto PPV for December is a real dick move, even for them.
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Amazon taking all the Bond films off Prime and onto PPV for December is a real dick move, even for them.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest you’ve got the wrong Sleeper there, Apple Music. Unless Lou’s taken the band in a REALLY unexpected direction.
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest you’ve got the wrong Sleeper there, Apple Music. Unless Lou’s taken the band in a REALLY unexpected direction.
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Set your videos for this one on Sunday night (Chancer’s selling them cheap down the Barras).
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Set your videos for this one on Sunday night (Chancer’s selling them cheap down the Barras).
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
After that Courier piece today the only acceptable thing left to do is just boycott the Scottish media entirely.
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
After that Courier piece today the only acceptable thing left to do is just boycott the Scottish media entirely.
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It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
Not sure this supposedly united kingdom has been less united than of late. Every single decision seems to be an increasingly stupid establishment trying to punish everyone else for daring to exist, be it through legislature or media. We are, completely, irredeemably, desperately fucked.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Not sure this supposedly united kingdom has been less united than of late. Every single decision seems to be an increasingly stupid establishment trying to punish everyone else for daring to exist, be it through legislature or media. We are, completely, irredeemably, desperately fucked.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Well, thank god for YouTube.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Well, thank god for YouTube.
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Properly moving xkcd
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Fifteen Years
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November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Properly moving xkcd
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It’s absolutely fascinating how a paper with an acclaimed history of tv reviewers, and a dedicated media editor (*snort*) can be so fucking incompetent at covering either.
OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
It’s absolutely fascinating how a paper with an acclaimed history of tv reviewers, and a dedicated media editor (*snort*) can be so fucking incompetent at covering either.
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OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
OMG. The Guardian have confused Kenneth Clark, presenter of the 1969 series 'Civilisation' with Tory ex-MP & former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in their review of the new BBC series 'Civilisations:Rise & Fall'
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youtu.be/AnwCITVQgb4&... Polanski giving the game away. Given his age, he's possibly a Wilderness Years kid. DWM, get on it...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
youtu.be/AnwCITVQgb4&... Polanski giving the game away. Given his age, he's possibly a Wilderness Years kid. DWM, get on it...
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NEW | Analysing a pre-budget blood pressure raiser:
Rage-bait articles about people angry they're getting free money are the real inheritance tax….
Is the future of British newspapers just endless stories of well-off people pretending to be victims?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/rage-bait-...
Rage-bait articles about people angry they're getting free money are the real inheritance tax….
Is the future of British newspapers just endless stories of well-off people pretending to be victims?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/rage-bait-...
Rage-bait articles about people angry they're getting free money are the real inheritance tax...
Is the future of British newspapers just endless stories of well-off people pretending to be victims?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
NEW | Analysing a pre-budget blood pressure raiser:
Rage-bait articles about people angry they're getting free money are the real inheritance tax….
Is the future of British newspapers just endless stories of well-off people pretending to be victims?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/rage-bait-...
Rage-bait articles about people angry they're getting free money are the real inheritance tax….
Is the future of British newspapers just endless stories of well-off people pretending to be victims?
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/rage-bait-...
I know problems happen with deliveries. Nothing is a perfect system. But if your driver just dumps a box of food in a random street and after three hours of trying to get through to DPD their response is ‘not much we can do. Sorry, I guess?’ it feels like the best response is maybe arson.
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I know problems happen with deliveries. Nothing is a perfect system. But if your driver just dumps a box of food in a random street and after three hours of trying to get through to DPD their response is ‘not much we can do. Sorry, I guess?’ it feels like the best response is maybe arson.
Increasingly fascinated by the management hiring strategy of a national sports news platform to not hire folk who have spent time working in sports journalism for decades. Although increasingly it makes sense from the state of their output.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Increasingly fascinated by the management hiring strategy of a national sports news platform to not hire folk who have spent time working in sports journalism for decades. Although increasingly it makes sense from the state of their output.
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Having been pipped to the post by Dory Funk Jr. last year, Kendo Nagasaki has almost certainly set the record as the oldest male wrestler to ever compete, wrestling for LDN on 23rd November 2025 at the age of 84, 61 years after his debut match.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Having been pipped to the post by Dory Funk Jr. last year, Kendo Nagasaki has almost certainly set the record as the oldest male wrestler to ever compete, wrestling for LDN on 23rd November 2025 at the age of 84, 61 years after his debut match.
So Polanski's a proper Who fan (ie perpetually disappointed in the show). Another tick.
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
So Polanski's a proper Who fan (ie perpetually disappointed in the show). Another tick.