Tom Burgess
@nottomburgess.bsky.social
Comedian, voice actor and cult TV lover (esp. Doctor Who and Blue Peter). 📺 Archivist for fictional BBC children's pioneer Peter Fleming and producer of his 'Into the Archives' podcast. He/him. linktr.ee/tomburgesscomedy
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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.
December 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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.
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I did it! All 155 classic Doctor Who stories represented by a Simpsons scene 🤣 some easy, some very hard! Please enjoy!
I've had an idea...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
Someone told me that cos there are nearly 800 episodes of the Simpsons, it's possible to describe all other shows with a clip from a Simpsons episode. So with that in mind, I'm going to use a freezeframe/gif to describe every classic Dr Who serial 😁 1 season per day...
December 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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.
Next episode is out tomorrow with @nottomburgess.bsky.social @holnoblecomedy.bsky.social and @thedavideagle.bsky.social on all your podcatchers!
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This was so much fun to do. Give it a listen tomorrow! I can 100% predict the future, you wait and see.
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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.
Image the #discourse if Corrie, or EastEnders introduced a trans character at the moment.
It is incredible to me how made up this issue is. No one gave a shit ten years ago. Sure there were your individual mad, ignorant bigots but *Theresa May* was pushing for self-ID because it was the last little bit of logistical sorting out of a settled question: we're ok with Trans people
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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.
Image the #discourse if Corrie, or EastEnders introduced a trans character at the moment.
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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? 🤔
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? 🤔
December 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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? 🤔
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!
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Crazy how much Netflix have spent just to get their hands on O Lucky Man!
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December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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![However, Nick Hearn, a banker who described himself as “a conservative with a small C”, told the Guardian he had regularly seen Ettedgui being abused by the now Reform leader, and he called on Farage to “come clean”.
Far from being “banter”, as Farage has previously described some of his remarks, Hearn called it “personal [and] vindictive”. Hearn is the eighth pupil to offer corroboration of Ettedgui’s claims.
He said: “[Farage] was consistent and he was persistent. Peter and I used to have lunch together in the sort of cloisters, a thoroughfare between the main buildings. There were people going backwards and forwards all the time, and I witnessed on multiple occasions sort of little snide comments and personal, vindictive, racist comments.
“He had a reputation in school for being a racist. I think he should come clean about his inappropriate behaviour as a young man and apologise.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreiaejcc377zbvl4frtpbkjlvq4bliqqlv23dkve3be4fg5shhkbm6i@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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.
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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.
December 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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.
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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.
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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.
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people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
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Stonehenge! Where a man's a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
‘We’re doing arch’ Trump says in update on latest construction project
www.independent.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Stonehenge! Where a man's a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan
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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.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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.
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But at least the Women’s Institute will be safe now!!!!!!!!!
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
But at least the Women’s Institute will be safe now!!!!!!!!!
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"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?
What does this do for women's rights?
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
"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?
What does this do for women's rights?
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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.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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.
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?
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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?
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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.
The guy's literally got one leg, but that's apparently one too many for the DWP to consider him disabled www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-fi...
DWP demands £36k PIP back from one-legged dad filmed playing cricket
Shaun Rigby lost a leg when he was a child
www.mirror.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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.
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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...
...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...
Revealed: MPs rack up huge rent expenses while pushing through cuts to benefits
MPs are allowed to rent a second home, but while they are simultaneously cutting benefits for the vulnerable, the cost feels hard to swallow.
www.bigissue.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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...
...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...
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"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.
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"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
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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
November 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Can't burn the books if we do it first.