William Ham Bevan
@hambevan.bsky.social
Writer, editor, placeholder
Fantom flinger of FLONG: https://www.flong.wales
Fantom flinger of FLONG: https://www.flong.wales
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Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’
Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...
www.desmog.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics
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NEW! #FirstLastAnything Episode 34: As a big fan of the album Pearlies by Emma Anderson (@emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social), I was delighted that Emma joined me on my music textcast to discuss it, her career in Lush and Sing-Sing, and some favourite recordings. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/23/f...
FLA 34: Emma Anderson (23/11/2025)
As a first-year university student, one of the first songs of the 1990s I cherished was ‘De-Luxe’ by the London-based quartet Lush, who were signed to the independent record label 4AD. I was in the…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Episode 34: As a big fan of the album Pearlies by Emma Anderson (@emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social), I was delighted that Emma joined me on my music textcast to discuss it, her career in Lush and Sing-Sing, and some favourite recordings. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/23/f...
"You cannot hope to bribe or twist -
Thank God! - the Reform activist.
But, seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to."
Thank God! - the Reform activist.
But, seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to."
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"You cannot hope to bribe or twist -
Thank God! - the Reform activist.
But, seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to."
Thank God! - the Reform activist.
But, seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there's no occasion to."
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hahahahaha I knew it. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
hahahahaha I knew it. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
Reskeet with a time you looked cool.
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reskeet with a time you looked cool.
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 1957
DEAN: Damn fine work on generative grammar, Chomsky. You've put Bloomfield to bed, that's for sure.
CHOMSKY: Thank you, sir. I was thinking I might proclaim myself an unimpeachable expert on every other goddamn thing while I'm at it.
DEAN: Be my guest.
DEAN: Damn fine work on generative grammar, Chomsky. You've put Bloomfield to bed, that's for sure.
CHOMSKY: Thank you, sir. I was thinking I might proclaim myself an unimpeachable expert on every other goddamn thing while I'm at it.
DEAN: Be my guest.
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 1957
DEAN: Damn fine work on generative grammar, Chomsky. You've put Bloomfield to bed, that's for sure.
CHOMSKY: Thank you, sir. I was thinking I might proclaim myself an unimpeachable expert on every other goddamn thing while I'm at it.
DEAN: Be my guest.
DEAN: Damn fine work on generative grammar, Chomsky. You've put Bloomfield to bed, that's for sure.
CHOMSKY: Thank you, sir. I was thinking I might proclaim myself an unimpeachable expert on every other goddamn thing while I'm at it.
DEAN: Be my guest.
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LOOK! It's every episode of the classic sitcom Soap! Way ahead of its time. Spoofed daytime soaps, it was very funny but could also be deadly serious. Never forgot that it was first & foremost a comedy. A few sitcoms could learn from this. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
SOAP - YouTube
This classic comedy series is a satire on all the daytime soaps out there. The stories revolve around a rich family, the Tates, and a blue-collar family, the...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
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Francis Heaney’s Holy Tango of Literature.
He answers the (understudied) question of what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names.
You can read the whole thing free here on his website here:
www.francisheaney.com/holy-tango-o...
He answers the (understudied) question of what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names.
You can read the whole thing free here on his website here:
www.francisheaney.com/holy-tango-o...
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Francis Heaney’s Holy Tango of Literature.
He answers the (understudied) question of what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names.
You can read the whole thing free here on his website here:
www.francisheaney.com/holy-tango-o...
He answers the (understudied) question of what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names.
You can read the whole thing free here on his website here:
www.francisheaney.com/holy-tango-o...
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Someone made a website that serves up a constant stream of AI slop but only if you get on all fours and oink like a pig (no seriously) sloptrough.co
Slop Trough
sloptrough.co
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Someone made a website that serves up a constant stream of AI slop but only if you get on all fours and oink like a pig (no seriously) sloptrough.co
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NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...
FLA 33: Mark Watson (16/11/2025)
For over twenty years now, the writer-performer Mark Watson has sustained two parallel careers. In one of them, he has pursued stand-up comedy to great acclaim, both in live settings and via broadc…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 33: Stand-up and novelist Mark Watson (@watsoncomedian.bsky.social) joins me this week to talk about how music helped to inspire his crafts of writing and performing. Plus his first, last and wildcard purchases! Join us! firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/16/f...
This is how to do news titles.
One of the first editions of HTV’s Wales at Six with Mike Lloyd Williams and Sally Jones from 1982.
@tvlive.site @thetvroom.com @transdiffusion.org @whydontyoutube.bsky.social @rhaglencymru.bsky.social
youtu.be/fGfntHkKSRY?...
@tvlive.site @thetvroom.com @transdiffusion.org @whydontyoutube.bsky.social @rhaglencymru.bsky.social
youtu.be/fGfntHkKSRY?...
Wales at Six
YouTube video by Archif Ddarlledu Cymru | Wales Broadcast Archive
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is how to do news titles.
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New one tomorrow, but ICYMI! Please share far, wide and high. Cheers.
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
New one tomorrow, but ICYMI! Please share far, wide and high. Cheers.
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever
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This morning, Sunday, Radio 4's religiously inclined cousin to the Today programme casually revealed the 1970s post boy charged with handling the rats in formaldehyde that the Boomtown Rats wanted to distribute across the US as a publicity stunt is now Pope Leo XIV. I'm sure I didn't dream this.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This morning, Sunday, Radio 4's religiously inclined cousin to the Today programme casually revealed the 1970s post boy charged with handling the rats in formaldehyde that the Boomtown Rats wanted to distribute across the US as a publicity stunt is now Pope Leo XIV. I'm sure I didn't dream this.
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While ostensibly about one academic’s experiences with the NYT, the central point about the sheer, relentless march of, “critics say”, false-balance journalism should be read and understood by anyone involved in or just interested in the news.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
While ostensibly about one academic’s experiences with the NYT, the central point about the sheer, relentless march of, “critics say”, false-balance journalism should be read and understood by anyone involved in or just interested in the news.
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WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
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We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.
We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
Was on a freelance shift at FHM magazine on the morning of 9/11, following it all on the PB board. When I gasped and said "Another plane has hit the second tower", their online editor yelled "Fuck off - that's just Popbitch bollocks".
Thank god the Popbitch board of that afternoon is lost to eternity. Between them and the IRN website that was our only source of news at work. A somewhat eclectic mix.....
In Love Actually, it says that no one on the planes on 9/11 sent messages of hate only messages of love, but I like to think at least one person phoned and told their boss to blow a goat.
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Was on a freelance shift at FHM magazine on the morning of 9/11, following it all on the PB board. When I gasped and said "Another plane has hit the second tower", their online editor yelled "Fuck off - that's just Popbitch bollocks".
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ive been saying this for years but the last thing i need is to hear more points of fucking view. points of view is how we got into this fucking mess. we need like a 99% reduction in points of fucking view. oh you've got an opinion about stuff do you? stick it up your ass dingus
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
ive been saying this for years but the last thing i need is to hear more points of fucking view. points of view is how we got into this fucking mess. we need like a 99% reduction in points of fucking view. oh you've got an opinion about stuff do you? stick it up your ass dingus
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#FirstLastAnything, my music-based textcast is back next Sunday to hopefully cheer up the dark mornings and offer an alternative to 'current affairs'. Meantime, why not scroll down and sample the archive of 31 conversations I've had with some very special guests here: firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#FirstLastAnything, my music-based textcast is back next Sunday to hopefully cheer up the dark mornings and offer an alternative to 'current affairs'. Meantime, why not scroll down and sample the archive of 31 conversations I've had with some very special guests here: firstlastanything.co.uk/about/