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Mitch Benn
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Comedian. Musician. Writer. Dad. Stepdad. Husband. Friend.
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 7d
MITCH BENN
performs Charles Dickens’s
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Abridged by the author

UK TOUR December 2025

Raising money for local charities

Ticket links at mitchbenn.com/tour-dates

(art by happytoast.co.uk)
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edmorrish.bsky.social
"i hate it when podcasters plug their patreons" yeah and i hate it when sainsbury's make me pay at the checkout
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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mooseallain.bsky.social
I’m not a great political analyst, but I do feel Labour have made a tactical error by opting to be cunts.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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outonbluesix.bsky.social
New! Mitch Benn (@mitchbenn.bsky.social) joins me for a chat about How To Be A Complete Bastard by Adrian Edmondson, Space Sentinels, Maskatron, Imagination by 'Belouis' 'Some', Channel 4's launch previews, the revival of The Saint with Simon Dutton and more...

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Looks Unfamiliar: Mitch Benn – Argos Blade Runner
Looks Unfamiliar with Mitch Benn talking to Tim Worthington about Channel 4’s pre-launch trailers, Imagination by Belouis Some, Space Sentinels, Simon Dutton as The Saint, How To Be A Complet…
timworthington.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
why can they not just fix it
[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point]. 1 CUSTOMER: Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered 2 McDONALDS EMPLOYEE: Number 187? CUSTOMER: Yes 3 CUSTOMER: Maybe I pressed the wrong thing? I just ordered one strawberry milkshake. 4 EMPLOYEE: Oh - yeah sorry 5 EMPLOYEE: The milkshake machine’s not working. 6 EMPLOYEE: The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage. 7 CUSTOMER: Is that a new flavour? EMPLOYEE: Yeah 8 [We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter] EMPLOYEE: If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage. 9 [Customer looks inside the cup] 10 [Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup] CUSTOMER: So there is 11 CUSTOMER: Is that something people want, then? EMPLOYEE: No! No, not at all. 12 EMPLOYEE: It just keeps happening when we press banana. [ends]
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
mitchbenn.bsky.social
Wouldn’t it be great if someone OTHER than racists got pandered to once in a while? Why do they get all the pandering? Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a society where the “concerns” of people who AREN’T semi-literate piss-blooded wife-beaters were treated as a priority?
November 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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mitchbenn.bsky.social
MITCH BENN
performs Charles Dickens’s
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Abridged by the author

UK TOUR December 2025

Raising money for local charities

Ticket links at mitchbenn.com/tour-dates

(art by happytoast.co.uk)
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
mitchbenn.bsky.social
MITCH BENN
performs Charles Dickens’s
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Abridged by the author

UK TOUR December 2025

Raising money for local charities

Ticket links at mitchbenn.com/tour-dates

(art by happytoast.co.uk)
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Those with power and platforms who believe in human rights and social progress - if you don’t start speaking up now then you have welcomed in fascism
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 8d
Everyday a little more Alan Moore dystopia than the last
Crap said by Farage
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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tnmoc.bsky.social
Bring the family! Comedian Mitch Benn (BBC Radio 4) performs his acclaimed one-man show of Dickens' A Christmas Carol on Dec 14th at 2PM. He uses Dickens' original abridged text! Perfect 70-min Christmas treat.

TICKETS: ow.ly/bpcf50XlrSA

#FamilyShow #MitchBenn
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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macartsvenue.bsky.social
Just Announced: A Christmas Carol - performed by Mitch Benn
Monday 15th December 2025
Tickets on sale NOW: www.ticketsource.co.uk/macarts/t-xd...
Doors 7pm
This is a seated family show lasting approximately seventy minutes plus an interval.
November 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
it’s a real problem for the bbc that other news outlets have been successfully lying to their audiences for years to the point that the bbc seem “out of touch” to people who’ve swallowed those lies, and someone at the bbc should resign over this
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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seizethememez.bsky.social
Old joke: If a genie gave Democrats three wishes, they'd negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think Republicans might like.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.

Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
How is he still invited on to shows - it is a bloody circle jerk

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
BBC slammed for asking Kelvin Mackenzie about journalism standards
Liverpool fans and others staggered by choice to invite former S*n editor to discuss ongoing issues at the BBC
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
How by attempting to appease the forces on the right seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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richardlittler.bsky.social
COP30 (the climate change UN meeting) is coming up, and every time I scroll past it, my brain initially sees it as...
C3PO
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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gailsimone.bsky.social
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
Want to know why the prisons system seems to be suddenly falling apart?

Well, it's not sudden. It's just suddenly being REPORTED. This rot was a deliberate policy choice, and I kept the receipts. Because I'm not the BBC.

(A note on what Tories did to cause this, from The Decade In Tory)
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
mitchbenn.bsky.social
Beebgate demonstrates two truths:
1 Right wing media hold everyone else to exacting standards of ethics and probity while holding themselves to none whatsoever.
2. You can’t curry favour with the right wing if you’re an entity they want to destroy.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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jimcaris.bsky.social
The Tory member and former election candidate that Boris Johnson appointed as DG of the BBC in order to make it more right-wing is now not right-wing enough to be DG of the BBC.

Couldn't really ask for a clearer example of the Overton window being pushed rightward, could you?
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM