Paul Kirkley
@paulkirkley.bsky.social
Still writing Stuff for Things.
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Anyone wanting to find Ed Davey's response to the budget on the BBC website, you need to look under ENGLAND -> POLITICS -> PARLIAMENT -> BUDGET -> BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD -> and it's the third item on the page after two pieces about Reform.
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Anyone wanting to find Ed Davey's response to the budget on the BBC website, you need to look under ENGLAND -> POLITICS -> PARLIAMENT -> BUDGET -> BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD -> and it's the third item on the page after two pieces about Reform.
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If you've got a history book at home, take it out, throw it in the bin, it's worthless. The history books, now, will have to be rewritten. They'll quite simply say "The OBR released a budget analysis 25 minutes early". Everything else will be a footnote.
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If you've got a history book at home, take it out, throw it in the bin, it's worthless. The history books, now, will have to be rewritten. They'll quite simply say "The OBR released a budget analysis 25 minutes early". Everything else will be a footnote.
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Imagine TV News covering this farmer protest - banned, but turned up anyway, grinding capital to a halt - if it were about Palestine or climate change, not inheritance tax. Would they present protesters as heroes? Or showing "I need to get to work" and "me auld mam missed her hip operation" voxpops?
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Imagine TV News covering this farmer protest - banned, but turned up anyway, grinding capital to a halt - if it were about Palestine or climate change, not inheritance tax. Would they present protesters as heroes? Or showing "I need to get to work" and "me auld mam missed her hip operation" voxpops?
Ah, great. Now my all-time favourite song - Simple Minds' Someone Somewhere in Summertime - is being used to advertise ChatGPT 😐
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Ah, great. Now my all-time favourite song - Simple Minds' Someone Somewhere in Summertime - is being used to advertise ChatGPT 😐
Had to double-check this fact from The Rest Is Entertainment - but yes, according to market research, people's favourite Christmas ad this year is... the Coke AI one 😐
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Had to double-check this fact from The Rest Is Entertainment - but yes, according to market research, people's favourite Christmas ad this year is... the Coke AI one 😐
Sure the family of the very much still alive Nina Sosanya will love this (entirely deliberate) clickbait picture cropping. Misdirection is now the internet's main job.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Sure the family of the very much still alive Nina Sosanya will love this (entirely deliberate) clickbait picture cropping. Misdirection is now the internet's main job.
This Budget has never not been about to happen.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This Budget has never not been about to happen.
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"The guidance is not enforceable".
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom bans social media giants from using ‘toxic’ algorithms
Regulator targets ‘manosphere’ misogyny and hate as seen in content produced by Andrew Tate
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"The guidance is not enforceable".
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Always enjoy the disconnect between Pink Pop's name and line-up 💖
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Always enjoy the disconnect between Pink Pop's name and line-up 💖
My important contribution to #DoctorWho Day.
A complete history of the history of Doctor Who
On November 1963 – coincidentally, just a day after the assassination of President Kennedy – British viewers sat down to watch a new science fiction programme designed to fill the grandstand at Juk…
interestingmedia.blog
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My important contribution to #DoctorWho Day.
What Billie's *actually* doing now.
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
What Billie's *actually* doing now.
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It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's Doctor Who Day. To celebrate, I've edited and designed a new digital bookazine for @radiotimes.bsky.social, collecting the best of the magazine's articles and rare photography from the show's early years. Download it FREE from www.radiotimes.com/doctor-who-t...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Thought I'd add a few old DWM bits to my blog. Starting with the, um, memorable day I spent touring a Nottingham factory with John Levene. #DoctorWho
Inside the factory with John Levene
Why is UNIT’s Sergeant Benton celebrating 50 years of active service with a tour round a workshop in Nottingham? DWM tagged along to find out. In 1973, John Levene was filming Doctor Who in a Welsh…
interestingmedia.blog
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Thought I'd add a few old DWM bits to my blog. Starting with the, um, memorable day I spent touring a Nottingham factory with John Levene. #DoctorWho
Well done to Radio Times for this. Weirdly, the sale of a great British asset like ITV to the Americans doesn't appear to be a concern to any of the usual "patriots".
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Well done to Radio Times for this. Weirdly, the sale of a great British asset like ITV to the Americans doesn't appear to be a concern to any of the usual "patriots".
Thought I'd add a few old DWM bits to my blog. Starting with the, um, memorable day I spent touring a Nottingham factory with John Levene. #DoctorWho
Inside the factory with John Levene
Why is UNIT’s Sergeant Benton celebrating 50 years of active service with a tour round a workshop in Nottingham? DWM tagged along to find out. In 1973, John Levene was filming Doctor Who in a Welsh…
interestingmedia.blog
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Thought I'd add a few old DWM bits to my blog. Starting with the, um, memorable day I spent touring a Nottingham factory with John Levene. #DoctorWho
Stickers that don't peel off books are a hate crime.
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Stickers that don't peel off books are a hate crime.
Earlier this year, I asked Bear Grylls about Russell Brand. His answer was... hmmm 🤔
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Earlier this year, I asked Bear Grylls about Russell Brand. His answer was... hmmm 🤔
Happy first look at new look Pudsey Asda day to all who celebrate.
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Happy first look at new look Pudsey Asda day to all who celebrate.
Reminder that the video for James' She's a Star - now soundtracking Keira Knightley's Waitrose Christmas ad - starred another future Brit acting queen... 🌸⭐️
JAMES - She's A Star (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by WeAreJamesTV
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November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Reminder that the video for James' She's a Star - now soundtracking Keira Knightley's Waitrose Christmas ad - starred another future Brit acting queen... 🌸⭐️
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BBC should do the decent thing and hand Trump the £45m they raised for Children in Need last night
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
BBC should do the decent thing and hand Trump the £45m they raised for Children in Need last night
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If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies.
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies.
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
"Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."
Oh, this is sad. Among other things, her brilliant, insightful and witty TV reviews for the New Statesman were a last bastion of this fast disappearing art.
Wonderful and moving tribute by @timadamswrites.bsky.social to Rachel Cooke, the brilliant Observer journalist who also frequently lit up the pages of the Guardian Weekly, who has died at the age of 56.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Oh, this is sad. Among other things, her brilliant, insightful and witty TV reviews for the New Statesman were a last bastion of this fast disappearing art.