Paul Jones - PJ (Peeej)

Bad news I’m afraid. There’s no football tonight, so Only Connect is on.

8pm, BBC Two

When the teams on Only Connect choose the Eye of Horus category by saying "Umm, we'll have the Eye of Horus please Victoria" I am utterly compelled to say out loud in pure Bernard Archard "The Eyyyye of Horus!" I usually do this twice, every single week. 👁️

New podcast episode out now.

The ATV ident. Some say it was composed by Jack Parnell and arranged by Angela Morley but others say it was vice versa. Which was the actuality?

A tweet by Robert Reich reads: “The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.”

Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.

a woman in a pink dress is crying Alt: a woman in a pink dress is crying

DEAR BBC,

WHY OH WHY IS THEIR FOOTBALL WHERE ONLY CONNECT SHOULD BE. THIS IS A TRAVESTY!

Bastards.

This Is Fascism

Episode 1 of The Tenth Planet was broadcast on this day in 1966.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."

I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.

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I think he's about 53 here. 53. 😮

Stand clear! THE NEW AVENGERS are back like you've never seen them before. From November, the original hit tv series starring Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt and Joanna Lumley returns in 4K UHD & Blu-ray for the first time in 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷.

YouTube video by World of Telly World of Telly Episode 12: The Strange World of Gurney Slade

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A Cathay Pacific plane.

"Heathrow, it's me, I'm Cathay"

YouTube video by traci0dee 1970 WH Smith Record Store

Oh, this is SUPERB.

A sumptuous video version of our latest podcast for your enjoyment.

I mean. The first few words. "For MORE than 20 years" implies a 'continuous' period of time. Worst still it was only 19, which even by my terrible maths is LESS than 20 years.

Then when I read that Uncle Lew didn't win a franchise I gave up. Life's too short.

@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social unavoidably reminded of this highlight of UK Twitter a few years ago…

"A chain of circumstances that fragments the law that holds the universe together." Is such a lovely bit of English sentencing.

The reporter contributors on all 90s youth TV programmes had names like Bavaria Spokeshorse and Lioneletta Clappers

IZAL gifts here....https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/QuentinSmirhes

Everytime I see a BYD, I just think of Y Byd Ar Bedwar.

Sweep. Chef.

I have a solution that will improve Masterchef 800% in the process.

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

The choice is simple, in Socialism you work for the greater good of everyone.

In Capitalism you work so some billionaire can become a trillionaire, then he will fire you and replace you with AI and you starve to death.