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The story explained how the investment banker Al Moy, 38, and his wife, Alexandra, had a joint salary of £345,000 with two children at fee-paying schools. It said the couple also had a daughter, Ali, a son called Harry and a two-year-old, named Barry.

Re that Ipsos ruling against The Telegraph. Imagine having to fabricate a name for a two-year-old and coming up with... Barry.

My God that SNL sketch is some abject dross. Actually mad that no one said... "Should we look up this disability?"

Ears of a cat poking out of a box

Full on Schrödinger action in this Welsh pub.

Full double Rimmer salute as I change the bulb.

I tell my kids this is Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. #RipRobGrant

Collapsed nuclear bunker in East Yorkshire to be left on beach The Crown Estate says it will leave the bunker on the beach after carrying out a risk assessment.

Like a stag do in Ibiza.

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Two queuing Taylor fans "we'll fucking be first" on pic in Swedish

Pressed translate on an article about some Swedish Taylor Swift fans. Not sure this is absolutely necessary.

I see the BBC is now also using tiny fluffy mics you hold between thumb and forefinger like you're offering a biscuit. No.

BBC - Global Short Wave Frequencies How to listen to BBC World Service on short wave radio for the region you're in

Shortwave frequencies including Iran listed here.

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Thursday evening, making obtaining and verifying information difficult. A hospital worker in Tehran described "very horrible scenes", saying there were so many wounded that staff did not have time to perform CPR. "Around 38 people died. Many as soon as they reached the emergency beds... direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well. Many of them didn't even make it to the hospital. "The number was so large that there wasn't enough space in the morgue; the bodies were placed on top of one another. "After the morgue became full, they stacked them on top of one another in the prayer room," she said. The hospital worker said the dead and wounded were young people.

70 bodies verified by BBC Persian. Yes the BBC is covering Iran and it is grim.

Library Music, by Darren Riley 14 track album

This is my new album.

It's instrumental, apart from some crowd chanting on Your Gold, Mr Bridger.

The average tune length is two minutes and eight seconds.

There are fourteen tunes.

It sounds like old telly music.

It's ace.

I'd love it if you listened.

I've love it even more if you shared it.

Sex is referred to as a "natural zesty enterprise"

My Archive on Four doc on The Big Lebowski is getting a repeat over the festive period Dec 29 find it on BBC Sounds "THE CULT OF LEBOWSKI."

Presented by Helen O'Hara it does include this BBC Radio 4 compliance note for the ages. With added @gralefrit.bsky.social
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Salisbury poisoning report says putin approved operation. And pope approves of catholicism and bears approve of shitting in woods

Take a look at this from Private Eye.

Might be just me but I think Newsjack had the blanket advisory: "Please don't do this joke we receive it 40+ times a week."

Amazing to do the double with it here. Pope AND the bear in the woods.

He sold it then? With no lyrical reference to capital gains tax.

CHRISTMAS FACT:
Since the start of the century ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ by Shakin' Stevens has amassed 18 million seconds of radio and TV airplay, the equivalent of over half a year of continuous broadcast. More than 86,000 plays.

Lots of cash for his ongoing house renovation.

The Cricket on the Hearth I’ve adapted one of Charles Dickens’ other Christmas books for audio. Here’s how I went about it. The Cricket on the Hearth is the third of Charles Dickens’ five Christmas books, …

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Graham Fellows! sounds great.

PLURIBUS I DON'T NEED TO SEE THEM FILLING THE SUPERMARKET

Tim Davie once mooched up to me in the office and asked what I was working on. Always liked him. Wandering around with no assistants. Interested in programmes.

Can't help thinking it does spell bad news for Labour

I was a print journalist on thriving papers when the Facebook fuelled "pivot to video" happened. We had to make phone vids because that's how you did well on FB. Years later, FB admitted this was BS. Data was wrong. By which time those papers had destroyed their readerships and newsdesks.

Just seen someone accuse Ben Elton of making his autobiography "all about him".

BBC airing false claim about Euan Blair blamed on young producers ‘marinated in social media’ Broadcaster apologised after Have I Got News For You falsely said former PM’s son had won digital ID contract

I'd question Jimmy Mulville describing this as a low level error. It's heinously shit journalism and shouldn't have been aired.

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Spot the nod to the insanity that is @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social by myself and @kipsaunders.bsky.social

The Guardian has a go at Ben Elton for mentioning in his new autobiography that George Harrison thanked him for "making us laugh in the '80s".

Why would you possibly leave this out? There are Beatle nerds now ready to write theses on the fact that George watched Blackadder.

Ah I met Menzies Campbell as a newspaper reporter visting in a school. He asked if I worked for the school magazine. I was 33.

If I see one more bit of this wedding in Andor 2 I'm out I'm three episodes in and now a comedy mum has arrived my God

The great thing about going through multiple eye surgeries is it really takes the stress out of going to the dentist. 👍

So @2000ad.bsky.social 2450 is a Jumping On point issue with a few cool new stories, one of which is ep.1 of my JUDGE DREDD: AND TO THE SEA RETURN which has @henryflint.bsky.social doing comics things like this (this is just PG 1). Join us for the horror.

GEORGE MARTIN: It was a great honour of course to be asked to host a segment of 2002’s Party At The Palace for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. The organisers had booked a really first-rate line-up of acts, starting with Brian May playing his guitar up on the roof of the palace, an image I think no-one who saw it will ever forget! When it was time for me to make my appearance on stage, the ASM came up to me in the wings and said ‘Sir George…I don’t like your tie.’ Now, a lot of people have made this joke to me over the years, an awful lot of people in fact, but one tries to be tolerant so I smiled and did a little laugh. I turned to walk on stage but the fellow grabbed my arm and said it again. ‘I don’t like your tie.’ By this point I’d had just about enough of this, and ‘Handbags and Gladrags’ was finishing so I shrugged him off and strode out onto the stage. Only later did I learn that the fine-striped tie I’d chosen for the occasion strobed terribly on camera and the poor fellow had just been trying to warn me. Apparently the BBC received over eight hundred complaints about it, and two viewers reported that they’d been physically sick. I felt so bad for that poor ASM – I made enquiries and found out his name was Ben. In my next score, which turned out in fact to be my last, the string arrangement of While My Guitar Gently Weeps for the ‘Love’ show, I put in a little ostinato figure for the ‘cello, about two and a half minutes in. It’s Morse code, spelling out ‘S-O-R-R-Y-B-E-N’. I hope that made amends in some small way.

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