Roger Wood

2000-now: Storyville, I May Destroy You, In Our Time, Springwatch, 6 Music, Happy Valley, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Gardener's World, A House Through Time, Fleabag, WILTY, Top Gear, Gone Fishing, This Country, CBBC, Dr Who, The Office, Sherlock, Wolf Hall, Glastonbury, Only Connect, The Traitors.

The Populist Right could borrow from an old IRA statement:

"Today we were right, but remember we only have to be right once – you have to be right always."

A tweet from the White House claiming Trump got Tim Davie fired.

A foreign government gloating over its influence over our national broadcaster. The Telegraph, BoJo, Farage and all those involved in this scandal claim to be patriots when they are nothing more than shills for Washington. All that stuff about sovereignty during Brexit was just BS, wasn’t it?

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]

Lovely. 👏👏👏

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

It's sadder than sad! And, as always, let's thank everyone for their inattention to this matter!

The Reform UK Scandal the Tabloids Won’t Touch Their pet project can't do wrong it seems?

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Dutch late night TV has its take

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Welcome to the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧

Never before in U.S. History has a President been acknowledged by another country in this unique way! 🇺🇸

At Windsor Castle, in London & all across the land, people are United! ✊

They all want to see the #EPSTEIN_PedoFiles, ASAP! 👀

I saw The Who several times back in the day. I could have cried when Pete Townshend smashed his Stratocaster through his Marshall speakers, twice! But Keith Moon was a manic entertainer as well as a demon drummer. We played quite a few of their numbers, even Boris the spider 🤣

Lucy Connolly has sought to end the controversy over her views on asylum seekers. By attending the Reform conference, she proved beyond all possible doubt that she is definitely a racist.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.

May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

The shameless hypocrisy of Nigel Farage | The News Agents Nigel Farage has been branded a “Putin-loving free speech impostor and Trump sycophant” during his visit to the US to plead for help with Britain's so-called ‘free-speech problem.’ But will slagging…

“He's done everything he could to break down this country - now he's gone off to America to tell everyone how broken we are.

"Well, thanks.”

Nigel Farage has been busy slagging off the UK in Congress… of course Britain is broken, he broke it.

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"Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, cyber attacks, and the weaponizing of migrants." - Ursula von der Leyen

Slowly, Europe is waking up. Very slowly.

Like @zoegrunewald.bsky.social‬, @europeanmovement.co.uk says 'let's counter Farage's divisive arguments and show a wave of support for the ECHR - for human rights, and protecting citizens from unchecked government power. ..Reform UK does not speak for us, and the true values of this country.'

‘These People Can’t Stand What London Represents… It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview’ Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, addresses the increasing number of claims by those in the media and politics of the capital city’s apparent decline

🔴 "These People Can't Stand What London Represents… It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview"

Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, addresses the increasing number of claims by those in the media and politics of the capital city's apparent decline

Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.

Former Conservative Attorney General diagnoses the current Conservative Shadow Home Secretary a ‘rabble rouser’ over his comments on trial by jury

BBC headline says economic growth slowed between April and June to 0.3%

Good old BBC - working hard to find a way to avoid saying growth recovered strongly in June, or the economy grew faster than forecast in Q2, or it grew by as much in half a year as the OBR forecast for the whole year.

Wonderful, I hadn't heard that in years. After the rest of my rocking band left for Uni I became a 'folker' . That was on my pad. At a party, after a few beers, I allegedly sang all 14 verses! After probably 60 years, it still comes back.

It would help if the MSM followed @bylinetimes.bsky.social reporting.

Nigel Farage says he has never worked in a prison so he is unable to answer a question on prison policy. On that basis he will have no views on health, defence, culture, energy, education, farming, transport, law… or anything other than lying and grifting.

US lawmaker says Nigel Farage is a 'giant manbaby' "This is why we had a revolution against you guys"

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Nigel Farage has been called “unhinged” and “like a giant manbaby” after a tense meeting with US politicians

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...

I played bamboo pipe at Junior School, clarinet at secondary school, guitar in sixties 'pop' group, guitar as a 'folker' for the next 50 years, guitar/bass for the last 13 years in a geriatric rock band. I agree 100%, friends, places, performances, wouldn't have missed them for the world.