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In a world of lies, we need the BBC more than ever. This week could be our last chance to save it | Polly Toynbee As the public consultation on the BBC nears its end, the right will be out in force to undermine it. But its supporters can do their bit – with this guidance, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

‘All those who care about the BBC’s future should hurry and send in their response before 10 March.

Despite strong public support for the national broadcaster, you can bet battalions of enemies driven by the right will be out in force to undermine it.’

Thank you again!

A rectangular book with a sly blue background and white text, it’s called ‘Times Like These, Graphic Reports of Modern Life’ by David Ziggy Greene. There are black and white cartoon drawings of various different peoples legs around the edge of the cover.

A very good post day! I always enjoyed @jambookshopuk.bsky.social’s cartoons in Private Eye so was excited to see there was a collection of them in one handy book. A fun little personalisation inside was a lovely surprise, thank you! Check out David Ziggy Greene’s account for this and more #booksky

A small book with limbs made of rolled-up paper held between the covers and a crudely drawn face sticking out from the top

I don't have kids so I dressed up my book as a child for world book day

An instagram ad of a lady wearing a bag in the shape of a pigeon

The same lady wearing a purple beret decorated with pigeons and hearts

The same lady again with a blue and pink scarf decorated with, yes you guessed it, pigeons

A purple t shirt with a picture of a fat little pigeon sitting g sow , the text underneath says ‘I’m fine’

I need to find anyone who understands me as well as the Instagram algorithm does (genuinely considering the t-shirt)

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

I want to get my warm weather clothes out the cupboard, but I get tricked this time every year

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

I’m very sorry

Also, the boob hypnosis stuff is misinformation put out by The Sun. A journalist asked him specifically to make her *think* her boobs had grown, he initially refused but agreed to try it. Cool to see Smart Thinkers(tm) run with that.

Face like a poster in a toilet warning you not to leave your drink unattended.

So 100k+ people potentially seeking asylum from Dubai. These sound like people with very demanding lifestyles who may not be able to assimilate into our simple make do and mend culture. Plus they’re not used to paying tax.

Atomic.

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I just ordered your Times Like These book, I don’t know how I missed it but looking forward to reading it!

This Kate Bush #WutheringHeights dance print by @jambookshopuk.bsky.social is a steal at £14, surely? 🤩

After a truly awful last 12 months, I'm struggling to scrap by.

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Honestly I think that book re-wired my brain

The first time I read this it took me 15 minutes to compose myself

❤️❤️❤️

Charlie Brooker’s signature on the title page of one his books. He’s written “Book liking cunt”

I’ve liked Charlie Brooker since his Guardian Guide column. Got his autograph once.

Sometimes poetic justice can be very funny indeed. Thoughts and prayers to the innocent manure heap who didn’t deserve this

That image is him standing by his window all day every day just staring at the dung heap

He only found out he was The Doctor years later, he thought he just had a very eventful life

Yul Brynner was told by the director that it was just him being magnificent , so when six others walked into shot that is his genuine expression

To be fair tennis balls on a stick can be terrifying too

A whole era of Doctor Who based off just surprising David Tennant whilst having several camera rolling

The most egregious one I saw was a Tumblr post (of course) saying that the scene in Doctor Who where David Tennant’s Doctor sees Rose again was actually all because DT had not been told Billie Piper was returning (what) and that was his genuine reaction to seeing her again. I really just can’t

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS is the kind of film that can restore your faith in cinema *and* make you laugh non-stop. Come for the costumed mascots, stay for the Karel Zeman aesthetic and Buster Keaton jokes.

poster whose brother changes the oil in the orphan crushing machine: whoa there, don't be so quick to judge. he has bills to pay

This is a good overview of a thought process I find very useful: identify what people in your life are good at & appreciate that, instead of trying to get them to fill roles that they neither suit nor want. Accept who they are rather than pinning hopes on who you want them to be.