At first I thought Graham Linehan had gone crazy, I felt sorry for him.
With an avalanche of negative media and social coverage, Graham became one of the most cancelled people alive.
But he didn't stop. I learned more about the subject and quickly realised that
#GlinnerWasRight
The most accurate commentary we've had so far:
"After 12 years of Tories we are at the dregs of what they have to offer and Liz Truss is like the backwash of the dregs."
- Joe Lycett
#BBCLauraK
They don't really care about the environment.
My MP Andrew Griffith (
@griffitha
) is COP26's net-zero business champion.
He just voted for more raw sewage to be dumped by water companies.
#Marr
'Five days before Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered on June 12, 1994, she called a battered women’s shelter in terror that her ex-husband was going to kill her. The jury was not told this ... evidence of beating and stalking, from 1977 to May 1994, was also excluded.'
The reaction from at least one person to me sharing a small snippet of my experience with domestic violence the other day - "No way, not Jen," questioning my honesty - was eye-opening and goes along w/this
You Know At Least One Nicole Brown…, by
@yashar
Another tabloid exposé, yawn.
Why don't the BBC investigate things that actually matter, maybe even in this country?
Water companies and political corruption, Chinese political interference, MPs second jobs, etc. There's not exactly a shortage of options.
#Panorama
The BBC
#Panorama
team has successfully kept the lid on tonight's special episode, an impressive achievement in itself.
We don't need any more exposés on celebs tho, Britain is facing urgent problems. What about some dirt-digging around water utility corruption, for example?
Police Scotland has committed to investigating every single complaint it receives under new hate crime laws.
Meanwhile, major changes to policing in Scotland that mean some crimes will no longer be investigated due to budget cuts.
#TruthIsNotAHateCrime
"Future historians may see this as a clash between postmodernism and facts."
In her well-reasoned piece from 2018,
@DebbieHayton
(a trans teacher) argues that self-identification protects neither trans individuals nor women and girls.
@MAstronomers
They expected to get maximum 30 minutes of data from the surface of Titan but Huygens continued to send data for about 90 minutes after touchdown.
@fesshole
Did something very similar as a school kid. The guilty repayment got me on a 'major donor' list and I was called regularly to donate more for years, each phone call a reminder of my original sin.
@AdamBienkov
Correct.
"EU law does not prevent markings from being placed on products, so long as it does not overlap or be confused with the CE mark."
- EU spokesperson to BBC News
I've seen my share of poor journalism, but the going by BBC's Holly Honderich's coverage you'd think that Amber Heard had won the defamation case against Johnny Depp. Comically biased, bizarre.
An unusual outbreak of lucidity in the UK.
Shock, perhaps it wasn't a good idea to give lots of children puberty blockers that will affect their entire lives. Should influence global policy.
Dockers at two ports now refusing to unload Boris Johnson's sneaky, sanction-busting oil deliveries.
“[We will] under no circumstances unload any Russian oil regardless of the nationality of the vessel which delivers it”.
#JohnsonOut41
#Ukraine
Ukraine’s armed forces have advanced 50 km in Kharkiv region in a few days.
Kupyansk is a key rail hub for most of Russia's supplies to the eastern front. It's also the only way for Russian troops in Izyum to escape and now it's burning.
#Ukraine
@BBCNews
"If I knew there was a 1% chance that I could keep the kids in Belgium or France or Sweden or Finland I would keep them there. All I wanted was for my kids to go to school. I didn't want any assistance. My wife and I can work. I just wanted to protect them." - Ahmed Alhashimi
@alfiemoore
It must be so frustrating for officers to put in all that work to get a prosecution only for the courts to let victims down, seems to happen a lot.
Walking home that evening, I remember the silence.
Regent's Park was filled with hundreds of others also walking home, everybody in silence.
#LondonBombings
"I could see pumps were failing, sewage was going into the river and the [environment] agency hadn’t noticed. As I dug into it, there was more and more horror.” The sleuths who raised the alarm about our dying rivers. By
@OliverBullough
@watsoncomedian
I'm sorry to hear this, I've never understood the reasons. It's your radio show and you have plenty of telly experience, where's the problem?
Like last year when Mark Steel had his entire format stolen for TV, it would've been much better for everyone if they'd been honest.
BBC News appears to think that a writers strike in the US is the most important news story in the world, it leads every bulletin. Utterly bizarre news agenda.
#r4today
@wonderofscience
@landru79
If I recall correctly, this incredible video was made a few years ago by combining the photos taken by the Rosetta probe - not by ESA but a random guy on Reddit.
A demon trapped inside glass after an exorcism in 17th century Germany.
By 1720, it was in the Vienna Treasury described as “a spiritus familiaris in a glass that was driven out of one possessed and banned to this glass”.
Now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection, Vienna.
'While it is easy to see why Batmanghelidjh inspired such devotion, it is harder to understand why her downfall was widely accepted and her exoneration widely ignored.'
On April 13th, 1943, it was revealed to the world that mass graves had been found in the Katyn Forrest in Russia.
After exhumations, it turned out that Moscow had ordered 22 000 Polish officers to be murdered by a shot to the head.
The Soviets thought nobody would ever find out
Sea cucumber skin magnified 100x looks like a background from SpongeBob SquarePants.
Credit: Christian Gautier, polarised light, Biosphoto, Le Mans, France
2,000 year-old fingerprints in some Roman cosmetic cream.
The sealed container was unearthed during excavations at a Roman temple complex in London in 2003.
@gdavies
Really enjoyed you on Desert Island Discs today. Thanks for being honest, it was all rather heartwarming.
Think I'll steer clear of isolation tanks for now, the sudden release of cumulative repression would probably pop something.
The UK rolls back on carbon reduction plans; Germany puts her coal-fired power stations back online; the US, China and India burn bigger mountains of coal.
With Russian aggression pulling focus and draining economies, this is all starting to get out of control and a bit scary.