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Ex-BBC News, now freelance journalist/sub-ed/media trainer/whatever. Reluctant runner, Chelsea fan, lover of shouty music. Went viral once about standing in a queue

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The Dubai-abolical Episode

NEW EPISODE: Chas. and guest host @robertrea.bsky.social are joined by CST member and author of numerous Blues-related books Tim Rolls to discuss last weekend's disappointment against Burnley. #CCF #ChelseaFC #ktbffh
open.spotify.com/episode/41Uv...

25.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI.

AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

16.02.2026 10:44 πŸ‘ 1733 πŸ” 655 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 28
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Sorry, the annual no what now?

12.01.2026 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Thought he’d been given it for services to comedy

30.12.2025 01:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The spy who kinda liked me
Sometimes say never again
Rainyball

26.12.2025 14:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
TikTok - Make Your Day

Festive stuff from my son’s London Top Tens series on TikTok. Gotta love London at Christmas! Enjoy πŸ˜€πŸŽ„

vm.tiktok.com/ZNR2LG1wB/

19.12.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t think what it is about not having to get up at 5.30 in the morning that’s so appealing, but yes πŸ˜€

18.12.2025 12:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not. A. Chance

18.12.2025 12:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

My wife and I had a horse-drawn wedding.

It was a disaster. We should have just hired a photographer.

24.11.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can’t they just fuck off and stay fucked off?

24.11.2025 17:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually the real winner is anyone in the world who buys stuff

19.11.2025 05:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They were, of course, never that bothered about free speech…

18.11.2025 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Magnificent stuff. Thanks for this

15.10.2025 08:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What the living fuck is he going on about? They need to cart him away and find him a home somewhere. A secure one. With orderlies

15.09.2025 21:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s why he needs to practise

15.09.2025 19:33 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Russell T Davies is really ramping up the scandal in this new series

15.09.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can DM me now

12.09.2025 00:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent article. Won’t make any difference to the sort of people who want to pin a β€œviolence celebraters β€œ label on those with liberal opinions, sadly

11.09.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly so

11.09.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Have you SEEN the cost of tap water????

11.09.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think you’re right

11.09.2025 13:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

…stance on issues, I have been unhappy to watch the craven way its bosses have buckled under to pressure to move to the right. The BBC should never cower to politicians and activists

11.09.2025 13:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Who was that? I know some of the foreign correspondents who were treated abysmally - people like Jon Sudworth. I left because I didn’t support what they were doing with the news teams, and partly because they threatened to make us apply for own jobs. As for its….

11.09.2025 13:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Who are you to tell them? You’re the Surgeon Fucking General, you dopey cunt. It’s literally your job to tell them

03.09.2025 20:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. I mean, not an ineffective policy tbf….

25.08.2025 18:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Of course, the difference between a Communist regimdd ex and a corruptocracy is in practice pretty small

25.08.2025 16:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He is the government. Currently. And he’s not taking the 10% of Nvidia into his personal account. It s now the US government’s property

25.08.2025 16:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

So he believes the government should own as much of the economy as he can get? So he’s a communist

25.08.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

True

25.08.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Britain has played an exceptional role in global history over the last 5 or 6 centuries, some of it good, some of it bad. Due to many factors, not least of being in the right place at the right time. But no - we didn’t β€œinvent” law or democracy or global exploration. It’s bad history to claim we did

25.08.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0