Just been unexpectedly reminded of one of the funniest things ever to happen on tv - when Most Haunted 'unmasked' Derek Acorah as a fake, as though it wasn't bloody obvious it was all absolute nonsense from the start.

Lovely to see @paulmagrs.bsky.social giving my new Holmes at Christmas book from @titanbooks.bsky.social a plug on his YouTube channel! youtu.be/0IdCy8y-3E0?...

i'm excited about these new autumn book releases!

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Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

I’m surprised Kemi Badenoch is so opposed to the early prisoner release scheme. It’s an excellent source of Tory candidates.

Delighted to discover that my new Holmes book - SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CHRISTMAS MURDERS - will be available in ASDA when it comes out in November.

CEO wants more bigots, apparently. At which point, we'll all sod off elsewhere, and he'll be left with an essentially useless platform full of bigots. And isn't there already one of those?

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

We've survived the entirety of human history without data centres. We can't survive more than a few days without clean drinking water.

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

The point Ben misses is very few of posts about Rod are “HURRAY HE’S DEAD” like you get with, say, Thatcher, but most of them are just reminders of the stuff he said.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen to @scifibulletin.bsky.social (the site - not me, quite yet!) @alasdairstuart.com @smartartz.bsky.social @nickjjoy.bsky.social @bigfinish.bsky.social @dannyrobins.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2026/08/03/f...

Farewell to SFB

This is the news story that I never quite expected to have to write, but here we are. This is the last day of regular updates to Sci-Fi Bulletin. For those who don’t know the history, Sci-Fi Bullet…

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Jimmy Cricket and Rod Liddle dying on the same day... I think we all know who'll be fondly remembered by people of all ages and classes, and who will only be fondly remembered by sex offenders and fascists.

I think this totally fair, but in exchange I want a personal thank you letter from Clarkson for the £250,000 that his farm got from government subsidies that come from my tax money. I don't want a form letter, I want him to write it like he means it.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 3d ago

🚨 NEW: Jeremy Clarkson says benefits claimants should be forced to write a genuine thank you email to a random worker every week “It is SO kind of you to go to work every day so that I don’t have to. Thanks to you I was able to buy an even bigger television this week”

Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

Yep. I've been saying for *years* that as a neurodivergent cis bloke, quite apart from the basic human decency angle which should be enough by itself, it was in my interest to support trans people because it was *fucking obvious* the bigots were coming after us next. *Years* ago.

Sophie Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🩰@sophiedancer.co.uk · 3d ago

Laughs in trans having seen this movie. None of that matters Dr Burnett, if they want it banned / restricted they will just make up a nonsense review Ala Cass, and if you’re sat there thinking well Cass was independent etc then oh boy get ready. They’ve run this blueprint before.

Labour genuinely seems to think that Keir Starmer was the problem, not the xenophobic, authoritarian mindset he propounded. It's like watching a car crash in slow motion.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d ago

Very disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.

🤔 It's really not too hard to imagine a Reform govt authorising the military and its ICE equivalent (doubtless quickly recruited from the followers of Tommy Ten-Names) pushing desperate people back into the sea and sinking their boats...

Not bands (because the answer to that is undeniably any 3 from the 4 of the run from Rubber Soul to The White Album) Life's A Riot with Spy v Spy Brewing Up with Billy Bragg Talking with the Taxman About Poetry or (Station to Station) Low Heroes Lodger (Scary Monsters)

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:

😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳

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Can we stop calling them 'climate change sceptics' as though they've made a reasoned decision based on the science? Let's call them the 'money obsessed traitors to humanity' / 'idiots who shouldn't be left alone with crayons in case they eat them' (delete as applicable) that they are.

Climate change sceptics have lost the plot as Europe burns

Reading the Telegraph, it’s hard to work out whether their climate columns are a work of satire

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Infantino shafted. Trump called out on his bullshit by prosecutors. McInnes and the two rats fail to win their first game for Rangers. What a great start to the weekend.

Infantino has to go.

paulusthewoodgnome@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 4d ago

'No option should be off the table. The shabby, back room, opaque deal Gianni Infantino hatched and tried to force through was anything but transparent. And with reserves standing at over $5bn, he has also failed to use associations’ money for the benefit of the game.' www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Mad Dogs & Englishmen! The only book so good it has had a third airing! How much fun can two people have discussing a book? Presto or Poodle! @2broad2deeppod.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Have your say on AI licensing and payment! Macquarie University and the Creative Industries PEC are surveying UK authors and illustrators on their views. Take the survey before 7 Aug: https://ow.ly/iXGl50ZuA8V

It's kind of impressive than Infantino has managed to find a form of corruption so blatant and extreme that sports administrators are willing to draw a line despite the offer of massive bribes.

Absolutely brilliant to see! Now tell his to do one over hydration breaks, extended half time entertainment and bending the rules to suit the leaders of the host country.

paulusthewoodgnome@paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 6d ago

The beautiful game is getting ugly... Fantastic to see complete solidarity among Uefa members. 'All 55 Uefa countries have voted to support a World Cup boycott in protest against Fifa's proposed deal to sell stakes to private investment, a source has told BBC Sport.' www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨 We're back with our friends at @obversebooks.co.uk as we look at #DoctorWho - An Adventure in Space and Time, a special release from the @blackarchive.co.uk series, written by @rolinsond.bsky.social. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...

549: The Black Archive - An Adventure in Space and Time

We're highlighting a special release from the Black Archive series today - An Adventure in Space and Time. We speak to write David Rolinson about the work, featuring the special programme made for Do

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Jenrick tells the Reform UK press conference this morning an official will come to your dying mother's bedroom to tot up her jewellery, confiscate her brooches and itemise her coats under Andy Burnham's new tax. Is there not a danger of just sounding so alarmist that you sound unhinged?