No doubt I’m biased too, but to my mind, the biggest and most indefensible problem at the BBC for the past few years has been gender ideology. Absolutely NO balance, full-on flat eartherism on TV, radio and online. The few GC voices get censured, TRAS dominate

If true it won't end well...

When I saw the line-up for the Laura Kuenssberg show I thought there was nobody representing the views of Reform UK. Then I remembered that Laura would be there. #bbclaurak

Twits of a certain age .. Didn’t we have hours of fun with these little paper pockets .. No batteries , no electric, no internet.. Just a piece of paper and a few felt tips .. I can’t remember what we called them… Can you ..?

Well, Kirstie, the BBC is in real danger now, and it’s going to need the support of everyone who thinks that public service broadcasting - as opposed to, say, the Fox News model - is worth defending.

A year ago Yet will still live as one of the best responses ever 🤣🤣🤣

Elvis Presley cutting Johnny Cash's hair, 1960.

Dear BBC: for £540K pa, I’ll change the culture, productivity and … mindset of that place. Regards An un/inpregnable person

I went to Paris today; there was so much I intended to do. Instead I sat in a park on the Left Bank and stared at the autumnal trees. Then I had a bite of lunch and came home.

I was thinking just this morning of a man I met who served in the Burma campaign, and how highly he spoke of the West African troops he served with there.

Lest we forget the contribution of Black soldiers from Africa and the Caribbean this Remembrance Sunday 🙏🏾

Elderly lady comes up to me in Tescos “Hello Mr Afzal, I used to work at the Court when you were there” “Lovely to see you” I replied “I’ve lost my husband” she said “I’m so sorry to hear that” I replied “No, he’s not dead, I just don’t know where he is in the supermarket”😆

Free-Odor Lostoyevsky #AimlessAuthors

We know some lads.

On this day in 1969: Newcastle United beat Sunderland 3-0 in the Tyne and Wear derby at SJP in front of 56,317 fans. Wyn Davies and Keith Dyson with a brace.

'one of the oldest municipal offices', but nowhere near as ancient as the office of Sheriff of the City of London, a position that every LM has to have served in.

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke If I should die, think only this of me:       That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be       In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,       Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of England’s, breathing English air,       Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away,       A pulse in the eternal mind, no less             Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;       And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,             In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Born on this day in 1979: Aaron Hughes, He made 279 appearances for Newcastle United, with his senior debut coming as a teenager against Barcelona in the Camp Nou in 1997.

Animals that might be harmed by eating ragwort, a native wildflower, do not eat the living plant unless starved. PAs are not cumulative poisons. Ragwort hysteria is a far bigger problem than the plant. See ragwortfacts.com