Paul Bentham
@paulbenthamesq.bsky.social
Looking for somewhere that isn’t Mos Eiseley…
Despite the Disneyfication and shift from its original context, I’ve seen enough from this clip to take hope that it will further expose the current Napoleon. Because, Americans, “If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear“.
December 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Despite the Disneyfication and shift from its original context, I’ve seen enough from this clip to take hope that it will further expose the current Napoleon. Because, Americans, “If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear“.
Erm… #25A?
White House officials have reportedly raised the alarm over the president's behaviour following a recent televised meeting. www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
White House officials have reportedly raised the alarm over the president's behaviour following a recent televised meeting. www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
Trump 'forgets who he is' as White House staff worried he's 'lost the plot'
White House officials have reportedly raised the alarm over the president's behaviour following a recent televised meeting.
www.express.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Erm… #25A?
White House officials have reportedly raised the alarm over the president's behaviour following a recent televised meeting. www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
White House officials have reportedly raised the alarm over the president's behaviour following a recent televised meeting. www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
Wigan Warriors won the Team of the Year Award, deservedly, last year. I’m not sure that it will be possible for a rugby league nominee, however demonstrably worthy, to win any awards that are ‘voted for by the public’. Is this progress?
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
SPOTY 2025: BBC Sports Personality of the Year to be held on 18 December
The 2025 BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be held at MediaCityUK in Salford on Thursday, 18 December.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Wigan Warriors won the Team of the Year Award, deservedly, last year. I’m not sure that it will be possible for a rugby league nominee, however demonstrably worthy, to win any awards that are ‘voted for by the public’. Is this progress?
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
You know how, if someone’s rude to waiting staff or confidently says they don’t like dogs, you secretly judge them? Well I’m also like that with people who want to see the end of the BBC.
Like dogs and waiting staff, they may not be perfect but they don’t deserve your derision.
Like dogs and waiting staff, they may not be perfect but they don’t deserve your derision.
an older man wearing glasses and a blue sweater is making a funny face .
ALT: an older man wearing glasses and a blue sweater is making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
You know how, if someone’s rude to waiting staff or confidently says they don’t like dogs, you secretly judge them? Well I’m also like that with people who want to see the end of the BBC.
Like dogs and waiting staff, they may not be perfect but they don’t deserve your derision.
Like dogs and waiting staff, they may not be perfect but they don’t deserve your derision.
Reposted by Paul Bentham
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
The BBC must, at the earliest opportunity, set the record straight about Trump’s words on January 6th by broadcasting the full, unedited 4hr, 47min footage, as live. Without selective editing, any viewer will easily conclude who was and wasn’t at fault that day, won’t they?
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The BBC must, at the earliest opportunity, set the record straight about Trump’s words on January 6th by broadcasting the full, unedited 4hr, 47min footage, as live. Without selective editing, any viewer will easily conclude who was and wasn’t at fault that day, won’t they?
The BBC is worth fighting for
The corporation must turn this crisis into an opportunity
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Part of me is tempted to see this tested in the courts. I don’t defend the journalistic shortcut that led to Trump’s words being re-presented in this way (and we expect more of the BBC than anyone else). But was he materially misrepresented? I doubt it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates
The BBC chair earlier apologises for the
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Part of me is tempted to see this tested in the courts. I don’t defend the journalistic shortcut that led to Trump’s words being re-presented in this way (and we expect more of the BBC than anyone else). But was he materially misrepresented? I doubt it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Communist-style price-fixing in the land of Liberty 🗽
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The US will never again be “the land of the free” until its people remember how to return to being “the home of the brave”.
Remember that when you clutch your chests and sing those lines, y’all…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The US will never again be “the land of the free” until its people remember how to return to being “the home of the brave”.
Remember that when you clutch your chests and sing those lines, y’all…
This is insane.
The Trump Administration is trying to get in the way of businesses having compassion for their own customers.
The cruelty IS THE POINT.
The Trump Administration is trying to get in the way of businesses having compassion for their own customers.
The cruelty IS THE POINT.
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Communist-style price-fixing in the land of Liberty 🗽
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The US will never again be “the land of the free” until its people remember how to return to being “the home of the brave”.
Remember that when you clutch your chests and sing those lines, y’all…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The US will never again be “the land of the free” until its people remember how to return to being “the home of the brave”.
Remember that when you clutch your chests and sing those lines, y’all…
Well, we haven’t had a fortnight since the clocks went back and I’m already ‘welcoming’ the first cold of the winter. Pushing back against the squelchiness and disconcerting nasal noises with a Lempsip - with an added splodge of manuka honey…
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Well, we haven’t had a fortnight since the clocks went back and I’m already ‘welcoming’ the first cold of the winter. Pushing back against the squelchiness and disconcerting nasal noises with a Lempsip - with an added splodge of manuka honey…
This is a very faithful version… 📅☔️
youtu.be/XgqQBcJDhxI
youtu.be/XgqQBcJDhxI
"November Rain" - Guns n' Roses (Cover by First to Eleven)
YouTube video by First To Eleven
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is a very faithful version… 📅☔️
youtu.be/XgqQBcJDhxI
youtu.be/XgqQBcJDhxI
Right. So basically, this “six-seven” thing is just Gen Alpha thinking they’ve invented ‘Mornington Crescent’, isn’t it?
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Right. So basically, this “six-seven” thing is just Gen Alpha thinking they’ve invented ‘Mornington Crescent’, isn’t it?
You’ve got to love this guy. A Bayern legend who played 2 seasons for United, past his peak. Since retirement, he’s become United’s no.1 fan in Germany. Bayern beat Dortmund in der Klassiker on Friday and he was like “strong performance”. Today, after the win at Anfield, this:
x.com/bschweinstei...
x.com/bschweinstei...
Bastian Schweinsteiger on X: "Simply lovely!!! Come on @ManUtd! What a match 💪🏼 https://t.co/iwR8LfdMKK" / X
Simply lovely!!! Come on @ManUtd! What a match 💪🏼 https://t.co/iwR8LfdMKK
x.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
You’ve got to love this guy. A Bayern legend who played 2 seasons for United, past his peak. Since retirement, he’s become United’s no.1 fan in Germany. Bayern beat Dortmund in der Klassiker on Friday and he was like “strong performance”. Today, after the win at Anfield, this:
x.com/bschweinstei...
x.com/bschweinstei...
It blows my mind that, less than 48 hours after Paul McCartney played US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Vikings played an NFL game held there. 🤯
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It blows my mind that, less than 48 hours after Paul McCartney played US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Vikings played an NFL game held there. 🤯
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I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
Sadly, this very Premier-League-era-centric piece rather spectacularly fails to take the opportunity to remind us that, at Nottingham Forest, Ange Postecoglou has managed to beat even Brian Clough’s most remarkable record - by five days…
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Nottingham Forest: 'Sacked Ange Postecoglou was not the right fit'
Ange Postecoglou had only just moved into his new flat when he was sacked by Nottingham Forest, ending one of the shortest reigns in Premier League history.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Sadly, this very Premier-League-era-centric piece rather spectacularly fails to take the opportunity to remind us that, at Nottingham Forest, Ange Postecoglou has managed to beat even Brian Clough’s most remarkable record - by five days…
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
I like watching #TOTP on a Friday night, partly for the music, partly to speculate what I would have been doing that week but mostly, I think, to nerd out on some very niche guitars that you hardly ever see. Tonight’s (October 1979) offering: a Fender Deluxe Telecaster…
a woman reaches out to touch a guitar in a glass case with the caption made with mematic
ALT: a woman reaches out to touch a guitar in a glass case with the caption made with mematic
media.tenor.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I like watching #TOTP on a Friday night, partly for the music, partly to speculate what I would have been doing that week but mostly, I think, to nerd out on some very niche guitars that you hardly ever see. Tonight’s (October 1979) offering: a Fender Deluxe Telecaster…
Finally got round to watching the final Ozzy Osbourne documentary on iPlayer. As expected, it’s the very definition of ‘bittersweet’.
a man says mama i 'm coming home in a black and white photo
ALT: a man says mama i 'm coming home in a black and white photo
media.tenor.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Finally got round to watching the final Ozzy Osbourne documentary on iPlayer. As expected, it’s the very definition of ‘bittersweet’.
If you’re my age, you might agree that was the coolest three seconds of the entire 1980s….
a man is sitting in a red car that is starring tom selleck
ALT: a man is sitting in a red car that is starring tom selleck
media.tenor.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If you’re my age, you might agree that was the coolest three seconds of the entire 1980s….
Hahahahahahah! 🍊😡
NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
October 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hahahahahahah! 🍊😡
“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”
George Orwell
- The Pentagon will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
George Orwell
- The Pentagon will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”
George Orwell
- The Pentagon will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
George Orwell
- The Pentagon will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
I’ve been saying this for years - and have had it on quite good authority that many in the Labour Party have been thinking about it too…
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
Andy Burnham, the man who would be king
The Greater Manchester mayor has made no secret of his Labour leadership ambitions, but faces significant obstacles
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I’ve been saying this for years - and have had it on quite good authority that many in the Labour Party have been thinking about it too…
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
The mass misunderstanding of the words ‘liberal’ and ‘radical’ are at the root of much of the division we’re seeing being stoked. Before you join today’s Two Minutes Hate, consider the warnings of those who would have you believe a word can have its opposite meaning…
a large screen shows a man 's face and says ingsoc
ALT: a large screen shows a man 's face and says ingsoc
media.tenor.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
The mass misunderstanding of the words ‘liberal’ and ‘radical’ are at the root of much of the division we’re seeing being stoked. Before you join today’s Two Minutes Hate, consider the warnings of those who would have you believe a word can have its opposite meaning…
Have you had your Severe Alert? It's a little different from the Extreme Alert we had a couple of years ago. The Severe one was a continuous monotone - but the Extreme one sounds more like this:
youtu.be/JGstZ5x3O9M
youtu.be/JGstZ5x3O9M
'Rest In Peace' (Extreme)
YouTube video by Paul Bentham
youtu.be
September 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Have you had your Severe Alert? It's a little different from the Extreme Alert we had a couple of years ago. The Severe one was a continuous monotone - but the Extreme one sounds more like this:
youtu.be/JGstZ5x3O9M
youtu.be/JGstZ5x3O9M