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+BBC CLOCK COMPETITION+

We won't be making a run of these but this Bank Holiday weekend you can win a one-off 90s inspired BBC ident clock. Follow, Like & RP to enter. Winner announced Mon AM. We've also restocked our 'Radiophonic' inspired signs & other items.

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May 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Lessons to be learned:

1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power
German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off. In an effort to portray himself and his party as tough on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the poll-leading Christian Democrats, pushed a series of measures tightening borders and accelerating deportations through Parliament this week. He did so with help from the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD — parts of which have been classified as extremist by German intelligence agencies. On Friday, the gambit ended in a crushing legislative defeat for Mr. Merz, dissent in his own party and jubilant claims of new legitimacy from the AfD, a chain reaction that could rattle Mr. Merz’s comfortable seat at the top of the polls. Mr. Merz’s willingness to rely on support from the AfD, broke a taboo in German politics that had endured since the end of World War II.
January 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
damiansmyth.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
On today’s question, writer J. Michael Straczynski’s biography of being raised by such a Nazi sympathiser
Father gives some ugly form of an answer.
The BBC World Service interviewed him in 2019 and you can listen here…

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Outlook - How Superman saved my life - BBC Sounds
Screenwriter Joe Straczynski wished for a hero to rescue him from his abusive childhood
www.bbc.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM