It’s telling that with all their lavish funding Reclaimed et al don’t simply make the “balanced” history programmes they whine about not getting. Not even a “but we built the railways” podcast. It’s almost as if their peccadilloes only hold together as a gossamer of criticism over real academic work

Troughton in The Gunfighters because he would like a hat like that

Sure you’re not watching Enemy Of The World In Colour?

This is how I find out Darren Grimes is Deputy Leader of Durham County Council. How much longer before people cotton on to “Vote in Twitter shitposters to run things = life gets appreciably worse”?

American exceptionalism is a hellava drug, but if Trump winning a second term wasn’t cold turkey it’s not a habit you’re going to kick

Glasman is in outlier in many respects but there isn’t a UK politician in 2025 talking about class who isn’t a patronising tosser. It’s never a heuristic for capital/labour relations. At best it’s a vestigial cultural tribe, at worst a rhetorical veneer giving pet bigotries a salt-of-the-earth gleam

Lisa Nandy: “Why shouldn’t the next target for nuclear annihilation be Wigan or Barnsley or Bradford?”

John Woodnutt’s delivery of “I thought you were a Scotsman” is the eye of the duck of all of Doctor Who

When listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl leads you to hit upon a foundational conceptual flaw in the American Experiment 💯

I don’t care what constituency it’s currently part of, Kingston is not and will never be in London. Boundaries change, postcodes are immutable, Kingston is in Surrey! (I enjoyed the piece otherwise, but someone had to take a stand for observable reality)

Most casuals/researchers will go to Wikipedia before the biography section of a band’s official website - more reliably updated!

Band promo copy is hard! It’s written as the canonical account, but an act with long history & member churn has competing recollections/egos to satisfy. Outside hard metrics (dates/charts) it takes time & delicate negotiation, & fans/press know it all anyway. Laborious + low pressure = easy to defer

Now I’m out of the loop too, but the video is just the ai upscale side by side with the DVD

This makes it clear www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hw...

Did this become a contentious take rather than broad consensus while I wasn’t looking?