Ian Winterton
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Ian Winterton
@ianwinterton.bsky.social
Writer - comics for https://cutawaycomics.co.uk/; audio drama (latest Scuttled, starring Chris Eccleston, here: https://audioboom.com/posts/8564866-scuttled-episode-one); screen, stage. Also: lecturer / teacher / podcaster.
The BBC has many non-profit criteria it has to meet - but it is also expected not to lose money in the same way a nationalised utility would.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The whole point of the BBC is that it is not a profit-making institution - it's funded by the British people, for the British people, neither beholden to shareholders nor governments or politicians of every stripe. It's why it is so hated. And loved.
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If you vote Reform you're voting for pro-Putin traitors or, at best, useful idiots whose venality has been weaponised by the Kremlin. It's really that simple.
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Recommend - so long as you like Dr. Who!
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You'd have to be an idiot to think Starmer close to being as bad as Truss or Johnson. He is a bit crap, mind, but improvement on Sunak, with added bonus of being head of a Labour gov. (generally nicer) rather than Reform-lite Tories (venal incompetents all). Sadly, lot of people in UK ARE idiots.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Every potential Labour voter:
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Brilliant interview, lads. x
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
And Musk gets $1 trillion. When are we going to be free from these monsters?
November 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
When are we doing The Writer's Tale?!
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It was. If there's one thing I like more than Dr Who it's I Claudius so I was in a state of barely concealed ecstasy all day.
October 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM