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Why did paranoid BBC bin Bob Monkhouse’s book? It was on Repair Shop not Jackanory.
They didn’t have to read out his “sexist” jokes… thesun.co.uk/news/38631089/…
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Why did paranoid BBC bin Bob Monkhouse’s book? It was on Repair Shop not Jackanory.
They didn’t have to read out his “sexist” jokes… thesun.co.uk/news/38631089/…
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@Andyjoneswrites I suspect that wasn’t the one they had a problem with. Quite tame even in 2026
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@Cod_Rob The essence of the joke wasn’t even based on gender. The joke centred on his wife being a bad cook, not that she was a bad cook because she was a woman or that gender played a part in that.
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People say the BBC has a diversity problem but it has just replaced a 58-yr-old Cambridge-educated white man with a *57-yr-old* Cambridge-educated white man so I don't know what they're talking about telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…
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@NetflixUK Adolescence has been around for so long it's become an adult, burned through two divorces and just welcomed it's fourth grandchild.
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Congratulations to the incredible cast of Adolescence for their #BAFTATVAwards nominations!
Stephen Graham (Leading Actor)
Owen Cooper (Supporting Actor)
Ashley Walters (Supporting Actor)
Erin Doherty (Supporting Actress)
Christine Tremarco (Supporting Actress)
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@sturgios He replies to a lot of these. It’s quite revealing. I now call them sugar traps.
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“I’m a big fan of rail safety. It had absolutely nothing to do with the money,” said Diane Morgan at the very awkward media launch of GoVia Thameslink’s latest campaign.
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@CigsMake @guywalters Is it a good idea to link cigarettes to things that kill people? Consumers might get the wrong idea.
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Imagine if the military contractors opened up advertising space on their planes/navy vessels
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@dannywallace Obviously you’re wrong (and yes I know you’re using hyperbole to cut through the noise). But is it your opinion that those who review must also be practitioners of that which they review?
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Why do banks insist on calling a mortgage deal a “product”? The only products banks offer are plastic anthropomorphic pigs in which to insert your weekly pocket money.
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@Mappy6984 Just your typical doctor wearing a baseball cap but no gloves.
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Young man - early 20s maybe - sitting opposite me on the Tube, absorbed in reading The Bible.
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@Osint613 Meanwhile 0.07% of the voting public were found machined gunned/ripped apart by wilds dogs
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BREAKING 🔴
Kim Jong-un wins North Korea’s parliamentary elections with 99.93% of the vote.
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@saniyafatma1278 Some grandparents then if they can’t even be arsed to say congratulations
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I graduated today, my parents died when I was 10 years old. My grandparents raised me with love and sadly no one said congratulations. ☘🌹
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This is just embarrassing from a paper that once stood for something. An utterly humourless - and at times just plain nasty - swipe at people the author apparently dared not speak to (or did she just forget to incude any quotes?). She seems to think she is making some profound point here but her thesis is bunk. All she has turned in is a screed of condescending garbage. Could the Observer not find any other students that actually know something about writing/journalism?
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Cheltenham festival is a reflection of Britain as a fractured isle.
A day out to the Gloucestershire racetrack is like an episode of The Only Way is Essex, populated by people who believe they would star in an episode of Peaky Blinders.
Read more as Jessy Parker Humphreys spent the day at the races: bit.ly/4bDTqdw
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@PopBase Wow. Sounds like his accent is now “mid-Pacific”, somewhere between Australia and America.
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@anitathetweeter I mourn the loss of the places I never visited.
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Pie and mash shops are disappearing because people decided that pie covered in weird green water is objectively less tasty than every other fast food available on the High Street
Vinnie Sullivan@VinnieSull1van
This 1970s programme covers Lononders' love for the glory of Pie and Mash. Symbolically, the people in this video are dismayed that this shop was due to be demolished. This is todays reality, but on a far larger scale. This is one of our traditional customs that defines who we are. The disappearance of Pie and Mash shops, pubs, and so on is to lose the character of London itself. I remember my beloved grandmother taking me when I was tiny, and it was all downhill from there. It isn't just an inexpensive old custom that fed us but a delicious form of homely comfort. The people and what's taking place in this video are a representation of real London, and of course Britain. Their like, are truly seen no more. It's not only heartbreaking to think that one day it could all be gone, but to know that the world replacing it has no individually, character, or anything to be proud of. Each nation should have its own identifying characteristics as opposed to the forever growing internationalism that turns every country into identical victims of corporatism. ⏳️🍽
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