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striking that the UK is now a dead-on typical European country in this regard. these are quite literally the vote shares of British opinion polls
James Jackson
@derJamesJackson1 Mar 2025
Europe is at an inflection point
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Remembering Frank Muir, born this day in 1920.
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A reader writes… “The last time I made a submission to Private Eye was in 1968, when I was 15 years old. I received this wonderful response which I still treasure:”  JOHN CLIVE
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"I will teach myself mathematics from books." The books:
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Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine, the little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company, who first chugged onto our screens today in 1959. Toot-toot! 🚂 #onthisday #wales
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I remember watching Northstar and looking forward to the TV series that never materialised.
archivetvmusings@archivetvmus7127 Dec 2024
OTD in 1985. Christmas editions of Grange Hill, Blankety Blank and Stanley Baxter are on BBC1. ITV pops on a TV movie, Northstar, followed by Coming Through.
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43 years today since Blake’s 7 ended with (spoiler) the entire regular cast being mown down by the bad guys, surely one of the bleakest endings to a classic sf TV series ever.
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OTD in 1974. Z Cars and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? are on BBC1. ITV has Bless This House and another chance to see Carry On Christmas.
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'From all of us, to all of you. A very happy Christmas'. BBC favourites line up in 1981 to offer seasonal greetings.
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London's taxi drivers have a reputation like no other thanks in large part to 'the knowledge', their almost encyclopedic recall of every street and building of importance. Back in 1974, Nationwide's James Hogg met some of those aspiring to become suitably knowledgeable.

1974: Acquiring 'The Knowledge' - Nationwide

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Obsessed with this colorful modernist Austro-Hungarian railway map from 1913
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Animal Kwackers, fondly remembered by many; The Oddball Couple, fondly remembered by none. IIRC Ray Moore was in his autobiography very rude indeed about the Miss World contestants.
archivetvmusings@archivetvmus7118 Nov 2024
OTD in 1976. TOTP, Sykes and Kojak are on BBC1. ITV gets the network together at 9.30 pm for N.U.T.S.
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Journalists etc moving to that other network isn't just snowflake liberal flight. It's also a very rational decision about how bad this place now is as a place for spreading work. Below are stats for today's column. BS here first, X second. And this despite 7x more followers on X
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Crackerjack became infamous for taking the pop hits of the day and delivering them as singalongs for the kids with full LE reworking. See if you can guess what this playlet is leading up to today in 1979 (um, as long as you don't look at the upload title) youtube.com/watch?v=n5LrRlR2…

Crackerjack team take on XTC's Making Plans For Nigel

It simply does not get better than this.

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Match Of The Day's FA Cup first round round-up today in 1998 is enlivened by someone getting the pre-recorded voiceover edits mixed up.
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"poppies are woke" might be an all timer. we are witnessing take artistry here. i can only watch in awe.
Fleur Elizabeth
@fleurmeston9 Nov 2024
I’m not wearing a poppy this year because the Royal British Legion’s ‘Head of Diversity and Inclusion’ earns roughly £65,000 a year while many ex-servicemen struggle for support. I’ll still honour and remember the brave souls who served and sacrificed for our freedom.
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Wellwishers around world congratulate President Roosevelt on his re-election; among them, British Prime Minister Churchill & a 14-year-old Cuban named Fidel Castro: lettersofnote.com/2009/09/25…

Letters of Note | Shaun Usher | Substack

Nothing but history's most interesting letters. Click to read Letters of Note, by Shaun Usher, a Substack publication.

news.lettersofnote.com
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In my childhood, same city as Bennett’s but a few decades on, ‘chumping’ was not chopping wood but, specifically, scrounging wood for a bonfire. ‘Clap cold’ was particularly used to describe and condemn insufficiently hot tea. theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

In his 10th decade The History Boys writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith,...

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And I think The History Boys is set in Sheffield, not Leeds. Who wrote this piece? … ah, Mark Lawson.
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Sloppily getting minor stuff wrong about a well-known work is very much the ML modus operandi
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