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Ofcom launches new ‘Map Your Mobile’ signal checker tool to help people see which network works best where they live www.ofcom.org.uk/mobile-cover...

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The Wellcome Trust is to fund a controversial project to create artificial human DNA 25 years after the human genome was completed. 🧪

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Interesting BBC iPlayer is promoting The Assembly on Instagram (note all the hashtags) - the acclaimed show by Rockerdale Studios the BBC let go to ITV because it said it couldn’t afford it. Since going to ITV its Danny Dyer & David Tennant eps got huge coverage www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...

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Revolutionary Vera Rubin telescope proves existence of Care Bears www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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It’s a sidebar to the much more important debate going on about this story but a reminder that BBC director generals have been called worse: Matthew Wright calling Mark Thompson a ‘bearded muppet’ was perhaps the most creative deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-...

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Today’s not been a good day for the BBC but it’s an even worse one for the brave doctors & whistleblowers who appeared in the Gaza medics documentary the BBC shelved this afternoon, citing impartiality concerns. When I broke the story initially about the doc being… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The satire of BBC hit comedies W1A and Twenty Twelve is taking on next year’s football World Cup as Ian Fletcher (played again by Hugh Bonneville) becomes ‘director of integrity’ at the ‘Twenty Twenty Six oversight team’. Can’t wait to see writer John Morton’s take on football’s global machinations

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The always thought-provoking Adam Curtis on journalism, the internet, societal melancholy, headphones being the symbol of our age, finance superseding political power &, even, Taylor Swift being a ‘prim 1950s, almost Doris Day figure’. Something for everyone in… www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

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BBC confirms Kate Phillips - who has overseen hits like The Traitors and Gladiators- as its new chief content officer and, importantly, knows the BBC inside out incl commercial/ global aspect having spent time at BBC Studios’ predecessor BBC Worldwide www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

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Substack’s summer party, its subs stats and how the blossoming company was set up to “disrupt the incentive system of social media” open.substack.com/pub/taraconl...

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For anyone thinking, ‘These kind of cuts to PBS wouldn’t happen here in the UK to the BBC though’, Reform’s Nigel Farage has said he wants to ‘scrap the BBC licence fee’. And we know how much other parties are looking at Reform’s policies deadline.com/2025/06/hous...

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BBC should use this banger from Springwatch, DJ Chris Packham & MC Strachan as their official charter review submission to govt: says it all and saves MONTHS of debate. Bravo @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

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And Just Like Hat

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Nadiya Hussain reveals BBC’s axed her cookery show, adding: ‘As a Muslim woman, I work in an industry that doesn't always support people like me or recognise my talent or full potential.There's a lot of gaslighting, making me feel like what's actually happening isn't happening.’

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BBC’s TikTok is currently live streaming some birds in nests & it’s quite hypnotic vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSL3GeY/

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The irony that Mounjaro could cause weight gain plus a different kind of pound loss

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BBC drawn into row with White House over Gaza coverage. Robust rebuttal here from the BBC: “Conflating these two stories is simply misleading” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Can’t read stories about the Trump tariff authority ruling without thinking of Handforth parish council clerk’s infamous quote: “You have no authority here Jackie Weaver, no authority at all” m.youtube.com/watch?v=l17U...

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The jeopardy in the Jeopardy distribution case is apt www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Sad news that the South London Press has closed. It was a great local newspaper. It also ran one of the greatest local newspaper stories ever*, "Squirrels on crack".

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Rang the HMRC govt hotline 8 weeks ago to check about National Insurance voluntary contributions. They’ve just got back to me

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Post-Bank Holiday doomscroll respite: turn up volume to hear a cuckoo above sound of my disinterested dog

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RIP Alan Yentob; unafraid to put his head above the parapet to defend the BBC whenever it needed him. He adored the Beeb & was, as ever, fizzing with ideas about its future when I last saw him at our BPG 50th awards - which he was so pleased to be invited to. This interview I did with him is one…

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This piece by Archie Bland is beautifully written, searingly-honest and will resonate with many - I urge you to read it www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Doctors & whistleblowers who featured in much-delayed film Gaza: Medics Under Fire that the BBC was accused of censoring by Susan Sarandon, Gary Lineker & 600 others, are threatening to withdraw their consent due to BBC’s continued refusal to broadcast the film www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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Liz Hurley in a glam coffin? Of course it’s a publicity shot for Channel 4’s wicked new reality show The Inheritance from The Traitors’s producers Studio Lambert. Liz plays The Deceased & Rob Rinder The Executor. Out this autumn. But will (see what I did there) you be watching?

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Rebooted Walking With Dinosaurs differs from original as features brightly-coloured & feathered dinosaurs, plus shows bones being dug up to prove dinos were real as many people now believe dinosaurs, like dragons, didn’t exist! Here’s how & why WWD2 was made in.. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Statement from BBC on Gary Lineker expected very soon. LOTS going on behind-the-scenes to try and get this big announcement to land right with its potent combination of fame, football, the licence fee and geopolitics

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My Substack on Thursday morning and tonight’s Sun 👀

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Calling it a night: stylistically it was a good Eurovision for purveyors of sea-wracked banshee-wear & Ann Summers but this was my highlight. Newsdesks pls find & interview this BSL interpreter by morn. Another glorious evening - sauna hats off to @ebu.ch

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Basel faulty.

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