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Macron: “But we must not forget one point—if anyone is playing the Third World War, it is Vladimir Putin. He was the one who started the war three years ago, and he brought 10,000 North Korean soldiers to European soil.”

Started the day in the right way with this fantastic interview with Harry H Corbett from 1967, where he reflects on acting with a special focus on TV. His final conclusion seems even more apt today: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

This is most obvious about the security guarantee. Russia will reject anything that ensures future sovereignty of Ukraine. Ukraine would be suicidal to agree to anything without it. That is intractable.

Think if there has to be a state visit it should be laced with subtle digs about tyranny. Dinner at Banqueting House then taken onto a platform on Whitehall. Performance of Lear from the RSC. Official gift is a fire-poker with Edward II carved on it.

Just read an Oxford Road Show PasC describing the show as "the Christmas edition trying to create a party atmosphere", and I love that even the paperwork is unconvinced that they actually managed it.

this ‘jurassic park’ story 😭

When I met you in the restaurant I could tell you had big crackers on

The Full Moon this month is known as the Worm Moon. The Spring soil is warmer & earthworms start to appear. (Astronomical diagram of the Worm Moon in orbit, by Richard Scarry, 1970s)

There’s lunacy, and then there’s Maurice Carassus de Loubajac, who in 1941 sent himself on a near fatal journey in a crate to Dublin because he didn’t like the English.

I’m well aware that I can barely find ‘the pulse’ nowadays, let alone have my finger on it, but YouTube served up this video to me the other day and I have honestly never seen anything like it from a female rapper. I am OBSESSED. youtu.be/F0cdbR5ognY?...

David Niven's birthday, is it? Time once more for The Greatest Picture Ever Taken, then.

Timeline cleanse: I would pay money to go to a live gig with these two duetting. Next time you're both in the same place, Steve and Ciaran, maybe as a charity fundraiser?

Brand new on Dirty Feed: the Montreux edition of Three of a Kind, and why its existence is rarely mentioned today. Also, Lenny Henry in drag. www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/02/init...

The Conversation may well be the Greatest Film Ever Made™️

Love the "unprecedented second state visit" trick on the person in the world most easily manipulated with flattery. Plus we can repeat the trick over and over: - Honorary knighthood - Freedom of the City of London - Honorary degree from Oxford - Gold Blue Peter Badge - Limited edition Oyster card

True but-you’ll-never-believe-me story. About 100 million years ago, @whenisbirths.bsky.social and I wrote a radio comedy pilot called We’ll Be Right Back. It was recorded but never broadcast. We had another go, with a script and pitch that weren’t even recorded. The name? Little Britain

Got mine, too! I did a little sigh at the beautiful IBA envelope.

This is fantastic.

This is wonderful www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

I often wish that I gave zero fucks in the same way that Demis Roussos gave zero fucks.

Once again, Australia does its reputation no good whatsoever

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the new game show for all the family, Don't Be Dirty.

Oh no. RIP Dawn. Far too young.

Is it time for the story of how I passed out briefly while having a shit in the Scientology shop on Tottenham Court Road?

This made us laugh more than it should have.

Important reporting on the C of E's failures over the serial child abuser John Smyth. bbc.co.uk/news/article... Which features a link to my Mary Whitehouse Archive on 4 about how he hid in plain sight, masquerading as a Christian morality campaigner. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Henry Kelly has left us. Remember him this way. youtu.be/5JvEj5Ryg4M?...

In one of the odder episodes of my career, Henry Kelly - who I had not previously met - once asked me and an LBC producer to babysit his son for the afternoon. We took him to the pub. He had strong opinions on the Spider-Man game on the PlayStation 2. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There are few greater radio experiences than spending hours on a late night show with Henry Kelly (“c’mon stay, lads…”) because he wants a drink and a natter, mics up or down, no matter, while your cab waits outside, racking up a huge bill for your publisher. I have, happily, done that. RIP HK.

'Hello, police? No need to hurry, it was clean through the head.'

It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

Literally every other post in my feed is a RT of that post from Trump about Gaza. You can all stop RTing it now, thanks.

Joe Brown, dressed like a groovy pimp, being taught the Green Cross Code by two cheeky kids.

Harry H Corbett! Harry H Corbett: Acting in the 60’s is on BBC Four right now.

FYI @braintree711.bsky.social

Tuesday

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

“Featuring Gary Barnacle On Saxophone” is now entering my vocabulary for ever.

Contrary to a certain number of pearl-clutchers, I really doubt that the son of a German-Jewish refugee like Nick Robinson needs to be reminded why the AfD are dangerous.

FAO teletext types: I’m considering hiring a self storage unit so I can take on @jamesomalley.co.uk ‘s 2,000 VHS tapes. Would anyone be willing to chip in to help with rent? Could any recovery heroes commit to regularly receiving tapes, at my cost? @mrbiffo.bsky.social @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social

The entire culture of the modern world is based on the childhood hobbies of everyone over 30. What are you talking about?

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: Victoria Wood tells Aspel & Company about her lack of proper women's dress sense, love of soaps, experience of comedy in different parts of Britain and disastrous school play experience.