Reposted by jwmurphyTooting Newsie @tootingnewsie.bsky.social · 8mNed is still missing – has anyone seen him? #Tooting 011
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 2hFar too many shouty records on the 6music playlist currently 🥾 000
Reposted by jwmurphyR Phelps @greygosling.bsky.social · 4hwhat's a sixth of UK GDP between friends? 022
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 14hArguably Netflix is a iPlayer-style service given it came several years before! 100
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 14hCost per viewer, undoubtedly the best value thing the Beeb makes. Podcast > BBC2 > BBC1 000
Reposted by jwmurphyPaintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 19h'Wasteground with Houses, Paddington' (1970–72) by Lucian Freud (Garden Museum) 720839
Reposted by jwmurphyDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21hNot sure why anyone bothers with anti-AI activism when the most effective strategy would be to just point as many microphones as possible to its most vocal champions. 27804149
Reposted by jwmurphyLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 22hIn other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown. 9378168
Reposted by jwmurphyJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23hI'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes 871017239
Reposted by jwmurphyPavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Unlike other sectors that form part of Labour’s superego, the BBC is cutting 1,800–2,000 jobs, but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone in the government. 294
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Or they could just be claiming dead people’s pensions like the previous ‘blue zones’! 010
Reposted by jwmurphyIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film. 4532993812
Reposted by jwmurphySteve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"In this building lived and worked journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Killed 7 October 2006" 21562149
Reposted by jwmurphySimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe 54596171
Reposted by jwmurphyflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Straightforwardly Nazi shit herebbc.co.ukWestern civilisation is 'at an inflection point' Rubio says in speech overloooking AcropolisIn a speech overlooking the Acropolis, the US Secretary of State also said the US believes Europe "can awaken from its long slumber". 1318740
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I am currently reserving a 5.09% 2year fix CURSING Trump. 030
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Can’t believe the Last Leg is still going. Jokes write themselves… 000
Reposted by jwmurphyAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026From the new Private Eye 552715981
Reposted by jwmurphySaturday Mornings @saturdaymornings.co.uk · 07/10/2026Here's Andi explaining (or trying to...) how they've made it easier for you to use that new fangled Email to get in touch with Live & Kicking. Letters and faxes seem a lot simpler... #saturdaymornings 134
Reposted by jwmurphyHenry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 07/10/2026Baffling decision by Press Gazette to call these jobs 'journalists'! 915631
Reposted by jwmurphyAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"People are looking through the shop window and they like what they see..." says Kemi Badenoch, of the Conservative party, which is currently polling at its lowest level in its entire history 3840892
Reposted by jwmurphyJack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 07/10/2026something very funny about the Bayeux Tapestry getting 5 stars after 940 years, as if Bishop Odo of Bayeux has been sat at home all this time waiting for the review, absolutely raging - "I gave that Guardian journalist a press comp on OPENING NIGHT for god's sake" 1517550
Reposted by jwmurphyMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 571214544182
Reposted by jwmurphyGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"I'm going to offer you a massive tax cut". Tribal audience cheers. Interviewer: "how will you pay for that and keep key spending promises?" "No, you can't draw me into a trap of discussing hypotheticals" 512120
Reposted by jwmurphyPhil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thanks again, to @monkemma.bsky.social: "You have to ask why the Guido Fawkes headline, the City AM headline and Matt Goodwin wanted you to focus on condoms for Pakistani men rather than the family planning and maternal health services for the rural women" monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-we-dont...monkdebunks.substack.comNo, we don't spend £74 million a year on branded condoms for PakistanTracing the City AM headline, from Matt Goodwin's LBC claim and back through Guido Fawkes to a UK aid programme for women in rural Pakistan 22814
Reposted by jwmurphySteve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 07/10/202620 years ago today Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists, was murdered. I found no mention of the anniversary in today's Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussiayoutu.beRussian papers silent on the 20th anniversary of journalist's murderYouTube video by Steve Rosenberg 10387137
Reposted by jwmurphyPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Flight hijacked, forced landing at Luton, but managed to escape. 418337
Reposted by jwmurphyScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026BBC Three is this week airing the 1998 documentary The Cruise (starring Jane McDonald) Yes, that’s right. BBC Three. 10416
Reposted by jwmurphyJohn Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comNo queues, empty seats and the worst speech ever heard: welcome to the Tory conference | John CraceBirmingham event is like a safari park attraction where we get to see the remnants of a party in a protected habitat 1021353
Reposted by jwmurphyNicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Kemi Badenoch continues: ‘I can see why so many people were very fond of Jeffrey Archer. You know, we wanted him to be our mayoral candidate, and then yet another thing happened.’ Happened? He didn’t sit on a box of chocolates. He was sent to prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice. 425471
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Lots of highlights from Kemi on #r4today but I think the highlight has to be her lamenting some people for being in “social media echo chambers” 050
Reposted by jwmurphyAndrew @yawnthepost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026‘We’re not about left and right,’ says Badenoch, ‘we’re about right and wrong’ then says how fond she was of perjurer Jeffery Archer #r4today 163
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It’s ok - stay away! Kemi is now gushing over him, seconds after saying she believes in right and wrong 020
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I am - he’s clearly being described as a convicted criminal to be fair, but it’s not stopping a procession of tories eulogising him! 110
Reposted by jwmurphySam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Feels like Archer was sort of ahead of his time in some ways, made for the Everything Is Fake and Nobody Cares (shout-out to the BBC podcast of that name) era but born in the You Can Only Fake Certain Things and People Definitely Care About That era 041
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The amount of tories coming out eulogising a dead convicted criminal is quite something. #r4today 010
Reposted by jwmurphyMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The president of the United States says that "the New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested" for denying that the arena in which he spoke had empty seats. It's really bad! www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump... 1211187270
Reposted by jwmurphyThe Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary. 20947155
jwmurphy @murphytweets.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Electra/Persona was fantastic tonight @nationaltheatre.org.uk So lucky to be able to go and see Cate Blanchett on a Monday night and to be back home before the Ten o’clock news! 000
Reposted by jwmurphyMick Steward @micksteward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Andrew Pierce did the thing 214132
Reposted by jwmurphyIan Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 04/10/2026So basically five muppets with a couple of vans is enough to see the US withdraw bombers from Europe? If the USSR had known that, the Cold War might have turned out quite differently. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUS removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stationsA statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US. 1310827
