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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There’s no statute of limitations on recommending a great podcast!

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

15 Cornish pasties is my intended driving snack, so very fitting.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Enjoyed it v much back in the Golden Age of limited series documentary podcasting (they don’t make em like that anymore…)

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A sub-question: should I try again with Robert Harris’s Cicero books? Just couldn’t get into it the last time I faced a long solo drive…

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Got to drive to and from Cornwall this weekend on my own. Any recommendations for a gripping audiobook or limited series podcast that will keep me sane?

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Made this today, in the bath, just in time for the new Celebrity Traitors episode.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they've got you bang to rights

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah, Which is great, but its core demographic (in my experience) is 40-something-year-old professional men. You & Yours actually cater an audience who are very often the victims of consumer exploitation and wouldn't consider a Which subscription.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

BBC executives saw Reform receive donations of £72m in 48-hours this summer, and then announce plans to launch a "national publishing organisation". And their response to that? Kowtowing to voters who don't want impartial news, by continuing to hollow out public service broadcasting for generations.

pressgazette.co.uk

Reform hiring journalists to build national newsroom

At least 12 jobs on offer via new Reform content operation.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think the BBC could hold mini-referendums on these cuts, but only announce them live on Radio 4. That way, people who actually listen to the radio could decide the fate of these programmes, rather than executives caving to random weirdos tweeting on X or writing columns in the Spectator.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Archers is the perfect example of my mindset. I loathe it more than anything else on Radio 4 but I will defend – to the death! – their right and responsibility to make it. Also, it sounds like it can't cost more than £5 an episode.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think the right have successfully convinced BBC bosses that the battle here is the BBC v Netflix or BBC v YouTube, rather than seeing the successes of the private entertainment market as an opportunity for the Beeb to hone its strengths. It's madness.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I always turn You and Yours off the moment it comes on, but it is EXACTLY the sort of show that a public broadcaster should be making. Because, guess what, none of Global or Netflix or Disney or Sky are going to pick up a consumer rights programme like that, despite its obvious public good.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But the thinking at NBH presently seems to be "let's see what the private market is doing well, because that's where we're losing audience, and try and replicate that". Madness for the BBC to try and compete with VC-fuelled American streamers and tech companies, rather than embrace its strengths.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I hate this so much. The BBC should be providing good quality, good value programmes that the private market won't cover. You and Yours (which I kind of hate), Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking are exactly the sort of programming that the BBC is i) good at, ii) not haemorrhaging money to make.

bbc.co.uk

BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Having just read the case findings, it must be. But it still all makes no sense. A year ago he was totally denying the accusations. Now this? And he lived and worked in Rochdale, yet seems to be traipsing around the South East...

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He's doing the rounds! Proper apology tour...

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good thought. Very weird (and invasive) interpretation thogh.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

First instinct on this was "stag do bet" or similar. But bizarre to spend the whole weekend driving around the county, alone, for that purpose.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For 'professional' reasons, I am a member of lots of small town Facebook groups. This bloke has been appearing in towns across Sussex (Horsham, Redhill, Crawley, East Grinstead) with no apparent explanation. This is precisely why I stay subscribed to these groups.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Twice in the past week I’ve had strangers come up to be in Tesco and quite insistently ask to use my Clubcard. They say it’s “win win”, which I agree with on paper, but I instinctively find it suss. It’s not like clubcards are very exclusive. Am I missing something? Or just being overly cautious?

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My partner really made me laugh, during that final sequence where they pitch to be Traitors, by saying “if there’s one thing I know about Amol, it’s that he’s good at job interviews”.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God bless the real time engagement farming on LinkedIn.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Better, I suspect, than being a pro bono judge for a for-profit awards that charges people hundreds of £ to enter.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Celebrity Traitors starts tonight at 8pm, which probably leaves you with a big entertainment gap between 7:15 and 8 o'clock. Thankfully I'll be on the Front Row review show, looking at Digger, The Standard of Living, and War. Tune in and it will finish perfectly on time for The Traitors.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

England is a great country, because once we name a village, that name becomes a sacred, immovable thing (however horrifying the image it conjures may be).

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think I'm about 6-8 weeks away from reading the word 'Burnham' and not still assuming they mean Bo Burnham and being momentarily confused about why Bo Burnham is committing to abolishing the triple lock.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Instinctively like “weird use of the word woman in this headline…” only to discover that the chess community believes that ‘grandmaster’ is a gendered title, and anyone female (regardless of age, apparently) is a ‘woman grandmaster’.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting her hooked early on @jonnelledge.bsky.social books (you can’t hear it but instead of nursery rhymes, we’re playing old episodes of Skylines).

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The devastating impacts of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the closure of the strait of Hormuz etc continue. The Harry Potter play producers feel that, after a decade, they can no longer charge tourists £175 twice 😢

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So delighted for Gordon Brown winning MrBeast’s “who can stay in a paddling pool filled with orbeez and bat guano for 24 hours” contest. A much deserved second act 👏

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The "Today's News" tab on X vs the BBC News homepage. But people on X will tell you (over and over and over and over) that the BBC is no longer a serious news organisation.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In their defence, Gladiator did not obviously lend itself to a sequel. They executed a terrible idea kind of proficiently.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"One of the worst things in the world is being spat on," the Millwall v West Ham commentator just said. Let it never be said that the football community is out of touch.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

LinkedIn notifies you about midlife crises now. Cool new feature!

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally, after a decade in journalism, a drop intro to be proud of.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No disrespect to this bloke’s family who are obviously grieving, but what is the point of this BBC push notification? Like, what is the suggestion here? That the police should not investigate crimes?

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is a press release about six very famous people, and one woman who said “faithful, faithful, not sure, traitor, traitor, faithful, traitor, faithful, faithful, faithful, that's it!" on The Traitors.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good idea. It could build toward episodes airing every night on ITV (and then, eventually, just 24/7 live footage of them).

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is absurd to have a 'finale' to 7 Up. We should have followed them to the grave, and beyond.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Was the line-up for this festival always so mental? Mariana Mazzucato, Bryan Johnson, Louis Theroux, Dasha Nekrasova, Kwasi Kwarteng, the guy from Rizzle Kicks. This is rage bait booking.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My most egregiously Westminster-pilled brainworm is thinking to myself “truly a GOVErnment of all the talents - welcome Michael” any time I see Michael Gove doing anything. No longer even sure if that’s the real wording of the tweet, or if the tweet ever even happened.

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It was good of him to re-use my shitty Photoshop image (not least for the removal of any ambiguity about the plagiarism).

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Nick Hilton @nickfthilton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It reminds me of how the advertising industry had a period of trying to commission “viral videos”. Like, virality was a consequence of excellence (or notoriety), not something you could design.

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