Stephen McBarron
@stevemc.bsky.social
Weetwood Leeds
Remember the opening scene of that Twilight Zone movie? #bbcaq Man we’ve never heard of resigns from job we never knew he had #bbcaq #TheArchers the story so far - Mrs Proudie wants the Bishop to dismiss Alan for stealing a cheque from the late Carol Tregorran Trump waiting for the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to phone him this morning - think he’s in for another disappointment #r4today Is Dido Harding going to tell us how she managed to spaff £40billion on test & trace (basically an app) or how she was responsible for that Cheltenham Festival superspreader event right at the start of Covid in her capacity as Jockey Club head twonk. #r4today #bbcaq Never really expected Andrew to be prosecuted and if he is doubt he’d be convicted (on public office corruption charges which are notoriously hard to prove). Still doesn’t change the fact this is how the public will remember him and he’s permanently frozen out by the King and the next one #r4today Looks like trouble brewing for Alan at the end of the month with a visit from an Archdeacon played by David Leonard (pictured but in his panto garb not in character as an Anglican cleric) #TheArchers Trump booed in Texas! #wato Laurie Taylor was brought in to rescue R4 from the wreckage of Anderson Country a daily afternoon show circa 1994 so awful it made BBC local radio sound good (see image) - his version of the programme eventually morphed into Thinking Allowed #wato #wato born in Toronto but holds Icelandic citizenship - surprised Trump doesn’t send round his ICE Agents to deport her 8th October is World Octopus Day #wato Doesn’t matter what daftie Badenoch says - took Labour 14 years, 3 Leaders and 4 General Elections to get back after defeat! Tories are currently polling 4 points lower than their 2024 wipeout - zero chance they’ll be returned to office at the first attempt! #bbcpm #5live Farage does know that performing a karaoke version of Innocent Man by Billy Joel doesn’t constitute ‘being cleared’ of breaking party funding laws? I’ll wait for the Police and Courts to decide myself! #bbcpm So who is watching the Badenoch Tory Conference Speech this morning? Might as well ask who is going to see Digger - Answer = nobody! #r4today That Pagan ceremony they’re having for Carol #TheArchers That skunk Mike Ashley closed our House of Fraser months after taking over - now he’s shutting Harvey Nichols too (just as I predicted) #bbcpm Should we be worried about the Plague ask Sky News? #bbcpm Katie Razzall always sounds like she belongs on kids tv - Valerie Singleton by contrast who actually came from kids tv always sounded like she had gravitas presenting #bbcpm for 10 years Even Badenoch admits the Tories can’t win #bbcpm People know who the Shadow Cabinet are? Ok - who’s this? Or this? Nope - me neither! #r4today Only 4 days until Trump misses out on the Nobel Peace Prize again (a few political dafties have nominated him) - the Committee won’t give it to a struggling President about to crash in the midterms and mired in a War of his own making. Infantino will have to give him another Wooden Spoon! #r4today The reality of that Tory Conference - empty seats galore as Shadow Chancellor delivered his speech! #r4today He made the years most divisive movie - that’s true! The people in it think it’s good - everyone else on the planet knows Digger is a load of old tripe! #r4today State of this - these Tories really are buffoons #Newsnight Tories aren’t getting in at the next election! We’re approaching the halfway point in this parliament and they’re still polling 4% behind where they were in 2024 - when they were wiped out! #r4today Tory dude spouting just now used to run Just Eat and that’s his vision for the working age population going forwards - delivering pizzas riding bikes at all hours for peanuts with an app gangmaster calling the shots #r4today They did a campervan thing circa 2012 when Fallon was on a road trip with Lance Armstrong but he was disgraced soon after and lost all his titles (or something like that - it was an Ambridge Extra thing and almost certainly involved a cyclist) #TheArchers Just starting to look Autumnal out the window here but still a long way to go #TheArchers No - the slurry tank isn’t backing up! It’s Digger stinking out the cinemas as one of the biggest box office flops in history! #TheArchers Bad news for The Guardian that Marina Hyde has left (even worse news is that Simon Jenkins is still there)! #bbcaq Fans of #TheArchers might like family fun movie The Substance on iplayer from tonight (as ever - family fun movie is not suitable for children) Another reason people might call the Police - five go mad in dorset style! Fact the men called the Police themselves suggests to me the incident the other morning had blow all to do with terrorism! #r4today 29th September is Michaelmas Day (Feast of St Michael & the Archangels) - A Quarter Day! Lot of celebrations and customs associated with this day including the baking of special loaves and Satan being thrown into a blackberry bush! #wato #TheArchers Hope Again! Not sure that Labour Conference slogan is a vote winner - Hope was an extremely annoying character from the 1980s tv series thirtysomething and was universally hated - nobody wants to see her again #r4today Asking me not to speculate goes a lot like this #TheArchers Still the September Full Moon going on out there - The Harvest Moon #TheArchers Has anyone asked about human rights? Censorship of the media, protestors gunned down in the streets, detention without trial and corrupt politicians lining their pockets! And China’s record isn’t much better! #wato Even Sky News now has Reform in free fall and on its wrong end #r4today What was that about Admiral Insurance cutting 500 posts today? Just the start as AI decimates jobs market. What can the newly unemployed look forward to? Badenoch and her Tories treating them like animals - “want to buy a pint - how very dare you!” Rancid! #Newsnight Absolute state of this! Badenoch will stop jobless spending money on alcohol and cigarettes - well given they only get £400 a month (£338 if under 25) they can’t be buying that much of either now can they (it’s about £18 for a pack of 20 cigarettes and a fiver for a pint)! #Newsnight Good news from earlier today you may have missed #bbcpm Admiral cutting staff? Never been the same since they started using Penny Mordaunt in the ads #bbcpm I agree with the King of the Hill dude - do it the regular way “I love my country and wouldn’t want to enter her in any way which was unnatural” #bbcpm On this day in 1943 seven Polish aircrew died when their Wellington bomber suffered catastrophic failure and crashed near Skipton. Not only were they heroes and patriots fighting for their country and ours but something else for Farage and company to note, technically they were refugees. #wato #lbc Don’t worry grandma it’s just the so called comedy trying to get down with the kids - #TheArchers will be on soon 
