This lives in my head rent free.

EXC: Jeremy Hunt intervenes to stop HMRC closing phone lines over the summer - telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

“Why buy DVDs when everything is online now?”

Older readers may remember The Comic Strip Presents ... The Strike. #PostOfficeScandal

The first edition of The Kenny Everett Television Show was originally broadcast on BBC1 on this day in 1981.

Damn I missed that! 😀

Obsessed with Elsie Tanner happily wiping her table and singing along to Sheena Easton's 9 to 5 (Morning Train) while smoking a ciggie. Camp!

There's nothing like listening or reading the plodding banalities of what passes for TV 'year's round up'/criticism to remind me how much I miss my old mate Clive James who reinvented the genre with a brilliance still unsurpassed

I had very fond childhood memories, but approached with trepidation as it’s often slagged off as the nadir of cheap, crap kids’ TV. In fact it’s glorious, TV that captures the joyous, anarchic & above all SILLY spirit of panto like nothing else. I love it with all my heart.

Read this brilliant piece by Diana Rigg’s daughter- and retweet if you agree that our outdated assisted dying laws need to change. And quickly too, please. Dignity in Dying

theguardian.com/society/2023/d…

Facile to say VW was a genius but I’m always in awe of the powers of observation that went into all her TV parodies, but especially AA. I saw this long before the things it’s spoofing but when I spot them in old TV - like the dubbing, the baby on film - it brings me so much joy

people always laugh when they come round and notice i’ve still got a VHS player hooked up to my 4K TV. but they soon shut up when i bring out this bad boy

Labour source says it looks like eight shadow ministers and two PPSs have gone

Happy PALS?! day to those who celebrate!

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Some Tory MPs *VERY* surprised about the suggestions Rishi Sunak will push back petrol / diesel car ban from 2030 to 2035.

One calls it “anti business”, means Sunak breaking a promise he made in private to Tory MPs and says, unprompted, “I’m seriously considering a no…

🚨**EXCLUSIVE**🚨

Rishi Sunak drafted a resignation statement quitting Boris’s Cabinet when fined for breaching lockdown… but was persuaded to stay by Rupert Murdoch executives.

Full story: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…

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On a scale of one to miserable, that this is dead is deeply miserable.

Prince Harry has just given us the soundtrack for his phone-hacking trial, and it’s a Eurovision classic (which ironically defied its title & came 2nd in 1977, before our performance at Eurovision hit rock bottom too). #phonehackingtrial