First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
A not insubstantial and thriving Somali community has been living in harmony in Cardiff Bay for over a century.
Yesterday's murderous bastard was Sudanese by the way.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
You'll need to visit South Shields which has had an established community since the 19th Century. You seem to have picked up a Twitter infection.
The Somali community in SS have, as you said, been there since the 19th Century, and have had several generations to adjust to British culture. Those arriving now from Somalia, less so.
May I disagree with your broad brush about Somalis and other immigrants on one hand but agree with the adjustment comment. I've dealt with immigrants and have helped them making claims for their legal entitlements. They are normal people by and large but do have some traits that require adjustment.
For example, I've helped one with a traffic fine and was amazed he needed insurance and a driving licence. Others have attitudes to woman that would require adjustment, some significantly so. Usually a brush with authority and the courts adjusts peoples' perceptions. So I will circle back this argument to funding the courts and the police.
I’m an immigrant where I live. It’s my job to research the laws that apply here, and if found guilty of anything more serious than dropping litter or speeding I’m liable to find myself deported.
I’ll go straight from the courthouse to the airport, and if I wish to apply to come back that’s at my own expense and from overseas.
As @TSE says the poll seems to make little sense. What is troubling is that Maine is so close. It was supposed to be an easy Democratic pick up this time around.
Susan Collins deserves to win in my view, she is a highly experienced, competent and intelligent Senator who has stood up to Trump when needed and even voted to convict him after the 2021 riots.
While her Democratic opponent has plenty of scandals, little experience or backstory of significance and wouldn't look out of place at a Trump rally (which is why he picks up a few Trump voters when they find out more about him). If it wasn't for their party labels it wouldn't even be close
It's academic of course, Hyufd, but I think if I had to choose a dog in this fight, it would be Collins.
I would not.
Whoever wins in November will almost certainly in a position to vote for at least two Supreme Court Justices nominated by Trump. Cementing a majority for the enablers of authoritarianism on the court for another decade would be catastrophic for the future of the US. Collins will vote for whomever Trump nominates, if she holds the deciding vote - as she has always done.
That alone outweighs everything else we know about the two candidates,
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
This morning in Parliament, I was accosted by Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald, who accused me and others of inciting violence. His aggressive approach and tone left me feeling threatened and shaken.
This kind of behaviour is unacceptable, especially from fellow MPs. We all have different views and should be able to disagree respectfully.
The Lib Dems support open borders, while Reform UK supports controlled immigration and putting the British people first.
That’s not inciting violence, that’s doing what’s best for the United Kingdom.
Perhaps he should just have pointed out that she is a liar. The Liberal Democrats do not support open borders.
Then he could have moved on to their incitement of violence.
That’s your take away from a woman reporting she’s been accosted by a man in a rude and aggressive manner ?
If they’ve incited violence, they haven’t, they would be prosecuted for it.
By the same logic, Pochin is free to complain to the police or the Commons' Authorities, and the offending MP would be investigated and prosecuted. Has she made such a complaint, beyond twitter, and has the MP been placed under investigation? If she does so, I will be less skeptical.
Is it like Farage's story - 'I was hacked by the Russians and they revealed my £5m from Harborne" - Did he report it to the authorities?
Having watched events, my view is that Farage was inciting violence.
On making things up to complain about, that is the embedded habit of Reform MPs.
I have one: I know. Back in mid 2024, Lee Anderson needed an asylum hotel to complain about here. There weren't any, so he invented one out of thin air, which turned out to be Sri Lankan NHS staff on holiday. He went straight to social media to do some stirring, rather than getting one of the many staff we provide him with to check the reality, which would have taken one phone call to the hotel.
Pochin is the same. Immediately after being elected she made fake claims about HMOs of asylum seekers causing violence and litter in a street where there weren't any. She has repeated the pattern since.
Reform are the Cry Wolf Party.
Politicians make exaggerated claims to reinforce a point. Well I’m stunned. Of course HMO dwellers are known for their devotion to,their communities and their social responsibility. It’s not only Reform but, you know, YMMV depending on how partisan you are.
So she hasn’t complained so there’s nothing to see
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
That is true. We could do most by reinstating the DfID budget in full and working for peace and development in the third world so that young men were not fleeing gang violence or civil war.
However, the Somali charge d'affaires has just texted me and sayed the Belfast blinder was Sudanese.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
A not insubstantial and thriving Somali community has been living in harmony in Cardiff Bay for over a century.
Yesterday's murderous bastard was Sudanese by the way.
We should categorically not be assessing propensity to crime based on ethnicity. But if someone is immigrating to the UK from a place of repression and brutal civil war, we should be far more cautious in assessing them.
Just to cheer up TSE, the GOAT is again vindicated.
D'Ambrosio confirms #Hamilton's suspicions: the #Ferrari simulator doesn't read reality as it should. The inaccuracies in the mathematical models betray the SF-26, sending it outside its operational window. https://x.com/Formula_Tecnica/status/2064335778985947328
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
A not insubstantial and thriving Somali community has been living in harmony in Cardiff Bay for over a century.
Yesterday's murderous bastard was Sudanese by the way.
We should categorically not be assessing propensity to crime based on ethnicity. But if someone is immigrating to the UK from a a place of repression and brutal civil war, we should be far more cautious in assessing them.
Easy mistake to make. Remember my embarrassing conviction for beating the shit out of a Paediatrician?
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
You'll need to visit South Shields which has had an established community since the 19th Century. You seem to have picked up a Twitter infection.
The Somali community in SS have, as you said, been there since the 19th Century, and have had several generations to adjust to British culture. Those arriving now from Somalia, less so.
May I disagree with your broad brush about Somalis and other immigrants on one hand but agree with the adjustment comment. I've dealt with immigrants and have helped them making claims for their legal entitlements. They are normal people by and large but do have some traits that require adjustment.
For example, I've helped one with a traffic fine and was amazed he needed insurance and a driving licence. Others have attitudes to woman that would require adjustment, some significantly so. Usually a brush with authority and the courts adjusts peoples' perceptions. So I will circle back this argument to funding the courts and the police.
I’m an immigrant where I live. It’s my job to research the laws that apply here, and if found guilty of anything more serious than dropping litter or speeding I’m liable to find myself deported.
I’ll go straight from the courthouse to the airport, and if I wish to apply to come back that’s at my own expense and from overseas.
Why should the UK be any different?
You know why it's different as you lose your visa, job and home if you transgress in Dubai. Son was there for 3-4 years.
ILR or Refugee status is a different set of laws. And you also know that to change these laws requires people to invest time in campaigning, getting votes, writing the proposed legislation, and winning votes for it.
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
I didn’t know it was autocorrect. How would I ?
What exactly do you expect Farage to say about Chas Corrigan. The Police did their job, there was no issue with their conduct. No ‘I don’t think you have mate’ The man was found guilty and imprisoned as was his father.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
My moles in the French Whovian community say they welcomed Jodie Whittaker as the lady actor from Broadchurch (which they'd watched for former Doctor actor David Tennant) but in Who they could barely understand a word she said because she gabbled her dialogue (presumably not her idea).
And while the first woman Doctor was welcomed, it was clear that TPTB had no faith in it so they endlessly road-tested the idea with Missy and River Song, and even then insisted on surrounding Jodie with a whole Scooby Gang of badly-written and badly-acted companions instead of the one or occasionally two that all the other Doctors had had.
And although people rightly blame Chibnall, let's not excuse the mess Moffatt had left him with endless timey-wimey paradoxes that bent Who lore into impossible spirals because he'd watched Buffy (RIP Giles) and imported the idea of series-long and even pan-series arcs instead of standalone stories with a big red reset button.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
That's true. Nevertheless the noble far-right aspiration that 100% of violent crime in Britain be committed by proper British born and bred thugs, rapists and murderers cannot be achieved without mass deportations and closing the borders.
You think that if the Sudanese man who tried to behead the unfortunate guy in Northern Ireland hadn't been given leave to remain that a native citizen would have taken up their kitchen knife to do the deed themselves?
Why would I believe something as absurd as that? Crime isn't a fungible pie to be shared out. Each one is unique and wouldn't have happened but for the things leading up to it.
Right. So it's not unreasonable for people to think that there might have been something that could have been done differently to prevent a foreign national from being in the country to commit such a crime.
Some people are going to be first-time offenders, but not all of them.
Yes, when a dreadful crime is perpetrated you need to look at the sequence of events preceding it. If the perpetrator had just been granted entry into the country that is a potentially relevant event. Absolutely no problem with any of that. My problem is with the idea that it's an argument for mass deportations, closing the borders and opting out of the asylum system.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
I had always thought that having multiple companions would be an improvement as it would help to break up the seedy and saccharine romantic interest between doctor and companion that started to become far too prominent. I can't decide whether it was just the crap writing that made it fail or if there wasn't the time in each episode for it to ever work.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
You'll need to visit South Shields which has had an established community since the 19th Century. You seem to have picked up a Twitter infection.
The Somali community in SS have, as you said, been there since the 19th Century, and have had several generations to adjust to British culture. Those arriving now from Somalia, less so.
May I disagree with your broad brush about Somalis and other immigrants on one hand but agree with the adjustment comment. I've dealt with immigrants and have helped them making claims for their legal entitlements. They are normal people by and large but do have some traits that require adjustment.
For example, I've helped one with a traffic fine and was amazed he needed insurance and a driving licence. Others have attitudes to woman that would require adjustment, some significantly so. Usually a brush with authority and the courts adjusts peoples' perceptions. So I will circle back this argument to funding the courts and the police.
I’m an immigrant where I live. It’s my job to research the laws that apply here, and if found guilty of anything more serious than dropping litter or speeding I’m liable to find myself deported.
I’ll go straight from the courthouse to the airport, and if I wish to apply to come back that’s at my own expense and from overseas.
Why should the UK be any different?
You know why it's different as you lose your visa, job and home if you transgress in Dubai. Son was there for 3-4 years.
ILR or Refugee status is a different set of laws. And you also know that to change these laws requires people to invest time in campaigning, getting votes, writing the proposed legislation, and winning votes for it.
Why should refugee status (and indeed ILR status) not be contingent on obeying the law?
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
You'll need to visit South Shields which has had an established community since the 19th Century. You seem to have picked up a Twitter infection.
The Somali community in SS have, as you said, been there since the 19th Century, and have had several generations to adjust to British culture. Those arriving now from Somalia, less so.
May I disagree with your broad brush about Somalis and other immigrants on one hand but agree with the adjustment comment. I've dealt with immigrants and have helped them making claims for their legal entitlements. They are normal people by and large but do have some traits that require adjustment.
For example, I've helped one with a traffic fine and was amazed he needed insurance and a driving licence. Others have attitudes to woman that would require adjustment, some significantly so. Usually a brush with authority and the courts adjusts peoples' perceptions. So I will circle back this argument to funding the courts and the police.
I’m an immigrant where I live. It’s my job to research the laws that apply here, and if found guilty of anything more serious than dropping litter or speeding I’m liable to find myself deported.
I’ll go straight from the courthouse to the airport, and if I wish to apply to come back that’s at my own expense and from overseas.
Why should the UK be any different?
You know why it's different as you lose your visa, job and home if you transgress in Dubai. Son was there for 3-4 years.
ILR or Refugee status is a different set of laws. And you also know that to change these laws requires people to invest time in campaigning, getting votes, writing the proposed legislation, and winning votes for it.
The result of which is a high-trust society, which means there’s very little acquisitive crime nor public disorder. It’s what happens when people know they’ll be deported if they offend their hosts.
This morning in Parliament, I was accosted by Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald, who accused me and others of inciting violence. His aggressive approach and tone left me feeling threatened and shaken.
This kind of behaviour is unacceptable, especially from fellow MPs. We all have different views and should be able to disagree respectfully.
The Lib Dems support open borders, while Reform UK supports controlled immigration and putting the British people first.
That’s not inciting violence, that’s doing what’s best for the United Kingdom.
Bit surprised it was, apparently, Angus MacDonald, who represents Charles Kennedy's old seat, winning it back from the SNP. He's very much a moderate in LibDems terms, and donated to the Tories in the past. Millionaire businessman. Doesn't strike me as a typical provocateur, even to a thin-skinned Reformer.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
I felt his second run was a bit like the tedious Dr Who new adventure novels, or the early ones at least, and some of the Big Finish output.
It was all ‘Look at us,,we’re being clever’
It never was.
It was best when it was fun
Yesterday, being retired and it was raining, I watched Destiny of the Daleks. Give me that any day over this modern toss.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
You'll need to visit South Shields which has had an established community since the 19th Century. You seem to have picked up a Twitter infection.
The Somali community in SS have, as you said, been there since the 19th Century, and have had several generations to adjust to British culture. Those arriving now from Somalia, less so.
May I disagree with your broad brush about Somalis and other immigrants on one hand but agree with the adjustment comment. I've dealt with immigrants and have helped them making claims for their legal entitlements. They are normal people by and large but do have some traits that require adjustment.
For example, I've helped one with a traffic fine and was amazed he needed insurance and a driving licence. Others have attitudes to woman that would require adjustment, some significantly so. Usually a brush with authority and the courts adjusts peoples' perceptions. So I will circle back this argument to funding the courts and the police.
I’m an immigrant where I live. It’s my job to research the laws that apply here, and if found guilty of anything more serious than dropping litter or speeding I’m liable to find myself deported.
I’ll go straight from the courthouse to the airport, and if I wish to apply to come back that’s at my own expense and from overseas.
Why should the UK be any different?
You know why it's different as you lose your visa, job and home if you transgress in Dubai. Son was there for 3-4 years.
ILR or Refugee status is a different set of laws. And you also know that to change these laws requires people to invest time in campaigning, getting votes, writing the proposed legislation, and winning votes for it.
The result of which is a high-trust society, which means there’s very little acquisitive crime nor public disorder.
Pre Putin joke -
What do old people in Russia remember about Stalin? There was food and there was order What do old people want in Russia Lots of food. Lots of order.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
I think the long hot summer, with immigration dominating the news, could prove a mixed blessing for Reform.
OTOH it is obviously great for them. Just what they want dominating the airwaves. Something must be done, and Nige (if not Rupert) is the one to be doing the doing. Perhaps helps explain Reform's vote holding up in the polls.
OTOH, violence and burning cars, possibly suggests that leaders who can unite the country, while taking sensible and proportionate action, may prevail in gaining the confidence of voters. An opportunity?
That's true. Nevertheless the noble far-right aspiration that 100% of violent crime in Britain be committed by proper British born and bred thugs, rapists and murderers cannot be achieved without mass deportations and closing the borders.
You think that if the Sudanese man who tried to behead the unfortunate guy in Northern Ireland hadn't been given leave to remain that a native citizen would have taken up their kitchen knife to do the deed themselves?
This touches on a key differentiator, with nearly every tenet of the modern left resting on the premise that human beings are interchangeable blank slates. So yes, kinabalu genuinely believes that had Valdo Calocane not slaughtered three people in a fit of paranoid schizophrenia then a John Smith would have stepped seamlessly into his place.
That is a nonsense argument.
Calocane committed uniquely vile crimes. I can't comprehend the pain that the parents and families have gone through. The families' criticism of the authorities relates exclusively to the faure of mental health management in this country and the tardiness of authorities to conclude their findings and put in place remedial action to prevent it happening again. I don't believe the attacker's ethnicity has been discussed by the family.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
I felt his second run was a bit like the tedious Dr Who new adventure novels, or the early ones at least, and some of the Big Finish output.
It was all ‘Look at us,,we’re being clever’
It never was.
It was best when it was fun
Yesterday, being retired and it was raining, I watched Destiny of the Daleks. Give me that any day over this modern toss.
City of Death is my favourite from that run
but yeah, I'd take that over the recent stuff every time
This morning in Parliament, I was accosted by Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald, who accused me and others of inciting violence. His aggressive approach and tone left me feeling threatened and shaken.
This kind of behaviour is unacceptable, especially from fellow MPs. We all have different views and should be able to disagree respectfully.
The Lib Dems support open borders, while Reform UK supports controlled immigration and putting the British people first.
That’s not inciting violence, that’s doing what’s best for the United Kingdom.
Perhaps he should just have pointed out that she is a liar. The Liberal Democrats do not support open borders.
Then he could have moved on to their incitement of violence.
That’s your take away from a woman reporting she’s been accosted by a man in a rude and aggressive manner ?
If they’ve incited violence, they haven’t, they would be prosecuted for it.
By the same logic, Pochin is free to complain to the police or the Commons' Authorities, and the offending MP would be investigated and prosecuted. Has she made such a complaint, beyond twitter, and has the MP been placed under investigation? If she does so, I will be less skeptical.
Is it like Farage's story - 'I was hacked by the Russians and they revealed my £5m from Harborne" - Did he report it to the authorities?
Having watched events, my view is that Farage was inciting violence.
On making things up to complain about, that is the embedded habit of Reform MPs.
I have one: I know. Back in mid 2024, Lee Anderson needed an asylum hotel to complain about here. There weren't any, so he invented one out of thin air, which turned out to be Sri Lankan NHS staff on holiday. He went straight to social media to do some stirring, rather than getting one of the many staff we provide him with to check the reality, which would have taken one phone call to the hotel.
Pochin is the same. Immediately after being elected she made fake claims about HMOs of asylum seekers causing violence and litter in a street where there weren't any. She has repeated the pattern since.
Reform are the Cry Wolf Party.
Politicians make exaggerated claims to reinforce a point. Well I’m stunned. Of course HMO dwellers are known for their devotion to,their communities and their social responsibility. It’s not only Reform but, you know, YMMV depending on how partisan you are.
So she hasn’t complained so there’s nothing to see
Women, know your place.
Her place is a member and MP for that party and as such should answer for it.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
In the sixties, as you rightly point out, they got away with too many companions. JNT tried it and soon abandoned it when Davison took over.
As @TSE says the poll seems to make little sense. What is troubling is that Maine is so close. It was supposed to be an easy Democratic pick up this time around.
Susan Collins deserves to win in my view, she is a highly experienced, competent and intelligent Senator who has stood up to Trump when needed and even voted to convict him after the 2021 riots.
While her Democratic opponent has plenty of scandals, little experience or backstory of significance and wouldn't look out of place at a Trump rally (which is why he picks up a few Trump voters when they find out more about him). If it wasn't for their party labels it wouldn't even be close
It's academic of course, Hyufd, but I think if I had to choose a dog in this fight, it would be Collins.
She hasn't been as rebellious as she once was. Knobbled by Team Trump?
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
I felt his second run was a bit like the tedious Dr Who new adventure novels, or the early ones at least, and some of the Big Finish output.
It was all ‘Look at us,,we’re being clever’
It never was.
It was best when it was fun
Yesterday, being retired and it was raining, I watched Destiny of the Daleks. Give me that any day over this modern toss.
City of Death is my favourite from that run
but yeah, I'd take that over the recent stuff every time
Yes, it’s glorious. I’ve done the ‘bye bye Duggan’ at the bottom of the Eiffel tower with my mates, like many Whovians. It’s even a Facebook pic of mine.
Julian Glover is a favourite actor of mine.
But even Nimon is fab compared to the modern stuff.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
You'll need to visit South Shields which has had an established community since the 19th Century. You seem to have picked up a Twitter infection.
The Somali community in SS have, as you said, been there since the 19th Century, and have had several generations to adjust to British culture. Those arriving now from Somalia, less so.
May I disagree with your broad brush about Somalis and other immigrants on one hand but agree with the adjustment comment. I've dealt with immigrants and have helped them making claims for their legal entitlements. They are normal people by and large but do have some traits that require adjustment.
For example, I've helped one with a traffic fine and was amazed he needed insurance and a driving licence. Others have attitudes to woman that would require adjustment, some significantly so. Usually a brush with authority and the courts adjusts peoples' perceptions. So I will circle back this argument to funding the courts and the police.
I’m an immigrant where I live. It’s my job to research the laws that apply here, and if found guilty of anything more serious than dropping litter or speeding I’m liable to find myself deported.
I’ll go straight from the courthouse to the airport, and if I wish to apply to come back that’s at my own expense and from overseas.
Why should the UK be any different?
You know why it's different as you lose your visa, job and home if you transgress in Dubai. Son was there for 3-4 years.
ILR or Refugee status is a different set of laws. And you also know that to change these laws requires people to invest time in campaigning, getting votes, writing the proposed legislation, and winning votes for it.
Why should refugee status (and indeed ILR status) not be contingent on obeying the law?
Both can be removed for various reasons including not obeying the law. Or not remaining in the country. Which is why most convert to Citizenship*
Can my indefinite leave to enter or remain be taken away?
If you are deported from the UK your indefinite leave will be invalidated.
Indefinite leave can also be taken away (revoked) if you:
are liable to deportation but cannot be removed for legal reasons, such as the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention or the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) obtained leave by deception were granted leave as a refugee and cease to be a refugee Your indefinite leave will lapse if you stay outside the UK for 2 or more years (5 or more, if granted settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme) at a time. If you’re a Swiss citizen with settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme your indefinite leave will lapse if you stay outside the UK for 4 years or more in a row.
*French friend applied for Citizenship and attended the ceremony. At the end they were served tea and biscuits which sort of underlines how mundane the issue is.
This morning in Parliament, I was accosted by Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald, who accused me and others of inciting violence. His aggressive approach and tone left me feeling threatened and shaken.
This kind of behaviour is unacceptable, especially from fellow MPs. We all have different views and should be able to disagree respectfully.
The Lib Dems support open borders, while Reform UK supports controlled immigration and putting the British people first.
That’s not inciting violence, that’s doing what’s best for the United Kingdom.
Perhaps he should just have pointed out that she is a liar. The Liberal Democrats do not support open borders.
Then he could have moved on to their incitement of violence.
That’s your take away from a woman reporting she’s been accosted by a man in a rude and aggressive manner ?
If they’ve incited violence, they haven’t, they would be prosecuted for it.
By the same logic, Pochin is free to complain to the police or the Commons' Authorities, and the offending MP would be investigated and prosecuted. Has she made such a complaint, beyond twitter, and has the MP been placed under investigation? If she does so, I will be less skeptical.
Is it like Farage's story - 'I was hacked by the Russians and they revealed my £5m from Harborne" - Did he report it to the authorities?
Having watched events, my view is that Farage was inciting violence.
On making things up to complain about, that is the embedded habit of Reform MPs.
I have one: I know. Back in mid 2024, Lee Anderson needed an asylum hotel to complain about here. There weren't any, so he invented one out of thin air, which turned out to be Sri Lankan NHS staff on holiday. He went straight to social media to do some stirring, rather than getting one of the many staff we provide him with to check the reality, which would have taken one phone call to the hotel.
Pochin is the same. Immediately after being elected she made fake claims about HMOs of asylum seekers causing violence and litter in a street where there weren't any. She has repeated the pattern since.
Reform are the Cry Wolf Party.
Politicians make exaggerated claims to reinforce a point. Well I’m stunned. Of course HMO dwellers are known for their devotion to,their communities and their social responsibility. It’s not only Reform but, you know, YMMV depending on how partisan you are.
So she hasn’t complained so there’s nothing to see
Women, know your place.
Her place is a member and MP for that party and as such should answer for it.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
In the sixties, as you rightly point out, they got away with too many companions. JNT tried it and soon abandoned it when Davison took over.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks other than, that Dr Who is a programme for Under 12s and an insult to intelegence and a complete waste of money.needs to give their head a wobble
This morning in Parliament, I was accosted by Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald, who accused me and others of inciting violence. His aggressive approach and tone left me feeling threatened and shaken.
This kind of behaviour is unacceptable, especially from fellow MPs. We all have different views and should be able to disagree respectfully.
The Lib Dems support open borders, while Reform UK supports controlled immigration and putting the British people first.
That’s not inciting violence, that’s doing what’s best for the United Kingdom.
Bit surprised it was, apparently, Angus MacDonald, who represents Charles Kennedy's old seat, winning it back from the SNP. He's very much a moderate in LibDems terms, and donated to the Tories in the past. Millionaire businessman. Doesn't strike me as a typical provocateur, even to a thin-skinned Reformer.
Pochin feels sick seeing black people in ads, her skin is even more diaphanous than the average Reformer.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
In the sixties, as you rightly point out, they got away with too many companions. JNT tried it and soon abandoned it when Davison took over.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks other than, that Dr Who is a programme for Under 12s and an insult to intelegence and a complete waste of money.needs to give their head a wobble
On topic, I think all outstanding features can benefit obscure challengers, especially in low turnout, down-ballot elections.
The one thing you can't appear is boring, and God forbid elections should be about policy these days, because that actually requires people to think coherently for more than a millisecond.
Such is democracy in the age of Twitter, Tik-Tok and other apps even more ghastly.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
I had always thought that having multiple companions would be an improvement as it would help to break up the seedy and saccharine romantic interest between doctor and companion that started to become far too prominent. I can't decide whether it was just the crap writing that made it fail or if there wasn't the time in each episode for it to ever work.
Multiple companions have worked before, just as single companions have worked perfectly well without the romantic subplot becoming central.
The very first TARDIS crew was the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan, and the show survived perfectly well. Likewise, Romana is one of the most popular companions the show has ever had, and her relationship with the Doctor was built on friendship, mutual respect and occasional exasperation rather than romance.
For me, the issue wasn’t the number of companions, it was that they lacked distinct personalities and relationships. Why were they travelling with the Doctor? What did they get out of it? How did it change them?
Compare them with Ian and Barbara, Jamie, Romana, Ace, Donna, Amy and Rory, Clara or Bill. You can describe those characters in a sentence or two and immediately understand who they are and why they matter.
With Yaz, Ryan and Graham, Graham was the only one who consistently felt like a fully realised person. The others often felt like they were there because the script required companions to be standing next to the Doctor.
The result was that there was plenty of screen time, but very little character. Without that warmth and chemistry, even good stories struggle. Unfortunately, Chibnall rarely gave us those either.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
In the sixties, as you rightly point out, they got away with too many companions. JNT tried it and soon abandoned it when Davison took over.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks other than, that Dr Who is a programme for Under 12s and an insult to intelegence and a complete waste of money.needs to give their head a wobble
Two things
One, it’s ‘intelligence’ 😉
Two, I know, it’s a nostalgia thing. I just love old TV. Currently watching a Crown Court story from season 5.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
Two wrongs hardly make a right. If you take the view that the one of the state's failings can't be fixed because it has other failings, no reform of any sort is possible.
Unfortunately the track record of the UK Somali community isn't great. Young men fleeing a 3rd world war zone often aren't particularly well conditioned to live in a peaceful western society, which probably accounts for their over-representation in the violent phyco category. The easiest solution would be to stop accepting imports of such young men, on the basis that they are more trouble than they're worth.
It's worth noting that as a nation we accepted a load of Ukrainian refugees very willingly, because they were mainly women and children, with broadly western values, fleeing a conflict zone.
You'll need to visit South Shields which has had an established community since the 19th Century. You seem to have picked up a Twitter infection.
The Somali community in SS have, as you said, been there since the 19th Century, and have had several generations to adjust to British culture. Those arriving now from Somalia, less so.
May I disagree with your broad brush about Somalis and other immigrants on one hand but agree with the adjustment comment. I've dealt with immigrants and have helped them making claims for their legal entitlements. They are normal people by and large but do have some traits that require adjustment.
For example, I've helped one with a traffic fine and was amazed he needed insurance and a driving licence. Others have attitudes to woman that would require adjustment, some significantly so. Usually a brush with authority and the courts adjusts peoples' perceptions. So I will circle back this argument to funding the courts and the police.
I’m an immigrant where I live. It’s my job to research the laws that apply here, and if found guilty of anything more serious than dropping litter or speeding I’m liable to find myself deported.
I’ll go straight from the courthouse to the airport, and if I wish to apply to come back that’s at my own expense and from overseas.
Why should the UK be any different?
You know why it's different as you lose your visa, job and home if you transgress in Dubai. Son was there for 3-4 years.
ILR or Refugee status is a different set of laws. And you also know that to change these laws requires people to invest time in campaigning, getting votes, writing the proposed legislation, and winning votes for it.
The result of which is a high-trust society, which means there’s very little acquisitive crime nor public disorder. It’s what happens when people know they’ll be deported if they offend their hosts.
I don't know which Dubai you are living in as it's full of some very shady characters. One acquaintance who had lived there and built a successful business there (which the ubiquitous local silent partner) said it was full of people who would rip you off. Perhaps you've not been there long enough to enjoy that type of company yet.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 to 2025 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
2026: hiatus as everybody struggles to repair the damage and get a new guy in.
The post-2024 period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't actually know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
*Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey
Remember the former Tory MP on the Earthshock DVD. Tim Collins ?
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
May be Zuah Yusuf, Kemi Badenoch and any other Right Wing Politician of mixed race or ethnicity should reflect on this fact this morning
During Farage, Robinson, Musk Generated POGROM OF RACIST HATE IN BELFAST LAST NIGHT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT WAS, they may well be dead this morning or maimed had it not been for the heroics of NI emergency services and Councillors and Political people and Clergy of all denominations.
It's high time X was blocked and banned, Musk, Farage and others arrested and charged with incitement to racial hatred and any other legal infringement that their actions deserve.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
In the sixties, as you rightly point out, they got away with too many companions. JNT tried it and soon abandoned it when Davison took over.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks other than, that Dr Who is a programme for Under 12s and an insult to intelegence and a complete waste of money.needs to give their head a wobble
Two things
One, it’s ‘intelligence’ 😉
Two, I know, it’s a nostalgia thing. I just love old TV. Currently watching a Crown Court story from season 5.
Saw a couple of The New Statesman episodes on the Rewind TV channel last week. Rik Mayall is hilarious as always.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
In the sixties, as you rightly point out, they got away with too many companions. JNT tried it and soon abandoned it when Davison took over.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks other than, that Dr Who is a programme for Under 12s and an insult to intelegence and a complete waste of money.needs to give their head a wobble
Don't watch it then.
Other than that, take your opinion and shove it up the Eye of Harmony
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 to 2025 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
2026: hiatus as everybody struggles to repair the damage and get a new guy in.
The post-2024 period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't actually know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
If SKS is responsible for this shit sandwich being taken off TV for the time being then I may very well consider Labour at the next election. Especially as I quite like (sorry Gaza guys) Luke Akehurst
Andy Burnham Pledges to Expand Immigration Detention Centre Use: ‘I do agree with what Farage is saying.’
Has he said it again? He said that on Monday too.
It would be hilarious if Rob the Plumber smashes him out of the park. I also suspect Rob would be a Sarah Pochin style humiliation for Remain all the way to the next election.
As @TSE says the poll seems to make little sense. What is troubling is that Maine is so close. It was supposed to be an easy Democratic pick up this time around.
Susan Collins deserves to win in my view, she is a highly experienced, competent and intelligent Senator who has stood up to Trump when needed and even voted to convict him after the 2021 riots.
While her Democratic opponent has plenty of scandals, little experience or backstory of significance and wouldn't look out of place at a Trump rally (which is why he picks up a few Trump voters when they find out more about him). If it wasn't for their party labels it wouldn't even be close
It's academic of course, Hyufd, but I think if I had to choose a dog in this fight, it would be Collins.
She hasn't been as rebellious as she once was. Knobbled by Team Trump?
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
May be Zuah Yusuf, Kemi Badenoch and any other Right Wing Politician of mixed race or ethnicity should reflect on this fact this morning
During Farage, Robinson, Musk Generated POGROM OF RACIST HATE IN BELFAST LAST NIGHT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT WAS, they may well be dead this morning or maimed had it not been for the heroics of NI emergency services and Councillors and Political people and Clergy of all denominations.
It's high time X was blocked and banned, Musk, Farage and others arrested and charged with incitement to racial hatred and any other legal infringement that their actions deserve.
First, we need to condemn without reservation the mob violence in Belfast last night. It's a strange world where we think two wrongs make a right and whatever happened with the attack which by the way was heinous and, if proven, the perpetrator needs to feel the full weight of the law, doesn't in any way justify or condone forcing people out of their homes and burning said properties.
We know Northern Ireland has a history of "ethnic cleansing" in this manner and it's something with which the authorities need to take control and stop.
A "long hot summer" then it seems with anyone looking at anyone else in a funny way liable to bring the mobs out on the streets for a bit of impromptu street entertainment. That's the way it is now, apparently? People get angry at the slightest thing radicalised no doubt by the misinformation and disinformation on X and elsewhere and out they come thinking somehow, well, what are they thinking?
If I may say so, your last paragraph doesn't really fit with the first one. A decapitation attempt (which you rightly describe as heinous) cannot be categorised as a slight thing.
And speedily dealt with by the police, with the culprit in custody.
So why the pogrom?
Government policy is to put more people like the person who maimed Stephen Ogilvie or the person who murdered Rhiannon Whyte into our communities. They're not just unfortunate random incidents but the predictable consequence of choices made by the state.
The state made Wayne Cousins a law enforcement officer, not once but twice. Bad people are bad people irrespective of ethnicity or occupation.
That's true. Nevertheless the noble far-right aspiration that 100% of violent crime in Britain be committed by proper British born and bred thugs, rapists and murderers cannot be achieved without mass deportations and closing the borders.
I don't think there is much opposition to deporting foreign-born criminals, nor of barring entry to criminals from abroad.
The question always comes up when something like this happens: why was he in the country in the first place?
In this specific case because there is no border controls between the Republic of Ireland and NI.
That's not entirely true. He was specifically given leave to remain in the UK for five years.
Yes, after he crossed from Dublin which is in (checks notes) Republic of Ireland, and a safe country.
Point being that it wasn't the lack of a border that gave him that paperwork.
No, but it made it a damn sight easier for him to get the NI in the first place.
The main question for me is his move from Paris to Dublin.
From Paris to Dublin And every disco I get in My heart is pumping for love
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
RTD was lying like a bastard about the script for the Xmas special. There never was one.
So not best pleased, no. The future could be good, and it really depends on who wins the franchise bid, but I'm thinking of the death of British Leyland: the owners lose faith, they farm it out to asset strippers, the business dies and we buy foreign cars now.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
*Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey
Remember the former Tory MP on the Earthshock DVD. Tim Collins ?
The Cybermen were better under the Tories !!
Ha!
The Cybermen weren’t villains. They were simply pursuing necessary structural reforms to improve competitiveness.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
Maybe they should forget the CBeebies animated version - and just regenerate the Doctor as a child...
Already done something similar in that utter shit ‘Timeless Child’
It’s already fucked. It’s utter dross. The second coming of RTD was a disaster as was having an actor in the lead role who didn’t seem too engaged in it.
Never go back, they say and its right. RTD saved Dr Who from obscurity once, but second time round he appeared to have gone mad.
Indeed.
All he did was fuck his legacy, and it was a good legacy.
I watched some of his initial episodes recently and what struck me about them was they were fun. Watching them was fun. It wasn’t a chore. It was a joy.
Totally. In my head cannon everything after "Twice Upon a Time" never happened. Your are on the money with the fun - it was fun. You looked forward to watching Dr Who. Now? I just hope its not shit, and that the sermonising isn't too obvious.
I agree with some of this, though I’d put the rot setting in a bit earlier.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Chibnall made the classic mistake of having too many companions. It worked in the early years when TV was slow, you could give actors a holiday one week and have the others carry the episode etc. But in the modern ear of 45 minute stories it failed. Add in the companions becoming 'mini-doctors' and it was a disaster. The companion is partly meant to be the viewer in the show. The way in. Things are explained to the viewer via the companion. Take Pyramids of Mars. Sarah asks why can they not just walk away as her world of the 1980s would still be there. the doctor shows her that it wouldn't. Even with Nu who we see what happens when a companion thinks they can be the doctor in Face the Raven.
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
In the sixties, as you rightly point out, they got away with too many companions. JNT tried it and soon abandoned it when Davison took over.
I'm sorry but anyone who thinks other than, that Dr Who is a programme for Under 12s and an insult to intelegence and a complete waste of money.needs to give their head a wobble
Two things
One, it’s ‘intelligence’ 😉
Two, I know, it’s a nostalgia thing. I just love old TV. Currently watching a Crown Court story from season 5.
Saw a couple of The New Statesman episodes on the Rewind TV channel last week. Rik Mayall is hilarious as always.
Yeah, they’re very good. Rewind TV doesn’t get the plaudits talking pictures TV gets (where the fuck is A Man called Harry Brent Part 3). But it’s very good.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
*Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey
Remember the former Tory MP on the Earthshock DVD. Tim Collins ?
The Cybermen were better under the Tories !!
Ha!
The Cybermen weren’t villains. They were simply pursuing necessary structural reforms to improve competitiveness.
The truth is, RTD destroyed any legacy he had. RTD 2005-2010 was superb. This time around was farting babies and preachy "wokeness". Awful, awful, awful.
https://x.com/larisamlbrown/status/2064580303595704455 The situation inside the MoD is so bad that Britain is second bottom in a Nato league table that ranks member states based on the extent to which they are meeting their rearmament promises. The UK is currently 31 out of 32 countries on a list — which may be published by the end of the month — detailing how each country is progressing in hitting the alliance’s capability requirements. The only country below the UK is understood to be Iceland, which does not have a military.
Hello from Belfast where the great unwashed of Loyalism have declared an evening of rioting and house clearance.
There are I'm sure quite a few with Republican communities who would like to do their own but the orthodoxy that Irish Republicans love the asylum seekers and welcome them with open arms is strong. Some very burly looking community workers keeping locals from gathering....
I will lay it out and I suspect plenty a UK city is the same. We have had a lot of inward migration last 10 years from outside EU/wider Europe and its easy to stratify into its main groups:
Indians: Often come as families, work in tech and health. Younger members of family often seen in retail. Well integrated and have set up small clusters West Africans: not clustered, seen all the time usually on way or going from the care homes and hospitals in which they work Filipinos: Brought specifically in for the NHS over recent years North East African. Somali, Sudanese. Disproportionately younger male, don't seem to be as much in the working population Middle East Arab: Some families but disproportionately younger males,
The last two groups are the asylum seekers, the former three economic and legal migrants.
I will give you one guess where the social interaction issues with the natives lie.
Our very own Kristalnacht, until rain stopped play.
Which sounds as if it disappoints you.
I will bet you supported all the concessions to the Men Of Violence and The Community Leaders for The Peace Process.
As I’ve pointed out before, this taught the Face Eating Leopards that threatening to eat faces, works.
The Community Leaders were carefully taught that representations to ministers would be ignored. A few death threats in the right place and *they* get called.
Tommy Lots Of Names formed the EDL to get the same thing. Look how he’s grown….
Feel proud - it should be a matter of celebration that education works.
The Peace Process has been very successful. What alternative approach are you suggesting should’ve been taken?
A peace process that is built on giving the gangsters whatever they want?
You can see the success on TV.
The decent politicians (such as the ones who got some Nobel Prizes for the actual peace) have been sidelined. It’s all about how close you can get to violence and pretend it’s not you. 71 people in one toilet….
It’s been very successful at creating an Acceptable Level Of Violence.
You need to understand that this success includes the riots you just saw.
The level of violence in Northern Ireland now is much, much, much lower than it was during the Troubles.
As I said, what alternative approach are you suggesting should’ve been taken? You’ve complained about the Process, but you’ve not suggested a different approach.
If all you want is to reduce the level of violence, just give the violent everything they want.
Now you are finding that the sacrifice required is people you care about.
Simple version - give the democratic politicians more. Give the Men Of Violence less.
Sure they’ll be upset. But is your response to the EDL violence just to give them what they want?
The immigrants will be out of the neighbourhoods in question within days. Once again, violence will have been given what it wants.
So there will be more violence.
No-one is suggesting giving the EDL what they want. The situation in Northern Ireland was very different to the EDL. Can you not see the differences???
There is much, much, much less violence in Northern Ireland since the Peace Process than before. Other approaches to the Troubles that didn’t involve talking to the men of violence had not produced a resolution.
It’s great that PB is somewhere that people can challenge the orthodoxy. If you’re going to challenge the orthodoxy, I suggest you come up with more than one half-arsed analogy.
The Peace Process became giving worse than the EDL whatever they wanted.
It is not “half arsed” to suggest that protecting the civic institutions at the expense of some terrorists getting explody is a worthwhile trade.
If you want peace at any price, then you want immigrants burnt out of their homes. Own it. Love it. You made it. You.
I can hear your outrage, but I can’t discern any coherent point here. The Peace Process did not cause the recent rioting in N Ireland. You repeatedly ignore the point that there was vastly more violence before the Peace Process than after. You appear unable to answer how you would’ve stopped that violence in some other way.
Also, the claim that the Peace Process gave the men of violence “whatever they wanted” is the most ridiculous claim on PB this week. The IRA wanted reunification with Ireland and the British out. They did not get this.
Hilton's advancement was powered by strong late-mail performances across many rural and suburban counties.
Steyer's hopes were dashed by his weakest Los Angeles late-mail showing yet, coupled with Becerra siphoning too much of the Democratic vote in heavily Hispanic counties. https://x.com/ElliscbIV/status/2064496023133982859
Remarkable absence today of Sandpit voicing suspicions about GOP ballot fixing...
Hilton's advancement was powered by strong late-mail performances across many rural and suburban counties.
Steyer's hopes were dashed by his weakest Los Angeles late-mail showing yet, coupled with Becerra siphoning too much of the Democratic vote in heavily Hispanic counties. https://x.com/ElliscbIV/status/2064496023133982859
Remarkable absence today of Sandpit voicing suspicions about GOP ballot fixing...
Maybe, like me when I raised it about the Dems, he’s not seen it reported.
https://x.com/larisamlbrown/status/2064580303595704455 The situation inside the MoD is so bad that Britain is second bottom in a Nato league table that ranks member states based on the extent to which they are meeting their rearmament promises. The UK is currently 31 out of 32 countries on a list — which may be published by the end of the month — detailing how each country is progressing in hitting the alliance’s capability requirements. The only country below the UK is understood to be Iceland, which does not have a military.
This is frustrating, like. Ireland might have to defend itself. Can you imagine? Totally unreasonable move from the British yet again. In terms of. Recent developments.
(If you can imagine this in a Micheal Martin voice, when he's emphasising his Cork accent, you will understand)
I'm broadly happy with this, with one caveat. My child has Type 1 diabetes, and uses their phone as part of the closed loop CGM and insulin pump. We also have a "follow" app that takes data pumped to the cloud from their phone. I need to speak to the school about how this will be catered for.
"Nick Timothy When equality law serves terrorists and murderers it’s clear that we need change Conservatives will abolish the public sector duty enabling extremists to bring costly claims from prison" (£)
Andy Burnham Pledges to Expand Immigration Detention Centre Use: ‘I do agree with what Farage is saying.’
Why has Andy Burnham said this and is it prompted by Belfast or the Blackley school stabbing yesterday?
Because, unlike the consensus view on PB, he's not a raging Leftist? He's been an extraordinarily inclusive collegiate non Party political technocratic Mayor for many years now. It is ironic that the same PB loves the Blairite Brownite Corbynista joke. It only works cos he's pragmatic without an ideology or faction.
"Nick Timothy When equality law serves terrorists and murderers it’s clear that we need change Conservatives will abolish the public sector duty enabling extremists to bring costly claims from prison" (£)
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
There were 522 homicide victims in England and Wales in the year to March 2025, which is the lowest figure since 2015, and the lowest rate since 1977. There is no broader crisis here. There is no evidence that immigration has led to a problem on those numbers. Every one of those deaths is a tragedy, but we should be celebrating that the numbers are so low.
Most murderers are white, most are British born. But if only the murders committed by immigrants or non-white people get highlighted and spread all over social media by bots, it’s no surprise that people get the wrong impression. This is what Farage/Lowe/Musk/Tommy do. Selectively report, knowing most people never look at the denominator, never look at the full picture.
https://x.com/larisamlbrown/status/2064580303595704455 The situation inside the MoD is so bad that Britain is second bottom in a Nato league table that ranks member states based on the extent to which they are meeting their rearmament promises. The UK is currently 31 out of 32 countries on a list — which may be published by the end of the month — detailing how each country is progressing in hitting the alliance’s capability requirements. The only country below the UK is understood to be Iceland, which does not have a military.
This is frustrating, like. Ireland might have to defend itself. Can you imagine? Totally unreasonable move from the British yet again. In terms of. Recent developments.
(If you can imagine this in a Micheal Martin voice, when he's emphasising his Cork accent, you will understand)
As I have said before the only realistic way to look at our current defence budget is to assume that it is entirely wasted and gives us no effective forces to talk of. If we want to have any capability to do anything we will need to find new money and contrive to spend it a lot better than the current budget. Its a state of affairs that the MOD has been working towards for decades and has now reached its apogee.
"Nick Timothy When equality law serves terrorists and murderers it’s clear that we need change Conservatives will abolish the public sector duty enabling extremists to bring costly claims from prison" (£)
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
There were 522 homicide victims in England and Wales in the year to March 2025, which is the lowest figure since 2015, and the lowest rate since 1977. There is no broader crisis here. There is no evidence that immigration has led to a problem on those numbers. Every one of those deaths is a tragedy, but we should be celebrating that the numbers are so low.
Most murderers are white, most are British born. But if only the murders committed by immigrants or non-white people get highlighted and spread all over social media by bots, it’s no surprise that people get the wrong impression. This is what Farage/Lowe/Musk/Tommy do. Selectively report, knowing most people never look at the denominator, never look at the full picture.
In a majority white country the majority of murderers being white is hardly a shock.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
RTD was lying like a bastard about the script for the Xmas special. There never was one.
So not best pleased, no. The future could be good, and it really depends on who wins the franchise bid, but I'm thinking of the death of British Leyland: the owners lose faith, they farm it out to asset strippers, the business dies and we buy foreign cars now.
I don’t think the owners (the BBC) have lost faith. They want a successful Dr Who series and see Dr Who as a big asset.
Andy Burnham Pledges to Expand Immigration Detention Centre Use: ‘I do agree with what Farage is saying.’
Why has Andy Burnham said this and is it prompted by Belfast or the Blackley school stabbing yesterday?
Because, unlike the consensus view on PB, he's not a raging Leftist? He's been an extraordinarily inclusive collegiate non Party political technocratic Mayor for many years now. It is ironic that the same PB loves the Blairite Brownite Corbynista joke. It only works cos he's pragmatic without an ideology or faction.
Rough translation: he doesn't know what he's doing, will bend to whatever the prevailing wind is, and his only gift is spending money other people have given him. Because that's worked so well so far...
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
RTD was lying like a bastard about the script for the Xmas special. There never was one.
So not best pleased, no. The future could be good, and it really depends on who wins the franchise bid, but I'm thinking of the death of British Leyland: the owners lose faith, they farm it out to asset strippers, the business dies and we buy foreign cars now.
I don’t think the owners (the BBC) have lost faith. They want a successful Dr Who series and see Dr Who as a big asset.
So do I, but both I and the BBC have the same problem: we really don't know how to bring that about.
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
There were 522 homicide victims in England and Wales in the year to March 2025, which is the lowest figure since 2015, and the lowest rate since 1977. There is no broader crisis here. There is no evidence that immigration has led to a problem on those numbers. Every one of those deaths is a tragedy, but we should be celebrating that the numbers are so low.
Most murderers are white, most are British born. But if only the murders committed by immigrants or non-white people get highlighted and spread all over social media by bots, it’s no surprise that people get the wrong impression. This is what Farage/Lowe/Musk/Tommy do. Selectively report, knowing most people never look at the denominator, never look at the full picture.
But then the likes of the BBC are no better. Lady Brook earnestly questioning what can be done about murderous asylum seekers entering Britain through the common travel zone.
Of course there is a debate to be had but preferably in the context of reality rather than a Musk/ Farage racial narrative.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
*Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey
Remember the former Tory MP on the Earthshock DVD. Tim Collins ?
The Cybermen were better under the Tories !!
Ha!
The Cybermen weren’t villains. They were simply pursuing necessary structural reforms to improve competitiveness.
The Cybermen represent the ultimate realization of a Marxist revolution because they eliminate the very contradictions that traditionally plague worker-led movements: namely, the workers themselves. Every historical revolution must eventually contend with individual ambition, competing interests, personal loyalties, and the inconvenient tendency of people to disagree with one another. The Cybermen solve this problem with ruthless efficiency. By removing emotion, individuality, and private desire, they create a society in which no one can accumulate power for personal gain, no one can exploit others for profit, and no one even possesses the psychological framework necessary to oppose the collective. In a darkly ironic sense, they achieve perfect class solidarity by erasing the concept of the self altogether.
From this perspective, the Cybermen can be seen as the endpoint of the revolutionary project perfected.
Traditional Marxism imagines workers becoming conscious of their collective interests and governing themselves; the Cybermen simply bypass the messy process of consciousness entirely. There are no strikes, factions, elections, ideological disputes, or bureaucratic infighting because every Cyberman is functionally identical and committed to the same objective. Production, coordination, and social organisation occur without friction. The workers cease to be the beneficiaries of the system and instead become raw material for it.
Andy Burnham Pledges to Expand Immigration Detention Centre Use: ‘I do agree with what Farage is saying.’
Why has Andy Burnham said this and is it prompted by Belfast or the Blackley school stabbing yesterday?
Because, unlike the consensus view on PB, he's not a raging Leftist? He's been an extraordinarily inclusive collegiate non Party political technocratic Mayor for many years now. It is ironic that the same PB loves the Blairite Brownite Corbynista joke. It only works cos he's pragmatic without an ideology or faction.
Rough translation: he doesn't know what he's doing, will bend to whatever the prevailing wind is, and his only gift is spending money other people have given him. Because that's worked so well so far...
Which is precisely the polar opposite of how he's governed Greater Manchester.
"Nick Timothy When equality law serves terrorists and murderers it’s clear that we need change Conservatives will abolish the public sector duty enabling extremists to bring costly claims from prison" (£)
I preferred Nick Timothy when he was running Conservative election campaigns, he has a track record of positive achievement in that role.
His 2017 election campaign is certainly a standout
It was the two terrorist outrages during the election campaign that made a difference. The London Bridge stabbings followed the Ariana Grande bombing where many children were murdered. As we are reminded this week, these things are unpopular at a visceral level.
"Nick Timothy When equality law serves terrorists and murderers it’s clear that we need change Conservatives will abolish the public sector duty enabling extremists to bring costly claims from prison" (£)
I'm broadly happy with this, with one caveat. My child has Type 1 diabetes, and uses their phone as part of the closed loop CGM and insulin pump. We also have a "follow" app that takes data pumped to the cloud from their phone. I need to speak to the school about how this will be catered for.
They will have to give an exemption, and have probably considered the case.
If they have not done so I would be surprised, since the rough numbers (AI) are 3300+ under 18s in Scotland with Type I Diabetes, and around 80% have such a system. As a comparator there are ~2500 schools in Scotland, of which 360 are state secondaries.
I would suggest that the best prep. will be a phone call to your Specialist Nurse at the hospital clinic. They will have other children locally in the same situation, and may even have one at the same school. They will not be able to talk names for privacy reasons, but should be able to discuss how it is managed routinely.
One potential option, which I use, is that I chose to have a separate control unit - which is a previous generation locked down phone with just the diabetes pump app. I use the Omnipod 5 disposable pump system - I get a box of them delivered every three months and put a replacement on every 3 days. The old ones are returned for recycling.
Hello from Belfast where the great unwashed of Loyalism have declared an evening of rioting and house clearance.
There are I'm sure quite a few with Republican communities who would like to do their own but the orthodoxy that Irish Republicans love the asylum seekers and welcome them with open arms is strong. Some very burly looking community workers keeping locals from gathering....
I will lay it out and I suspect plenty a UK city is the same. We have had a lot of inward migration last 10 years from outside EU/wider Europe and its easy to stratify into its main groups:
Indians: Often come as families, work in tech and health. Younger members of family often seen in retail. Well integrated and have set up small clusters West Africans: not clustered, seen all the time usually on way or going from the care homes and hospitals in which they work Filipinos: Brought specifically in for the NHS over recent years North East African. Somali, Sudanese. Disproportionately younger male, don't seem to be as much in the working population Middle East Arab: Some families but disproportionately younger males,
The last two groups are the asylum seekers, the former three economic and legal migrants.
I will give you one guess where the social interaction issues with the natives lie.
Our very own Kristalnacht, until rain stopped play.
Which sounds as if it disappoints you.
I will bet you supported all the concessions to the Men Of Violence and The Community Leaders for The Peace Process.
As I’ve pointed out before, this taught the Face Eating Leopards that threatening to eat faces, works.
The Community Leaders were carefully taught that representations to ministers would be ignored. A few death threats in the right place and *they* get called.
Tommy Lots Of Names formed the EDL to get the same thing. Look how he’s grown….
Feel proud - it should be a matter of celebration that education works.
The Peace Process has been very successful. What alternative approach are you suggesting should’ve been taken?
A peace process that is built on giving the gangsters whatever they want?
You can see the success on TV.
The decent politicians (such as the ones who got some Nobel Prizes for the actual peace) have been sidelined. It’s all about how close you can get to violence and pretend it’s not you. 71 people in one toilet….
It’s been very successful at creating an Acceptable Level Of Violence.
You need to understand that this success includes the riots you just saw.
The level of violence in Northern Ireland now is much, much, much lower than it was during the Troubles.
As I said, what alternative approach are you suggesting should’ve been taken? You’ve complained about the Process, but you’ve not suggested a different approach.
If all you want is to reduce the level of violence, just give the violent everything they want.
Now you are finding that the sacrifice required is people you care about.
Simple version - give the democratic politicians more. Give the Men Of Violence less.
Sure they’ll be upset. But is your response to the EDL violence just to give them what they want?
The immigrants will be out of the neighbourhoods in question within days. Once again, violence will have been given what it wants.
So there will be more violence.
No-one is suggesting giving the EDL what they want. The situation in Northern Ireland was very different to the EDL. Can you not see the differences???
There is much, much, much less violence in Northern Ireland since the Peace Process than before. Other approaches to the Troubles that didn’t involve talking to the men of violence had not produced a resolution.
It’s great that PB is somewhere that people can challenge the orthodoxy. If you’re going to challenge the orthodoxy, I suggest you come up with more than one half-arsed analogy.
The Peace Process became giving worse than the EDL whatever they wanted.
It is not “half arsed” to suggest that protecting the civic institutions at the expense of some terrorists getting explody is a worthwhile trade.
If you want peace at any price, then you want immigrants burnt out of their homes. Own it. Love it. You made it. You.
I can hear your outrage, but I can’t discern any coherent point here. The Peace Process did not cause the recent rioting in N Ireland. You repeatedly ignore the point that there was vastly more violence before the Peace Process than after. You appear unable to answer how you would’ve stopped that violence in some other way.
Also, the claim that the Peace Process gave the men of violence “whatever they wanted” is the most ridiculous claim on PB this week. The IRA wanted reunification with Ireland and the British out. They did not get this.
The men of violence wanted their rackets untouched. They are. They wanted immunity from prosecution, they have it. They wanted power, unchallenged, in their communities.
The PIRA didn’t get reunification - but that is a side quest to their becoming a replacement for civic government in a number of areas of NI. As have the Loyalists.
The violence stopped with a ceasefire that was brokered by democratic politicians.
This did not entail giving immunity for racketeering.
That came later with the pivot to resolving every single complain from the MoV by giving them what they wanted at the expense of democracy.
Is shutting down investigations into bank robberies required by the peace process? Is shutting down investigating large scale drug dealing part of the peace process?
Given he was able to fly from Paris to Dublin legally, so perhaps from Sudan to Paris legally, it will be interesting to know more about his background. Doesn't sound like a typical refugee or economic migrant posing as refugee.
He was granted refugee status quite quickly too,
The Belfast attacker flew from Paris to Dublin 10.02.2023 and travelled to Belfast where he claimed asylum, his LTR was granted 28.09.2023.
This was when Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick were Home Secretary and Immigration Minister respectively.
Hilton's advancement was powered by strong late-mail performances across many rural and suburban counties.
Steyer's hopes were dashed by his weakest Los Angeles late-mail showing yet, coupled with Becerra siphoning too much of the Democratic vote in heavily Hispanic counties. https://x.com/ElliscbIV/status/2064496023133982859
Remarkable absence today of Sandpit voicing suspicions about GOP ballot fixing...
Maybe, like me when I raised it about the Dems, he’s not seen it reported.
It's all nonsense, whichever way round the late votes break. That is California's electoral system (originally designed by a Republican), and it prioritises encouraging people to vote over speed.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
RTD was lying like a bastard about the script for the Xmas special. There never was one.
So not best pleased, no. The future could be good, and it really depends on who wins the franchise bid, but I'm thinking of the death of British Leyland: the owners lose faith, they farm it out to asset strippers, the business dies and we buy foreign cars now.
I don’t think the owners (the BBC) have lost faith. They want a successful Dr Who series and see Dr Who as a big asset.
So do I, but both I and the BBC have the same problem: we really don't know how to bring that about.
I wonder whether the answer is that Doctor Who itself isn’t the asset any more, but the wider universe around it.
The BBC has already dabbled with this before. Torchwood for adults, Sarah Jane Adventures for children, UNIT popping up all over the place. Long before Marvel, Doctor Who had a shared universe.
The risk is that the main show occupies an awkward middle ground. It’s a family-oriented hard-ish sci-fi adventure series, and there really isn’t much else in that lane. Modern TV tends to reward either prestige adult sci-fi (Silo, Foundation, Severance etc.) or family fantasy. Doctor Who sits somewhere in between.
If Amazon or Apple got hold of it, I suspect they’d be less interested in Doctor Who and more interested in a Doctor Who Universe. Multiple shows aimed at different audiences, with the Doctor as the flagship brand.
Reform extend their voting intention lead to 10pts this week, with Labour and the Tories tied for second place.
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1) 🌹 LAB 20% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (nc) 🌍 GREEN 11% (+1) ❓OTH 3% (+1) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1)
N = 2,087 | Fieldwork 5-9/6 | Changes w/ 1/6
Looks like Labour will need that Burnham bounce, assuming he wins Makerfield and becomes their leader
The news has all been very Reform friendly over the last week. Harry Nowak, Northern Ireland (a bit late, I guess) and terrible immigration figures of net 100,000 p a if immigration is your thang.
In real world terms the number of immigrants in the UK is still increasing.
Until the number of immigrants in the UK starts to decrease (which requires negative net migration) then this will continue to be an electoral problem for any government.
In particular until the number of the 'wrong type' of immigrants starts to decrease this will continue to be an electoral problem for the government.
Hence Rupert Lowe hopes a good Restore performance in Makerfield will build momentum for its policy of mass deportations
Fuck that.
I’m not a happy clappy open borders mass inward migration sort, unlike a few here going into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast Beheader, but people legally here with ILR already given should not be scared about what a future U.K. govt would do,to them
Fuck Restore
This is bollocks. No one has gone "into bat for the Epping sex pest and the Belfast header". The argument by myself has been people with absolutely nothing to do with the Epping sex pest or the Belfast header should not be vilified because of the colour of their skin. The criminals deserve to be dealt according to the law. People like Elon Musk get a white supremacist political lift from racially charged political unrest. Why was he and his fans not demanding civil unrest in Cambridge when this happened?
I bet you didn't see that on an Elon Musk X post or a Reform poster.
‘Beheader’ not ‘header’. I chose the word for its alliterative qualities.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
You know perfectly well that autocorrect has corrected that for me. It has been correcting Couzens to Cousins all morning too. My bad I should have checked before posting.
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
There were 522 homicide victims in England and Wales in the year to March 2025, which is the lowest figure since 2015, and the lowest rate since 1977. There is no broader crisis here. There is no evidence that immigration has led to a problem on those numbers. Every one of those deaths is a tragedy, but we should be celebrating that the numbers are so low.
Most murderers are white, most are British born. But if only the murders committed by immigrants or non-white people get highlighted and spread all over social media by bots, it’s no surprise that people get the wrong impression. This is what Farage/Lowe/Musk/Tommy do. Selectively report, knowing most people never look at the denominator, never look at the full picture.
In a majority white country the majority of murderers being white is hardly a shock.
Indeed. So why do we always seem to be talking about murders by non-white people? Because the populist right pick individual cases out of context to spread an erroneous narrative.
Analyses looking at available data show that immigrants commit about the same amount of crime or less crime than native born people.
Given he was able to fly from Paris to Dublin legally, so perhaps from Sudan to Paris legally, it will be interesting to know more about his background. Doesn't sound like a typical refugee or economic migrant posing as refugee.
He was granted refugee status quite quickly too,
The Belfast attacker flew from Paris to Dublin 10.02.2023 and travelled to Belfast where he claimed asylum, his LTR was granted 28.09.2023.
This was when Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick were Home Secretary and Immigration Minister respectively.
I am rooting for Rupert Lowe and the subsequent litigation against Jenrick and Braverman's dereliction of duty. Lowe's threat is a comedy silver lining from an otherwise brutal atrocity.
Today we’re announcing an update on plans for the future of Doctor Who.
As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC’s Charter and Agreement requirements, the BBC will put Doctor Who out to competitive tender this year. Doctor Who remains an important part of the BBC and this tender underpins the BBC’s continued commitment to Doctor Who ensuring audiences will enjoy the show for years to come.
After careful consideration, the BBC, Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. This decision was not taken lightly, and we know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show which ensures that when the TARDIS lands once more, it does so in all its glory.
The previously announced new Doctor Who animation series for CBeebies is currently in production.
Details of the tender will be announced in due course.
The BBC retains all IP in Doctor Who. BBC Studios will continue to lead the global distribution of Doctor Who as well as licensing, consumer products, digital and immersive experiences on behalf of the BBC.
2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
2024*1 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
This latter period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't know what the fuck he was doing.
Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
RTD was lying like a bastard about the script for the Xmas special. There never was one.
So not best pleased, no. The future could be good, and it really depends on who wins the franchise bid, but I'm thinking of the death of British Leyland: the owners lose faith, they farm it out to asset strippers, the business dies and we buy foreign cars now.
I don’t think the owners (the BBC) have lost faith. They want a successful Dr Who series and see Dr Who as a big asset.
So do I, but both I and the BBC have the same problem: we really don't know how to bring that about.
So throwing open to tenders is the right approach. See who does have an idea for how to do it.
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Yesterday's murderous bastard was Sudanese by the way.
For me New Who peaked with Matt Smith, although I’ve come to appreciate Capaldi’s era more over time. Some of the best episodes of the revival came during his run.
Where I disagree with a lot of fans is on Jodie Whittaker. I thought she was perfectly good casting and could have been a great Doctor. The problem was the writing. Chibnall’s era suffered from weak stories, flat supporting characters and an obsession with lore over storytelling.
The Timeless Child is a good example. My issue wasn’t that it changed continuity. Doctor Who has been rewriting its own continuity since 1963. It was that the revelation was less interesting than the mystery.
RTD’s return never really worked for me either. His first run was fun. Even when it was daft, it was entertaining daft. The second run often felt like it was trying very hard to be important and clever, but forgot to be enjoyable.
At its best Doctor Who should be imaginative, slightly bonkers and above all fun. Somewhere along the way it seems to have lost sight of that.
Check the posts last October. Especially from our Rog. He was simply making small talk and a lewd joke. But a couple of others too minimised it as well.
I’ll go straight from the courthouse to the airport, and if I wish to apply to come back that’s at my own expense and from overseas.
Why should the UK be any different?
Whoever wins in November will almost certainly in a position to vote for at least two Supreme Court Justices nominated by Trump. Cementing a majority for the enablers of authoritarianism on the court for another decade would be catastrophic for the future of the US. Collins will vote for whomever Trump nominates, if she holds the deciding vote - as she has always done.
That alone outweighs everything else we know about the two candidates,
So you have given me a good slap for an autocorrect error but you haven't commented on the unacceptable double standard I have highlighted. Like I said murder is murder. Digwa and Chas Corrigan are both murdering bastards. Nigel Farage commented on just the one.
So she hasn’t complained so there’s nothing to see
Women, know your place.
However, the Somali charge d'affaires has just texted me and sayed the Belfast blinder was Sudanese.
But if someone is immigrating to the UK from a place of repression and brutal civil war, we should be far more cautious in assessing them.
D'Ambrosio confirms #Hamilton's suspicions: the #Ferrari simulator doesn't read reality as it should. The inaccuracies in the mathematical models betray the SF-26, sending it outside its operational window.
https://x.com/Formula_Tecnica/status/2064335778985947328
I have no beef with Whittaker. Its not her fault the stories were terrible and the character she was given to play was awful. Jo Martin came along and showed what could be done with 'gasps' a woman doctor.
And yes - sure - Dr Who canon is forever changing. There had been the Cartmell masterplan towards the end of old Who. And it can change again.
ILR or Refugee status is a different set of laws. And you also know that to change these laws requires people to invest time in campaigning, getting votes, writing the proposed legislation, and winning votes for it.
What exactly do you expect Farage to say about Chas Corrigan. The Police did their job, there was no issue with their conduct. No ‘I don’t think you have mate’ The man was found guilty and imprisoned as was his father.
Good.
And while the first woman Doctor was welcomed, it was clear that TPTB had no faith in it so they endlessly road-tested the idea with Missy and River Song, and even then insisted on surrounding Jodie with a whole Scooby Gang of badly-written and badly-acted companions instead of the one or occasionally two that all the other Doctors had had.
And although people rightly blame Chibnall, let's not excuse the mess Moffatt had left him with endless timey-wimey paradoxes that bent Who lore into impossible spirals because he'd watched Buffy (RIP Giles) and imported the idea of series-long and even pan-series arcs instead of standalone stories with a big red reset button.
Not that I'm bitter and twisted or anything.
It was all ‘Look at us,,we’re being clever’
It never was.
It was best when it was fun
Yesterday, being retired and it was raining, I watched Destiny of the Daleks. Give me that any day over this modern toss.
What do old people in Russia remember about Stalin?
There was food and there was order
What do old people want in Russia
Lots of food. Lots of order.
OTOH it is obviously great for them. Just what they want dominating the airwaves. Something must be done, and Nige (if not Rupert) is the one to be doing the doing. Perhaps helps explain Reform's vote holding up in the polls.
OTOH, violence and burning cars, possibly suggests that leaders who can unite the country, while taking sensible and proportionate action, may prevail in gaining the confidence of voters. An opportunity?
We shall see.
Calocane committed uniquely vile crimes. I can't comprehend the pain that the parents and families have gone through. The families' criticism of the authorities relates exclusively to the faure of mental health management in this country and the tardiness of authorities to conclude their findings and put in place remedial action to prevent it happening again. I don't believe the attacker's ethnicity has been discussed by the family.
but yeah, I'd take that over the recent stuff every time
Your being a moron as usual Taz.
Julian Glover is a favourite actor of mine.
But even Nimon is fab compared to the modern stuff.
Can my indefinite leave to enter or remain be taken away?
If you are deported from the UK your indefinite leave will be invalidated.
Indefinite leave can also be taken away (revoked) if you:
are liable to deportation but cannot be removed for legal reasons, such as the UK’s obligations under the Refugee Convention or the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
obtained leave by deception
were granted leave as a refugee and cease to be a refugee
Your indefinite leave will lapse if you stay outside the UK for 2 or more years (5 or more, if granted settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme) at a time. If you’re a Swiss citizen with settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme your indefinite leave will lapse if you stay outside the UK for 4 years or more in a row.
*French friend applied for Citizenship and attended the ceremony. At the end they were served tea and biscuits which sort of underlines how mundane the issue is.
Leave Dr Who alone. Stay in your lane lefty!
The one thing you can't appear is boring, and God forbid elections should be about policy these days, because that actually requires people to think coherently for more than a millisecond.
Such is democracy in the age of Twitter, Tik-Tok and other apps even more ghastly.
The very first TARDIS crew was the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan, and the show survived perfectly well. Likewise, Romana is one of the most popular companions the show has ever had, and her relationship with the Doctor was built on friendship, mutual respect and occasional exasperation rather than romance.
For me, the issue wasn’t the number of companions, it was that they lacked distinct personalities and relationships. Why were they travelling with the Doctor? What did they get out of it? How did it change them?
Compare them with Ian and Barbara, Jamie, Romana, Ace, Donna, Amy and Rory, Clara or Bill. You can describe those characters in a sentence or two and immediately understand who they are and why they matter.
With Yaz, Ryan and Graham, Graham was the only one who consistently felt like a fully realised person. The others often felt like they were there because the script required companions to be standing next to the Doctor.
The result was that there was plenty of screen time, but very little character. Without that warmth and chemistry, even good stories struggle. Unfortunately, Chibnall rarely gave us those either.
One, it’s ‘intelligence’ 😉
Two, I know, it’s a nostalgia thing. I just love old TV. Currently watching a Crown Court story from season 5.
- 2023 under Sunak: Fourteenth Doctor, three reasonable episodes, Tennant as Doctor. Not good, but OK. People watched it.
- 2024*1 to 2025 under Starmer: Fifteenth Doctor, eighteen goodish episodes but four disastrous season enders (one of which was so bad it killed the series), Gatwa as Doctor, crying all the bloody time, drowning in its own continuity. You couldn't pay people to watch it.
- 2026: hiatus as everybody struggles to repair the damage and get a new guy in.
The post-2024 period was marked by the showrunner saying the show was doing really well whilst he made worse and worse decisions and it finally became apparent he didn't actually know what the fuck he was doing.Sound familiar?
So yes, this is all Starmer's fault. Bad Starmer
*1 OK you have to stretch the chronology here, but this lines up reasonably well. Well, well-ish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wTR03jlQ8M
You got,any thoughts on the Dr Who announcement today ?
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/09/andy-burnham-pledges-to-expand-immigration-detention-centre-use/
Andy Burnham Pledges to Expand Immigration Detention Centre Use: ‘I do agree with what Farage is saying.’
The Cybermen were better under the Tories !!
During Farage, Robinson, Musk Generated POGROM OF RACIST HATE IN BELFAST LAST NIGHT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT WAS, they may well be dead this morning or maimed had it not been for the heroics of NI emergency services and Councillors and Political people and Clergy of all denominations.
It's high time X was blocked and banned, Musk, Farage and others arrested and charged with incitement to racial hatred and any other legal infringement that their actions deserve.
Other than that, take your opinion and shove it up the Eye of Harmony
It would be hilarious if Rob the Plumber smashes him out of the park. I also suspect Rob would be a Sarah Pochin style humiliation for Remain all the way to the next election.
Susan Collins 30 years ago: “I’ve pledged that if I’m elected I will only serve two terms. 12 years is long enough to be in public service.”
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2064491505423659149
Www.gallifreybase.com
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The first show I ever watched where I felt like our own Casino Royale.
Useless.
And every disco I get in
My heart is pumping for love
- I'm thinking of buying a wreath and a black armband.
- I'm watching Tharries's reaction now. I think Stubagful nailed it in his recent interview and his past postings.
- RTD was lying like a bastard about the script for the Xmas special. There never was one.
So not best pleased, no. The future could be good, and it really depends on who wins the franchise bid, but I'm thinking of the death of British Leyland: the owners lose faith, they farm it out to asset strippers, the business dies and we buy foreign cars now.The Cybermen weren’t villains. They were simply pursuing necessary structural reforms to improve competitiveness.
https://x.com/larisamlbrown/status/2064580303595704455
The situation inside the MoD is so bad that Britain is second bottom in a Nato league table that ranks member states based on the extent to which they are meeting their rearmament promises.
The UK is currently 31 out of 32 countries on a list — which may be published by the end of the month — detailing how each country is progressing in hitting the alliance’s capability requirements. The only country below the UK is understood to be Iceland, which does not have a military.
Also, the claim that the Peace Process gave the men of violence “whatever they wanted” is the most ridiculous claim on PB this week. The IRA wanted reunification with Ireland and the British out. They did not get this.
Steyer's hopes were dashed by his weakest Los Angeles late-mail showing yet, coupled with Becerra siphoning too much of the Democratic vote in heavily Hispanic counties.
https://x.com/ElliscbIV/status/2064496023133982859
Remarkable absence today of Sandpit voicing suspicions about GOP ballot fixing...
I thought they might have found him some matches in Mexico and Canada.
I suppose we have to keep the FIFA Peace Prize winner sweet.
(If you can imagine this in a Micheal Martin voice, when he's emphasising his Cork accent, you will understand)
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/edinburgh-first-uk-city-ban-mobile-phones-schools-fff35x29s
I'm broadly happy with this, with one caveat.
My child has Type 1 diabetes, and uses their phone as part of the closed loop CGM and insulin pump. We also have a "follow" app that takes data pumped to the cloud from their phone. I need to speak to the school about how this will be catered for.
When equality law serves terrorists and murderers it’s clear that we need change
Conservatives will abolish the public sector duty enabling extremists to bring costly claims from prison" (£)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06/10/equality-law-serves-terrorists-murderers-we-need-change/
He's been an extraordinarily inclusive collegiate non Party political technocratic Mayor for many years now.
It is ironic that the same PB loves the Blairite Brownite Corbynista joke.
It only works cos he's pragmatic without an ideology or faction.
Most murderers are white, most are British born. But if only the murders committed by immigrants or non-white people get highlighted and spread all over social media by bots, it’s no surprise that people get the wrong impression. This is what Farage/Lowe/Musk/Tommy do. Selectively report, knowing most people never look at the denominator, never look at the full picture.
Of course there is a debate to be had but preferably in the context of reality rather than a Musk/ Farage racial narrative.
From this perspective, the Cybermen can be seen as the endpoint of the revolutionary project perfected.
Traditional Marxism imagines workers becoming conscious of their collective interests and governing themselves; the Cybermen simply bypass the messy process of consciousness entirely. There are no strikes, factions, elections, ideological disputes, or bureaucratic infighting because every Cyberman is functionally identical and committed to the same objective. Production, coordination, and social organisation occur without friction. The workers cease to be the beneficiaries of the system and instead become raw material for it.
If they have not done so I would be surprised, since the rough numbers (AI) are 3300+ under 18s in Scotland with Type I Diabetes, and around 80% have such a system. As a comparator there are ~2500 schools in Scotland, of which 360 are state secondaries.
I would suggest that the best prep. will be a phone call to your Specialist Nurse at the hospital clinic. They will have other children locally in the same situation, and may even have one at the same school. They will not be able to talk names for privacy reasons, but should be able to discuss how it is managed routinely.
One potential option, which I use, is that I chose to have a separate control unit - which is a previous generation locked down phone with just the diabetes pump app. I use the Omnipod 5 disposable pump system - I get a box of them delivered every three months and put a replacement on every 3 days. The old ones are returned for recycling.
The PIRA didn’t get reunification - but that is a side quest to their becoming a replacement for civic government in a number of areas of NI. As have the Loyalists.
The violence stopped with a ceasefire that was brokered by democratic politicians.
This did not entail giving immunity for racketeering.
That came later with the pivot to resolving every single complain from the MoV by giving them what they wanted at the expense of democracy.
Is shutting down investigations into bank robberies required by the peace process? Is shutting down investigating large scale drug dealing part of the peace process?
The Belfast attacker flew from Paris to Dublin 10.02.2023 and travelled to Belfast where he claimed asylum, his LTR was granted 28.09.2023.
This was when Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick were Home Secretary and Immigration Minister respectively.
https://bsky.app/profile/reformexposed.bsky.social/post/3mnuol25ink2o
That is California's electoral system (originally designed by a Republican), and it prioritises encouraging people to vote over speed.
Could it be more efficient ? Certainly.
The BBC has already dabbled with this before. Torchwood for adults, Sarah Jane Adventures for children, UNIT popping up all over the place. Long before Marvel, Doctor Who had a shared universe.
The risk is that the main show occupies an awkward middle ground. It’s a family-oriented hard-ish sci-fi adventure series, and there really isn’t much else in that lane. Modern TV tends to reward either prestige adult sci-fi (Silo, Foundation, Severance etc.) or family fantasy. Doctor Who sits somewhere in between.
If Amazon or Apple got hold of it, I suspect they’d be less interested in Doctor Who and more interested in a Doctor Who Universe. Multiple shows aimed at different audiences, with the Doctor as the flagship brand.
I give you, The DWCU
Analyses looking at available data show that immigrants commit about the same amount of crime or less crime than native born people.