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[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Top of the Pops (7th November 1974). Do not adjust your set as Queen perform Killer Queen. This U-matic recording was made by Dick Emery (although it's been claimed Emery was attempting to record his own show, that can't be so as The Dick Emery Show didn't air that evening).

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

My dear friend @JamesBlunt has asked me to buy his new record and I will, just as soon as he buys some Hawkstone for his pub.

[Ben Thompson @TheStoicEnglish]

On behalf of the British people, I would like to apologise for the slave trade. I am sorry we were the first great power in history to turn its guns on it. I am sorry it cost us around 2,000 sailors to free 150,000 people they would never meet. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.

Slavery did not begin with Britain. It is as old as civilisation. Babylon wrote it into law. Rome built an empire on it. The Vikings sold Englishmen through the slave market at Dublin. In 1625 Barbary corsairs took 60 men, women and children out of a Cornish church; by 1640 Parliament was told 3,000 to 5,000 English people were held in Algiers alone.

Every great power of the age took part in the Atlantic trade. Portugal and Spain for a century before an English ship did. Then the Dutch, the French — and the British, who in the eighteenth century carried more than anyone. That is the record. It is not disputed here.

Then a nation turned on the trade that had made it rich.

Wilberforce's bill was beaten year after year. On 25 March 1807 it passed. Then Britain did the part the critics never mention — it sent the Royal Navy to enforce it. The West Africa Squadron sailed in 1808, two ships for 3,000 miles of coast, and hunted slavers for nearly sixty years. Britain paid Spain and Portugal to open their ships to search. HMS Black Joke ran down the slaver El Almirante in 1829 and found 466 people in her hold.

Around 2,000 British sailors died doing it — most of fever, to free people they would never meet. 1,600 slave ships seized. 150,000 Africans set free.

In 1833 Parliament borrowed £20 million to end slavery across the Empire. The debt was not finally redeemed until 2015. The United States needed a civil war. Cuba held slaves until 1886. Brazil until 1888 — eighty-one years after Westminster voted.

Yes, we took part in the trade. Every power of the age did. None of them fought it like we did.

So yes. I will apologise. I am sorry it cost us so much. I am sorry the rest of the world took so long to follow.

That is not something you apologise for. That is something you teach.

#history #britishhistory #royalnavy #westafricasquadron

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This post goes some way to explaining the dire financial straits the UK is in...

"Britain has almost run out of taxpayers, or at the very least, it’s slowly running out of people who pay enough taxes to plausibly finance the state."

"...in 1998, about 43 per cent of British earners paid sufficient tax to cover the Government’s average per-capita spending. During Covid, that figure fell to an absolute low of circa 20 per cent, then by 2025 recovered modestly to 26.6 per cent."

No wonder if fewer than 27% of people are net contributors to the state

It's stats like this that make me want to leave. Big new project in the US in the next few months might be just the springboard I need

@griffitha @LiamHalligan

https://t.co/5aimOg5CRS

[Kelvingrove Mummy @TheGlasgowMummy]

I would like to give my informed consent to be putting back on display at Kelvingrove, I dont like it in this cupboard with the mops and buckets
@GlasgowCC

[Esther McVey @EstherMcVey1]

Woke, broke and out of control, it’s time to scrap the license fee.

As someone who started my career at the BBC, it gives me absolutely no pleasure to write these words. But let’s face the brutal truth: the British Broadcasting Corporation is a shadow of its former self and needs to be put out of its misery.

Founded in 1922 by Lord Reith with a proud mission to inform, educate and entertain, the Beeb was once the envy of the world. Today it has degenerated into a cesspit of left-wing political bias which the British public are forced to pay under the threat of criminal law.

Even when staring down the barrel of a $10 billion defamation lawsuit from the US President for its misleading edit of his Capitol Hill speech and which triggered the double resignation of its Director-General and Chief Executive of news, the BBC still refuses to admit its bias problem.

And yet the problems were laid bare again over the weekend with more revelations. First, we learned that taxpayer-funded civil servants have been seconded into BBC newsrooms, ‘fact checking’ and writing articles while masquerading as impartial journalists. Second, we discovered that schoolchildren are being brainwashed with left-wing views on net zero and immigration via the BBC Bitesize platform.

 No wonder the BBC has plunged to the bottom of the Ofcom league table for impartiality, and that 2.5million viewers have turned their backs on the station since 2020, preferring instead to get their news from elsewhere.

And rather than addressing those problems BBC bosses and government ministers, concerned about the loss in licence fees, have decided to impose draconian measures to force people to pay for something they no longer want and no longer watch.

The tragic irony is that the BBC knows exactly what the problem is. Between 2024 and 2025, three separate internal reviews warned that ‘perceived political bias’ was driving viewers away. As whistleblower Michael Prescott revealed in an explosive leaked memo, "systemic editorial bias" runs deep. The main areas of concern were gender reporting, along with its reporting of Britain’s history, colonial past and in its anti-Israeli stance. Let’s be honest BBC, it isn’t perceived bias, it's real. The Gaza documentary got the BBC sanctioned and its Arabic station was forced to make 200 factual corrections about its wider Israel-Gaza war.

The BBC internal inquiry noted working-class viewers are particularly dissatisfied, finding it ‘out of touch’ and ‘alienating’.

Little wonder when you had ex-Match of the Day pundit, Gary Lineker, on £1.3 million of public money, using the profile the BBC gave him to pontificate about Brexit, Gaza, and Rwanda.

And what about the concerns over two-tier coverage of “Unite the Kingdom" protests and  pro-Palestinian marches along with trigger warnings on comedy classics such as Dad’s Army and The Royle Family.

The BBC has been infiltrated and taken over by a left-wing woke metropolitan establishment and it is slowly killing it from within.

The public realise that this culture is so ingrained it will never change. It’s time to end the BBC licence fee.

[Dr Marie M S Macklin CBE @MarieMacklin]

Breaking News
NHS Scotland
This is my dad an 88 year old @JohnSwinney @ScotGovFM
My brother called an
ambulance 2 am it arrived 7 am and he has been in ambulance in Crosshouse Hospital car park since
8.15am.
He is terminally ill.

This is your Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

He has worked since he was a 15 year old.
He is a proud military man, bricklayer, businessman and is a huge supporter of charities.

Like many other pensioners he has been failed.

I never post personal family business but today this has been the final straw for me and my family.

Should he not make it ... well I have my solicitors ready.

[ATV Today @ATVToday]

The great cold food rip off from @McDonaldsUK & @ubereats_uk be warned, its very difficult to get any answers & apparently food that turns up not even warm-absolutely cold is acceptable within the policy, which suits only UberEats by delivering to more than one person at once.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Great speech by Marco at one of the birthplaces of Western Civilization today. Our friends in Europe face a stark choice: decline or renewal. I hope they choose wisely.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

We believe that the West can awaken from its long slumber – and rekindle the fire that was first lit in ancient Greece millennia ago.

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[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

This week… an attempted attack on RAF Fairford, enabled by a foreign state determined to sponsor terrorism around the world. A failed attempt to smash a commercial plane into the ground full of passengers, possibly into a high rise also full of people & now deadly violence breaking out across France. There is something very very wrong & it’s not being taken anywhere near seriously enough.

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@MelGibsonxvyv 🟢

[The TV Room @thetvroom]

🟫 We're saddened to learn of the death of broadcast historian and former STV and BBC Scotland TV announcer, Tony Currie.

Tony died on 26th September at his home on the Isle of Lismore.

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@thetvroom So sorry to hear this.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

Britain told the world what time it is. 🇬🇧

Not by asking. In 1884, 25 nations sat down in Washington to pick 1 line for the world's clocks. France wanted Paris. Germany wanted Berlin. Some wanted the middle of the Pacific.

But the sailors had already voted. 2 thirds of the ships on earth steered by British charts, because for 200 years the Observatory at Greenwich had kept the navy's time, and for 50 of them a red ball had dropped from its roof at 1 o'clock so every captain on the Thames could set his watch. The world's shipping already ran on our time. The vote just admitted it. 22 to 1.

That's how Britain does things. Not by asking. By being the thing everyone already relies on.

So every time zone on earth is still counted from a brass strip in a London park. You can stand on it, 1 foot east and 1 foot west. Most of London doesn't know it's there.

They teach you it's called Greenwich Mean Time. Not that the world had a vote and chose us.

That's what Proud Of Us is for. Britain didn't ask the world to choose it. It earned it. That's the way we work too. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. It runs on people like you. Every film comes with a free lesson for any school that wants one.

The world set its watch by Britain once....

Let's give it a reason to look again. 👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be Part Of Us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Stop treating the adult population like children and stop allowing adults who behave like despotic toddlers to decree what the rest of us are allowed to watch.

[Spencer Kelly @spenley]

Can YOU see it?

This is why you shouldn't trust generative AI, in one photo.

Watch, share, and tell your friends how far into the video you were when you saw it!

[Luke Davies 📻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎙 @TheLiveLuke]

Today this Radio Legend would have been 105!

He made several hits before playing them on the radio. His shows were a mix of serious news and light entertainment. He could hold politicians to account, and still play a great record.

Happy Heavenly Birthday Jimmy Young.🎂📻

[Alison Moyet @AlisonMoyet]

For the very few voicing their disappointment that I don’t play mid-80s hits in this set, let me try & frame it for you thus…
‘I’m doing a curry night on Friday if you fancy coming?’
‘Phumph. I went round hers on Friday & was most disappointed there was no Lasagne’.
D’y see?