Andrew Aldis

Cultural project manager, former GM/Producer at Brid Spa and The Business Day. Also do a bit of company stage management on the side.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@DJSNJ01 @RobertPicardo Nope, he chose to ignore the rules and pasted his corruption onto something else.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@TheCarlWheatley You hear lots of people on YouTube and elsewhere wingeing they shouldn't have to pay the license fee. I'm not one of those people. I pay my license fee with pride, as a member of the British community. I'd rather like it if the BBC spent it competently though and listened to us.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@AnthonyAinsdale Giving the Conservatives a bloody nose isn't the goal of this election. You need to use your vote for a party than can actually form a viable Government. Voting Reform is just a pointless protest vote that'll mean nothing.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@TheCarlWheatley Happy birthday - was it yesterday? Twitter notifications right on the ball again. All I can say is, 56 hurt - no other milestones before - [BREATHE] - 60!! I was never supposed to be this old. But hey, this isn't about me! Happy birthday!

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@Classicbritcom Morecambe and Wise

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@BBCBreaking Robin starred in the pantomime at Brid Spa when I was the general manager. He was the Genie in Aladdin. What a joy he was to work with. Warm, friendly, talented - brave enough to strip to his waist at the sub-zero Christmas Lights event. A lovely man. Hard to believe the news.

[David Burns @bbcburnsy]

Looks to me like @RadioHumberside have lost 20% of their audience in the last 3 months.

That's 24,000 listeners.

#Rajar #BBClocalradio

If you are looking for an alternative I start "Burnsy's To Do List" on @Hulls107FM at 10am on Friday.

#hull #grimsby #scunthorpe #beverley

[Michelle Jones (she/her/hers) @shellskindworld]

Yet again a fantastic panto performance by @DannyAdams007 @joemcelderry91 @TheatreRoyalNew Julie, however, absolutely stole the show! A sign language performer, taking on every part with perfect comedy timing, she simply was amazing! #panto #AccessibilityMatters

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@DamianEffler @TheDeniseCrosby @TerryMatalas @StarTrekOnPPlus First rule of Star Trek. If you don’t see the body then they’re not dead. Hence Admiral Shelby’s alive, Ro Laren’s alive even Sarek’s alive! All of them just waiting for a scriptwriter to have them walk through a doorway. Captain Shaw, though - he’s dead, I’m afraid.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@angus_young61 As a deputy theatre manager in Oxford, I managed his appearance and subsequent meet and greet. He was so late arriving, we needed a 90 minute interval! At the meet and greet aftwards I was struck by his weird presence. It was like he had an aura - you could feel it. Very strange.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@DeborahMeaden Why would he make an appropriate political argument when a cheap emotional stunt will have people shaking their fists. Odious man.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@angus_young61 Good news as far as I'm concerned. It's public knowledge that she stood by while a bully director and spineless manager destroyed my career. Well done, councillors.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@bbcburnsy Burnsy, I'll remember you as being always ready to support what I was doing in Brid. You're a unique and tenacious talent, focussed on promoting the region. Interviews with you were an exciting ride which I thoroughly enjoyed. We appear to both own red Converse boots! Thank you.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@NooYawkahMan @FilleNola @OccupyDemocrats You can’t be arraigned without being arrested first. “Arraignment is a court proceeding in which the defendant is read the charges in the indictment and is asked to enter a plea. The arraignment occurs after the defendant is arrested and formal charges are levied.”

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@TrekGeekBill Strange how people don't seem to be able to state a single episode but prefer to just hate on a specific genre or show. Surely fans have actually watched Star Trek and can answer the actual question? I felt 'The Way to Eden' aged terribly - I hate it.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@Spacecrafting76 @TrekGeekBill Yawn!

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@DeBarquerre @JeriLRyan Good God man, the US is supposed to be the greatest country on Earth, a beacon of hope. Child labour was brutal. Children should have a childhood. Your country is backsliding into the dark ages. People need to open their eyes.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@Sax_R @TrekCore I watched it so many times I can almost speak it by heart - it’s exactly as it was broadcast.

[Andrew Aldis @andrewaldis]

@RadioWatcher @TheCarlWheatley @peter_levy @looknorthBBC @JasonHorton_uk All I heard him say was “blah blah blah” - no evidence of his “local written through him” - meanwhile well-loved local presenters are falling by the wayside and ‘local’ is being torn apart. What a disgrace.