@matthewkilburn
Freelance writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.
Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.
Museums turning into universities
A substantial, thoughtful response to the BBC Charter Review green paper from the BBC WAC Campaign (of which I'm a part), focussed on Written Archives Centre issues but more broadly address to questions of trust and transparency. Do please take a look.
The BBC WAC Campaign's full submission to the Government's Charter Review is now online. We argue that policy changes at the Written Archives Centre fly in the face of the values at the heart of the Green Paper: trust, transparency, and the telling of stories. Read here: tinyurl.com/CharterSubmi...
Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.
Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).
Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.
Citizens; heroes.
Six and a bit hours after the fire was first reported, BBC has got interested
bsky.app/profile/tape...
Update: Oh my goodness, this is a truly devastating fire. I feel so sad for my city. I dearly hope there can still save Central Station. 😔
(How many times I’ve said “meet you under the clock at central”)
I am also shocked by the lack of coverage of this fire. It’s so far only affecting the Union Street buildings, but one of those has partially collapsed, from what I can tell backwards into the station. And it’s not yet contained. This is major and more than halfway down BBC’s homepage.
"This divide between what is care and what is health does not exist to the public. It is our divide. It is not about what is best for the patient or the person."
TV Tops - short-run putative channel-straddling non-compelling Look-In rival, notoriously home to a strip in which Kings Of The Wild Frontier-era Adam Ant was catapulted into deeply surreal post-Sapphire And Steel adventures pitting him against elemental forces.
timworthington.org/2026/03/06/t...
The pivot away from television in the last few months of Tops towards a girl-friendly pop format in advance of the merger with Suzy said something of the partial eclipse of TV in the mid-80s, I think.
I've not seen much of either strip, but I suspect the creators of the Adam Ant strip were aware of the Fleetway character Adam Eterno.
Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about.
Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.
The Telegraph being owned by the Germans is very funny.
The only series of Tiswas we received in the Tyne Tees ITV region; it was far removed from the series I dimly remembered from living in ATV land five to six years before, with less spontaneous chaos.
I did wonder why it was so white as a child, I'm sure.
Three years, failed bids, internal rebellions, law changes - the blighted Telegraph sale has had it all.
But Axel Springer looks to have ended the saga - & Lord Rothermere's hopes of a massive UK empire.
Analysis of a European giant buying the Tel:
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
Congratulations!
Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Utterly fantastic meetings with an NHS matron and paramedic today - one for my mother and one for me. Also brightly, my default destination on a certain taxi app will no longer be the hospital where my father died.
I'm so sorry, Paul.
Take two 7 year olds in a primary school in PM's constituency.
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is cleaner at that bank
Does he say Pascal Banque's son gets perm status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate Marie Cleaner not until 22 (consequence: international student fees)
Rather like the 'not well? Here are some online worksheets and a commercial app' school of managing patients.
Frequently bought together: Hebrew Daily Prayer Book (Singer Sacks) The Lay of Autrou and Itroun Beren and Luthien
And here, we see the hand of the mysterious Jewish-Tolkienist worldwide cabal at work. harpercollins.co.uk/products/heb...
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If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.
If Reform gets control of Wakefield and flogs off the modern art collection, I actually might cry.
The same...
Hai from this little creepy crawlie, lurking for more than six centuries in this fourteenth-century compilation of religious and other texts now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social (MS Mm.4.41).
