Stephen McBarron

Four consecutive days of Justin Webb? Absolutely no justification for this - Halloween or not! #r4today

State of this at Trellick Tower in London. From an interior design feature. That’s got to be the before shot surely - when it was still a mucky old squat with bare walls and tape on the floor? They didn’t actually pay people thousands upon thousands to do this - did they? #wato

O’Neil might think it’s great that the Timms review is sequenced to follow on from the Budget but all this talk of throwing people off PIP (which is what it’s all about) is causing real worry at the sheltered accommodation here - vulnerable elderly people fearing they’re in the crosshairs #r4today

Another quasi Thatcherite in the shape of Jim O’Neil brought on to attack people on benefits #r4today

“I’ve seen the future, baby, it is murder” says Thought for the Day dude but doesn’t tell us to repent #r4today

What Reform UK would do in the Budget? They’ve only got 8 MPs are are crashing in the polls - no point at all having Dick Tice on #r4today

Guardian reporting Man Utd can’t sack Carrick until 1pm or so UK time as they have to tell the New York Stock Exchange first - same as last time #r4today

BBC won’t like this - been bigging up Bolsonara for months now (same as they did his dad) #r4today

25th October is St Crispin’s Day beloved of English Nationalists who don’t realise Henry V was born in Wales and died in France - even his horse came from Italy! Yup! #TheArchers #wato

Thought for the Day dude talking about the elasticity of time but without addressing the big question - if you listen to Yesterday In Parliament on R4 Today on catch up Tomorrow what are you actually listening to? #r4today

What is this banging on about an old album and plugging a tv show? Has the news run out - is there a shortage? #r4today

We need an elected second chamber - and it wouldn’t be a rival to the Commons. You elect it for 10 years but members can only serve for one term. Other countries do this. Sorted. #r4today

Collective punishment - it’s called collective punishment. Hebron. #r4today

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Those ‘Brexit Benefits’ just keep a coming #wato

Whitby Library staff have one of the best views of any in the UK just looking out of that window now! #wato #TheArchers

You don’t fight fascists by pretending their ‘concerns’ are ‘legitimate’.

My best friend is from a French family, she still has property there and she considers the quality of life there far higher than here - her brother has just taken his French state pension early whereas here we’re raising the age. As for London - she’s lived there and wouldn’t spit on it! #r4today

Midterms are a massive moment when there’s a 2nd term President in office because it marks the point in time at which the spotlight swings to the next Presidential Election in which the incumbent can’t run. Will be a huge psychological blow for Trump as it won’t be all about him anymore #r4today

Does Lily actually work at Lower Loxley and is she going to inherit - if it’s a No she should just walk out #TheArchers

Elizabeth in full on House of Usher mode rattling on about curses and such #TheArchers

The absolute state of BBC News when I saw it yesterday - looks like the man built that set himself from a few bits and pieces he found in a skip out the back. Can’t believe they’re actually trailing it on here #TheArchers

Utter dross this ‘comedy’ yet they actually considered it worthy of repeating #TheArchers

Of course you should take the rubbish out! What is up with people? #bbcpm

Sunny where I am and basically I’ll be up on the clifftop blowing a big raspberry at these storms #bbcpm

Yet the dole offices will have these newly unemployed riding on the job training merry go round for the rest of their lives and hassle them to pursue non existent jobs. There’s only so many pizzas to deliver late at night riding push bikes on slave labour wages after all #r4today

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Wonder what’s in Boris Johnson’s folder or some of the other Tories? When Wilson was PM he once told the Cabinet ‘I know one of you is plotting to oust me - MI5 have a file on that gentleman four feet thick so let that be fair warning!’ True story. #r4today

The problem was created by AI and solved by AI. Yup! #r4today

Two brothers after the same girl - maybe one could marry her but then she’d have an affair with the other brother, just like Emma and William (or the other one in whatever order that happened) #TheArchers

So the big October Storm of 1987 hit Ambridge - 39 years later #TheArchers

The stately home heir is off skivvying at the abattoir - preposterously #TheArchers

Not a joke - Trump has given the US military permission to test a ‘heat ray weapon’ for use at the border. Obscene! #bbcpm

Absolute state of these idiots - any wonder they’re plunging in the polls! #bbcpm

Worth investing the 6 hours or so to watch this documentary on MUBI which shows the ‘great humanitarian’ Putin arresting, jailing and sending into exile journalists from independent channel TV Rain which he then closed for daring to criticise him. Yup! #wato

Surely this can’t be the set for BBC News24 (as was)? It looks like one of those street stalls they set up to sell mobile phone contracts! Cheap and tacky doesn’t begin to describe it. If this is the best they can do then they might as well shut it down! #wato

And the Abbey and down below too! #wato #TheArchers

When Dracula landed in Whitby he turned himself into a black dog and ran up all these steps to the churchyard. Wonder if he treated himself to a Bonio at the top? #TheArchers #wato

Sunny in Whitby now #TheArchers

Will this ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ last until they’ve sucked up the very last drop of oil and the planet is in flames? #r4today

Chris Mason with a bucketful of snide to pour all over Labour #r4today

Remember a couple of years ago when inflation was approaching 11% under Boris Johnson? #r4today seem to have forgotten!

20th October is Hagfish Day! A creature that can produce its own bodyweight in slime. Latin name - Myxine Glutinosa Michael Gove #r4today

“I was looking forward to Pip’s wedding” is high up the list of things nobody would ever say - just below ‘let’s go see that film Digger’ #TheArchers

So preposterous Vince becomes the latest character to end up in the hospital hooked up to that machine that bleeps - as everyone in #TheArchers does from time to time

Vince is a completely preposterous character and would be best binned off #TheArchers

18th October (which Sunday was) is Feast of St Luke and is known as St Luke’s Little Summer which by tradition coincides with a period of calm dry weather - as it did this year (apart from in Ambridge according to this)! #TheArchers

BBC4 Extra closing? Not good - plus closing BBC Three again (could have been worse - at least BBC Four is left alone for now). #wato #TheArchers