Why is the BBC doing this to itself

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Literally been an annual talking point for more than a decade

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Christmas is a time to play the hits.

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Yeah, something to tide us over between poppy season and “can’t even call it Christmas any more” on the annual talking point calendar.

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the worst thing about this is, as people mention every.single.year, kirsty mccoll didnt sing that line live, like she immediately regretted it. they edit the word out of american idiot by green day and billy joe armstrong is bi, fucking edit it out and stfu

That’s extremely generous. She’s not writing a report for Newsround.

“When the report came out, Corbyn didn’t agree with all the findings but still backed its recommendations” Not hard.

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Oh hell yeah, I was being very, very generous. It’s way beyond what should be acceptable. If I recall correctly I was ham-handedly trying to avoid saying something like ‘The problem of trying to write things with a reading age of 5,’ and I was definitely not letting them off on it.

I did not manage to land what I was intending to write properly, to be fair - I have had a couple of nights of dogshit sleep and I’m very stressed though, so I’m going to blame the lack of my usual excellent nuance and wit on that!

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  • Fairytale of New York
  • I Wish It Could Be Xmas Every Day
  • 20 pts ahead with any other leader
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never knew that

now you do!

Bi-lly Joe Armstrong

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There’s a point at which you have to conclude that the BBC are perfectly happy to uncritically spread this kind of trash

Really enjoyed this in reply

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Even if this wasn’t so utterly stupid on its own merits it would be really nice if these people were held to account for prioritising shit like this and playing Rule Brittania at the Proms above actually governing during a raging pandemic.

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Burst out laughing at that.

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Same. It’s still doing it for me hours later as well.

lovely

you can kind of tell while he’s speaking that even he can’t believe he’s actually a fucking MP of this country

Disgusting.

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