Plane flying over South Birmingham, Monday 20/04/26.
Plane flying over South Birmingham, Monday 20/04/26.
I’ve just counted 20 military planes flying over South #Birmingham one-by-one, with the procession ending at 20:00 BST.
Never seen or heard anything like it from home before.
I dread to think what’s going on. Any ideas?
#military #MilitaryAircraft #RAF
Screenshot of BBC Sounds, showing BBC Radio 2 playing Ash’s Christmas song, Shining Light, at 02:26 on 20 April 2026.
When we hear radio play Mariah’s Chr*stmas song in October, we can put it in perspective that #ConnorPhillips on #BBCRadio2 has just played a Chr*stmas song in full on 20th April. Much as I love #Ash, now is not the time. 🤷
This alone should be a reason for not renewing the BBC’s charter. 😁
I don’t know what planet #ChrisEvans and #JackSavoretti are on, both pretending that Jack’s new album is #1. It isn’t. It’s a new entry today at #2. (He has two previous #1 albums, but this one fell short by just over 1,000 units.)
#TFIFriday #FakeNews
www.officialcharts.com/charts/album...
Loving that analogy! (And not just because I’m listening to the match here in the Balti Triangle.)
🦁v🍝
#ASTBOL #AVLBOL #AVFC #UEFAEuropaLeague #EuropaLeague
Where do we get the breakdown of fresh versus long life (UHT) options? 😄
Depending whether my most recent shop is the cornershop or the supermarket (or if the shops are shut!) I have fresh semi, fresh skimmed, long life semi, long life skimmed or oat milk in my tea. ☕️
That was an astonishing episode of #UniversityChallenge, with a score disparity that we don’t really expect by the time we’ve reached the semi-finals. #Madgwick could probably win the final on their own. We’ll find out next week! #Imperial #Manchester #AmolRajan
The problem with fixing your electoral system to exaggerate your parliamentary power is that when the tide turns, you’ll be swept away by the flood.
Enjoy your new life in Moscow, Mr Orbán, and please take #Farage, #Fico & #Trump with you. Congratulations, #Hungary! 🇭🇺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...
When people are looking for the Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh, and their map takes them to that corner, I hope they realise the pool is on the opposite corner - it’s not the skanky puddle with the cones in.
Pet Shop Boys with Johnny Marr on stage at Electric Ballroom in Camden, London. On night 3 of 5 Obscure shows at the same venue. Wednesday 08/04/26.
Pet Shop Boys tonight at #ElectricBallroom in #Camden.
In the lottery of guest artists for these five #Obscure shows, we lucked out. We got #JohnnyMarr! So, I’ve seen him live twice now, and #PetShopBoys more times than I can count. They were, of course, superb.
Even on the radio, that was an astonishing #FACup match!
3 hours and 6 minutes after KO, #LeedsUnited manage to knock #WestHam out, after extra time & penalties. Leeds had been leading 2-0 at 90 minutes!
#Radio5Live
Well, that was fun! (For Southampton fans and neutrals.)
These are the games that justify BBC ONE abandoning its peak-time Saturday night entertainment shows. When the games are good, you can’t beat live #FACup knockout football. #BBCSport #BBCONE #Arsenal #Southampton #SOTARS ⚽️
It’s great to see things change in sport. After 8 consecutive wins by #Cambridge in the women’s boat race, #Oxford must have wondered if they would ever win again, but they’ve done it! Congratulations to Oxford women! #TheBoatRaces #TheBoatRace #Channel4 #ClareBalding #AdeAdepitan #rowing 🚣♂️
Nothing tells us that #Starmer is being badly advised more than a decision to hold a non-urgent media conference on the morning of April the 1st. These people live on another planet.
#KeirStarmer #10DowningStreet #AprilFoolsDay
Bosnia in, Italy out! #Italia fail to make the #WorldCup for the 3rd time in a row! Congratulations to Bosnia-Herzegovina on making the finals for only the second time since independence. 🇧🇦🇮🇹
I haven’t taken #Trump seriously since I first saw The Apprentice USA, to be honest.
⚽️ Torpid Tuesday: results are in.
🏴🏴🏴 #England, #Scotland, #Wales & #NorthernIreland men’s teams all played tonight… and none of them won.
#WorldCup qualifiers England and Scotland both played in England (sic) and both lost 1-0, to #Japan & #Côted’Ivoire respectively. 🇯🇵🇨🇮
Hmmm 🤔.
Fixtures: tonight’s four European finals in the World Cup 2026 playoffs.
It’s a strange & frustrating evening for us armchair #football fans. On the one hand, we’re spoilt for choice, with overlapping live games on 3 channels; #itv1, BBC TWO & BBC THREE.🏴🇯🇵 🇨🇮🏴 🏴
On the other hand, none of them are showing the matches I really want to watch; these 4 #WorldCup qualifiers.🤷
On the plus side, #Trump is saving administrators in #TheHague loads of time, by confessing to his next war crimes *before* he actually commits them. Bravo!
#OperationEpsteinFiles #OperationEpicFail #IranWar #Iran
Today we enter #Labour’s last 39 days in charge of #BirminghamCityCouncil, and #KeirStarmer enters into full-on self-delusion.
Actually, that’s unfair. He’s not deluded. He’s just lying. He knows that #Labour in #Birmingham is about to be wiped out by the 7 May polls.
www.itv.com/news/central...
A screenshot of Pet Shop Boys’ official Bluesky account, which displays an exclamation mark in a warning triangle and the phrase ‘ Invalid Handle’ under the name ‘Pet Shop Boys’.
I’m really hoping that ‘Invalid Handle’ turns out to be the title of the next #PetShopBoys album, and that this is revealed as a slow burn marketing strategy. (It’s been on their Bluesky account for a long time.) #InvalidHandle
Outlier opinion to beat all other outlier opinions.
🤔🤷
#ScottMills #Radio2
44 years since I organised a school trip to see #DepecheMode at #Birmingham Odeon, I couldn’t resist that they were playing in my local pub tonight, 100m from my house. Okay, not actually Depeche Mode, but superb tribute band #EnjoyTheSilence. They were brilliant!
We could’ve skipped the first 90 minutes and just had the 7+ minutes of added time, as that’s where all the excitement was.
🏴🇺🇾⚽️ #ENGURU
Two consecutive nights of disappointing international football on our tellyboxes. Hey ho. Bring on Japan next week! 🇯🇵
60% achieved already…
And the phrase “union barons”.
You mean SATANford, surely?
#TheNumberOfTheBeast
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Why does Nick Watt keep calling Al Carns “Al Cairns”?
#Newsnight @alcarns.bsky.social
Horrible night; Wales, Ireland & Northern Ireland ALL knocked out. Ukraine also out. We don’t even get the jeopardy of them in ‘finals’ next week. It’s just over. Brutal.
Congrats to Bosnia-Herzegovina🇧🇦, Czechia🇨🇿, Denmark🇩🇰, Italy🇮🇹, Kosovo🇽🇰, Poland🇵🇱, Sweden🇸🇪 & Türkiye🇹🇷
#WorldCupQualifiers #WorldCup
Oh no. Penalties in both matches. I can’t stand the tension…😬 #WALBIH #CZEIRE
#WorldCupQualifiers #WorldCup
