The dead hand of Virgin Media ❤️ is ruining my life two years after we left. An astonishing reach of incompetence.

This basically. Virgin O2 has suddenly decided my phone contract of 12 years + is owned by my partner and for that reason I can no longer access my account, which they have never ever controlled. An absolutely nuts roll out. The guy on the phone sounded...unsurprised.

Honorary member for the evening. COYS

Even before these new changes, accessing the UK's citizen funded public broadcaster's written records was opaque & lacking accessibility for the average person. Join me in signing this open letter.

I used the BBC Written Archives in researching Believable Lies, and the staff there were helpful and knowledgeable. It’s dreadful to think that access to their holdings might be limited.

This is important for TV scholars.

The signature count has doubled since this was first posted two days ago. Each has their own story to tell about why the WAC has been vital to their research and reading.

Our U21s play their first home game of the new PL2 season tonight! 🙌 Tickets are available to support the team at the Lamex Stadium in Stevenage ⤵️

Writers also use this ! SWWJ

Cock a fukkin' doodle do!

Thank you to the Observer for giving space today to our campaign to save independent access to the BBC Written Archives. The Corporation is still yet to engage with our argument and properly defend the policy shift. That is because it is indefensible. observer.co.uk/news/national/…

🚨| Congratulations to Djed Spence, who has been named in the England squad for the upcoming international break! 👏🤍

Corsano & me got to play a bunch this summer opening for Tropical Fuck Storm and two of the shows (at the Empty Bottle in Chicago) were captured on multitrack. Recordings sounded good so we made a tape. This is it — our souvenir from the summer! billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/empty-bo…

My colleague John Wyver has been speaking to Roger Bolton of Beebwatch about the concerns of well over 400 historians, writers and researchers re access changes at the BBC Written Archives Centre. Listen here podfollow.com/beebwatch/epis…

🚨New series of Beeb Watch! 📚 Prof. John Wyver joins us to discuss the campaign to protect access to the BBC Written Archive Centre & arts on the BBC 🎧 Watch the clip + listen to the full episode here 👉 podfollow.com/beebwatch Ian Greaves #Archives #PublicServiceBroadcasting

Four episode to find. The first had almost 10m viewers on first transmission, so surely a tape is out there somewhere.

Very pleased to announce a So Watt special for this year's London Jazz Festival. Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's landmark series about improvisation, projected from the best materials: in stereo and in full and in a single afternoon. November 15th. barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…

Bringing you all up to speed on the saga so far.... "Is the BBC a fit and proper keeper of its own paper archive?" Ian Greaves on Defending the Written Archives Centre (Part 1) cstonline.net/is-the-bbc-a-f…

Tell me, have you visited Rwanda yet? #ARSMCI