Wellwishers around world congratulate President Roosevelt on his re-election; among them, British Prime Minister Churchill & a 14-year-old Cuban named Fidel Castro: lettersofnote.com/2009/09/25/my-…

"poppies are woke" might be an all timer. we are witnessing take artistry here. i can only watch in awe.

Match Of The Day's FA Cup first round round-up today in 1998 is enlivened by someone getting the pre-recorded voiceover edits mixed up.

Crackerjack became infamous for taking the pop hits of the day and delivering them as singalongs for the kids with full LE reworking. See if you can guess what this playlet is leading up to today in 1979 (um, as long as you don't look at the upload title) youtube.com/watch?v=n5LrRl…

Journalists etc moving to that other network isn't just snowflake liberal flight. It's also a very rational decision about how bad this place now is as a place for spreading work. Below are stats for today's column. BS here first, X second. And this despite 7x more followers on X

Animal Kwackers, fondly remembered by many; The Oddball Couple, fondly remembered by none. IIRC Ray Moore was in his autobiography very rude indeed about the Miss World contestants.

Obsessed with this colorful modernist Austro-Hungarian railway map from 1913

London's taxi drivers have a reputation like no other thanks in large part to 'the knowledge', their almost encyclopedic recall of every street and building of importance. Back in 1974, Nationwide's James Hogg met some of those aspiring to become suitably knowledgeable.

'From all of us, to all of you. A very happy Christmas'. BBC favourites line up in 1981 to offer seasonal greetings.

OTD in 1974. Z Cars and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? are on BBC1. ITV has Bless This House and another chance to see Carry On Christmas.

43 years today since Blake’s 7 ended with (spoiler) the entire regular cast being mown down by the bad guys, surely one of the bleakest endings to a classic sf TV series ever.

I remember watching Northstar and looking forward to the TV series that never materialised.

Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine, the little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company, who first chugged onto our screens today in 1959. Toot-toot! 🚂 #onthisday #wales

"I will teach myself mathematics from books." The books:

A reader writes… “The last time I made a submission to Private Eye was in 1968, when I was 15 years old. I received this wonderful response which I still treasure:”  JOHN CLIVE

Remembering Frank Muir, born this day in 1920.

striking that the UK is now a dead-on typical European country in this regard. these are quite literally the vote shares of British opinion polls