Something Understood on Radio 4 is the most credulous show. Open minded to the point of empty minded. The laying on of hands. I cannot bear it.

In terms of ports, chargers and all kinds of backwards compatibility, why is Apple in a constant format war with itself?

Great News Quiz news! Andy Zaltzman as umpire and Master of Ceremonies. A new golden age.

I can’t help thinking that the reason that the UK invents brilliant things that are then snapped up and taken overseas is the fault of our hugely coddled praised and protected financial sector.

Thrum, the experimental animation robot, phase 3 of work in progress by @willbishopstephens, getting ready for #between_walls at Safehouse 2. booking details in bio. instagram.com/p/CFpPsYzDaAx/…

We're delighted to announce Andy Zaltzman as our permanent News Quiz host on BBC Radio 4 ! 2021 headlines beware Andy Zaltzman !

#Brexit could be an opportunity to think globally and systematically rather than in UK/European interest. Restrict access to UK fisheries to small owner operator vessels wherever they come from. National interests are a red herring. #environment #fisheries #EU #UK

If the normal baseline for bloodclots is 97 cases in 18million and after the AZ vaccine there are 30 cases, if you want to tenuously attribute cause and effect, the vaccine is preventing bloodclots.

A door walks into a library and asks can I have a door knob please? Librarian: *whispers* this is a library Door: *whispers back* oh sorry, can I have a pint of bananas please?

Not using Twitter much, only to contact people, so posting this by way of an introduction. I have a website: williambishopstephens.com

someone is trying to reset my password… stop it.

Seeing the education policies of the Conservative Party play out I can report the drive is not to develop a love of learning but to communicate to embittered old people how children and students are being punished, like they are prisoners who have been coddled for too long.

“Lai Bai was born in 712AD so he was slightly younger than Du Fu” made my head reel, time and relative age zipping back and forth like the carriage on a inkjet printer. A similar thing happens when Richard K Herring mocks his younger self in his teenage diaries ‘Get with it grandad’

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I haven’t been sacked from Twitter, despite hardly ever showing up for work over the last 3 years.