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Accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers, last night Pet Shop Boys performed the world premier of their Alan Turing opera, A Man From The Future, at Britain’s Proms event at Royal Albert Hall. The Independent has posted a review: Tennant stands by the choir for A Man From the Future, with fellow Boy Chris Lowe behind …

Same-sex marriage has been legal in England and Wales for only four days and already the BBC has published a trend piece on whether gay bars are destined to fade into history. (Spoiler alert: They aren’t.) The article opens by asking a couple of familiar questions. It’s a Saturday night in March, unusually mild for London, and Soho is thronging …

The Daily Beast reports on a documentary that Britain’s Channel 4 aired last night. When 70-year-old Robert looks in the mirror, which he does often when dolled up, he sees a beautiful blond woman, voluptuous in her yellow halter dress and chunky heels. Her name is Sherry and she passes the time taking selfies in the courtyard of her Orange …

The debt ceiling kerfuffle has prompted the BBC to post several economic comparison charts. Taken out of context, the numbers are staggering. The US has a total debt pile of almost $17 trillion (£10.6 trillion), which is expected to rise to almost $23tn in the next five years. Japan is not far behind, with current debts totalling $11.5tn. By any …

The BBC reports on gay life in Pakistan: Pakistan is not the kind of place that most people would associate with gay liberation. But some say the country is a great place to be gay – even describing the port city of Karachi as “a gay man’s paradise”. Underground parties, group sex at shrines and “marriages of convenience” to members …

The BBC made the mistake of inviting crackpot conspiracy weirdo Alex Jones onto a Sunday chat show where Jones stayed true to form and went nuts. The host ended the interview by calling Jones “the worst person I ever interviewed.” Watch the last minute or so.

In what the BBC is calling “one of the most bizarre bits of television” they’ve produced in a long time, today Queen Elizabeth walked into the live shot of the announcers describing her tour of the their newly remodeled studio. The Guardian reports: The Queen “photobombed” the news on Friday in one of the more surreal moments in live broadcasting …

Including coverage of the “prayer warriors.”

Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead finished the week at #2 on the British pop singles chart after an internet campaign to download the song as a final protest of Margaret Thatcher’s support for Section 28.  As expected, the BBC only played a five-second snippet of the track during this weekend’s countdown show.

Saying that they are “between a rock and a hard place,” the BBC announced today that they will only play a five-second snippet of Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead during this weekend’s countdown of the Top 40. Sales of Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead have soared since the former Prime Minister’s death on Monday, aged 87. Mr Cooper …

The below clip was posted today by the C4M, which is Britain’s version of NOM.

Airs at 9pm tonight on BBC America. (Tipped by JMG reader Kevin)

Pet Shop Boys have created a tribute piece to gay British computer genius Alan Turing. Yesterday they wrote on their blog: Last night’s concert with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra was a wonderful experience for us. The orchestra played with such luxurious power and conviction, conducted by Dominic Wheeler, and the Manchester Chamber Choir brought ethereal beauty to, for instance, “Miracles” …

According to a BBC poll conducted in 21 countries, respondents who expressed a preference in the American election chose President Obama over Mitt Romney by a more than 5-1 margin. The countries with the largest pro-Obama majorities were France (72 percent for Obama, 2 percent for Romney), Nigeria (66 percent for Obama, 11 percent for Romney), Canada (66 percent for …

Last month the BBC published an article noting that many Britishisms have recently come into (relatively) common usage in the United States.  A follow-up article this week lists some of the words BBC readers are hearing more frequently from Yanks.  Here’s just a few of them: bloody, bum, chav, cheeky, flat, frock, gobsmacked, kit, loo, queue, row, shag, skint, sussed.  …

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