Any Answers? - 17/01/2026 - BBC Sounds

Listeners respond to the issues raised in the preceding edition of Any Questions?

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Listening to a news programme debating Assisted Dying

#AnyQuestions #AnyAnswers #BBC

From right to left:

Head of State
Head of Government
Head of State
Er,... Foreign Secretary

France and USA were our Allies in conducting the D-Day Landings (as were the Canadians, and exiles from many overrun European countries). Our former adversaries, the Germans, are also now our allies in NATO.

Highly disrespectful of our Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (a Bregziteer) to play truant.

#BBCaq #BBCaa #AnyAnswers
#GE2024 #SunakOut!
#LBC #C4News
#Wato #Newsnight

To shun the meeting of 'International Leaders' at the D-Day commemoration was a serious error of judgement by our Second-Past-The-Post Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, #AnyAnswers.

And the judgement of a party leader campaigning to hold our nuclear codes is important.

But it will be good to know that if, in another error of judgement, Sunak were to fire our nuclear weapons - he'll happily and quickly apologise after the mushroom clouds have cleared.

#BBCaq #BBCaa #GE2024 #Wato #C4News #LBC

What have the #Tories (and now the #Nastiz) done for us over the last 14 years?

The only clear benefit (and it's deffo not a #Brexit Benefit) was the legalisation of #EqualMarriage but we now have a reactionary bunch of Nastiz in power rowing back on LGBTQ+; if it can no longer be taught, how are teachers to explain things to little 8-year-old Tommy who has a mum and dad and is curious as to why his playmate Johnny has two fathers.

#AnyQuestions #AnyAnswers #BBCAQ #BBCAA
#GeneralElectionNow!

Are @bbc Any Answers phone lines being deliberately sabotaged today? Nobody seems to be able to connect to criticise or comment on key issues. Odd! 🤔
#AnyAnswers #bbc #bbcradio4

#AnyAnswers is now debating what is the definition of a Safe Country for the return of antiquities?

I'm confused... So #Greece is NOT a Safe Country for the purposes of deporting marble statues but #Rwanda is a Safe Country for the deportation of actual living human beings?

#GeneralElectionNow!
#ElginMarbles #BBCaq
#ParthenonSculptures

The fate of the Elgin Marbles/Parthenon Sculptures had been pretty much settled - a fudge had pretty much been agreed that the British Museum would send the #ElginMarbles back to Greece on permanent 'loan'.

So why are #BBCaq and #AnyAnswers arguing about where the #ParthenonSculptures belong - England or Greece?

The topical question is what the feck was our PM Sunak doing snubbing our ally Greece's PM over their return?

Overt #BBCbias is to be deplored but beware INSIDIOUS BBC Bias as well.

The first caller on #AnyAnswers today has to be a parody, right? Right??

Heartening how many people on #AnyAnswers are robustly defending the principle that business communications should be on corporate devices.

If I send not-work messages through Slack then I do so fully in the knowledge that my employer can and may read those messages entirely at their liberty.