Watching Victoria Coren Mitchell reading Paradise Lost I am left with the unanswerable question WHY WOULD YOU THINK THIS IS A SUBJECT FOR 16 YEAR OLDS TO GRAPPLE WITH? I still bear the scars. #OnlyConnect

If you want to watch a film in honour of Tom Stoppard, watch 'Brazil' which he collaborated on. OK 🙋‍♀️ it's one of my favourite films anyway.

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The death of Tom Stoppard got me thinking about 20c playwrights. It was a century endowed with geniuses of the craft. From Wilde and Ibsen through Shaw and Rattigan to Orton and Churchill. And everyone else. I adored Stoppard's acrobatics with the English language and his ever inquisitive mind.

‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwright

Love having songs instead of pictures in Answer Smash. Thank you Josh Pugh. Maybe you've started a trend. #HouseofGames

And behind the first door... #AdventCalender BBC News - Runaway reindeer sparks huge search after fleeing festive celebration www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy militaries as Asia floods death toll passes 1,000

As I remember saying to a friend when we saw these 3 films when they came out: "Everyone needs a Samwise Gamgee in their lives." #LOTR #MovieNight 🎬

1/ Trump is not a new Hitler. He has no ideology and no grand plan. Trump's mentality is that of Assad and Saddam Hussein - greedy, brutal, corrupt, vindictive, narcissistic and utterly amoral.

Last month I left the Bylines Network and started work as a Community Organiser with an amazing education charity called The Brilliant Club. Here's an article from me in @yorkshirebylines.co.uk that explains a little bit about what I do now. You can ollow TBC here ⏩ @brilliantclub.bsky.social

Two final points. In 2019 Boris Johnson celebrated his General Election Victory with Alexander Lebedev In 2022, Canada sanctioned Alexander Lebedev for being on of Putin’s inner circle Just ponder that.

Jeremy - you've inspired me. The Fellowship of the Ring. Now just starting The Two Towers but may have to finish it tomorrow evening. And Return of the King. #MovieNight Marathon 🎬

'Travesties' is one of my favourite plays of the 20th century. RIP Tom Stoppard

Any turkeys escaping the US slaughter yesterday by crossing the Pond I have bad news. In less than 4 weeks you face mass murder.

Still laughing. 👏

Is Black Friday tariffed in the US this year? Does this mean that we will see an end to this ridiculous phenomenon?

Read this. A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets

Dave Fishwick (Bank of Dave) confronts a knighted bigwig in HoP: Are your expenses subsidised by the taxpayers? Yes. Then why shouldn't a starving six year old be subsidised breakfast? ---

I didn't think #Shetland was very good last night so I'm watching it again now. Bits I don't even remember. So I must have slept through some of it. 😏

1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:

So many threads #Shetland

Bombarded with Christmas already. Resisting. Not raiding my mince pie stash until 1st December

To the residents of Prince Andrew Road and Prince Andrew Close in Maidenhead: May I suggest you put forward the change of name to Virginia Road and Virginia Close?

🔴230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello

COP30 in Brazil was billed as the “implementation summit”, when hot air turned to action. But Edelman, the PR firm that won the contract to promote the climate summit, was pulling in two directions. 🧵1/2

Something (pun intended) that strikes me it's just how good the 'B' sides were. What made them secondary to the hits when they were just as good if not better? Eg: Things we said today - the B of A Hard Days Night. It should have been a hit in its own right.

Miss Piggy FTW

Ringo always looked as though he was thoroughly enjoying himself. Maybe because he didn't have the pressure of composition like John and Paul or the upfront persona of George.

Watching The Beatles Anthology. The backdrop to my life. Even now. Yeah Yeah Yeah.

As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview. He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997. Farage would have been about 33 at time. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

When I hear Farage talking about rounding up and deporting hundreds of thousands of human beings, and threatening those with leave to remain or settled status, I cannot help but think of the schoolboy sidling up to me and telling me that “Hitler was right” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔

Apparently the sleaze bag has responded in his column in the Torygraph. With no apology. Living down to his reputation as expected

Farage at school by those who knew him best: www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth

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Nina Cresswell reported a sexual assault, but the police basically ignored her. She spoke out, and her attacker sued her for defamation. Three years later, with our support, she won. Now she's taking action to stop the police failing women. Join us.👇 https://goodlaw.social/4w3n

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Just finished this today. Are you a Beatle fan? Must Read List. #BookSky 📚

Just had a rant at Waitrose. Feeling good.

The long and winding road: Stuart Maconie on why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing

The perpetrator wriggles and squirms and equivocates. A bully never remembers. The accusers are precise and credible. The bullied never forget. #Farage

Zack Polanski: billionaire owned media have, “a vested interest in trying to discredit any idea or story that challenges the status quo” “The status quo isn’t working. It’s broken. We need a complete clear out of that broken politics. We need something new and hopeful, and that’s what I’m offering.

All these schmaltzy Christmas movies being advertised. Bah Humbug There's only one Christmas movie worth watching

A judge has dismissed cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James More here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Birthday Girl. Dear Prudence is 15 today. (PS Prudence is not a password. I'm not that stupid)

Binge watching The Serpent Queen. Great end credits soundtrack. Every episode a different song cover. Great fun recognising the songs.

When you get to my age the soundtrack of your life gets progressively quieter. RIP Jimmy Cliff BBC News - Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies, aged 81 www.bbc.com/news/article...