Time to embark upon Twin Peaks: The Return for the third time.

@goodlawproject.org @lgbtiqagreens.bsky.social Not sure if you've seen this about the Dr who has complained to the GMC about Hilary Cass, but a signal boost would be terrific. She's collecting testimony from affected people, to put it in front of the council. #CassReview Thanks. 🙏

I see the Park Chan-Wook BBC adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl is back on iPlayer alongside the other Le Carre stuff.I must revisit it, never completed it the first time around.

Nah how about 1) Mulholland Dr. 2) Peaks The Return 3) Fire Walk With Me 4) The Straight Story 5) the Elephant Man 6) Inland Empire 7) Lost Highway 8) Blue Velvet 9) Peaks Seasons 1&2 10) Wild At Heart 11) Dune

Matheson is one of my favorite American writers. Novels, short stories, television, film. He could do it all, and often did and so much of it holds up in both ideas and execution.

If Hodge is appointed Ofcom chair, I hope people go back to the story of how she absolutely tried to suppress media coverage of her disgusting mishandling of a paedophile scandal. www.theguardian.com/society/2003...

It’s Sidney Poitier’s birthday. Here he is in In The Heat of The Night delivering the most satisfying & thrilling slap in cinema.

Quote tweeting Amal's post with the donation link for the inevitable deletion: chuffed.org/project/168482

Just a reminder that Queen Elizabeth II gave at least at £10M to Andrew to go towards paying the settlement with Virginia Giuffre rather than sending him packing. She was no saint.

i do not care for famous actors "writing" books with established fiction writers. there's a Reese Witherspoon/Harlan Coben "collaboration" that makes me roll my eyes every time i see it. stop devaluing the work of actual writers. stop polluting everything with your "brand."

Counterpoint: it's not remotely "wrong in principle," and there are a thousand reasons to go after the rich that have nothing to do with fixing broken budgets If you accept, that is - though I suspect The Economist doesn't - that inequality IS wrong, in principle and practice

Gender Critical = misogyny & homophobia

I hope they don't just stop with Andrew, and I hope he faces further charges.

“The fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle—not more just” -Thomas Paine, COMMON SENSE

Imagine thinking so little of your craft that this trash video causes you to crash out. Reactions like this say more about the person than the software.

It's not just that AI is not treated as an economic calamity. It's that the government is cheerleading its implementation as somehow "essential" to the economy ... without factoring in the mass unemployment and absolutely destroyed national tax income that implementing it will INEVITABLY cause. #AI

Happy to be left behind tbh

Muppet Pastoral I Married a Muppet The Muppet Stain

Flow My Tears the Muppet Said

The Muppet Without Qualities

Brief Interviews with Hideous Muppets

“I CAN‘T CONCEIIIIIIIVE IT!”

That little pause before he says “can’t do it Sally.” #RobertDuvall

One the best to ever do it. RIP.

One of the absolute joys of writing BOND, QUEER BOND is being able to interview DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER's Putter Smith! Putter's insight & perspective is a definite treat & sweet Valentine for BOND, QUEER BOND! ❤️ www.amazon.co.uk/Bond-Queer-F... #BondQueerBond #PutterSmith #JamesBond

Make the MMR vaccine mandatory. If people are going to be idiots, treat them as such. Vaccines are about protecting each other

In addition to the things I lead with when telling people why they should read Elizabeth Jane Howard—her insight into relationships, people, and especially women; her epigrammatic insights—she’s also a skilled storyteller. She takes you by the hand immediately, and you want to follow to the end.

AI is only growing in importance because everybody keeps saying it is, when everybody should be commenting on how rubbish it is as a technology. AP too is guilty of this. As in other areas of reporting, it's been deeply disappointing in the last couple of years. Please go back to proper standards.

My 1949 Penguin paperback edition of Wuthering Heights. The pages have not yellowed, the sewn binding is still tight. The prevalence of non-acid-free paper and glued bindings means I have hardbacks published less than ten years ago that have aged less well.

We had a tentative but not unserious conversation about home schooling prompted by this news yesterday.

The Guardian edition today has re-upped their lovely obituary of Michael Slater from Boxing Day. Here it is again: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

When I was starting out as a writer, I listened to hours and hours of archived Bookworm shows. He was the greatest of literary interlocutors, elevating the thirty minute “books show” to new artistic and intellectual levels. Listening to him made me a better writer, and a much better reader. RIP.

Rewatched Wild at Heart. Still don’t understand why Marietta and Santos stop trying to kill Sailor when he comes out of prison at the end.

I’ve never forgotten this about Neal Patrick Harris. Truly wretched.

And if you haven't seen it, it looks even nastier than it sounds.

Such an essential part of my childhood, and how I learned to see the world. I'd find it genuinely shocking to see it go.

I think people cling to ideology mostly out of fear—of losing friends and family, of feeling rudderless, of feeling duped by people they trusted. These are all valid reasons. But again, good people need to know that liberation is the goal, and it’s incredibly exciting and rewarding to fight for it.

In other words, fascism is a byproduct of capitalist imperialism. There is a steep learning curve to understanding all of this and that task is made harder if one is highly indoctrinated into American mythology. But to see the world clearly, one must reject one’s indoctrination, as painful as it is.

Fascism doesn’t affect everyone the same. Some people live free lives while others suffer. For example, the US government brutalizes people in three continents (or gives resources for others to do it for them), while people here have no idea about it and benefit from it daily. That is imperialism.

I realize the notion of the Democratic Party being fascist is ludicrous to people who still believe the Dems are the opposition party to Republicans. But both parties are capitalist parties who agree on 90% of economics matters, here and abroad. This translates to fascism for thee but not for me.

Actually 67 people died in ICE custody during Obama's tenure alone*. The Democratic Party is the softer, kinder fascist party, and it's time for conscientious people to abandon the party and join the left. Liberation is impossible under capitalism. *https://perma.cc/4JPE-UG28

Her disclaimer that "I wasn't voting Tory, I was voting for particular people sympathetic to the arts" is also rubbish. Look up who the ministers for culture were under Cameron. They weren't exactly David Hockney.

A lot of people are reposting that Tracey Emin interview with comments along the lines of "ooh, national treasure", and I can only assume they missed the paragraph where she admits that she voted for David Cameron twice. Twice. So in 2015 she looked around and thought "yum, more of this please."

“I shall read a passage of Shakspeare every Sunday at ten o Clock—you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.” — John Keats in a letter (1818)

Congratulations, anti-vaxxers! Bang up job.

Mohammed is raising money for food and medicine for his family in Gaza if you can help.

Looking at David Simon's post-Wire career:

This piece is a frustrating bit of fantasy. Its prescriptions are in a way unexceptionable, but the authors seem to assume they can be implemented within a currently existing legislative and regulatory architecture that is, as they admit, essentially capitalist. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wow!!!

Keats slamming his era’s riot police 👮🔥💪