Do you think they could do it on a Monday?

If Toby Jones goes on to win Pottery Throw Down it’s a big evening for vague lookalikes on Channel 4

Truly, treat day

Brian Butterfield has won Crufts

News outlets: there may be a reason why Iran is not naming their new supreme leader. Just a thought.

Why didn’t you tell me about Train Dreams. Last of the Oscar noms I’ve watched and has leapt above all else. Utterly fucking beautiful.

Not sure turning green constitutes a good week

Finished rehearsal but having late lunch

Is it wrong to like the UK's Eurovision song?

Dawn chorus in our garden this morning

I was never a huge Blur fan beyond the singles (except THAT one obvs) but I think The Mountain by Gorillaz is almost certainly going to be in my top 5 albums of the year come December 31st. If we’re all still here

We have less than 3 weeks now before we perform our short play at Shakespeare North. Two performances in the studio, 2 pm and 7 pm on Saturday, 21st March. We've even sold some tickets (but have no idea how many, as it's unreserved seating. We're rehearsing the shit out of it 1/2

Anyone starting an email with 'I hope you are well' should be fired into the sun.

Trawling Facebook for legendary 80s icons stranded in Dubai must be quite the assignment.

Beware the idiots of March

Landscape Artist of the Year’s judges always have one eye on the best artist for the commission and not necessarily the best artist.

The Greens masterstroke was replacing ‘my father was a toolmaker’ with ‘I am a plumber’

I’d like to think that Allister Heath will look at the laughing stock he has become and perhaps have a damascene moment of self awareness but I doubt it

As disastrous as Gorton and Denton is for Labour surely 1.9% of the vote for the Conservatives is equally noteworthy and possibly more disastrous

‘Family voting’ appears to be going to the polling station at the same time as your spouse/adult children. In which case I have been family voting for a while. We even take the dogs. Or does it only become nefarious when the family has brown skin. Reform are scum.

After doing their best to get racists into power, this morning BBC news will pivot to how bad this is for Labour without acknowledging the Green’s success and the seismic shift in British politics. No one will acknowledge that the root of all this shit is Brexit.

There’s a song by little-remembered but essential 80s band Furniture called ‘l Miss You’ that contains the line: ‘All of my sense ache. I’ve taken to drinking.’ And that’s how I feel. All the time.

The Lowry thing on BBC2 is absolutely fucking brilliant. This is why the BBC is important. And the two actors lip-syncing are a marvel. McKellen and Annabel Smith inhabit the characters without using their voices

An almost perfect film. And we all know what the weak link is. Cough… Arthur… cough

If only people knew that every single 'I hope you are well' email shaves time off the recipients will to live

Oh, Mandy Well, you came And you took without giving And they sent you away Oh, Mandy

Well this broke me. Don’t usually weep in the theatre - well not as much as I do in the cinema. Micheal Sheen is a (Welsh) National Treasure

Tonight I worship my man crush.

Watched Australian drama/horror/fantasy political thriller Harlequin last night and it struck me that Robert Powell was playing David Bowie as Tom Baker and David Hemmings decline from 60s dish to portly middle age was rapid

Can't wait for the new 24 Hours in Police Custody

When did 'talking into a small microphone to say people stuff that most people knew already' become a viable career choice?

The Andrew formerly known as Prince

It's A Royal Cockout

Haven’t Arsenal got City last game of the season? Squeaky bum time

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Better than Game of Thrones. Infinitely better than House of the Dragon. Scope is infinitesimally smaller but that’s why it’s better. The whole series set over mere days but packed with incident and character. Love it.

RIP Robert Duvall: as central to American film as anyone in his generation

Finished Small Prophets. And if you’d have told me at the start of the year that a homonculi in a jar tracing one word would make me cry I wouldn’t have believed you

So I saw The Secret Agent. Was really looking forward to it. Erm… It looks gorgeous but I’m bemused about where the awards hype is coming from. And the ending was just annoying. No spoilers but it seems a really odd choice.

The best thing about BlueSky is that I have no idea what Laurence Fox is doing

Me opening the curtains this morning

*gestures to the BBC to come closer* Hey lads. Come here. Just watching Small Prophets. You know, that thoughtful, sweet comedy you've given someone time and money to make. How about you invest in more people that have nice ideas and maybe nurture a new generation of voices? Just an idea, like.

Got the Demon Records T-Rex studio albums boxset for Christmas and slowly realising how good some of Bolan's 'shit' albums are.

Is it taking a popular book and filming it?

Friday! At last!