An absolutely stunning debut horror mindbender; a terrifically fresh and funny lit adaptation; an austere desolate classic with the much missed legend PSH; and a sweet but pointless comrom more rom than com #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

‘Why Count Binface isn’t immensely silly, is a genuine threat to democracy and isn’t showing the far right up as a huge collective of undiagnosed narcissistic personality disorders, actually’ - my column for the Daily Arsehole.

On Tuesday, MPs will debate controls on the money in politics. We @transparencyuk.bsky.social think it is time they put a cap on the biggest donations anyone can make. Please ask your MP to support this call:

The anti-climate turn in British politics is so worrying. What do these people actually want to happen? How many more heatwave deaths are they willing to accept?

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Having failed to interest any papers in this story, I resorted to writing a letter to The Times, like in olden times. So when all that's left to watch is NASCAR racing sponsored by Cheetos, I can at least say I tried. #ITV #Sky #Comcast

1/ Impossible to square these cuts to creative + performing arts teaching grants with the Government's pledge to put the creative industries at the heart of its growth strategy www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/dfe-sla...

Terrific article that highlights the key issue facing UK TV right now - “what kind of national television culture can be sustained when domestic institutions are increasingly shaped by global capital, global competition and global technology?” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...

Yet again, the Telegraph ran a spoiler of this public interest story - based entirely on a briefing from Reform. The same as they did when Anna Isaac broke the original story. We all know whose scoop this was @annaisaac.bsky.social

The scale of the genuine problems we face as a country and as a species and we now have to waste yet more precious time and money on this arrogant, narcissistic, preening, petulant teenager who’s never done a single thing for anyone but himself in his entire pointless life. So deeply depressing.

This is the moment for a unity anti-Farage candidate to come forward. And everyone else to step aside.

Cuts to the BBC will be devastating for writers, other creators, audiences + all those who love our oldest public service broadcaster Join us to campaign against the cuts: • Sign the petition • Share a campaign video from @bectu.bsky.social • Write to your MP writersguild.org.uk/bbc-cuts-our...

The BBC is an essential public service that belongs to us all Alongside @nujofficial.bsky.social @bectu.bsky.social @equityuk.bsky.social @wearethemu.bsky.social @unitetheunion.bsky.social, we've launched a petition to protect jobs + the future of our BBC 🔽 www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/ba...

So… can we start the campaign for a physical media release of ‘The Bear: The Complete Series’ now? Because I need to be able to watch this show in 4K whenever the hell the mood takes me. Yes chef? YES CHEF! 📀 📀 📀 📀 📀

Heads up, Yorkshire based screenwriters and playwrights. The Kay Mellor Fellowship award is now open for submissions. Working alongside Leeds Playhouse and Rollem films you’ll develop scripts for stage/screen. Closing date: 10th August. Bursary: £10,000. www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk/job/the-kay-...

So… can we start the campaign for a physical media release of ‘The Bear: The Complete Series’ now? Because I need to be able to watch this show in 4K whenever the hell the mood takes me. Yes chef? YES CHEF! 📀 📀 📀 📀 📀

Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon

🚨 Google continues to lobby the UK government to hand the work of the country's creatives to big tech companies for free. 🧵 1/3

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The instinctive reaction right now is lazy, sleep-walking cynicism, or sullen don't-give-me-hope despair. But the truth is: someone with very good communication skills, the right diagnosis and a reforming zeal is about to become prime minister. That seems pretty fucking encouraging to me.

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

A solid Western remake with performances that didn’t land for me; a still fascinating filmed play shot with glaring early Digicam; an enjoyable frat slice of life with really questionable gender politics; and a truly dull and racist CIA ‘thriller’ from Sir Ridley. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Happy ‘The Bear - The Final Season’ Day to all who celebrate. One last time - YES CHEF!!!

If you’re in need of inspiration to keep fighting the good fight in any area of life, I recommend this glorious interview by @mrjamesob.bsky.social with Baroness Beeban Kidron. Insightful, passionate, practical, it me weep for joy to know she’s in the world. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

If you’re in need of inspiration to keep fighting the good fight in any area of life, I recommend this glorious interview by @mrjamesob.bsky.social with Baroness Beeban Kidron. Insightful, passionate, practical, it me weep for joy to know she’s in the world. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

This is a really good move that will hopefully make the TV Festival more accessible, affordable and dynamic at a time when the UK TV industry is changing beyond recognition. We need all voices in the room to find a sustainable way forwards for everyone. 👏👏 deadline.com/2026/06/edin...

HOT! 🥵 youtube.com/watch?v=OXR0...

The money is being made, removed from the broadcasting industry, and being extracted, taken out of the arts and into tech, where it is hoarded by billionaires. It is an act of piracy, looting, sabotage. Fucking hate it.

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Paging @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social - it’s basically @originstorypodcast.bsky.social live on stage…

It breaks my mind that Trump saying a deal is close with Iran still secures one of five news slots in a BBC radio bulletin. He's fucking said this for months guys. Months. None of it means anything.

Thread: The obsession of reactionary British media with refugees, & asylum seekers, is illogical & racist. Take Northern Ireland. It has 6% of the population born outside the region. Of those 97% are White. That’s one third of the % in the bordering Republic. Racism is a problem but … [1]

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Yup…

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

NEW: New evidence local Facebook/other social media groups fuelling misinformation - filling void left by retreating local media. Misinformation 3x more in areas with little/no recognised local journalism. Misinfo peaks at local elections. MPs concerned www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

If you think you know this story... think again... An absolute privilege to be part of the team behind this film. Wednesday 20th May - 9pm on 5

'A portrayal of raw grief is as powerful a piece of television as I've ever seen' - Daily Mail 'The best and most powerful Channel 5 drama of the year' - TV Guide 'Under Suspicion: Kate McCann' - now streaming on 5 If you think you know this story... think again...

A leaked letter signed by 400 female writers has criticised the corporation for what it calls the ‘silencing of women’s voices’ in women’s stories for commissioning a male writer for a drama about the Met police and the Sarah Everard murder. Read it in full here: www.thenerve.news/p/female-scr...

Saying AI is just a tool in the creative process is misleading - because this isn’t the AI companies’ aim for it. The aim of the (big) AI company is to automate more are more. There is no hard limit at which point they will say ‘ok, that’s enough automated now’. 🧵 1/6

Four absolute belters from years gone by - Mod teenage angst at its best; Hoffman and Streep acting up a storm; dated white saviours in a still powerful guy punch; and Mean Streets meets Strictly with Travolta strutting like a boss. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Just watched Saturday Night Fever for the first time… What. The. Actual. 🤯 I am not okay… 🕺 💃 🪩 💀

I realize this quote exists to get me and every writer to say, "I don't use AI!" but, like, I cannot imagine doing so? I am much more LLM-curious than many of my peers, but the whole process of writing, the sitting and thinking and staring blankly, is the point for me.

💯 support the position of the 400 female screenwriters behind this open letter. There is an appalling dearth of female voices across screenwriting and this story in particular cries out to centre and be told by women. news.sky.com/video/bbc-hi...

💯 support the position of the 400 female screenwriters behind this open letter. There is an appalling dearth of female voices across screenwriting and this story in particular cries out to centre and be told by women. news.sky.com/video/bbc-hi...

Telling that the open letter was signed by 400 female screenwriters. FOUR HUNDRED female screenwriters they could have chosen from to tell such a sensitive female centric story. Emblematic of wider issue concerning hiring female screenwriters. #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky news.sky.com/video/bbc-hi...

Now streaming on 5. If you think you know this story… think again… ‘Under Suspicion: Kate McCann’

If you're tempted by the fine weather to swim at the seaside in England this weekend you may become sickened by toxic parasites. Those toxic parasites are called water companies, and the cure for them is nationalisation.