Loved funny & touching new film Pillion, exploring relationship dynamics through BDSM. Interesting Q&A afterwards with Alexander Skarsgård & writer/director Harry Lighton. #pillionmovie

I love how the Slovene word for murder, “umor”, works so well for the punning title of Založba Goga’s collection of classic murder mysteries, “Memento umori”.

A sad day: another trade magazine abandoning its weekly print publication, in this case after nearly 145 years.

Found time today to visit Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury in Suffolk before a meeting. A fantastic museum and gallery with a mix of contemporary art, including a great Stanley Spencer exhibition on until March, alongside Gainsboroughs & Constables. #gainsborough #suffolk #stanleyspencer

Enjoyed seeing Noah Baumbach’s film, Jay Kelly, on the big screen with a starry cast led by George Clooney. Despite his character’s flaws, it’s a compelling celebration of films & film-making. The post-screening Q&A with Clooney, Baumbach, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup etc added to the fun. #JayKelly

Hey, marketers: it may be a Friday today but Black Friday is NOT “here” yet… #BlackFriday

Morning. Don’t know if this counts as promotion or just me Mouthing off? Possibly both. Anyway Ordinary Decent Criminal is on your for three more weeks.

Pleased to catch Clarkston in its final week at Trafalgar Theatre: a solid American drama lifted by three very strong performances from Joe Locke, Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville. #LondonTheatre

Looking forward to a haunting time at The Weir at the Harold Pinter Theatre

A clever way of highlighting how today’s transphobia is horrifyingly similar to the homophobic rhetoric of the past. haveigotphobiaforyou.com

You should act your age – at least when it comes to exercise. Here’s why

Born With Teeth was very entertaining, especially for someone as interested in early modern English theatre and history as me. I can’t believe I nearly missed it. Ncuti Gatwa was great but Edward Bluemel was superb as Will Shakespeare.

Looking forward to catching Born With Teeth with Ncuti Gatwa & Edward Bluemel on the show’s last day.

Still can’t get my head round the bookshop in Manchester where books are shelved by title, not by author or genre (with no consistency over whether titles starting with “The” come under T or not). I guess it suits browsing but it messed with my head too much!

A great time last night seeing Nick Winston’s wonderfully silly, arch and funny production of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein The Musical at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Ore Oduba is brilliant as Dr Frankenstein, leading a top-notch cast. #Manchester #Frankenstein

At Manchester Victoria station and there’s a long queue for Greggs while the Starbucks is virtually deserted. #Greggs #Manchester

Spicing up a grim northern work trip by spending an evening with Young Frankenstein at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre! 👻 @hopemill.bsky.social #manchester #theatre #frankenstein

“Sorry I was a bit late for our meeting but I was distracted by an alpaca chasing a goat” Vauxhall City Farm is always worth a detour. #vauxhall

Riot Women is as glorious as everyone’s been telling me. #RiotWomen

The BBC adaptation of Rónán Hession’s Leonard & Hungry Paul is utterly charming, with a great cast led by Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston & Jamie-Lee O'Donnell. How could I resist the story of a sad socially inadequate ghost writer? #LeonardAndHungryPaul

Another “Brexit benefit”? A clothing company is exiting the UK market after 25 years because of “the complexity and cost of cross-border operations between the UK and Europe in the current trade environment”. #Brexit

More nonsense. It’s a good thing that UK-born British citizens don’t need to be proficient to “A Level English” standard (whatever that means). Literacy surveys show the average reading age among British adults is 9 to 11. (Also B1 is NOT equivalent to GCSE English.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Loving new BBC3 comedy Film Club with a super cast led by Aimee Lou Wood & Nabhaan Rizwan plus Suranne Jones fabulous as mum Suz.

‘Under 5ft 5in? Forget about being a prince!’ How the Royal Ballet school is kicking out the old rules

I know I overslept this morning but did I miss something that explains why Google is giving me dates in the Persian calendar?!

I find it very concerning that a police commissioner is allying herself with an anti-LGBT+ organisation, especially as her beat covers Brighton.

I appreciate there might be people who admire Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life as a creative work but are there “fans” of what must be the darkest, most depressing book that most of us will ever read?

If you want to remember the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, don’t miss Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho at Wilton’s: a brilliant, scathing and hilarious satire revisiting Section 28 and homophobia under Thatcher. wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/mar... #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher

Visited Quantum Untangled, a fascinating new (free) exhibition at Science Gallery London near London Bridge, featuring artwork inspired by quantum physics. Pictured are installations by Robin Baumgarten and Conrad Shawcross - best observed in person. #quantumphysics #quantummechanics

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

I’m hoping I understand this a bit better after going to the Quantum Untangled exhibition at Science Gallery London this evening.

The non-deranged reality of what is (not) happening in Portland OR www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Director Miranda Cromwell has argued that being a theatre director is "virtually impossible" due to low wages 👇

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

An excellent piece exploring the growing and potentially deadly phenomenon of male loneliness

Michael Billington on Patricia Routledge: www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Fascinating event at Hatchards this evening, with Christopher Stephens talking (with novelist AJ West) about his book, The Light of Day, uncovering a forgotten but key figure in the history of LGBTQ+ rights, Roger Butler. #lgbt #lgbtbooks @hatchards.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Alan Yang & Matt Hubbard’s 2018 existential comedy series, Forever, is now on Amazon Prime. Meditations on life and relationships through an out-of-this-world story, with superb performances by Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen & Catherine Keener. And it still pays off beautifully despite no 2nd series.

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

✍️ Research shows that ChatGPT is changing your brain What happens to your brain when you use ChatGPT to write your essay? MIT watched students’ brain activity to find out. The results are worrying. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

Gen Z invents “flirting parties” — aka singles meet and mingles…

This is not how copyright works! No business should be based on stealing copyrighted material but that is exactly what OpenAI is doing.

I feel a little less embarrassed about using subtitles on TV now that I know that 80% of 18- to 25-year-olds do it too…

John Wilson's new complete recording of My Fair Lady is here.

“How can artists make great theatre when they can no longer practise?” Lyn Gardner asks about the conditions under which artists are expected to create, and what happens to theatre when opportunities to practise all but disappear. -Via @TheStage www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/how-...

“It’s time to change the narrative. Tommy Robinson does not represent the majority of Britons. We aren’t afraid. We’re angry. And we won’t be defeated.” The power we need coming from @sangitamyska.bsky.social here www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform party will eventually come after citizens, with parents who were born abroad, like myself. My friends and I have had this discussion for some time. Make no joke about it, if they get into power they will need to continue to enrage the British voting public, they need chaos to thrive.

The moment I knew: 10 days after we met, I wrote him a marriage proposal