new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes

Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped

Oh. I thought this was one of the best shows of the year but hey

World War II with Tom Hanks review – one of the largest documentaries in human history

"AI responses may include mistakes"

The Artist review – this flamboyant period comedy is like nothing else on TV

Enjoyed the prose style here

Corruption erodes trust, weakens democracy Under the parliamentary code, MPs must disclose donations received in the 12 months prior to being elected, within a month of being elected. Farage didn’t do this with the extra £5m handed over by Chakrit Sakunkrit (ชกฤต สกุลกฤต) aka Christopher Harborne.

Enjoying Zhao Xintong's somewhat inexplicable choice of walk-on music #thesnooker

Widow's Bay on AppleTV is properly terrific. Just watched ep4 and I was half-expecting "Written by Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton" (that ep is in fact by Mackenzie Dohr)

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

Freelance writers following up on old invoices

Hoping there's another sign at the end labelled </FOOT PATH>

Shout out to the Guardian picture desk for picking a photo that illustrates three different things described in the piece

I've read thousands of these and this is my favourite

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

This really made me laugh. Sort of a spiritual successor to Les Dawson

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service review – one restaurant’s kitchen looks like the scene of a murder

Currently No1 on the Guardian chart, ahead of the insubstantial clickbait that is "Middle East Crisis - Live"

The Assembly review – TV has rarely seen anything like this delightful gem

Agonising finish to Bullseye on Challenge just now. Non dart player got 5, 1, T20 = 66. Dart player got 20, 1, 1 = 22. Just go for treble 11 man!! Lost £199 and could have won a holiday to the Dominican Republic 😭

There's something particularly sickening about the way people in media & politics are so eager to take a term that describes a serious problem, like conspiracy theories or antisemitism, and then heedlessly warp the meaning in order to deploy it against their political opponents.

The Athletic News for 2 April 1923 relates that the Orient have drawn 0-0 with Derby in “a game that was of a tame description. With mere hard striving discounting science … the attenuated attendance of 8,000 spectators saw little to inspire them” (1/2) #lofc #lofcpress

It's tight but he is just on

I cannot stress how quickly the threat level is escalating.

"One wonders if Westminster etiquette prevents Goodall from even considering the unpalatable alternative, that Starmer hasn’t improved people’s lives because he doesn’t want to, and the above gaffes show his instincts when in power are conservative." www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

"One wonders if Westminster etiquette prevents Goodall from even considering the unpalatable alternative, which is that Starmer hasn’t improved people’s lives because he doesn’t want to"

Woken by the Premier Inn's fire alarm.

Think I've kept this neutral and balanced www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The Plastic Detox review – a film so terrifying you will want to change your life immediately

Portrait of a Confused Father review – the film-maker who recorded his son’s entire life … until his tragic death

The Sky News one on Friday morning was incredible, one of the hosts was completely unguarded in his total contempt for everything Polanski said. Mugging, eye rolling, shaking his head. Amazingly partisan

Dirty Business review – if this doesn’t incite righteous anger over our filthy water then nothing will

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

I hope Martha's doing OK.

Watched this last night, the other play Michael Palin wrote for Innes Lloyd. It's very good, stunningly redolent of the late Thatcher era. Only on iPlayer for another 22 days, so get on it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

With every fibre of my being, let me say this in a loud, clear, booming voice: this should have happened when Virginia Giuffre was alive to see it.

Do you like it when a character makes a claim, but then events instantly disprove that claim? Yes? You will LOVE the Scrubs remake

The Tony Blair Story review – some rigorous analysis of his time in office might have been nice

I don't believe I've ever seen Ted Levine speak so candidly about his regrets of portraying Buffalo Bill in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He and some of the crew on the film were asked about the film's cultural transphobia by The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

No.

Watson season two review – a Sherlock Holmes spinoff full of naughty wit

Noooooo holy shit that is bad

WUTHERING HEIGHTS ⭐⭐⭐ The audacity of it is initially overwhelming and I like that it dramatises an idea of the book, not the book itself which is largely about estate planning. Half an hour too long though and its generic "mad woman in Gothic melodrama" Cathy runs out of gas long before the end

This is blackout poetry to me

"They're serving the interests of multi-millionaires and billionaires." @zackpolanski.bsky.social on @itvpeston.bsky.social

RIP Bud Cort. Harold and Maude is one of my favourite movies of all time and he’s spectacular in it. If you haven’t seen it, don’t find out anything about it. Just watch it.

When a guest on The Romesh Ranganathan Show says something faintly amusing, just part of the conversation really, may not even have been intended as a joke per se

Pretty sure that the escalator upon which Taylor Swift heads down in Croydon's Whitgift Centre is the same one that June Whitfield goes up in the Terry and June intro.