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.

Small Prophets review – Mackenzie Crook’s magical new comedy is pure, pure pleasure

Solid gold, this show

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Radio Times has changed the masthead! The previous one was designed by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1927

HAMNET ⭐⭐⭐ The Home Alone of Oscar-bait weepie dramas, in that the whole film is the last 20 minutes. Pretty stagnant and contrived before that and the mystical elements were tiresome

Loving the Scott Walker vibes

"[Since the '80s], private equity has gobbled up £1.2 trillion in assets across Britain, a greater proportion than any other advanced economy... everything from schools, daycare centres, dentists and care homes to water companies, vets and even bucolic little villages in the Cotswolds".

This one?

Some useful advice at the bottom there on how to get that elusive "barbecue effect"

Confirmed: #SmallProphets, Mackenzie Crook's new series, begins Monday 9 February at 10pm on BBC Two. If you liked #Detectorists, I think you'll enjoy this. Not that they're alike, but because they share the same spirit and humanity. I ❤️ it. Feature and review in next week's @radiotimes.bsky.social.

this is still the best thing ever posted on twitter

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

Morning all. Outside the Divis Flats, Belfast, 1978. Photographer Chris Steele-Perkins.

the feel-good film of Sundance is a documentary where a community stands up to immigration officials, tells them to fuck off, and wins www.avclub.com/everybody-to...

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Always a good time to revisit @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social's delightfully excoriating deconstruction of this particular bullshit artist and his signature text...