On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

YES

Watching Strictly tonight? Watch it with me! www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/strictl...

As a special treat - and to a say a big thank you / diolch yn fawr iawn to everyone who contributed to this list of brilliant Welsh plays - today's piece is paywall-free and free to read!

Look what we have here then.

Life Lines is back on Radio 4/BBC Sounds. There's nothing like it. It's pull-over-to-the-side-of-the-road radio drama. May it run and run.

My review of Slow Horses season 5 for The Independent. It's the worst series yet, while still being better than 95% of all other television produced at the moment. And so much Roddy Ho. Too much? Yes. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

You say Tylenol, but all I hear is

My review of Slow Horses season 5 for The Independent. It's the worst series yet, while still being better than 95% of all other television produced at the moment. And so much Roddy Ho. Too much? Yes. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

"I'm cancelling your show ... for a week!"

Kimmel fixed it

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

Quite right too

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

And you can tell everybody This is Your Party It may be quite simple, but Now that it's done I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind If we cancel your direct debit

The involvement of the Downing Street press operation in this is genuinely shameful. Someone present should use their question to grill the PM on this, on camera.

Many US Comedians will have plenty to say about this, right after they return from the Riyadh Comedy Festival

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

This is very bad

The Netflix Agatha Christie Expanded Universe? Don't rule it out! www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/09/1...

Happy 30th birthday to my 14-year-old self's favourite show. Thanks to David Gower, Rory McGrath, Peter Fincham, Simon Bullivant and Bill Matthews for sharing their memories. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

I will add to the chorus of voices - this is fantastic

Happy 30th birthday to my 14-year-old self's favourite show. Thanks to David Gower, Rory McGrath, Peter Fincham, Simon Bullivant and Bill Matthews for sharing their memories. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Got deep and meaningful with Bill Bailey on The State of the Arts www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/bill-ba...

Infertile Tawny Owl's lifeless eggs are replaced with orphaned chicks while Tawny Owl is awa

Got deep and meaningful with Bill Bailey on The State of the Arts www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/bill-ba...

Radiohead you're killing me

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Mandelsoff (this'll do)

Met up with Babatunde Aleshe. Had a nice chat. www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/what-...

hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together

Met up with Babatunde Aleshe. Had a nice chat. www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/what-...

My review of The Paper (exasperated look to camera) www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/the-pap...

My review of The Paper (exasperated look to camera) www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/the-pap...

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

Well this made me cry.

Melvyn Bragg has been one of the last standard-bearers for a really important, and unfashionable, idea: that good conversation, between people who really know their stuff, on complex or difficult subjects, can be fantastic radio - and that the national broadcaster should do this. I hope it endures.

I saw Melvyn Bragg in his prime In Our Time in our time (with apologies to Pinter)

Alien: Earth getting rave reviews is it

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

One of the most fascinating interviews I've done. All hail Johnny Vegas. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/08/0...

One of the most fascinating interviews I've done. All hail Johnny Vegas. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/08/0...

Should the King of the Hill revival work? Nope. Does the King of the Hill revival work? Yep (with caveats). www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/king-of...

Should the King of the Hill revival work? Nope. Does the King of the Hill revival work? Yep (with caveats). www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/king-of...

What Jason said

Ah it's a lovely thing when the books that defined your early childhood also define your children's

Alien: Earth is a blast. I had a nice chat with my new pals Noah, Syd et al www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/07/2...

I can’t believe that tonight will be the last ever edition of the Tour de France highlights on @itvx.com. Another crown jewel of global sport lost to terrestrial TV. Thank you Gary Imlach and team for a wonderful show. Summers will not be the same again