Referee Anthony Taylor absolutely exudes disgraced police officer.

"They say that when a bomb goes off, you feel it" - there it is, I think we've found the dumbest podcast intro of all time.

If only I lived in neolithic times!

This staged dinner party scene on Traitors is always so weird - it's like nobody can be accepted as a full human being until they've revealed a harrowing piece of trauma about themselves.

Please just once do a Traitors version of a Limp Bizkit song.

This Traitors season is starting to feel like just ridicule of how clueless they all are.

Roxy maybe the worst faithful of all time?

I have yet to see a terribly mangled political reference to The Traitors in response to the latest UK politics news, but I know they're out there, and I know how bad they are, cousins to similar football references.

Absolutely breezing dry January so far, only notable effects are I'm drinking about two litres of tea every day and the usual slightly increased interest in sugar.

This ad just came up on Instagram, with fiddley music playing. I assume it only appears for people in London.

I see Robbie Williams has made an album called "Britpop".

I know this isn't possible but it'd be good if The Traitors banned anyone "revealing" their career, the other contestants they're related to, and any stupid "training" they claim to have done.

Kill Jessie?

Roxy and Ellie are like they're playing the game based on that WW2 handbook of how to disrupt and confuse if you're working with the enemy undercover. #thetraitors

Streaming platforms really need a big section labelled "stupid bullshit to put on while cooking on a weeknight"

Reading American Psycho at the moment, for the first time, as I'm generally reading a lot of satire for my own writing. It's kind of wild how much of it feels of the current moment, the male conversations about women, the repeated worship of Trump, etc. Also language of food as status symbol.

I love this line that Badenock reckoned Jenrich was planning to defect "in the most damaging way", like what would that be? Ripping off his suit in parliament to reveal a Reform t-shirt underneath?

Some potentially good writing news this morning, after a lot of slogging all winter 🙏🏻

"Before you banish me, know that I have spent the last three months reading Agatha Christie novels, and I went for a pint with a writer from The Bill's cousin"

Bit of a Howard Dean moment for Harriet #TheTraitors

Right, time to see if Eoin McLove's big Traitors gambit pays off.

Peter Bradshaw has a Richard E Grant Star Wars premiere moment at the new 28 Years Later.

My nephew was at a festival a year or two ago and he got asked to do some modelling for a fairly big brand. He could not be less interested in the fashion world but it's a good earner for a student. Absolutely hilarious as he's like "today they put a ginger wig on me and I had to wear a plastic bag"

Started making soda bread a few months ago, not sure I'll ever bother with more complicated breads but this is so easy and nicer than any bread I can buy near me.

Got a sort of running joke with my nephew that every time he stays we watch a documentary or drama about opioids. He's staying tonight and we opened iPlayer and sure enough, India's Opioid Kings was there, perfect for our shared interest.

Nicky Butt?

This BBC documentary about a false guru scamming the great and good of Hampstead is the kind of thing I find fascinating. Just the combo of wealth, fashionable beliefs, and religion-shaped hole in hearts.

"I bought Playboy for the articles!"

Was going to go to see Sentimental Value today but watched the trailer and now feel less sure.

What's going on with that bloke in the Guardian who rates like supermarket food staples every week and gives 90% of them 4/5 or 5/5? The others all just get 3/5. This is important.

Enjoyed Cries and Whispers (1972).

What a game, good God.

Did Matthew Carley do a bong hit before this match?

Still sick but on the plus side I got a new teapot, 2026 is up and running!

John Williams (not that one, and not the other one either) plays the music of Agustin Barrios Mangore... what an amazing album! Heard it on Night Tracks this week.

The way The Traitors is going this season it'll prob end with the reveal that Claudia Winkleman is Cressida Dick.

Matthew in the church, perhaps cos of the jumper and his incongruous mien, reminds me of Father Dougal's face appearing in Father Ted's flashback montage, terrified and confused. #TheTraitors

Can't really see how being able to ask the traitors questions they'll just take their time and lie about helps anybody but the traitors.

Not a huge Fiona fan but Rachel is the pits.

The Traitors jeeps approaching a field, in the field is a person wearing an old bedsheet with two eyeholes cut into it. "OH MY GOD...." "OH NOOOO" "WHAT ON EARTH..."

Surprisingly good performance by Liverpool. A few inches away from winning it. I'd be worried another title will drift away if I was an Arsenal fan.

This is a bizarre football match. Tranquilising stuff.

Arteta's sideline gesticulations are astonishingly hammy. Like there's absolutely no way he does that stuff if he isn't on camera.

Gary Neville absolutely loves when an away team "quietens the crowd down"

Love this album, like if Motorbass were German.

Thucydides on speeches in the assembly/parliament. Some things really don't change.

How can it be this specific? Sounds like a physical race rather than just waiting on a meeting to say this guy has the job.

Think I'm emerging from chest infection but now have to stop myself from exercising too soon and fucking it up. Weird January, my mind feels very refreshed and I'm enthusiastic about work and other things, but body been the opposite. Having chronic illness for years really allows you to split them.

I get that people enjoy being traitors but in past seasons I feel like it was because they enjoy mischievously playing a fun game, whereas in this one I feel like at least two of them just enjoy having power and control over others.

Bit Tesco Halloween costume isn't it, the cultist garb in The Traitors? Think they need to change it up each year, maybe go more psychological, contestants' relatives faces as masks on horses bodies, that kind of thing.