Last night’s Drag Race UK was the perfect chaser to Celebrity Traitors. A great Snatch Game, a fabulous Christmassy runway, good lip sync, and the queen who went home was totally good natured about it and happy she’d done her best. Total joy all round!

So happy for Alan and his wonderful cake 🥹

What with this, the Drag Race Christmas runway, and the sandwich verdict, it’s been a really good evening

If you’ve switched off to recover I HUGELY recommend switching over to BBC Two for Uncloaked and the reactions of all the rest of the cast for that finale which are just glorious #CelebrityTraitors

God this whole series is so wholesome with the money taken out (or rather, everyone getting paid). The prospect of the shifty round tables and horrified finale in the civilian one is feeling a bit off now #CelebrityTraitors

Absolute poetry #CelebrityTraitors

Only Alan could win, upset the faithful, and then immediately have them comforting him for being so upset, he is a national hero #CelebrityTraitors

I can't believe I'm saying this: Alan Carr is the best traitor of all time. #CelebrityTraitors

What a Carr-ve up #CelebrityTraitors

And so the Taskmaster becomes the apprentice #CelebrityTraitors

I’ve never felt more resentful for doing GCSE History #CelebrityTraitors

Oh my God I actually SCREAMED. The dog woke up. My husband went “NO NO NO” and put his hands over his eyes. #CelebrityTraitors

WTFFFFFF #CelebrityTraitors

This last round table is too tense for Sybil, possibly due to having all that open flame on such a nice wooden table #CelebrityTraitors

OooooooOOOOOOOoooooooohhh! #CelebrityTraitors

Glorious hair by Head and Shoulders #CelebrityTraitors

I should have seen it coming from Taskmaster but even so, I did NOT envisage Nick upstaging Alan on the jazzy suit front #CelebrityTraitors

David looks *so* thrillingly happy running in his vest and gilet! I bet you don’t get that kind of fresh air in the London Library. #CelebrityTraitors

The producers really saw Paddington 2 and thought, “Ooh, we could do that you know.” #CelebrityTraitors

Have we established exactly how Claudia’s team get her hair so glossy? Is it Colour Wow or has a pact with the devil happened? #CelebrityTraitors

I feel really sorry for David trying to promote his new book on Radio 4 this morning. The good thing is, he’d also be a wonderful perfume advert narrator. #CelebrityTraitors

Can LEGO release a model kit of the UK TRAITORS castle please. Because fuck me, that place is gorgeous.

Alan screaming “HURRY UP YOU DICKHEADS” in an inspirational montage of his time in the castle is a moment that should win a BAFTA #CelebrityTraitors

Right, a temporary pause from Alan Carr on Drag Race UK to go over to Alan Carr on Celebrity Traitors. Just as it should be thank you the BBC.

What a roll call for Snatch Game: Zoe Wanamaker-as-Cassandra, Matt Lucas-as-Precious (“more diverse roles for white actors!”) and my favourite, Chair. V excited for the American audience’s reaction. #DragRaceUK

The absolute joy of seeing Ru Paul trying to comprehend Jaffa Cakes by being told about them only. “No.” #DragRaceUK

Absolutely lovely Jilly Cooper anecdote in this week's Popbitch (which is, as ever, very worth reading, not least for the Frank Skinner story) popbitch.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

I always love it when one of Gemma's posts comes into my feed

All joking aside, undiagnosed ADHD is a fucking nightmare. With women carrying the can on their children's EHCPs, being misdiagnosed (endlessly) by GPs, and missed altogether in their own childhoods, adult assessment is often the only spot. And that's being taken away too.

I've heard "manhunt" so many times on the news today that it's lost all meaning, and now whenever I hear it, I think of the 1970s Jaws rip-off board game MAN-EATER, the one where you either played a shark or a swimmer trying to come back with all your limbs. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/59...

My mother's birthday was the other week and my uncle - who took up whittling over lockdown - gave her this brilliant guy. I love it so much

THIS IS SO GOOD

Happy pub day to @ollyrichards.bsky.social whose first book is out! Olly was my favourite writer at Empire for years before I even met him, and he did The Rest is Entertainment’s Oscars special last week. If you love Tim Burton, you will adore this book. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tim-...

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.

See?! lol NYT is trying to be a cow about it but the babies got out there, saw people & parts of the city they’d never seen before … That scavenger hunt sealed it. You have to gameify everything nowadays bsky.app/profile/jake...

This will seem shallow and maybe it is but do you know how many romance connections happened via canvassing & fun community events? Mamdani got The Performative Boyfriend laid lol I look forward to the personal essays 😅

Do not Ban The Bangily Bang.

Not to be confused with @chrishewitt.bsky.social's Bangily Bang, this is me on why it is time to Ban The Bang.

This is the kind of thing which makes me think better things are possible.

The flip side of this is the male author who was asked about his writing routine, and who talked about how much he loved the feeling that he could close his door and then “the day is completely yours” to focus on writing. He had, at the time, two young children… and, of course, a wife

I remember reading H is for Hawk by @hjm.bsky.social in 2015 and being utterly electrified by it. Just the most extraordinary book: an account of becoming that stayed with me. Anyway, I cannot wait to see the film when it comes out in January. Here's the new trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ29...

Watched Mamdani’s speech - well done those writers - and oh! The feeling of watching someone on the left ACTIVELY AND WARMLY including immigrants, trans people, Muslims, Jews, poor people, everyone, (“yes - aunties!”) rather than holding them at a distance in case it worries Reform voters 🙄

Got one now tho

The what happened next bit of Bake Off is so wholesome. Every time another series ends I want to enter just to be a part of it, even though I can only bake three things, two of which are the same cake just with one extra layer. #GBBO

I cannot take the loveliness of Toby and Iain on the carousel. If Momdani some how doesn’t win, I will be watching this on repeat while sobbing (same if he does win tbh) #GBBO

Breaking: finalists’ perfect hump found on dog’s head #GBBO

What a time for Madeleines to make an appearance #GBBO

Freelancers don’t get CPD from their employers and clients, so we need to invest in ourselves. I am really looking forward to running a Many Hats workshop for @eleanorturney.co.uk in December! There are £10 and half-price places available so see if there's a workshop for you: www.many-hats.org

Oh, Kemi Badenoch saying it pays not to be in work, is it? I haven't heard that phrase trotted out since all the single-parent slander and Channel 4 progs of the 90s and 2000s.

Teen Vogue and their incredible reporters have been the bar for a bunch of years... Their reporting was the frontline of holding back fascism and protecting all of us. Today is a dark day. (And personally, Lex and the other Teen Vogue reporters are just awesome people.)