Later, King Charles and Camilla try the luge in Bruges.

Introducing my new identity, crime writer Amelia Hope. So proud to be part of this shortlist thanks to the Caledonia Novel Award and if you like you can read the first 10 pages of my first book The Dirty Work here: thecaledonianovelaward.com/2026-winner-...

Excited to sneak that the Raising Films residency is back this year... more details coming soon... @raisingfilms.bsky.social

A few years ago I got to direct an amazing cast led by Glenda Jackson in a radio adaptation of Alexander Mackendrick’s screenplay of this historic assassination. You can listen to it now on Audible. www.audible.co.uk/pd/Unmade-Mo...

Just learnt about Richard Wawro on #AntiquesRoadshow and will immediately be finding out more about him. Just incredible work. Could a Scottish gallery please organise a retrospective? Thank you!

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Please will someone write a story about the impact of the Beatles movies on the rest of the independent British film sector? Hottest British actors tied up for months and months and months. Everyone having to schedule around them.

A bit late posting this because every time I look at it I pass out or go temporarily blind. I think we can all agree the whole phenomenon has now peaked and nobody ever needs to walk a red carpet again.

On the hunt for a bit of joy this week when the wonderful news that I have been shortlisted for the #CaledoniaNovelAward for my first attempt at writing a book! Over the moon doesn't even begin... thecaledonianovelaward.com/2026-award/

We've lost the great Allan Massie. An absolute giant of Scottish literature and journalism, and an inspirational, kind and generous man, too. I think his son @alexmassie.bsky.social is only sporadically on Bluesky, but he has written a beautiful obituary. alexmassie.substack.com/p/allan-mass...

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.” This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵 www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Disney Exec Reminds Toddler Only IP Goes On Fridge https://theonion.com/disney-exec-reminds-toddler-only-ip-goes-on-fridge/

Tmw is my last day at Filmmaker, and it’s also the last day for our estimable director of editorial operations Vadim Rizov, who has been a valued partner for 11 of my 33 years. Here, he curates some of his best work that we’ve had the privilege of publishing. filmmakermagazine.com/132962-vadim...

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

Seems right

I love this film. Jealous of New Yorkers who get to see this.

How I will be getting through Christmas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yG...

My brilliant husband's trilogy of books, the latest of which (The Diary of Lies) is on Airmail and The FT's books of the year lists. Available at all good bookstores... guardianbookshop.com/the-diary-of...

I rewatched when Harry met Sally last night. I saw it so many times when it first came out as a young teen and wondered if, when I started having sex, someone would make me meow. Thank you for the high bar, Mr Reiner.

Anne Coates, Ozu and Dick Van Dyke sharing a birthday - 13 December turns out to be a blessed day for cinema.

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

John Krasinski told this story about being at some party and ripping apart some new “artsy” (his word) movie and PTA took him aside and was like “what are you doing man? We’ve gotta support each other, or we’re just giving them reasons not to make the stuff we want.”

This is absolutely real. The current HBO Max version of this "Mad Men" episode "remastered for 4K" did not include an updated visual effects shot, which originally painted out the crew and equipment. Not just that, the HBO Max episode titles/order is jumbled for s01.

Not sure she had the lead role in her penultimate year primary nativity either, as claimed. Yes she was Mary but that year the narrator had more lines and thus was quite clearly the lead, not Reeves.

MY FIRST INTERNATIONAL BYLINE is out today in @bristol247.bsky.social with @zarananu.bsky.social! We discuss U.K. equal pay day, how #TheDoubleTax shows up for Black women in the UK, and why caregiving is a an economic crisis OR economic opportunity in waiting. #blacksky #uk

Oooh, I've just heard my first novel has been longlisted for something - now to finish it so they can read the whole thing!

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Hi @creativescots.bsky.social. please can you update your website with the correct information about script development and funds for emerging talent in Scotland? The information is now years out of date.

YES

Looking for stories of outageous Scottish footballing success? Asif Kapadia’s superdoc pulls together the inspirational footage required to help soccer King Kenny Dalglish tell his story in his own famously terse and unpretentious words, streaming now in the UK 4/5 film-authority.com/2025/11/19/k...

The kicker. Oh my god. (Read to the end. Trust me. You have to read all the way to the end.) www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

What a NIGHT for Scottish football. Electric. Three extraordinary goals.

Going in for number six, this time on 70mm @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social

Petition to stop the closure of Film Studies at the University of Leicester - please sign! c.org/6GJL5fBct8

Is it cute for a 49 year old woman to wear those pimple stickers? Wondering if they come in more age appropriate designs, maybe Gisela Graham or Toast could design some. Thoughts on this billion dollar menopause business idea.

celebrities walking pokémon instead of their dogs: thread

Ed Berger seems to be missing off this list.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

deserve its own post

My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com. Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...

"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."

The next screen grab on this thread is perfect.

As the light starts to fade and the pumpkins are lit we prepare for the guising children of the neighbourhood to knock on the door and perform for their sweets. I am hoping for lots of K-Pop Demon Hunter songs tonight, but also expect the (sadly) now regular tradition of Donald Trumpkin gags too.

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?