We were in Parliament twice this week, including for the launch of a new Broadcasting, Entertainment and Arts Unions All Party Parliamentary Group Our President Jack Thorne spoke about copyright + AI, access to the arts + the importance of investing in creators writersguild.org.uk/wggb-keeps-t...

They’re right. 12 Angry Men is a masterpiece.

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'd love a nomination to The Grey List by anyone who read BLOOD DRIVE: After a domestic abuse survivor marries a small-town doctor, she suspects her stepson is a vampire preying on children, including her hemophiliac daughter. THE LOST BOYS meets THE STEPFATHER.

“Almost.” 🧐

Fancy a recap to see how much outreach your #BlueSky account has had during 2025? This was a neat bit of fun. Only takes a couple of minutes to do. Check out anisota.net/harvest to see much more detailed analysis. Can’t imagine why #ScriptSkyUK and #ScriptSky have featured so heavily. 😉

If your name is Jane and you’re a governess at place called Thornfield Hall, your boss is dressing up as a fortune teller to try and trick you into revealing if you like him or not. Just thought you should know…

Ilhan Omar rose from a single parent immigrant family where her dad drove a taxi to her current position. Trump is the kid of a racist wealthy slum landlord who headed multiple failed businesses. One of these people is the example of failed ambition and it's not her. What a racist piece of shit.

This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other. There's no such thing as useless education.

Wonderful anecdote about the influence Tom Stoppard had way beyond theatre and film, though that in itself was seismic. Arts/Humanities don’t only echo back at us about the human condition; at their finest they make us think, inspire us to innovate, question and even invent. Step aside AI!

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

My mental health declined pretty badly last wk but some of you asked for more photos like the hunt-the-tiny-owl one I made & I wanted to try to make an advent calendar so:some lovely things that fell off trees & this time a tiny deer stag to find. Do let me know if you enjoy this & I'll make more 🦌

Many congratulations on the win. Just when you think you couldn’t love Guillermo del Toro (@realgdt.bsky.social) any more, he goes and smashes that ceiling even harder. He’s on the side of artists, backing all the creative people it takes to make cracking movies. Screw AI. #FilmSky

As we ease into December with the upcoming festivities closely upon us, I can’t help thinking the Icelandic people have a delightful idea about how we to spend Christmas Eve. Frankly, I would happily adopt gifting and receiving a book, going to bed to read and eat chocolate. #Booksky #Jolabokaflod

Will be tuning in. Hoping the BBC will also show ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,’ starring Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, and hopefully ‘Shakespeare in Love,’ too. Yes, I know. I’m greedy. Never satisfied. Would be a fitting tribute though to the great man himself.

Tom Stoppard special BBC Front Row tonight. Emma Fielding, who was in the original Arcadia, Michael Billington and biographer Hermione Lee among the guests. 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Look at this! For the first time since it was found, partially excavated and dispersed in the 1950s, someone has digitally reconstructed the 6th century mosaic from Qasr el-Lebia in Cyrenacia, Libya. 😮🤯 #MosaicMonday

Listening to Last Christmas because it is an all-time banger and George didn't die on Christmas Day for you to disrespect his memory by participating in Whamageddon

I got into the car on Thursday (where the radio is on Smooth) and Last Christmas was just starting and it felt SO JOYOUS. Also, if you didn't watch it last year I can't recommend the documentary enough, he was *so* loved. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

At this precise moment all the living novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets, musicians and artists are crying … deeply crying - crocodile tears at the possible demise of systems that have plagiarised their hard work. God, won’t someone think of the chatbots? Another writer sniggers.

Hey, looks like there's an easy way to kill pretty much all this off; Just Say No!

There's a really great breakdown of his (uncredited) rewrite work on Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade - well worth checking out: creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

Genuinely well worth your time, particularly if you’re into #screenwriting. Notable that any changes Tom Stoppard makes enables the audience to focus on what drives Indy, the relationship between him and his father, building the tension/risks and the ultimate payback. #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky

Very nice to see! And what a bargain! And, yes, I will be reading it to you!

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share! Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...

Just a heads up with all the Christmas markets and fairs on at the moment - if you see art or art-based pieces for sale, ask who the artist is, because the amount of people deceptively slapping "made locally" on pieces locally farted out by their computer and a genAI prompt is getting depressing

Genuinely well worth your time, particularly if you’re into #screenwriting. Notable that any changes Tom Stoppard makes enables the audience to focus on what drives Indy, the relationship between him and his father, building the tension/risks and the ultimate payback. #ScriptSkyUK #ScriptSky

Nine years ago Mike Fitzgerald wrote up an extraordinarily fascinating breakdown of the differences between the Tom Stoppard shooting script and the original Jeffrey Boam draft of Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. It's well worth your time: www.creativescreenwriting.com/indiana-jone...

Sunday sunrise from Glastonbury Tor. It was a crisp and sunny start to the day. A perfect Winters morning as we leave November and head into December tomorrow.

These 4 bits of dialogue, one comic monologue, one serious monologue, and two back and forths, all on the same subject - mortality - immaculate writing

Have been following these spirited nuns story for a while now. Frankly I would me amazed if someone hasn’t already approached them about making their story into a film. Hell, I’d love to write myself. Love ‘em!

The Observer: Tom Stoppard 1937-2025 #TomorrowsPapersToday

As a tiny tribute to the immense and remarkable work of playwright/screenwriter, Tom Stoppard, here’s Benedict Cumberbatch and Kobna Holbrook-Smith in the eponymous roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, respectively. Fantastic scene. Beautiful, witty writing. youtu.be/xDZ0ynoouQQ?...

‘Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.’ - The Player, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead Words to live by, at least until your final exit.

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

Only just heard the very sad news about Tom Stoppard’s passing. He was an incredible playwright and screenwriter. ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ immediately spring to mind, of course, but also loved ‘Rock ‘n Roll’ and ‘Arcadia.’ What a legacy of brilliant work he’s left in his wake.

Signed! We’re only a few thousand from reaching the required 100,000 signatures to nudge our govt into holding a public inquiry into political interference from Putin’s Russia. This is essential in order to protect our future sovereignty, freedoms and democracy. Please sign. 👇

Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Not a robot

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Fallow deer Stoats and weasels Barn owl Fox Hare Do I get bonus points for otters, dragonflies and a kingfisher?

Does it strike anyone as weird that we have a ratings board that counts the number of times a movie says fuck or shows a boob and decides who is allowed to see it, and yet GenAI was dropped on the entire with no restrictions, no age verification, no checks, no regulation whatsoever?

Petty and ignorant. Guess we shouldn’t expect anything less from them by now.

Ever thought those screenwriting books all seemed a bit... the same? Here's why! #screenwiting #Scriptsky #UKscriptsky

IMPORTANT: When transporting a giant puffball mushroom you have recently foraged, it is absolutely crucial that you ensure the mushroom is firmly strapped into the passenger seat of your car to guard against sharp braking and potential whiplash

Cannot fathom for the life of my why anyone who engages in creative activities would want to use AI. It’s the very antithesis of being creative. Takes all the fun away from creating engaging stories, characters and plots. A computer cannot possibly comprehend the complexities of being a human.

When something uses "AI" in any form it makes me immediately less confident about (and interested in, and appreciative of) anything else they've done. They've already surrendered at least some of their own intention and decision-making to a probabilistic algorithm, and so are less interesting to me.

All the editor-in-chief seems to want to do on these colder days is snuggle up on me. With or without a heated throw on. Not complaining as he’s brilliant at snuggling the most openly affectionate cat we’ve ever had. It’s just when you’re trying to write… “Yes, you’re the most handsome boy.”

"You seem happier" Thanks, I deleted all my emails and went to look at birds instead.

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits: