Interestingly, the photos of him pre-fame in the book are captioned "Steve", his years of stardom are captioned "Cat", his post-conversion photos of non-music moments captioned "Yusuf" and photos of him *performing* post-conversion don't mention his name in the caption.

Incidentally, I've been referring to "Cat Stevens" in my skeets. I'm not deadnaming him -- for the last few years he's been using that name again as he's been reclaiming his past. While his legal name is now Yusuf Islam, his autobiography, for example, is credited to "Yusuf/Cat Stevens"

To quote Ed Miliband during his leadership wrt Mandelson "we all appreciate dignity in retirement"

(The kids are alright.)

Never connected this before as it's always, always been popular in the UK, but as Jim Henson's Labyrinth is kind of "our generation's" Wizard of Oz... It makes a cruel kind of sense that it was a big old flop on initial release only to become beloved over time.

It's just so *weird*. If she's being held back by the administration she'd brief. If she wanted a better job she'd try not to prove herself incompetent. It feels like there's a piece of information we're not privy to

don't really understand how this article alone hasn't shamed Nandy into, y'know, appearing

For people who ask me if Christopher Nolan intentionally homaged Batman ‘66 with the bomb scene:

Watched Dark Knight Rises with my 9yo. He found the ending far fetched so of course I showed him that it was a slightly higher budget version of this classic scene from Batman 66

Every once in a while I'm reminded of how spell-bindingly beautiful the visuals were in the Jodie Whittaker run of #DoctorWho.

Morrissey's dreadful new single as got me listening to his older stuff again and remembering how good it is. I miss loving him as much as I used to. I wish he wasn't such a prick.

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

isn’t it ‘disgraced former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi’?

[transition glasses fade to black]

I love Wanda Sykes for this. I have zero time for Gervais for the obvious reasons. The many, many obvious reasons.

The best bit in any Denzel Washington film is when he adds an “okay… alright” to a line of dialogue.

My version of this is that at my school it was common "knowledge" that the Harry Potter characters Dean Thomas and Hannah Abbott were in fact real people who had won a competition to be included as characters in the book. It's not remotely true, I have no idea where this came from or why.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThYcyWSp/ sharing from TikTok because I found this to be motivating

they are relying on big splashy social media shows to obscure the fact that there are a lot more of us than there are of them and the more people show up to tell them to fuck off the more hollow that will look

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

“We don’t make content. We make television and cinema.” The toast was “to resilience, to passion, to creativity.” /2

Donna Langley gave a rally-the-troops toast at a starry NBCU gathering a couple of nights ago. In context it was shade at various unnamed newcomers: “The future of the entertainment industry is going to be defined by us. … We got this. We are going to prevail…/1

Should have done the Smallville solution of "Chloe is Lois Lane's cousin" with Jess Bush, in retrospect.

Von Daniken was aliiiive? 😲

Elon Musk is producing revenge porn and child pornography at industrial scale. The FBI could just go to his house and arrest him.

Mystery of wolf-type dogs solved with DNA test

A lovely man. I was once very fortunate to sit and chat with him at a convention celebrity dinner thing. Superb raconteur, full of great stories. RIP and condolences to his family and friends.

Really sorry to hear loss of 2 actors, featured in #DoctorWho early in their careers. Tina Packer was Anne Travers in The Web of Fear. Also in the story was Derek Martin who was Mitchell in Image of the Fendahl. Does a great stunt in Ambassadors of Death, holding on by his fingertips over a weir.

I mostly associate Derek Martin with EastEnders than Who, but this is sad news. RIP, good sir.

RIP Tina Packer. I hadn’t seen her in anything other than Doctor Who, but her appearance as Anne Travers was one of the highlights of The Web of Fear. I’d have loved to have seen her become a regular. A precursor to Liz Shaw.

Right, there's renewed discourse about John Barrowman on GB, that seems to be focusing on: You see nudity in acting and showbusiness is "different" from a normal job. So, I went off on one, possibly daftly considering the time, but here's my early AM thoughts on why those are bad faith arguments.

i do wonder how on earth they're going to handle tourists. i'm assuming roughly, and with great unwarranted force

what’s made of brass and sounds like tom jones trombones

Guys, the Avengers runtime is a joke. That movie doesn't come out until Christmas, which means the CGI team won't even be assigned to start working on it until Thanksgiving weekend

A 50th anniversary repeat of Nuts In May on BBC Four, newly restored and broadcast in HD for the very first time. This is what I pay my licence fee for. Now get it out on fucking Blu-ray.

Belatedly watched Glass Onion which was a funny, deft and enjoyable murder mystery. Daniel Craig is having such a ball in this series but the whole cast were great. #KnivesOut

interesting that morgan’s taken “making the country a better place” off the table as an electoral strategy

This seems unwise when the Lib Dems and Greens are readily placed to attract Labour voters. GE2024 should be a warning sign.

This is the finest tradition of Kang. Fight his archnemesis: other Kangs.

David Bowie died ten years ago today so here is a photo of him in Japan looking cool as the current Berlin winter.

Kids are on X, because wrongly some parents allow their kids to go online unchecked or kids just lie and bypass any obstacles. Musk knows this and still wants them to see child abuse images because "free speech". He should be in prison like any child porn distributor. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Legendary Jessie reaction. #TheTraitors

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

"Never bathe in the same river twice" - Ecclestonius

I'm never going to watch the Russel Tovey fish show, because I find the whole premise boring, but I continue to be completely baffled as to how *the same person* made 'Doctor Who 2005 to 2010' as made 'Doctor Who 2023 to 2026'.

You couldn't make this today. Because the entire premise depends on the idea that modern police are less sexist, racist and corrupt than they were in the 70s. I think people would buy the coma time travel more now.