Utterly distraught at my decision to wake up from my nap and check the Spurs score

Still trying to recover £3k from EasyJet for flights they cancelled and then ghosted me for 6 months about Tempted to try this approach…

Italian commentator

You get the feeling Daniel Craig is much happier doing these than Bond boxd.it/drTN1p

We don’t talk enough about the greatest wedding scene ever filmed 🎥

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

"The pollster Peter Kellner has calculated that if the referendum were rerun today, instead of a leave win by 1.3m votes, remain would win by 8m. There’s no historic parallel for the injustice of that"

20 years occupying Afghanistan wasn’t enough to break the Taliban who are now stronger than ever, but sure the Iranian regime would surrender in a week and let DJT pick its leader. What were these people thinking.

Terrific essay on inter-generational fairness from John Lanchester, that brings up some of the discomforts of the past but still broadly accepts the problems now faced. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

I quite enjoyed that Grand Prix New regulations adding a bit of chaos

History lesson. Our once great ally didn't come to our aid until 1917. Our once great ally didn't come to our aid again until 1941.

Today's 40 points is the highest losing score in the six nations

Bloody hell Scotland are going to win this at a canter #6nations

That's the best try I have ever seen.

Rhys Carre just scored the dream try of every stoutly built Welshman everywhere* *well at least this one What a run! #walvsire #walire #6nations

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

World Book Day should be a Friday

The kids are all grown I’m the only one in fancy dress this World Book Day Feels like the end of an era

I suspect @raskin.house.gov will enter the history books as one of the few heroes of America's Trump era.

You only need a quick glance at some of the replies here to understand why spectrum marginalises profoundly autistic people like my son None of which is to denigrate the struggles of others but ASD has become so broad as to cease being a useful diagnostic criteria

One of the world’s leading authorities on autism - very important read: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

This is a really interesting article but my main feeling reading it was Finally The idea of autism being a spectrum has been actively harmful to people with profound autism like my son

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

I hope he comes back for a week as a contestant at some point Show won’t be the same without him

In the movie Signs it is revealed that the aliens who invaded earth, a planet that is 70% water, where water rains from the sky and lingers in the very air itself, are allergic to water. Something they apparently didn't consider before landing. Anyway, Iran sure does have a lot of drones, huh?

youtu.be/7fyufPkXLbs?... I will confess I didn’t really get the album but this is one hell of a performance Might need to give it another go

At an offers holder day at Queens Belfast with the middle child Again struck by how much richer (in every sense) the university experience seems than 25 years ago

Rudderless #FridayFive 1. Lost. Frank Ocean 2. Helpless. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young 3.Pointless. Peter Capaldi 4. Oblivious. Aztec Camera 5. Lost Weekend. Lloyd Cole.

I'll play... 1. Missing - Everything but the Girl 2. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 3. Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan 4. Boys of Summer - Don Henley 5. Into My Arms - Nick Cave #FridayFive #Longing

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Fantastic interview. Everyone should read it:

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

On the eve of the White paper I think this captures perfectly the complexity of the mess we’re in and how the way out has to be in transforming capacity We’ll see what tomorrow brings… I’m not that hopeful

I loved, loved, loved this Who knew Tim Key had such a heartbreakingly subtle performance in him boxd.it/dgiwNN

Spot the foul (Difficulty: VAR)

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Well watching Wales lose like lions is preferable to watching them slaughtered like lambs #6nations #WalScot

At the risk of becoming a tedious, middle aged gym-dad I’ve just started using a creatine supplement and bloody hell…!

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

It’s the 140th anniversary of the birth of Peter Freuchen, anthropologist, arctic explorer, writer, WWII resistance fighter, quiz show contestant, film star, friend of Mae West, fucking enormous geezer, and maker of tools from his own frozen excrement... 🧵

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Stop what you’re doing Ski Cross is on My favourite event of the #winterolympics

The worst part about getting older is the number of books and movies and games and shows you want to enjoy never diminishes but your ability to not pass out on the couch at 7pm does.

We’re now reaching the point in the half term where I realise the overlap of lots-of-work-to-do and wall-to-wall-Olympic-sport is reaching its depressingly inevitable conclusion

"Why did you do this to me? For what reason? What is the charge? Trading secrets? Trading succulent state secrets?"