So that’s how Thomas Tuchel has solved England’s “how to fit the fair players in” problem…

Lol. With the inauthentic Wes Streeting, Labour would be at the “Igor Tudor out of his depth” stage…

Labour at the “replace Thomas Frank now or wait” stage…

I think we now have the answer

It's not a political party. It's an engine of enrichment for greedy millionaire white men. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Awww man… wrote my thesis on this artist. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

This is a wonderful listen. @alexpodyssey.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Fuck De Zerbi. Nope. No thanks #NoToDeZerbi

One day we’ll never hear from Nigel Farage ever again. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

It’s time to start fucking them up. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Don’t stop with Mandleson. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Movies about the FBI are going to be pretty different in the future, Clarice…

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Pure talent. Jeff Buckley Live in Chicago, BBC 4.

Climate crisis shhhmisis. We’re fine as long as Iceland never has any mosqui… oh. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Watched Amadeus at the @princecharlescinema.com last year… superb. “I am the patron saint of mediocrity. I absolve you all...”

Moviedrome was essential, often secret late night low volume viewing, resulting in many weary Monday mornings at school, but I know which education and the impact has lasted longest…

Ufff, what a record.

Well, here we go. Brace brace #adamcurtis www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Hugely unpopular chairman makes hugely unpopular decision to hugely swell his huge unpopularity…

BBQ cancelled. #EuropaLeagueFinal #Spurs

Spurs to go 4-0 down after just 3 minutes, fight back to 4-4 and then Lucas Moura runs on to the pitch to pass to Jota again. Watch.

Pinter’s film scripts are something else. The Quiller Memorandum is another great example. And The Servant, of course. Can’t wait to see this.

No TNT Sports. It’s not a boast. It’s a fact. Ange has always won a trophy in his second season. That is a fact. Spurs may well break Ange’s factually accurate record, but it’s still a fact. A fact. Not a boast.

I’m starting to think he doesn’t understand what tariffs are…

Fact-checking matters, America…

At around 20 minutes Robert Redford starts talking about his films ‘The Candidate’ and ‘All the Presidents Men’. Times have changed. And they’re worse.

There’s often great pathos in meaningful comedy. These, mostly weekly, gifts from Stewart Lee are increasingly sad. What to do… what to do…

Rachel, please listen to Louise: “I wonder what you were thinking, when things could still be changed, when science predicted the consequences of global warming with great certainty, when people who knew what they were talking about rang alarm bells all over the world” #WeTheHopeful wethehopeful.org

This Jeff Buckley documentary will be worth a watch. Tears at the ready.

A country that won’t protect its children can’t really be expected to protect its democracy, can it? Bad luck America.

The debate in the second half of this classic BBC TV review of nuclear warning ‘Threads’ is fascinating… both in its intelligent dissection, rarely seen nowadays, and how it perfectly illustrates how little has changed for those with political agendas and wilful denial-based stupidity…

To celebrate (or commiserate) BBC Radio 6music’s 1990s day, here’s a short chapter from my Brit Art and Britpop novel set in 1997 ‘King of the Bored Frontier’…

Feels pretty relevant at the moment considering all the inaction - my eco climate disaster satire Clean, from 2022… kssilkwood.wordpress.com/2022/02/21/c...

“You maniacs! You’re going to do it! Ah, damn you! Damn you all to hell!” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So I set myself a modest challenge to watch more films this year and hit 93! Some were rewatches but mostly I focused on never seen befores. Here’s my fav three in no particular order: Joan of Arc Amadeus Kanał

Farage, Musk and Candy say ‘cheese’ – now British democracy’s toast | Stewart Lee

My manager. Sterile, prescriptive, pragmatic percentage winning, or full bodied, blood pumping, adrenaline-riding football lust? Football lust EVERY TIME ✊🏼

This needs shutting down.

Football intelligence huh? #TOTCHE

I might relax if Spurs are 5-0 up in the 96th minute…

I wrote this story about plastic pollution a couple of years ago, and since then I’ve been trying to write about climate disaster but it’s too sad. Maybe one day soon, as a warning, I’ll finish that story, probably when it’s much, much too late – which would be very on message…