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TV writer, ‘BLOOD’, ‘HOLLINGTON DRIVE’, THE LAST KINGDOM’, ‘MEDICI’, other things you’ve not seen. They gave me a Writers Guild Award once. Mostly post about Arsenal.
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This game has absolutely sucked and Arsenal might lose (probably will) but reminder will be in second no matter what and CL round of 16 despite the literal front three all being out, White missing 12 weeks and Ødegaard/Saka missing almost half the league to date. Madness

I take it back

#Andor has so many great moments, but this is where it peaked for me. The writing. The impassioned delivery. The slow build of a stirring score. All of it beautifully coalesces here. Andor isn't just the best of #StarWars. It's great (and relevant) art, period. Bring on season 2.

I feel like Myles Lewis Skelly doesn’t let AWB get that cross off.

The merino no9 thing is nuts

A Thousand Blows, on Disney+, is absolutely fantastic and worth your time.

Amazon bought Bond with one click How many billions did it cost to secure this climbdown

So... Amazon controls James Bond now. This should be interesting in a car wreck kind of way. One of the reasons for its longevity was the producers' willingness to back off and let it lay fallow for a bit to regroup. (Like figuring out who to handle the end of the Cold War with a 1989-1996 break.)

the youth have zero imagination, it's called "gathering under an abandoned bridge in the woods in the dark with BLLs and someone's shitty bluetooth speaker" www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

I’d like to thank the academy

Genuinely on the look out for sightings of Conservatives - MPs, present or past, commentators - who are as outspoken in their solidarity with Ukraine today as they were when doing so carried no potential penalty in getting on the wrong side of Maga.

It's important to understand that Trump: 1. Means everything he says 2. Is always lying 3. Can change his mind Many seem to think that because he's lying, there must be a rational explanation/aim, and this is proven if he pivots But the truth is that all of these things are happening at once

This is spot on. Too many people think they're being clever by second guessing Trump. "He's trolling, it's a tactic". No. All of his actions are predictable if you just believe him.

Delighted to have Lizzie writing for London Centric on the housing conditions in flats owned by billionaire London landlord Asif Aziz, of West End and Prince Charles Cinema fame: www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

If you walk along a train and glance at people's phones you get a vague idea of what apps people are wasting their lives on.... a few years ago you'd see lots of news apps in there, or word-heavy social feeds.... now based on recent journeys its just endless vertical video. (And Candy Crush, still.)

Follow the money *stares suspiciously at Air Crash Investigation*

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

A new show added to the list today.

It’s is _not_ cute. Planes only lie on their backs when they’re extremely distressed

Having my industry destroyed just as I hit middle age: what a vibe

He should have a baddie on his arm 😞

The Times is absolutely determined to shit all over the GLP-1 drugs. Sure, they're not for everyone, but they are absolute gamechangers for many, and I don't understand the relentless negativity about them

Good to see so many wise replies to this: that people hate Ozempic because they think being fat is a moral sin and that the solution to it should be for the sinning fatties to be punished.

They had their own wall! A little Bafta wall!

i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

Very very important. Thank goodness it's not behind a paywall in a mad newspaper.

It sounds like he’s ripped off Margin Call which is kind of a fantastic meta text in a script about AI

The PL was criticised for "sleight of hand" but some left aghast at “a foreign state potentially blowing up an English institution” Others critical of the very notion of APTs when you're dealing with blurred lines of a state - and how it should be equity www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

The punishment doesn’t fit the crime in Britain. That’s why our jails are overflowing | Samira Shackle

Comics guys are like ‘x movie was fun. Sure it wasn’t ‘another shit movie’ levels of brilliant, but it was fun. And that’s enough for me’, and it’s the gravest condemnation you can see for a film.

As a Brit you’ll just be on here posting about a coffee shop and you’ll scroll and some American will be like ‘are you prepared? It’s time. History will remember this moment’, and you’ll be like… what? What happened?

Zelensky on Meet the Press: “We believe that Putin will wage war against NATO. What is he waiting for? Any weakening of NATO by for instance, a policy of the United States.”

Liverpool’s players run into the box

Me watching Rings of Power when Nenya’s carat value does not reflect Tolkien’s true intentions

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administration to relinquish half of the country’s mineral resources in exchange for U.S. support, according to people with knowledge of the talks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

This is honestly like Ides Of March winning best picture. Like… good for them. It’s fun. It’s a classic Robert Harris, fun twisty romp. But wow. What a duff year.

Tv drama feminism is getting some hot skinny girly to deliver a rousing political speech in a tight t shirt

I’m going to murder whoever wrote that Pepto Bismal jingle

Honestly… slay

One day in Bangkok. Not crazy about huge busy tiktok sites (there are popular coffee shops which sound like hell for instance) or tourist attractions. Any recommendations? Personal favourites rather than top 5 tourist lists.

Manchester United. 15th in the Premier League. Rotting like that cucumber you forgot at the bottom of the fridge. Superb.