Nice cheeseboard! Remind me to ask you who the writer was next time we meet.

I was grumbling this morning because I had to work on something for next week. But the "work" was watching Sandra Hueller in Markus Schleinzer's film Rose and it turned out to be nothing like work at all. Excellent film...and she's wonderful in it.

Caught up with Obsession last night. Smartly done horror touching on all kinds of nerves... sexual consent, male terror of intimacy, the nature of love. And not TOO scary. I didn't have to hide behind my wife once.

Nailed it. 🔨

⚡️ A woman in Saratov, Russia, demanded a local café remove a figure of Dobby from its window, claiming it resembled Vladimir Putin.

Exactly that. If you’d never seen one before you’d say “What the FUCK is that! It’s HUUGE!!”

Why bother? Because partisan indifference to inconvenient facts is what got us into this mess in the first place. And the embroidery simply gives his apologists a place to hide.

Not sure why I bother, but most accounts of Trump’s blatherings about Iran taking out LA and San Diego are misleading. Pretty clear from the video that “it’s a small price to pay” is a call back to his use of that term earlier in reference to fuel prices and the war.

True. But he was a public figure of some notoriety. It would be a little odd NOT to cover his death. There’s quite a lot of story to tell there.

Reminded of the headline we ran on the review of Jeffrey Archer’s first play after coming out of prison for perjury: “Archer’s back — with blemishes”. (Credit to Mark Lawson for that one).

DEFINITELY worth disinterring. (And I don’t think it quite worked.) One of those films that has you feeling two contradictory things about Marmite.

Brilliant at lacemaking, a little unsound on how parachutes work.

Saw Martin McDonagh's Wild Horse Nine last night. Very enjoyable. And now Easter Island is off the bucket list.

Happy Birthday Marsden. Please visit for a complimentary pastry* *Croissant only. Offer ends 8.40 am.

Or I’ll just enjoy living with it more…

Thank you. The cough behaved well while we were on air.

Cold packing its things to leave, reasonably politely. But I think I’m going to have to get the bailiffs for the cough.