Surely the all time Star Wars Hot Take: "To all intents and purposes, Darth Vader is not in Star Wars."

Now do Stringer Bell! The Wire is nearly sixty hours long, and I reckon Idris Elba is on screen for about an hour of it

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Surely one member of your audience escaped?

Finding this kind of thing out is no longer my job, but even at a distance, that day of Cabinet appointments feels like something went horribly wrong early on, and they were madly sticking names to the board to fix it.

I think there's a lot to be said for writing the final page early on. It means you know where you're going.

You know who'd be ideal for a government department where your job is to pretend that everything's fine and you have nothing to do...

It's a shame there's no government department focused on the arts, where a man who's written several books could really get stuck in.

Been to see the four-hour Elon Musk film. Definitely something a little rum about that chap.

David Niven shares a joke with Gregory Peck and Stanley Baker on the set of ‘The Guns Of Navarone’ as he shows them his outfit for Royal Ascot in 1961.

As a parent of now 20 and 17 year olds, I definitely felt they ought to have seen it simply to understand the discourse.

Enjoying this mega-ep. One data point: occasionally I will ask one of my classes of mostly American 18-22 year olds whether they have seen the original Star Wars. In every class I’ve asked yet there’s been at least one person who hasn’t. (They always know the cultural references though).

As we approached 3am I, for one, was delighted that my Licence Fee had not been spent on a paid Zoom account.

Anonymous sources are bad, says an anonymous source.

I'm not sure, that doesn't sound like the sort of thing Kemi would do.

I can't remember: when Thatcher wrote The Right Approach in 1976, did she also do this?

Made this today, in the bath, just in time for the new Celebrity Traitors episode.

This was a ton of fun to record!