Surely you now need to send a second, equally long De Gaulle voicenote

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

Yeah, not sure how Julian Barnes made that list

Devil's advocate: we'd all be better off if he'd been quicker to learn that sometimes it's possible to jettison self-denying promises if they turn out to box one in

Too easy. "Women's bathrooms, just like the West Bank settlements, need to be protected from occupiers who shouldn't be there..."

Thank you!

It's me!

I enjoy the unironic use of the phrase "fellow travellers"

There's more than one meaning of "fellow travellers," I suppose

I once squeezed in a viewing of The Room before a black tie event, and Tommy Wiseau got me up on stage in front of the whole cinema to ask me why I was wearing a bow tie to see The Room

As long as the vicar was there spontaneously, having wandered past in his black hood and mask and been seized by a sudden inspiration like the rest of them, I don't see the problem

I remember thinking Sunak was being a bit OTT when he did a national broadcast to condemn George Galloway's politics. I never thought I'd miss Sunak's hand on the tiller...

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As the investigative journalist put it to Farage, "it'll be my name on the register of donors but it'll be my father's money, because we just thought it would be more fun this way"

Quite the hostage to fortune...

Can't constantly quote the Lib Dems now that we're in a five party system, and they are called Labour, Reform, Reform, Reform and Reform

Rise: EW trash-talks all Odyssey translations to make way for the Emily Wilson translation Pinnacle: EW trash-talks Nolan's Odyssey, basing her authority on the Emily Wilson translation Full circle: EW trash-talks the Emily Wilson translation to make way for the other Emily Wilson translation