It’s the one we read in French at school!
07.03.2026 17:33
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It’s the one we read in French at school!
I will never get over how the result of going through a global pandemic that killed over 7 million people, including 1.2 million Americans—and where we swiftly created an effective vaccine for it—was massive growth in anti-vax sentiment, the rise of RFK Jr., and the return of fucking measles.
The Trump Administration's choice to end their "Shield for the Americas" summit with the Monty Python Flying Circus theme march is inspired. I take back everything bad I ever said about the regime
(That ~2 second dropped signal is, I assume, some AV guy cackling as he zooms in on Kristi Noem)
holding old timer bats so they can still feel like flappy lads is some real heartwarming stuff
his killer being a man who murdered three people including a pregnant woman who he also raped is a perfect demonstration of how ‘paedophile hunters’ are just violent men looking for a socially acceptable target for their violence
A sign with information about a play, that says a gun is shown but not fired
I'm calling Chekhov
I hadn’t thought about this in ages, but I had an unusual correspondence with Alan Trustman about 15 years ago, provoked by a quarter-page ad he took out in Variety announcing he was selling his unproduced screenplays on Amazon.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
James Mason by Lisette Model, 1948. Source: npg.
I can only quote the great Annie Dillard and her magnificent "Pilgrim At Tinker Creek: "Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. And insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another."
Remember all those annoying people like me who kept chirping up when hospitals were targeted in Gaza, saying that if we let it happen there it would become the new normal from now on…
congress needs to stop this madman
Only yesterday I watched Anna Calder-Marshall act opposite Sean Connery, then Michael Caine and then Paul Scofield in Alun Owen’s three short interlinked plays from 1969. youtu.be/tEruiiCGpI8?...
Bruce Springsteen draws a line from “Peter Pan” to “Born to Run”: www.salon.com/2026/03/04/b...
It's funny because that's almost what Khamenei's son called Trump
“One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.”
My new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY will be published this month by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – on 27 March, Gloria Swanson’s birthday, no less.
stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...
For World Book Day I’m dressed as an author who would love some people to buy their book.
A wholesome picture showing four young children with a map spread out of them, viewing the idyllic countryside ahead of them and a mysterious looking church
Childhood reading leaves scars.
When I was lounging on the sofa, watching Scooby-Doo, I always had the uneasy feeling that my school holidays should look like this instead
#WorldBookDay
Artist: AN Buchanan
I liked Alf’s “Hold my chips. I just need to go win this mile race,” style, but Wilson’s mystique had me gripped.
The Truth About Wilson.
You know who you don’t hear much about these days? The Amazing Wilson.
Original first line of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear And Loathing In South Wiltshire.
Noem is an anagram of Mone.
Big money has bought British politics
75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
Very proud of this. Had a ball writing it ptfc.co.uk/ptfc-news/pa...
In the early hours of 2nd March 1986, Channel 4 showed UAP's gorgeous, expressionistic animated version of Poe's THE TELL-TALE HEART (1953), narrated by James Mason, to conclude its 'Monster Horror' season of classic fright films. It was love at first sight.
Any fans of The Prisoner out there? I'm proud to say I've been involved in this new publication, having written a chapter and designed/drawn the cover. It's now available in hardback and paperback on Amazon:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GQQDRXC...
I saw one! I saw one!
Doesn’t matter where I go now, the goals will be on another channel.
Watched the first half of Leeds v Sunderland, then went over for the first half of Wolves v Liverpool. Haven’t seen a goal all night or anything even close to one.
We need a term for a fanbase that's quite successful under David Moyes and think they will be more successful if they sack David Moyes but turn out a lot worse without David Moyes.
It happens far too often for it not to be registered.
Started on a somewhat overwhelming, potentially life-changing task today and it is now 1% done. Sort of.
