Andrew

Just discovering that Tom Jones covered Iggy’s Lust For Life, as a duet with the Pretenders! The late 90s was a crazy time.

Incredible man.

I’m 6 hours in and supposedly still not even half way. Did you get anything yet?

Hitler in his bunker. The final minute of his life. His aide walks in with a gift-wrapped present. It's a gun. Hitler smiles, sheds one tear and mouths "thank you".

John Lewis.
Get them want they really want this Christmas.

Music is the Big Break theme covered by Adele.

Were you sitting on them?

I know him. Very much a bellend.

Dreamt that Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Hooray! Don’t get Covid this time Mike!

The real problem here one suspects is that police/prosecutors were not used to using terrorism law, it being used so casually, and so did not realise safeguards of terrorism law have to be taken seriously.

Terrorism law is not just another branch of law - it is special, and should be treated so.

He once came in for a radio interview, by himself, and either he was very early or it was delayed. We sat and chatted for a while and I came to the same conclusion. Very nice, open chap.

If you don’t understand the historical facts around the Reichstag fire, you probably shouldn’t invoke it to justify your terrible opinions.

Okay, no more of this shit. Awful, awful show.

Alien: Earth feels more like a Blade Runner prequel, with the occasional Alien thrown in.

In earshot of 3 separate conversations going on around me at The Oval. One about when you could get strippers at pubs, one about Shostakovich and Vaughan-Williams, and another about a reception with Princess Anne in Hong Kong before the handover.

Some of us are attempting to get to the Oval this morning.

Similarly, columnists (honestly ban all columnists) should be judged on what incidents (read: pet projects) bring out their principles, when scores of others they remain weirdly silent on.

And hello to HIGNFY fave Helen Lewis.

But during a year when people have quite rightly gone to prison for inciting violence from their social media accounts, politicians might want to be careful deciding that some hate speech is wrong but some other isn’t worth dealing with.

Maybe controversial to some, but Graham Linehan was arrested for… a law that exists. Wes Streeting, the Prime Minister or anyone else in government who thinks that’s wrong has it within their power to have that law repealed. It is not the police’s job to pick and choose.

My favorite scene is the one where a group of people on a beach melt into old ladies riding scooters before turning into an explosion of pasta.

Still hoping for that peerage then.

Mary Shelley doesn't get enough credit for not only anticipating the silver-spooned narcissist techbro who recklessly creates technology without thinking through the consequences, but also for knowing that said techbro would be an absolutely terrible father.

I certainly feel like I have.

Sadly for them it would mean depicting their owners, editors and columnists.

This frames it as an 'arrested for freedom of expression' issue rather than the more accurate 'arrested for threats of violence' issue.
It's like being arrested for posting 'Punch all Methodists' and reporting it as 'Arrested for theological debate'.

Intermissions!

Rather looking forward to it tbh. The book is one of my favourites and adaptations rarely do it justice.

Financial Times post “Keir Starmer seeks to get a grip”

Seems ambitious.

If I see one more tourist in a Tim Allan shirt wandering around Berwick Street I’ll lose my mind.

Then the magic comes when you realise, once the thing is complete, that if you’ve got 10 or so mins you can change it from just good enough to good. It doesn’t take long.

And the real lesson is never leave something undone with the idea of “I’ll come back to it” because then the time never comes.

Roughly drawn circle with the tagline “just make it exist first” followed by a crisp complete circle with the line “you can make it good line”

My relatively recent foray into editing for the news bulletins has taught me that you use the time available to make something good enough for broadcast. The convention is about an hour’s work per minute of output, but you can just about make anything broadcastable in whatever time you have (ymmv)