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‘I couldn’t get rid of Finchy’: Ralph Ineson on The Office – and becoming a Hollywood superstar at 55 He played one of the most horrible characters in TV history, found his feet as an actor in his 40s and is now a Marvel supervillain. He discusses shame, typecasting and how he appeared in three Harry Potter films without ever saying a line

‘I couldn’t get rid of Finchy’: Ralph Ineson on The Office – and becoming a Hollywood superstar at 55

Fair result over the series, frustrated at England making a mess of this Test (mainly on Friday).

Disappointed Test cricket gets squeezed in for the Hundred. These teams deserved a longer part of the Summer.

A brilliant Test series between two good, but slightly flawed, teams. Shame it had to be squeezed into six weeks for the ECB's enduring idiocy of the Hundred. #engvsind

David Kynaston's latest volume (A Northern Wind) of UK Social History covers mid-60s and, with hindsight, reactions to JS. They weren't favourable.

Two decades later, I think he was just part of the TV furniture, 'zany' rather than weird. Jim'll Fix It very much appealed to kids imagination too.

Hating Sadiq Khan is a more reliable indicator for not being a Londoner than eating in an Aberdeen Angus Steakhouse is.

Mountains, mainly green with bits of limestone below a blue sky with white clouds.

Slovenia, hard walking but stunning.

Although England about an hour ago was a very tense, nervous kind of place....

What a magnificent Test match.

Nice one Chris Woakes! #engvsind

The Lord’s outfield late in the day as England attack.

I’ve had an excellent couple of days at Lord’s, the match intriguingly poised. Been a bit too warm though. #engvsind

The rehabilitation of the Living Marxism psychopaths as right-wing contrarian "thinkers" and their entryism into the media and then political mainstream really was the canary in the coalmine of the utter derangement of the political right

Yes, it really hasn't changed has it. Instantly identifiable to anyone who knows that bit of town well.

Christchurch St, just above Withipoll St.

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Captain Tom's daughter
Michelle Mone
John Darwin
Matt Goodwin
ABBA Voyage
Greensill Capital
Whoever is running the Larry the Cat account
EU Supergirl
Salt Path lady
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Long summer days on Hampstead Heath in London – in pictures The photographer Sarah Lee captures London’s ancient green space during the recent sun-drenched days, the light evenings, and at times the ominous heat

Long summer days on Hampstead Heath in London – in pictures

Meant to buy it at some point so a good time to rectify that.

We're seriously running out of combinations of "Judea", "Front" and "People's"

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4-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH BLACK HAT: Compatibility and interoperability are so important. (2) [Black hat shows diagram to two people] BLACK HAT: For example, most subway rails are 143.5cm apart. But many roller coasters use a narrower 110cm gauge. (3) BLACK HAT: For the last few years, our company has been quietly retrofitting roller coasters to use 143.5cm tracks. (4) BLACK HAT: Soon, we can begin Phase 2. PERSON 2: Maybe interoperability is actually bad. BLACK HAT: If you listen to the destination announcement while boarding, you’ll be fine.

Interoperability

xkcd.com/3105/

What an enjoyable Test win that is, hope the rest of the series lives up to that. #engvsind

A view across a small park to houses below a blue sky and weird, UFO like clouds.

And similarly grim not very far away at about the same time….

Yes, this place definitely needs more sport.

And I really enjoyed that particular blog, describes the personal growth of Burgess so well.

I think that both the UK’s intervention in Sierra Leone and the NATO action in Kosovo achieved positive results. Not without flaws clearly but probably the clearest examples in that column.

Our teachers must have hated that song, think every kid from about 8 up knew it.

Have you ever pretended your name is Keith?

There are much better, more important bits to this but I did enjoythe drive by of “one time academic”.

Yep. And yet the one that annoys me most is BBC News where some intern keeps promoting shite that is very much not news.

The frame is dominated by the burning sun, a mass of swirling inferno. In the bottom half of the picture, the silhouette of the ISS is clearly visible. Photo credit to Andrew McCarthy.

What an incredible photo.

On Sunday, astro-photographer Andrew McCarthy captured the moment the International Space Station passed across our sun.

Among the many oddities is this paragraph. If you try and “share a joke” with a stranger at a bus stop, then *you* are the person who has failed to even remotely integrate into London life. It’s the first rule anyone learns.

Just a typo away from having a (more) memorable job-related surname too.

Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges  - Committee to Protect Journalists Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the Saturday execution of prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who had been detained for seven years on charges o...

This is the country whose money enabled Fifa to stage the Club World Cup. Nothing else should matter.

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Just missing the bit about the bonanza the tour will be for the UK's coke dealers...