Simon Fellowes

Trump getting perilously close to shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.

Enjoyed the Scorsese doc series but it’s notable how his movies dropped off after Casino. By the time you get to Silence it’s like huh? All I remember from Killers of the Flower Moon is the gurning of the two leads and my foot went to sleep.

Still no Chiesa…

Breakthrough role for Frank Dillane in this movie. The sky’s the limit if he wants it. Great work by Harris Dickinson as well for a debut feature. https://youtu.be/xUnNNwA4MiA?si=UpF_SIDI4OrDlk-Y

Harry was smart to bail from the Royal Household. It’s a vipers’ den of entitlement, arrogance, and disgrace. All secondary Royals should be binned forthwith and a discussion on the future of the Monarchy itself should be encouraged.

Just watched the first episode of the Apple TV Martin Scorsese documentary series and man, it ends on such a fantastic note.

Definitely worth a trip to the Nordic Noir exhibition at the British Museum. Take the elevator to room 90 and avoid the crowds.

#r4today doing a good impression of Fox News this morning. The boss must be delighted.

It’s going to get harder before it gets easier. People won’t be told. They’ll just have to experience the result of their bad choices. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/12/france-crisis-political-faith-belief-democratic-world-vanishing

That @BBCRadio4 obit of Diana Keaton sounds like it was put together by an intern using Wikipedia. Do better you pillocks.

When I was a teenager, I popped into the Electric to watch a Jean Luc Godard double bill. Just as the lights went down a woman slipped in and sat beside me. During the interval, I glanced over at the woman. It was Diane Keaton. My heart nearly burst.

One of the greats. La-di-dah at the Pearly Gates. RIP.

The Xmas bags of nuts are in the shops. The only benefit to the premature shopping season.

A short story by the Nobel prize winner. A good introduction if you haven’t read him before. https://yalereview.org/article/krasznahorkai-angel-passed-above-us

The most surprising fact in Runciman’s as ever well considered piece is the crucial effect Michale Gove had on Brexit. One fateful decision completely turned the tide.

Except no one can afford to. Most pubs are emptying out around 9:00pm these days.

Trump has the world’s nuts in a vice. Everyone now accepts that if you need American power either politically or economically, like a Mob leader, you have to grease up to him. #r4today

The hysterical overreaction in the UK newspapers to Badenoch’s conference speech reveals two things: how desperately afraid they are of Farage and Reform, and how obviously the Tories own Britain’s print media.

Good. But not his best.

It was good.

Recommended. https://www.nyrb.com/collections/elizabeth-hardwick

Definitely agree that white people in the UK should learn to integrate better. #Jenrick

Got lost in the Slad Valley once. Was wandering around trying to find my way through some woods in order to make a pub lunch on time. Looked up to find I was actually in Jilly Cooper’s garden. Her two dogs came over and said hello but luckily she didn’t see me and I sneaked away.

Wonder what he thinks of plastic flags.

Every job attracts a certain type of individual- the church, the army, musical theatre. Same with the police force, hence the problem with rooting out racist and misogynist bullies.

Why are Labour and the Lib Dem’s going after Reform? Because watching what has happened with the Far Right both in the US and across Europe they see what happens if you don’t. #r4today

Can’t decide if Johnson’s a chancer, a shapeshifter, or simply a bullshitter. Maybe all three.

Morning. https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/palantir-founder-peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-religion-qzmpth35t

Slow Horses 5 doing a lot of box ticking but still rattles along.

Hibernating is not an option. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/america-authoritarian-regime-ai-suicide/684350/