Andrzej Łukowski

(it is a charity event called MotoMikołaje, it seems)

I guess I could Google it but I quite enjoy having no context for this whatsoever

wondered what all the honking outside my hotel was and it’s a seemingly endless stream of motorcycling santas driving through the streets of krakow

why is the hot norwegian chef apparently making dozens of toasties when the ambassador only wanted one

this, astonishingly, is my hotel room

in Krakow and my hotel has charger sockets that mean there was actually no need for me to have brought an adaptor, obviously varies from country to country but genuinely astonishing how much the experience of travelling abroad has changed in my lifetime

as you would expect from the NYT, the best thing about this article is the 100% absence of any bants

fair play to jeremy o harris, there but for the grace of god etc

how is it? yeah it feels completely unremarkable to have apple music until December, when it invariably turns out that once again I am the only person on the planet who uses it

it’s that time of the year where I feel like a froth-mouthed contrarian for using apple music

Mama Goose, Stratford East review: This deliriously fun panto from Vikki Stone and Tonderai Munyevu is Stratford East’s best in years Proof that the Lyric Hammersmith is basically London’s flagship panto these days comes from the opposite end of London, as Stratford East chalks up its best sea

Mama Goose at Stratford East is a terrific panto that shows what a gift Vikki Stone is to the whole ‘scene’ – so much to love but the AI love interest, playwright Ché Walker as a geezerish goose, and the very childish Elon Musk scene were my highlights www.timeout.com/london/theat...

Fallen Angels, Menier Chocolate Factory review: A century on and Noël Coward’s infidelity comedy remains amusing, if hardly radical A century ago, Noël Coward was the shit. Aged just 25, he was in a phase of his career when he couldn’t stop scoring hits. And he wasn’t simply some young fogey

Fallen Angels at the Menier is quite nice but for me maybe something a bit perverse about treating plays that were shocking 100 years ago as pleasant period pieces today www.timeout.com/london/theat...

bloody hell!

everything about that Graham Linehan Observer piece is cursed, and I'm afraid it makes for a pretty good read

I honestly think they might but probably they wouldn’t send somebody ‘a bit racist’ to interview them

he doesn’t sound *that* much like Paddington normally - surely a question of whether every time it gets to date 3 they’re like ‘can you do the voice?’

the bear is absolutely miraculous, it has a lot of incredibly good setpieces, the story is probably improved from the film/it’s banger light and there are approximately 5,000 secondary characters, each of whom get a song

Review: ‘Paddington the Musical’ at the Savoy Theatre The bear from Peru takes to the stage like marmalade to a sandwich in this musical extravaganza

I very much enjoyed Paddington the Musical though I feel like the 5* reviews are all bit ‘British theatre critics get sentimental about a heartwarming thing’ www.timeout.com/london/news/...

it’s still mostly terrible dialogue but it is the best Star Wars film so well done Tom

I was today years old when I learned Tom Stoppard did some script doctoring on Revenge of the Sith

ah RIP, what a titan, obviously old as the hills but still a shock as he seemed like such a vibrant figure into deep old age, still working, still supportive of revivals etc. What a life

the fourth and best of David Eldridge’s quadrilogy of plays about socially awkward middle aged men unsure what to do with their lives

I do feel the central relationship between a 45-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman doesn’t really play that well now and it is a bit odd that Rory Keenan does the whole thing with a Dublin accent, but he’s really good so who cares

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, @sohoplace review: This slickly noirish adaptation of John le Carré’s classic espionage novel is thoroughly gripping David Eldridge’s acclaimed stage adaptation of John Le Carré’s timeless Cold War spy novel hits the West End

David Eldridge’s adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is very well done, I was gripped, well done all www.timeout.com/london/theat...

ha ha if only

spoiler alert, but I loved the really savage Polish Tempest I saw this summer where they killed off half the characters, but it had done the groundwork first!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Globe review: This stylish midwinter ‘Dream’ gets carried away with its own edginess ‘Merry and tragical. Tedious and brief’ is how the play with a play staged at the end of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is described. While nobody could accuse this

The Globe/Headlong Midsummer Night’s Dream is loads of fun for ages and then goes and makes an incredibly weird decision at the end that totally kills the buzz www.timeout.com/london/theat...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at Riverside Studios is terrible A bafflingly dreadful immersive theatre adaptation of Douglas Adams’s sci-fi comedy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at Riverside Studios is astoundingly bad in a real but seriously guys WTF why didn’t you just stick to the plot of the novel guys sort of way www.timeout.com/london/theat...