Robert Hutton

There is an argument that Nick Ferrari doesn't always get the credit he deserves as an interviewer. Here's a snippet from his exchanges with junior Home Office minister Alex Davies-Jones about this weekend's Palestine Action-related arrests.

If you find me guilty of this theft, your honour, the resulting jail sentence will ruin my holiday plans, so you can't.

It's been nine years, so I'm confident they'll get round to it soon.

I never said she was wrong, I just asked to see the data that she mentioned in her speech.

Hey, Theresa May's No10 operation promised to show me the data that supported her argument about grammar schools, and I am confident that it will come through any day now.

That describes pretty much everything he does these days.

Just finished @hugorifkind.bsky.social's "Rabbits", which should come with a trigger warning for those of us who spent the 90s in Edinburgh encountering the Very Posh. Evocative and enjoyable, it answers one of the questions I asked a lot back then: "How do all these people know each other?"

I've been workshopping something about currant affairs. I'll get back to you when I have more.

I suppose it's possible that the Conservative parliamentary party is the one place you might meet people who got into Oxbridge with grades like that. But they all had Fathers, too.

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Maybe Nancy Reagan had a point.

I would urge people here to consider freelance writers you enjoy for public speaking events at your workplace. I've used them for years as enrichment/educational events for Staff Networks I support; the fees are very reasonable, they usually draw a good virtual crowd & impress comms/management

I do know how to do this, and indeed for five years have been hosting hybrid meetings in my living room. My point was the lack of a *simple* device that you could, say, send to your granny.

Yeah, it's because there were early versions (@katebevan.com points to the Facebook Portal) that I thought we'd get a decent mass-market one, for exactly this kind of application.

I think it depends on the ages of your children, the distance of your parents, and the amount of time you spend away from home with work.

The easy videoconferencing device that sits on top of your TV, plugs into an HDMI port, and lets you chat to friends and family through any service is the post-pandemic product I'm most surprised not to have seen.

We're replaying classic episodes, starting with Casablanca: romance, film noir, but also an intensely political war movie. Listen wherever you get your podcasts as Hadley Freeman tries to persuade @roberthutton.co.uk and @duncanweldon.bsky.social that Paul Henreid is sexier than Humphrey Bogart.

If they got Cary Grant to play Victor, then where's the dilemma?

If she's married to Cary Grant she doesn't even sleep with Rick in Paris - even if she does think he's dead - let alone give him a second look when they get to Casablanca.

Victor has to be played by an actor as unsexy as Heinreid.

It's a compelling argument, that's all I'll say.

Paul Heinreid was actually an absolutely genius bit of deliberate miscasting.

Obviously Victor is a sexier character than Rick, what with all the resistance and escaping from concentration camps, so they got the stiffest, unsexiest ironing board of an actor to play him...

And in what we're going to pretend is a carefully coordinated strategy, it's on BBC2 this Sunday (except Wales). Enjoy your weekend (except in Wales).

I do legit think we could solve the problem of the shortage of Boris Johnson newspaper columns* with ChatGPT.

*How else do you explain the amount he's paid?**

**Please do not attempt this question.

I reckon Trump got a big pic of Melainia on the wall, and he's got Baron digging the tunnel for him

Trump's just up there, tarring the White House roof, offering to help one of the Secret Service men do his taxes in exchange for a bucket of cold beers.

Any recommendations for books about dyslexia please?

We're starting a journey here and I feel underprepared.

The guy who did the assessment was brilliant, but I can't call him every time I or my daughter have a question...

Imagine walking into an established writers room with a list this vague and acting like you just saved TV.

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Hugo's "I Would Not Have Sex With A Sheep" episode is prompting all sorts of questions that are in fact answered by the title.

Not just one, a triptych.

NURSE! He's going again!

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