If I need to watch a new version of a movie I've already paid to see, so that I am aware of the added footage that makes sense of your new movie, then I'd say your movie universe is an utter failure

I saw WRNTD live in Newcastle a few months back - brilliant! A couple of my pals had enough after 20 minutes and went to the pub next door though

And I'd be like "yeah never thought of that, thanks, I'll try it"

This reminds me of the coach of a football team I used to play for. Pre match he would go through the team in order, starting at the goalie, and give each of us specific individual instructions. Every week he would end with me, the striker, & say the same thing, "Mark: beat people, score goals"

Jeers was filmed before a live studio audience.

"I know many members across this house will find these facts to be incredible"

It says something about the BBC that in the face of significant cuts and hard priority calls they chose to launch an in-depth undercover investigation into whether refugees are faking being gay.

I think I'm far from alone thinking I'm not interested in funding people with those priorities.

I'm old enough to remember when kier's main selling point was meant to be "no you don't get it, he's a liar" rather than "no you don't get it, he's incompetent"

Up to now the complaint has been that Starmer has no politics or ideology driving him. But this gives the impression that he's not even interested in whatever it is his govt intend to do. Less delegation, more dereliction of duty.

I'm still waiting to see the "competent Starmer" we heard so much about

And a bad start could be terminal for us

I've decided not to talk about Spurs for the rest of the season, in this time of trouble for them, but yes.

If nothing changes we are doomed next season on this form

At the moment #nufc look like one of those teams that sink down the table just too late to get relegated, but quite often whose form continues the next season and they are gone then.

‘Simon Being Taken out to Sea for the First Time since His Father Drowned’, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, 1983, photo by Chris Killip. Weekly ritual to prevent him becoming afraid of the sea, where the community earned its living.

Children somewhere in the north of England, 1965, photo by John Bulmer.

After the Gold Rush might be my favourite album full stop

damn. what a wild thing for a senior civil servant to have done unilaterally without ministerial input. ah well.

Amazing what fails to 'cross Starmer's desk' innit?

To my eternal chagrin, Payne went to the same secondary school as I did (decades apart). People may be surprised to learn it wasn't some Tom Brown's Schooldays hellhole but a comprehensive in Gateshead.

My problem with this hypothetical is the idea that the doctor, responsible for only one thing, checking the health of the player, wouldn't say "he's crocked" and just allow the purchase to go ahead. That doctor knows they are getting fired because of it sooner or later.

This the key point. If FCDO did overturn the vetting without telling anyone it was because it had already been announced. Which was a ridiculous thing to do.

"... Father to a murdered child, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my revenge, in this life or the next"

Starmer didn't know about Mandeslon failing his vetting.

The man who every centrist presented as the most forensic & detailed motherfucker you've ever seen, a bloodless automaton of pure procedure, in reality has no idea about what's going on around him, & may as well be sitting in his office counting crayons or throwing paper planes at the bin.

This background implication/assumption within media and electoral politics that ‘welfare spending’ is defacto simply wasted money, rather than something that, if it were stopped, would create knock-on effects that became problems down the line is so endlessly dumb.

There is buy in from everyone in the media, and from everyone in the centrist part of politics

This has just come from nowhere like yesterday with the George Robertson speech and suddenly everyone is saying exactly the same thing about cutting specifically welfare (not anything else) to pay for increased military spending. This is a concerted all-channels push to achieve specific goals.

Saving the Danny Boyle half time show for an England World Cup - a medley of Ozzie's Dream, Vindaloo and World in Motion playing over a lookalike of Prince Andrew getting arrested

At last some care for male queens

If it's not Malcolm Allison in a Stetson I'll be disappointed