“My participation in Eurovision or not isn’t going to make a difference to those things...”

Spoke to Olly Alexander about petitions, boycotts, breakdowns and even a little bit about pop music

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‘You see, everyone’s sick of Ken’
‘I understand’

Met RYAN GOSLING and EMILY BLUNT

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My 9yo was upset about something so I decided, rather than consoling him, just to buy him a wildly expensive England away Euros 2024 top. He’s happy now. #parentingtips

Not a song I particularly loved when it came out but my god whenever You Get What You Give by New Radicals comes on in the pub I simply feel like it’s the best song of the last millennium

I spoke to Pet Shop Boys about Taylor Swift two years ago. It was Chris who said he didn’t know her songs, then Neil defined a hit as “something you have to make no effort to hear.” A fair point! With no Top of the Pops, for instance, where would an entire nation hear one song?

Not sure I’ll finish Baby Reindeer tbh. I’m all for misery in art, but I don’t get its tone and find it relentless, ungenerous and overbearing in a ‘Why am I watching this?’ sort of way. Sort of like torture porn for the Edinburgh Fringe set

Very good Wes Streeting reaction shot

Bear with me on this but what if Taylor Swift and Matty Healy are in cahoots and all of this is performance and his response will follow later in the year, like a more elaborate Eamon and Frankee?

Every time Taylor Swift releases an album, I think about this excellent piece about what it feels like when you don’t really get something that is so beloved by absolutely everyone longreads.com/2020/05/04/i-d…

Perfect last line on this review of the Grimes-at-Coachella disasterclass

Adored RIPLEY. Looks fantastic, did sinister well, very funny (I could take an hour of the Italian cop looking at bad art). Last episode a drag and could do without the translation gimmick, but it’s bold, gripping TV with Dakota Fanning arguably the MVP - highly recommended

Oh lads, re Back to Black, if you want the film to be like the documentary, why not simply go and watch the documentary?