Late to this, but what a glorious tribute Sam Leith 🐝 spectator.co.uk/article/she-wa…

The Plot Against America doesn't quite hit the spot. My review of the big new Sky show, plus the Murdoch documentary and the tit-tastic Cursed on Netflix thetimes.co.uk/article/tv-rev…

A fantastic interview with Michaela Coel. Just what you need on a Sunday morning. By Jonathan Dean thetimes.co.uk/article/michae…

All Saints star Melanie Blatt says it pisses her off when people say dairy-free chocolate tastes like shit.

“They’re trying their fucking best,” she raged

It was almost impossible for me to sweat

BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell proposes that she serve her pretrial detention in a luxury Manhattan hotel.

Phyllis Schlafly's anti-feminist rise on the American right ought to make perfect material for a tv mini-series. So why does Mrs America feel so wrong? Review thetimes.co.uk/article/tv-rev…

When Mervyn Peake painted this fisherman on Sark in 1934, the sitter was so angry with the result that he punched Peake in the face, rendering him unconscious.

The best art always carries an element of risk.

Otherwise known as: Defence Editor of The Times, Defence and Security Editor of The Mail and Foreign Affairs Editor of Sky News

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Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in silence - no pictures, no perp walk, nothing. Where does this make me feel the case is heading? To the sunny uplands of clarity and truth? Or back to the Florida swamp? Column on why Maxwell may never face real justice thetimes.co.uk/article/even-w…

Watching Alan Bennett's Talking Heads is not exactly a glowing feminist experience - they are filled with poor, stupid, cowardly women, and none are more stupid than titty actress Lesley, played this week (badly) by Jodie Comer. Review thetimes.co.uk/article/tv-rev…

This is just an amazing read from Insight, on the Bat Woman, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the possible origins of coronavirus thetimes.co.uk/article/seven-…

Just a straightforward shooting weekend

Super cosy anecdote from the obituary for Tony Pidgley, the man who founded Berkley Homes

Angry & disappointed to see misguided attack on Bridgend CB Council area Camilla Long The Times and The Sunday Times claiming sure there was a mass brawl at Bridgend but name me a day in June where there isn’t, Ogmore by Sea in Vale of Glamorgan @SWPBridgend will confirm no daily brawls Visit Bridgend

People don't normally defecate in the streets during heatwaves, so why are they doing it now? On the 'vile idiots' who flocked to the beaches on Thursday, and why it's not their fault the government was totally unprepared, yet again. Column thetimes.co.uk/article/going-…

The catastrophic reboot of Perry Mason: from pomaded alpha attorney to shagging fleabitten gumshoe - my grandmother will be spinning in her grave. Review thetimes.co.uk/article/tv-rev…