Here's my The Spectator column, 'The real reason two Jewish comedians had their Edinburgh shows canned': "Whistlebinkies told Rachel Creeger that she and her show Ultimate Jewish Mother were no longer welcome, while Philip Simon’s Jew-O-Rama, a rotating line-up of Jewish comedians,

She'd be more famous if she'd had better spin.

You: The perfect zinger from out of left field doesn't exist Me:

Said it before, will say it again: Simon Jenkins is the Leonardo Da Vinci of wrongness. Any dullard can be wrong all the time about the same things, but it takes genius to be always and exactly wrong with the marvellous, unpredictable variety Jenkins brings to his vocation.

"How are people so foolish, blind or irrational as to believe everything that agenda-driven media, racist demagogues & the Internet tell them about immigration?" say people who believe everything that agenda-driven media, racist demagogues & the Internet tell them about Israel.

Just going to go right ahead and assume Trump somehow managed to sit through the first hour of 2001: A Space Odyssey recently before being distracted by a squirrel and now this.

If the great (((David Bennun))) writes a review like this, I'm going to have a listen And definitely worth it. Gwenno, unknown to me before today, has a fascinating voice and approach - some Welsh, some English - all atmospheric and beguiling open.spotify.com/album/4QRbB8HE…

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The question for my fellow journalists outraged at the killing of Anas Al-Sharif...

*gestures at everything*

Gonna go out on a limb here and say no matter how cute it is I don't think we should encourage it to eat babies.

Vale the great Terence Stamp. iirc, Julie Christie once said she knew their relationship was doomed when she awoke from their first night together to find Stamp gazing lovingly not at her but at his own reflection. To be fair, if I looked like him I'd probably have done the same.

Not sure you can blame them for that tbf.