The Beatles - “From Me To You” (1963)

please please please zoom in on the screen

The rector of Glasgow University is pushing antizionist conspiracy theories about Israelis harvesting organs. What is going on with our university system?

as you can see things are going quite well on the old dating front

'You disappoint me, Goldfinger. You know Operation: Gangbang simply won't work, and incidentally Delta-9 poppers don't give you any kind of a buzz at all.' 'You are unusually well informed, Mr Bond.'

Why do you think Windsor Castle's ringed with Chinese restaurants?

When we talk about the growing rates of illiteracy, btw, that doesn’t just mean ‘can people read words on a page’. It’s also about do people understand inference, tone, context; is it sarcasm? Is it irony? Should what I just read be taken at absolute face value?

"We laugh at them, and with them, and, crucially, we love them. The way you’re supposed to with sitcom characters." Finlay on "To the Manor Born". thelionandunicorn.com/2025/11/16/las…

Magnificent read!

Spot on again from Finlay.

This is very good, on sitcoms ancient and modern. ⬇️

"You start off by asking ‘Why doesn’t the BBC commission more sitcoms?’ and before long you’ve subscribed to the Spectator, deleted the pronouns from your email signature and started listening to Morrissey’s solo albums."

Very very good.

“It would be easy to hate Audrey or Richard, or to have some modern authorial self-insert wander in and tell them off for their privilege. But we don’t. We’re invited to laugh at their ridiculousness without malice.”

Bloody hell he’s good.

"Across three series, they spar, flirt and circle one another with the usual passive aggression of the English upper classes in mating season, until, inevitably, they marry" Our Finlay on why it's modern comedy that's guilty of airs and graces👇 thelionandunicorn.com/2025/11/16/las…

Absolutely this ⬇️ (I’ve toyed with a podcast on ‘To the Manor Born’ as it’s such a great series - an England that really doesn’t exist anymore, and never existed as Richard De Vere thought).