I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

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Burt Reynolds in Deliverance:

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the santa claus that stabs simon pegg at the start of hot fuzz is played by peter jackson

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My history GCSE had a language component. Our teacher told us he'd mark us up if we used a semi-colon somewhere in one of our essays; this was in the early days of modular assessment and they were helping us to scrape up every mark we possibly could.

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I'm off to St Ives next week ahead of the upcoming Wilhelmina Barns-Graham retrospective at the Tate – piece to follow! – so imagine my delight at finding this 1961 film about Barbara Hepworth. Another archive gem – a time when tv viewers were given the space to breathe, to think for themselves:

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