Classic Lambie-Nairn: a bold central icon with dynamic animation. Probably my favourite of the pre-David Lowe BBC News titles and themes.

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That happened in 1992, thanks to the Broadcasting Act of 1990.

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Anyway. I thought he was great tonight on Traitors just being himself. Comedy has always been that place where you feel at home if you’re neurodivergent and I’m very much here for it.

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Later my then-partner and I lived near his parents in Northants so we took him to do the semi-legendary open mic night at the Bush in Cradley Heath. It’s kind of rough & ready and we thought he’d be too fey but he absolutely slayed it. One of those nights when you know you’re seeing a future star.

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James Acaster was on the London open mic circuit when I was starting out. The first time I met him, he told me how he was trying to write a bit about how much fun it is to do the diagonal slash when you’re counting groups of five. And I didn’t realise you could do jokes about that stuff.

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