Failing to keep up with the amazing @smershpod.com output this week, but very happy to revisit this film for the first time in 20+ years (and enjoyed it a lot more this time round), in time to listen to another great @tobyhadoke.bsky.social episode.

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Thinking about Patrick Stewart's performance in the BBC version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. He's only in it for five minutes. He doesn't say a single word. He doesn't even do anything other than sit in a cell while Alec Guinness tries to persuade him to talk. And he's mesmerising.

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I do hope someone wears one of these on an episode of Strictly and the BBC ties itself up in knots over whether to Photoshop it out or not.

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Can we PLEASE have a couple of absolute cunts cark it, for crying out loud.

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Imagine a very different Budget. Join the EU to gain £650m a week from EU membership (£34bn a year) . How should UK government spend the EU dividend? (Assumptions: GDP of £3 trillion; benefit of membership: 4% GDP - £120bn; 38% flows to public finances - £46bn; UK contributes 0.4% GDP to EU -£12bn)

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