I'd rather watch 'Inside Llewelyn Davis' that Bill Clinton's misguided 'Inside Lewinski's Anus'

Yes, I used to listen to that when I lived in the UK. It was probably one of the two or three good radio programmes in that timeslot. Another was the campy Bleak Expectations, in which Anthony Head hams it up with impunity in a similar kind of role. But most non-current-affairs material on Radio 4 is crap: just an…

Heh, heh, heh: rapier.

DIS-cus or GTFO.

Well, that footnote was tongue-in-cheek, but I'm largely a Council Communist. However, being Communist isn't cool anymore (you get pity from people who say "I'm a classical liberal" without having read any of the formative tracts or even understanding that literally every political belief in the modern age is covered…

What did he say?

I haven't seen this, but there's never enough love for Roger Allam. He's an extremely competent Shakespearean actor and, of course, he absolutely pwned on The Thick Of It as Peter Mannion - a man whose every expletive was raw and bitter, and a near-inconceivable character: a sympathetic Conservative.

So basically this is a remake of Harry Potter, then? It's directed by the guy who did the fourth one and stars Voldemort as a criminal, Bellatrix Lestrange as a weird middle-aged woman and Hagrid as a fat guy. Not to mention the whole "boy-takes-an-agonisingly-long-time-to-grow-up-and-fulfill-expectations" plot. Oh,…

Just a friendly tip: I find one question mark per sentence to be a reasonable quota - two if you're Spanish. It conveys confusion without making you sound like a hysterical 11-year-old.

Only if it included a Marvel Avengers crossover, because Thor.

There were some sequels as well:
- Rimbaud II: Back 2 the Ardennes
- Rimbaud III: Decadent Boogalaud
- Rimbaud IV: First Blood Part Deux
- Rimbaud V: Armed and Fabulous
- Son of Rimbow

I just want you to know I love you :)

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO CLARIFY THAT SLAVERY IS BROADLY NOT A GOOD THING WHILE ABORTION BASICALLY IS. HOWEVER, I AM DEAD AGAINST THE PERNICIOUS MINIATURISATION OF BOTH OUR GOSH-DARNED STAR-SPANGLED BANNER AND OUR TYPEFACES.

I was in a great English restaurant last night. I think its fair to say that I will never Eta Beta Pi

Well, I must confess that I wasn't aware of the genre until relatively recently (first came across X-Ray Spex a couple of months before Poly Styrene died) so I can't critique all the assertions about the social aspect of Riot Grrrl being personalised post hoc, but the stuff about how feminism is commodified and…

Yeaaaah, fellow Jacobin reader in da house!

And when that selfsame dude reveals that he has a small penis at an airport!

A quick diversion on Wikipedia also reveals some dude called Nimrod Ping, a minor British politician. Maybe his parents were trying to alleviate the 'ping' with something more… Elgar-y. Or alternatively, they just thought "Fuck it, the little bastard's doomed anyway. Might as well call him either Nimrod or Chandler"

One Direction 2: We Are What We Are

Isn't it 2098?
MM = 2000
XC = 90 (100 - 10)
VIII = 8, obviously