Really? All of the impact of this beautiful, sad, intelligent article can be ignored because you choose to take offence at one phrase? How convenient for you.

Yep, me too. Gave it about 15 minutes and it just annoyed the hell out of me. Felt like they were going for the Police Squad thing, but it just didn’t do it for me.

I don’t know about their respective profiles in the US, but she is definitely a more recognisable star in the UK, maybe because she relocated here and her English accent is flawless she’s done far more UK TV. Bleak House and Great Expectations, in which she was outstanding, and The Fall, where she was also amazing.…

Nope. On BBC.

I didn’t have any problems understanding the dialogue on Sunday with episode 1, but it was a challenge to get to grips with all of the characters names and relationships to one another. Had to keep stopping it and referring to the War & Peace list of characters Wikipedia page...

As a child of divorced parents, I feel very strongly that the child should come first, and the parents should be the ones to inconvenience themselves and come to where the child wants to be, especially if they’re as loaded as Madonna is. If she’s that desperate to see him at Christmas, why can’t she come to the UK and…

James Corden seems to feel that way too. Look into those eyes. That is not a man who is happy to be there.

If I were a parent sending my kids to this drama school it wouldn’t be his sexuality I had a problem with. It would be his incorrect use of “effect” (should’ve been “affect”) and the wrong “there” (should’ve been “their”). It wouldn’t make me withdraw them but I would think less of him, because *clears throat and…

Frankly, if you just give me The Fassbender (recapitated) wandering around looking all Lawrence of Arabia again and saying stuff, that’ll do.

I asked my partner to marry me in 2004, (after having lived together for 9 years). It was on February 29 and there’s a tradition in the UK for women to propose on the extra day in a leap year, so it didn’t feel weird. However we are still engaged after all this time, mainly because we are both too lazy to arrange a…

Murder, like any violent crime, victimised more than just the direct recipient of the act. The spouse, child or parent of a murder victim is left traumatised for life by their loss and the manner of it. So yes, the casual and gratuitous depiction of murder is just as serious as the casual and gratuitous depiction of…

Godfrey Bloom was a member of a fringe far right shock-party. He was not an elected representative of any of the main 3 parties, as are the Republican presidential hopefuls. A bit of a stretch to compare them, but if it makes you feel better, knock yourself out.

As you say, he is entitled to his views. He’s just not entitled to hold them unopposed.

They’re part of the Royal Family. It’s basically their jobs to smile, wave, open things, make speeches and gladhand their way around. If she’d had a difficult birth or other health issues she wouldn’t be appearing. Not keen on the constant scrutiny of her appearance, but she seems like a secure, confident young woman…

I appreciated Grey Gardens, as a portrait of part of a broken family who had been abandoned and left to rot, but also as a memorial to two fascinating women who would have been entirely forgotten by the world if the documentary didn't exist.

Torchwood did get better gradually, but CoE was head and shoulders above all the other stories they did. Peter Capaldi's turn in that was one of the best performances I have ever seen in a genre show. That coupled with his work on The Hour, The Field of Blood and The Thick of It made me completely sure The Doctor was…

Just you wait till he discovers squashed fly biscuits...

These are short story anthologies and it's been a long time since I last read them, but I really enjoyed the extra characterisation it provided for some of the minor characters, such as Jabba's Maitre d and the multi-breasted dancer, the Cantina band, and what happened to Boba Fett in the Sarlacc Pit. It added an…

Having briefly met him at a book signing event for Wee Free Men, I can confirm that he can be somewhat taciturn and that there is a definite undercurrent of silent rage going on. He was in a crappy mood when he arrived as he was running late and according to his publicist who was in the car with him, the previous…

Being British and Of A Certain Age, my original version of this story was as the short story/novella The Iron Man, by Ted Hughes. beautifully written and made me cry every time I read it, which was a LOT. Worth trying to find if you love this story.