The UK today is still 87% white, as compared to 77% in the USA. This is not a recent change - there have been significant minorities in the UK for many centuries, so much so that Elizabeth I issued a proclamation against “blackmoores” in 1596. People of colour have been living in Britain for longer than there has been…

There are a lot of different issues combined here. Diversity on UK TV is not just about race. It’s increasingly difficult for working class actors to become successful, which affects BAME actors disproportionately but is not limited to them. The rise of the Old Etonians and Harrovians (Hugh Laurie, Damian Lewis,…

The black British population is more than 3%. In 2010 the black and mixed population added up to around 5%, in 2016 it is higher.

But her skin color does play a role in what happened to her.

He mainly tweets about video games and family. Honestly he and coco seem like genuinely good people even if his son always looks funny trying to look hard in photos with his dad.

What’s even weirder is that Rickman and Bowie both died at age 69. Lemmy was 70 but his birthday was only four days earlier before he died. (Death was caught in traffic?)

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves was my first.... and right now it feels like he’s cutting my heart out with a spoon. You know, because it’s dull and it hurts more.

I know everyone will be posting this kind of thing but I just can’t help it. I am devastated.

I’m struck by the dignity of Alan Rickman choosing to battle cancer in private whilst we have assholes faking cancer on some RHO- “reality” show.

I saw the Rickman news coming into work. It hit me hard. Dude was such a great actor and could make any role he was in memorable. Most will remember him from Die Hard and Harry Potter. But he was great in the Kevin Smith movie Dogma as Megatron.

All fat ladies got for decades: monochrome (usually black), frowsy, boring, shapeless, and designed to cover as much as possible. And now you want to complain that we’re being offered color, prints, design, style, and variety? And you wish we could go back to subdued and black? Come the fuck on.

The clothing industry…

Oh, VH1, forget ANTM, bring Australia’s NTM to our broadcasty shores. It’s so much better. Tyra can continue to do her Fashion Goddess thing of occasionally appearing to bless the proceedings with her crazy words and smizing eyes.

The ones that come out of nowhere, and ones that you never even expected yourself to expect them hurt the most.

I think that was part of the magic of Bowie. One could appreciate him and his work without needing to be a die hard fan and that die hard fans seem to accept that without the mockery/snobbery that you sometimes see with other artists. He just made things, and people, and the world better by being here.

(I’m sure there…

Thank you Charlie Jane Anders for doing him and his family justice with your obituary and reminding people Bowie was more than just a song writer but a man who has influenced western culture in many ways for many decades.

xoxo~~~Edina’s bestie.

Oh, Bill. Silly ol’ bear.

I’m bummed to not see Ming Na on this list. I could only wish to look so awesome at 52. 52! And stunning.

Yeah, but it’s long been established that Liz is pulling a “Weekend at Bernie’s” scheme until the throne can be passed to William. So it’s probably fine to do a biopic.