Really? Because the Saudi Arabian government just endorsed a PSA video wherein a doctor explains how a husband should best beat his wife for disobedience.

Thank you very much, that’s very nice of and very well put. I think I just choose to see it differently. I choose to believe that it was not borne out of fear so much as genuine shock that it happened to such a huge degree in one mass incident and the attendant realisation that this was a time when legislation had…

On balance though, they turned it around at a legislative level within seven months which I think is fairly impressive.

Please believe me when I say that it gives me no pleasure at all to say this and that I wish it were not the case and that I understand that this may be hard to believe but, as a white woman who spent several years living in a Middle Eastern and Islamic country including as a teenager, and made several visits as an…

Do you mean “sophisticated and mature beyond my years”?

Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not suggesting at all there is a problem with it, I’m just saying that you can tell it’s there.

I don’t doubt he has American ambitions - nor would I judge him for it- but it’s kind of bizarre that he would have them badly enough to engage with all this oddness; or to think that this was the smartest way of going about fulfilling those ambitions. He always struck me as someone with more integrity than that.

He’s making hay while the male pattern baldness shines.

100%.

I can’t honestly say exactly what someone who would do things might be interested in. I do think, however, that what we are learning here is that it’s a very short walk from famous in the US to laughing stock in the US.

Whilst somewhat illuminating - face it, we’re still in the dark - these analyses are from the US perspective and kind of don’t take into account that Tom is coming from a UK perspective where he is pretty much a household name, and the subject of a great deal of general warm feeling respect and affection. So this all…

You know I kinda sorta get what you are saying, but at the same time I have to disagree because I think that age gap is PRECISELY how it reads - they look there is a nine year gap.

I would totally abandon all heteronormativity for Karlie Kloss.

Good. I win.

In all seriousnes I would lay good money that he’s not a Tory. There’s no way.

The only truth I can take away from this, or when I look at this pair, is that no amount of money can buy you cool.

It’s sooooooo good.

I would so do Samantha Bee.

Yeah but so what, you know? We can absorb the odd tone-deaf, privileged fantasist. It’s not like she’s Rachel Dolezal. Live and let live.

Her imdb biog is a lot of fun.