Is this a polite way of saying “Wouldn’t pay the Christie Estate for the rights to anything she wrote, so I’m just going to rip off as much of her work as I can before the lawyers stop me”?

Oh, bless... another white man telling women and PoC to STFU and focus on the “real issues” they consider important. Again.

If you’re happy to wait three year until the collection comes out, I don’t see what harm you’re doing to anyone. Either way, the publisher and creators are getting paid. Retailers are making a sale. It’s no more “bad” than waiting for a book to come out in paperback rather than paying full list for the hardback on…

Hell, no. Anyone who presumes to apologise on my behalf is going to get hit with a whole dictionary of words that can’t be said on television — or anywhere else.

Time to stop being PC and just admit white people are too emotionally fragile and intellectually weak to hand the strains of public life. I know it sounds really harsh, but those people can’t help the way God made them and it’s doing them no favours to elevate them above their natural station. 

I’d also argue its not unrelated that from day one Call The Midwife (and its majority-female producers) made a conscious and unapologetic decision to hire women writers and directors. Across all seven series, the majority of writers have been women and there has been gender-parity of directors.

I’d sure love it if American pundits would stop being so damn lazy and entitled, and take about oh... thirty seconds to do very basic homework on why the British Royal Family takes some pains to respect constitutional norms and conventions. I know it must be challenging when your current head of state and his children…

Sure - but personally I’m totally here for “credit where due” and like a lot of people here I don’t think queer-baiting or queer tokenism is much of an advance on total erasure.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou.

I did, but it still bears repeating. IDK, if you want to talk about “weird” I find K.’s flying Peugeot a lot less distracting than [very mild spoilers ahead] being repeatedly told The Blackout destroyed all electronic records... expect, what seems like everything concerning Rachel.

Oh, you mean the world where Pan Am and Atari still exist?

Fair point - but he’s also continuing the fine Game of Thrones tradition of being epically shit at making alliances and keeping them, let along thinking through the consequences of his actions. Like many others, I don’t believe for a moment Daenerys will just shrug her shoulders and defer to her nephew-lover’s…

Well, “potentially” wasn’t good enough was it? And really, there was no evidence that Jon had the slightest interest in listening to anyone - least of all Sansa - who advised him that he couldn’t take Winterfell with the forces at hand.

Uh, I think you’ve forgotten one very large and basic matter of fact here. Sansa is not the Lady of Winterfell and effectively the head of House Stark by Jon’s leave. And Jon would be very wise to never forget that his position in The North is even more precarious than Sansa’s. Pardon my French, but just because he’s…

“He seems like he might enjoy getting the opportunity to punch a cop in the face and I’d be happy to oblige him and give him that opportunity,”

Oh, but they can — anyone who thinks the whole Brexit project isn’t racist as fuck, and both major parties in the UK aren’t fully complicit in it, need to pull their heads out of their arses. Morris let the mask slip for a second. Most politicians don’t.

Oh, great - I’m so fucking over respectable racism because there is a barely-coded bigotry at the heart of the Brexit project that both the Conservative and Labour parties are fully complicit in. But it only becomes unacceptable when someone lets the mask slip for a second?

It’s a shame nobody was ready to write Erinn and Ensa Cosby a reality check on how women of colour who have been sexually harassed or abused face a heaping side order of racism with their rape culture. If they want to talk about “media lynching”, go ask Anita Hill, or Desiree Washington, or Alicia Machado or any other…

I don’t need to imagine what would happen if the positions had been reversed — Blow would be off the set and out of every CNN Rolodex by the end of the next ad break.