For anyone in the UK, or with access to BBC Sounds, ‘Sleep’ was broadcast in its entirety on BBC Radio 3 last week (in a repeat of a performance from 2015) and is available for a month, because publically funded media is a small miracle that should be nurtured wherever it survives.

I mean...let’s start with General Oh, because I literally became distracted trying to imagine how she got away with suddenly being in charge of a Romulan fleet. Did she just...sneak out of Starfleet HQ at lunchtime and not come back? Why the Romulans keep deactivating their planet killers every time they get distracted…

I’m seeing a lot of commentary along the lines of ‘forget it, Jake, it’s Star Trek’. And yes, Star Trek has always had its clunkinesses on both a series and an episode level.

This is altogether too forgiving a review. The whole thing smacked of some sort of imposed hasty rewrite - clearly there was supposed at some point to be a whole lot more about the Harker Foundation, it’s funding (which everyone keeps mentioning) and it’s nefarious plans (which Renfield keeps muttering about for no…

Odd that it came out on Fox. Possibly a bit paranoid but it’s not impossible that some actual four dimensional chess people are on the case now.

I note that a commenter has popped up here suggesting that Mueller might conceivably be suffering from mental decline. It was an interesting if very clearly flawed argument. However, I’ve since noticed that ‘Could Mueller be Senile’ questions have started popping up in my Quora feed.

Interesting. I expect Stephen Baxter is keeping an eye on this with his lawyers on speed dial, because it sounds awfully similar to Voyage

Every adaptation of Pratchett I have seen has made the same mistake, and I suspect it’s insurmountable. Basically, the bulk of the good gags live in the narration. You end up shoehorning them into the mouths of the characters or just investing an omniscient narrator (as they’ve done here) and either way it comes off…

I went to see it with two female friends, both of whom cheerfully identify as feminist and are pretty switched on about gender politics and they made pretty much exactly the same point afterwards. Let the neckbeards quack away, it’s not like they wouldn’t have found (or just straight up invented) something else to…

He...he only just stopped himself from saying that he was the youngest person he knew, didn’t he?

Man, Hellboy - they’ve dropped two trailers and both of them are absolute stinkers. Clumsy ‘humour’, dismal looking CGI, confusing action, apparently unironic shitty buttrock soundtrack...if you can’t even make the trailer appealing god alone knows what the film is like.

I mean, it’s a regeneration episode, so sketchy foes and hasty resolutions go with the territory. The only bit of plot mess that actually caught in my head was the handwaved mention of them all covering up in the end.

I don’t think it’s necessarily another 13 - there’s a bit in (ugh) ‘Kill the Moon’ where someone threatens to shoot Capaldi and he tells them he doesn’t know how many times they’d have to do it and they could be there forever.

I recall being terrifically impressed at the time that one of the ‘chapter titles’ for ‘Ski Lodge’ was ‘Is Guy’s Last Name Feydau, by any Chance?’. I mean, that’s barely a 0.1 percenter...

Unless you’re actually living in the UK you have no idea how much of a not-joke this is. The Home Secretary of a country which is the sixth largest economy in the fucking world is reassuring us that they have taken measures not to interrupt the food and medicine supply. The government is buying up huge stocks of…

This isn’t quite true - or at least it’s an oversimplification. Plenty of anarchists actually draw a distinction between ‘authority’ and ‘the state’. The point is that you can organise collectively on a long term basis without the need for any particular person or group to have ‘authority’.

Yeah, I’d hoped they could at least have kept David Schwimmer. I thought he was perfect casting - the character was more or less ‘Ross, if he wasn’t written for laughs.’

I was talking in the general case - but even for Cosby, the self-righteousness point stands. Nobody actually benefits from the demand to cancel or recut, and it doesn’t hurt who it’s intended to hurt, so it’s really just a way of signally exactly how wrong you think these terrible things are, which...you shouldn’t…

“...hanging out on this German opera director’s private island and doing massive amounts of drugs.”

Do people really say that they ‘must have known when they took the job?’. I mean, I have no idea how this stuff works, really, but I’m assuming that the second unit’s key grip’s assistant isn’t directly recruited by Harvey Weinstein.