Lennon and Richards formed part of Dirty Mac, a one off “supergroup” who participated in the Stones’ Rock’n’Roll Circus. And Lennon and McCartney wrote the Stones’ first UK hit I Wanna Be Your Man. We could probably go all day with this.

Maxwell of course being the pension fund stealing crook who slipped overboard his yacht the Lady Ghislaine, never to be seen again, leaving his family to cope with his mess. The yacht of course was named after his daughter, whose own attempts to evade justice were both less fatal, and ultimately less successful.

From what I recall, the trans woman “reveal” was the big talking point, but I think Neil is right that the big controversies in England surrounded a sympathetic IRA member, and an American actor playing cricket with a dubious bowling action. The latter point was always going to be a difficult for an Irishman who…

Quite right. I read Heart of Darkness in the early 90s, but it was an edition from my local library that included Chinua Achebe’s famous essay about why he thought it was a racist book. I read both, and although I didn’t necessarily agree with all of Achebe’s arguments, it certainly made me think far more critically…

I believe Dickens edited descriptions of Fagin in Oliver Twist after becoming friendly with a Jewish man and realising his stereotyping was wrong and offensive.

I’ve got nothing but total respect for Annie Lennox.

There. Is. No. Tape.

Yes, because it’s gender flipped.  Ladies don’t drive cool cars.  Don’t you watch TV?

That was my first thought - a gender-flipped Starsky & Hutch has already been done and it was called Cagney & Lacey.

I’ve been saying this for a while. Nobody comes out of this looking good, which is unsurprising given the ridiculous pantomime that is hereditary monarchy.

An interesting moment in her life (at least to us Brits) was when her son married the daughter of English cricket legend Fred Trueman. Trueman was the epitome of the gruff Yorkshireman (think Sean Bean without the good looks) and seeing pictures of him and Raquel together at the wedding was like seeing a unicorn with…

I’m guessing it won’t be any channel’s go-to for scheduling a tribute this week.

10,000BC was a little after her heyday.  It was One Million Years BC.

Or Lee Majors being blown up for her.

Fantastic Voyage is Fantastically Ridiculous.

He needs to go back to playing mid-90s RUC officers.

According to the review it’s a B-, and “Unsurprisingly—if dispiritingly so, given everyone involved!—the end result is a mixed-bag.” Which is kind of what I’d be expecting from a movie like this. But I’m not sure what that exclamation mark is trying to do.

I think her sauce is not so secret.

It seems we are never going to agree on this. I do agree on the reasons for the war and the desire for the inhabitants to stay British. But given it was a relatively recent war where hundreds of conscripts were killed (many in extremely controversial circumstances on the Belgrano) a degree of diplomacy is not much to…

Came down here to say exactly this. It doesn’t matter if you have small kids or not, watching Bluey will enrich your life. Each episode is 7 minutes of becoming a better person.