I’m a pedant too, it’s stock dammit, and boiled bones produces just boiled water with boiled bones in it. A stock needs cartilage, connective tissue, some fat, skin, and actual meat for nutritional value and to taste of anything at all. Bone Broth? You might as well boil cardboard. Nutritional parvenus!

Soup is not a purgative, it’s food. Making stock or broth from just bones is absurd, unless it’s a bovine femur full of marrow, in which case you don’t waste it on stock, you bake it first and eat the damn marrow on toast. Bone broth is just hot water. The only way to make a meat soup stock is to boil bones and…

You’ve just single-handedly ruined Catholicism for me, the only way it could be worse would be if he reminded you of Geoffrey Rush.

He does know the Pope’s not Italian doesn’t he? Is His Popiness trying very hard not to laugh at this idiot? I think I preferred it when the Vatican was labelling Elizabeth Taylor an “Erotic Vagrant” (Liz was badass, unlike this chubby little fop).

Don’t hold back; tell us what you really think!

There’s a thin line between Genuflection and Jazz Hands.

Professional frustration; at the altar they will always be a Supreme to God’s Diana Ross.

She has neither insight nor charm to offer, so what were they thinking of; in which form of marketing algebra did this make sense?

Well, just as those qualified in law tend to obtain employment in the judiciary, so do scientists in science, there’s really no great conspiracy to be drawn. The only meaningful and logical movement is vaccination, everything else is empty rhetoric and posturing, and perhaps important choices should be made by a…

Sometimes I eat Honey, doesn’t make me a Bee.

...and that negates their personal history, heritage and circumstances; the struggle for emancipation, segregation, the struggle against the injustice of its legacy, how exactly?

That is absolutely true, slavery is part of the human condition throughout human history, everywhere. In the case of American slavery it led to further events which led to yet more injustices which are still felt in other ways today, sometimes in very serious ways indeed. For those who have an American slave ancestry,…

Well there will always be a tension between self-interest and altruism (let alone furthering broader social justice - that’s a big ask of an individual), particularly in a very competitive, wholly collaborative, international industry populated by freelancers whose next projects are approved on the financial results…

At this stage it’s not who’s in front of the cameras which matters, there’ll be good years and bad years on the nominations front; Art is no democracy. But until there is diversity amongst financiers, deal brokers and business people in key positions, nothing is going to change. Until the distributors, agents,…

He’s a moppet-poppet, when did we start expecting Bernard-Henri Levy, and when did moppet-poppet followers become the inquisition?

A happy accident! And thus conservatism embraces the progressive.

Pearl should be remembered more than she is.

She was too young for there to be any poignancy to her predicament. Nothing will ever erase the horror which was Michael Crawford though.

Isn’t she though? I used to poo poo the alternative ethnicised versions of shows as symptomatic of their times, but now, screw it, I wish they were all done this way, none of it’s real, it’s all an illusion, let the talent shine.

…what? No love for the Pearl Bailey led all-black Broadway production?