"Upper class", basically.

Ask, and ye shall receive.

I mean, I tend to assume rich showbiz people take coke all the time anyway, because they can afford it, there are absolutely no consequences for them, and it's a social norm in those circles. But the moment this allegation came up, I couldn't help thinking Saatchi was trying to gaslight Lawson by inflating a few…

I'm not surprised by Susannah being a sweetheart - she seemed like that as soon as I saw her paired with Kevin. I think her thing against Susannah and Natalie is that their answers in interviews are sometimes rather 'trained' and cautious, and they often seem pretty sunny and happy, which is the opposite of her…

Yeah, I was expecting it to be a lot younger. But then, I'm mainly interested in film, which is a self-destructively youth-fetishising industry. Literature, say, is very different.

I'd never seen her in Corrie, but I'm definitely curious to see her act now. My mum hates her and Susannah because "they're so false and competitive and they think they're so great but they're hiding it!". I think part of the fun of watching Strictly is these occasional, strange, psychosexual insights I get into my…

The dance faces this year have been pretty distracting all round, really. I think Natalie's the best dancer in the competition, but Sophie could have challenged her if she'd been gifted a partner who could show her at her best.

How many Jezebellions watch the UK version, Strictly Come Dancing? Because we need to discuss Natalie Gumede's excellent hair:

Hell, it's baffling enough to British people...

But the daughters skew Democrat, so it balances out.

This is the point of laws like this, of course - they are "so vaguely worded" that you can do anything with them. I'm reminded of the UK's infamous (and now mercifully repealed) Section 28, which aimed to criminalise "the promotion of homosexuality" in schools. Does "promotion of homosexuality" mean sex education? …

God, I know. Watching it made me wish the BBC really was the stiflingly politically correct socialist palace of groupthink the Tories believe it to be.

0:15 is you.

Oh, I agree on balance. It's like saying nobody should make a conspiracy thriller in case idiots on the internet think it's a documentary. But racists justifying themselves with Tropic Thunder always gives me that "fuck it, what's the point of anything any more?" feeling.

I never had a problem with Papa Lazarou, though it's hard to really quantify. I think it's because the thing that bothers me most about blackface is the chumminess, the clubby atmosphere of impersonating another race so an audience of your race can go ha ha, yeah, they are like that, aren't they?

To me, it was transparently obvious what the point of that bit was - but the sheer number of people I've heard defending actual, unironic, racist blackface with "well, Robert Downey Jr did it in Tropic Thunder!" makes me wonder whether it was worth it.

Yes, here in Britain we have absolutely no history of blackface or minstrelry!

Russell T Davies - Russell, the Davies - has pretty great comic timing, doesn't he? I wonder if he's ever considered acting.

This just sounds like some weird sex thing. "Seize it, Gunther! Seize my monkey!"

Not just you. I feel like I'm in a parallel universe where hammering the same obvious observations into your head for six years counts as "intelligence and subtlety".