FWIW I shared for the regular shaming not the fat shaming. (Unplugged microwaves. Bacon in an Arab nation. Abundance of framed electoral maps.)

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Biden even says that in the full quote: “Hillary would have been a really good president”. But does the press lead with that? Nope.

Especially when criminal prosecution of one’s spouse aids in the child custody battle.

May she receive sole and permanent custody of the kid. Amen.

I hear you there. I’m agnostic but since November have been praying on and off. Albeit reflexively rather than out of some newfound faith. Also it helps to visualise a rotating cast of badass black women as my Goddess. Janelle Monae, Tina Turner, Baroness Valerie Amos, Shirley Chisholm, Mother Seacole, Grace…

You do realise that Trump’s attacks on the free press, his demagoguery at rallies and on Twitter, his belligerence on foreign relations, his attempts to consolidate power and defund critical government agencies, his control of the nuclear arsenal for heaven’s sake, are every bit as bad for the US — and the rest of the…

If Trump resigns then he becomes a private citizen again and NY AG can bring the RICO charges he’s said to be building against him.

The RICO charges are being filed in NY. States have extradition laws just as countries do; WI fugitives from NY justice can be extradited to NY for trial. Once found guilty a criminal from WI, prosecuted in NY and imprisoned by NY state, would have to seek pardon from the NY governor. I’m looking at NY’s executive…

More differences between Russiagate and Watergate:

Doesn’t matter if Pence pardons Trump on federal crimes. (Assuming Pence doesn’t also go down.) NY Attorney General Schneiderman is preparing a state RICO case. No pardons on state crimes.

There certainly are a lot of relics at the top, you are right about that, but there are plenty of younger producers at the BBC using social media and paying attention. (I know a few.) Also lower level employees reporting to their older bosses. Entertainment is a youth-driven industry (though less so in UK than US) and…

Very true. I’m glad Maxine Peakes name has been mentioned as a possibility because she’s a much better fit. Even a little like Swinton, but more fun and less expensive.

Clearly you didn’t read past my first sentence. I mentioned several of the same films you listed, as well as a few others (including Orlando, the first film I saw her in and still one of her most arresting roles).

Right on.

Well to be fair Trump is more of a Mar-a-Lago-ite these days, being too afraid to set foot in Manhattan where he might be wiretapped or arrested on RICO charges.

Lovely! Sorry I couldn’t tell. So used to the trolls. :-(

I like them both, but both are way too high profile to return to television. Though I could see either doing the role as a one-off, as William Hurt did for The Day of the Doctor.

She doesn’t strike me as either a fan of sci-fi or a gatekeeper of British television traditions. When she takes a sci-fi role it’s for a tidy sum (Doctor Strange, Narnia) and/or the cachet (Only Loves Left Alive, Benjamin Button, Vanilla Sky, Orlando). All film work. She hasn’t done any television that isn’t…

Kris Marshall is more of the same. That’s my objection to him. With each nu-Who regeneration I’m growing more impatient for a barrier-breaking Doctor. I like Capaldi, but it took me awhile to warm to him and his best feature was his age. If they return to a young male Doctor it’s just same-old, same-old. Though I…