Ha. I watched it concurrently with studying it - my Shakespeare paper at university, we had classes where we watched snippets of different versions of some of the plays to get an idea of different adaptations - and because of the power of the adaptation, I really got into the play. Not sure it would have been for me…

Oh gosh, yes, you must. Anthony Hopkins as Titus, Jessica Lange as Tamora, Alan Cummings, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Matthew Rhys, Harry Lennix ... The direction may not be for everyone, but I have seen it many times and adored it every time.

Yes.

Rest in peace, Candy Bar King.

The BBC did a montage of Serena reading her favourite poem, ‘And Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou.

I do not recommend anyone watch this. It’s terrible.

I don’t think she did drop it on purpose. I don’t think she would do that to her team. I think her dropping the ball demonstrates that while she has all the natural talent and love of the sport to be the greatest player of all time, she doesn’t fundamentally live and breathe and need it the way that Kit does.

Nick Kyrgios is changing the face of tennis as we know it, because now the umpires are warning the players (only the men, natch - either ‘lady players’ don’t say the shocking things or the umpires get all their info from Raymond Moore and don’t think anybody’s watching) before every match that they are surrounded by…

That’s incredible. What extraordinary women you spring from.

Here for absolutely anything which mentions the extraordinary Aphra Behn.

What’s with the Rory hate?

Punk-ass book jockeys.

OK I have to ask. In what sense is Melissa McCarthy ‘replacing’ Christopher Lee?

I am fucking delighted somebody else mentioned this!

See also: John Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost.

Barbara Kruger agrees ... (One of my favourite images of all time.)

OK, since nobody else has mentioned it ... Brooklyn Decker has Tweeted about this article several times (@BrooklynDecker) giving her side of the story.

Forsaken Aurora is bad-ass.

Yes, the special dedicated cat chair that must be next to your chair at all times even when the cat has no desire to sit there.

I'm too stressed to think of a funny way to put this, but I hated it too.