Nearly a decade on, Gillard, despite copping the most shit from the right, has come away from it all far better than Rudd.

In Australia we had a similar thing with Labor (Our centre-left party, essential the equivalent of the Democratic Party) the last time they were in power federally (2007-2013).

Envy and an inferiority complex are  a hell of a toxic combo. 

Todd McFarlane/Wes Anderson: Together at last

For real, I though this was a joke when I saw a screenshot of the post. 

I’ll have a look and see if I can find it. It was airing around the time of the first Covid lockdown in March-April last year, so I got to see the ad a lot while working from home.

I fucking love Boogie Nights. It still holds up beautifully. 

Oh god this one. I remember seeing the trailers for it and thinking it looked absolutely poisonous and intensely off-putting.

Those Xers who spent the early 90s whinging about people selling out and bleating about their own purity are fuckwits who deserved to be mocked then and in the present day.

I never watched this (and honestly don’t remember if it actually aired here) but I remember when the dude appeared on The Simpsons as himself a stage production of Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard.

When it turns up on Netflix you’ll be able to Live and let Di in the privacy of your own home!

Agreed. Book 5 stopped the narrative dead and felt like a huge step back.

Spencer: Di another Day.

Spencer: Di another Day.

I was the right age to read the Harry Potter books when they first started coming out in the late 90s. As a huge book kid, they great, easy reads which were always entertaining.

Hobbs and Shaw: Parliamentary procedure and taxation route disputes.

Watching Linda Tripp implode in front of the grand jury was glorious. 

I always think of that fantastic scene of him in the bathroom with Reagan.

It’s weird, I remember watching many, many episodes of this but don’t recall a huge number of these rooms.

Sure, why not. Bring on Lenny’s previously unknown son...Denny Briscoe, who laughs softly just like his old man.