One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them. The ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted internet commentator, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.

As an Englishman, I'd just like to say: it's true. It's all true. We're all waiting with our pointed sticks, just in case.

Christ, if a woman ever looked at me the way Claire looked at Jamie, full of devotion and admiration and love and fear, when he bowed to her before leaving for battle, I'd die a happy man.

Joe Bazalgette was an unbelieveably brilliant man, even by the standards of a time which seemed to be producing a large number of unbelieveably brilliant pioneers in British engineering (see also: Brunel, Bessemer, Barlow, and other people whose names don't begin with 'B'). He famously calculated the size of the…

Thanks, though now I've explained my position I don't mind it being kept up - maybe include a line in your post clarifying I no longer stand by what follows, though. Two people said they lost comments due to my deletion so if having my original comment up allows people to express thoughts they might otherwise not find…

The moderators didn't delete it, I did, because after re-reading her original statement I didn't feel I could stand by my comment with anywhere near enough certainty to keep it up. I was going to simply edit it, but didn't think it had been up long enough for people to see it, and any rewrite would basically been a…

I deleted it because I re-read her original statement (having forgotten it was, you know, linked to right there in the article) and become less sure that what I was saying was accurate. Her original defence of him is grim reading for sure, and while I can still sort of see that she might have fallen victim to some…

Dear Cersei,

One can support the cause and not support the manner in which a movement goes about supposedly trying to achieve it, or disagree that inequality manifests itself in the way or to the extremes the movement claims it does. A conservative woman's idea of 'equality' can be very different to that of a left-wing woman, for…

I wonder if the internet's love of witchhunting and assumptive blaming will only grow over time, or if we'll all eventually calm down and accept nobody knows anything (Jon Snow) except the people involved and those in court seeing the evidence, with the only ethical position surely being to remain publically neutral…

Also dat ass.

JEREMY FUCKIN' IRONS

Katheryn Winnick, please. Brie Larson is fine and charming, but Katheryn Winnick is not only an almost perfect physical match for the comic book character, but a lifelong martial artist to boot and, thanks to Vikings, well versed in the kick-ass woman role.

Margaery's 'conversion' looks like a power play to me. Simply returning to King's Landing would throw her back, mostly powerlessly, into the feud between the Lannisters and the Tyrells which saw her imprisoned in the first place. By pretending to have pledged her allegiance to the Faith Militant, she now has the ear…

The Bond of the books is an often melancholic figure, at once living a life of high indulgence while fully aware of how powerless he is as a pawn of more powerful men, and how, as a pawn, his life could end at any moment (in Moonraker, he explains how he never saves money) and it would mean nothing at all.

He, like every other non-Fassbender or Elba option (for continuity reasons, I'm not on the black/female Bond boat, so Elba's down my list), is a bit too model-like, but he was great in The Stranger, where he swapped effortlessly between charming and intimidating, so gets my supporting vote. Most Bond fans seem to…

I wouldn't take this terribly seriously. These rumours happened after Skyfall (when Craig was no more enthused about the role than he was during the SPECTRE promo tour) and there wouldn't be much point in making a decision this early regardless. Either way, the producer should be offering Fassbender his every heart's…

This is rather adorable. I am easily charmed by affable dimness, and Colorado asking Google to find Waldo for them, Wyoming asking what Wyoming is, Texans wondering where the internet is, Hawaii's existential crisis, and a significant number of Iowans pondering whether penguins have knees is just delightful. Well…

Maybe if he tries to teach chess while he's in there, they'll let him out early just to get rid of him and his insufferable schtick.

Well, after a decent lead-in of two quite solid episodes, that was rushed and unsatisfying and terrible. Nuke about to blow up the city? Felicity's magic hack-everything-in-five-seconds skills to the rescue! Dahrk's insurmountable powers? Roundly surmounted by a crowd inexplicably stopping to listen some chap standing…