๐ณ๐ฟ Utterly absorbed and kept guessing by After the Party, the revelatory six-part TV drama series from Aotearoa New Zealand and on @Channel4 in the UK
๐ฅ Robyn Malcolm and Peter Mullan are hypnotically good, as always
#AfterTheParty@TVNZ@itvstudios https://t.co/cZAzfoheKB
๐ฌ๐ง The UK is now one of the few standard-bearers of the post-war centre-left progressive world order
๐ Of course, seditious tech bros, frothing right-wing grifters, self-appointed woke-finder generals and deranged tyrants are attacking us
๐ช๐บ All the more reason to #RejoinEU
๐ King Henry VIII: โAnd, by God, I am offended too!
โI take it ill to be instructed by the folk of Lincolnshire, one of the most brute and beastly shires in all the realm.โ
๐บ Home county on TV!
#WolfHall#Lincolnshire@BBCiPlayer https://t.co/f5zHOHcdJA
Always intriguing to see how the 1990s are remembered and retold for modern audiences
Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem is one of the better accounts and curiously poignant
#Loaded@BBCiPlayer https://t.co/Veqz5bgdGZ
โAnd after many generations, long after Iโm gone, their memory willโve been blotted out.
โNo one will ever believe the poor once bowed and scraped to stocks of wood and prayed to lumps of plaster.โ
โ๏ธ Thomas Cromwell in #WolfHall The Mirror and the Light https://t.co/6mu43dodIg
โ๏ธ Russell Crowe and Hans Zimmer are much missed from Gladiator II
๐ Mad CGI baboons would not have been
๐ Connie Nielsen's character Lucilla deserved better
๐ Gladiator III seems inevitable
#GladiatorII โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ
https://t.co/wrhlofRyM5
๐ฝ๏ธ Everyman clearly had the confidence to open this month a lovely five-screen #cinema in Cambridge
๐ฟ Despite Vue, The Light and Arts Picturehouse operating, Cineworlds in three nearby towns and the derelict Central Cinema given a reprieve
@thetimes https://t.co/r951zFvmnK
๐บ๐ธ United States Presidential Inauguration: 20 January, 2025
๐ณ๏ธ Road to the US 2026 midterm election: 21 January, 2025
#USElection2024#Trump
Hot wheels: Some 3,000 gleaming vehicles, plus scores of exhibitors, traders, auctions, clubs and panel discussions, in six halls for the 40th Classic Motor Show, at NEC Birmingham ๐
#classiccars@ClassicMotorNEC
๐ A narcissistic sociopathic misogynist tyrant, a grotesque appeased by flunkeys, who changed the world for his own benefit
๐บ Rewatching the excellent Wolf Hall in preparation for the new series Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
#WolfHall@BBCiPlayer https://t.co/LFxBRLpxO3
๐ As the US elects Mad King Donald I, thoughts with American women and girls and the citizens of Ukraine.
๐ช๐บ Time for the UK to rejoin the EU
#Election2024#Trump#RejoinEU https://t.co/RDrCPXojmy
๐ณ๏ธ That sinking feeling the 237-year-old Electoral College will eclipse the popular vote and change the course of global history for the worse
๐บ๐ธ Just as it did with Gore v Bush in 2000 and Clinton v Trump in 2016
#USDemocracy#USElection2024#Harris#Trump
๐๏ธ Tax-cut fixated media clutching its pearls over the Labour government's Budget
๐ท Conveniently forgetting that the Tories fleeced us via stealth taxes for years, but we didn't get the benefits, as evident by our crumbling country
#Labour#Budget#tax https://t.co/PJHBBBIBOs
๐ท Nations can see how lonely and desperate broke Brexit Britain is and are moving in with debts unpaid
๐๏ธ Imagine how apoplectic with rage the right-wing gutter press would be if the UK paid a single penny in reparation
#CHOGM2024#reparations https://t.co/h9ajC3n1Gz
โUnaccountable: How I Shafted the British People For My Own Gain and Got Away With Itโ
Coming soon to a remainder bin near you
๐ #BorisJohnson#Unleashed#books