Ben Sutherland
@bensutherland.bsky.social
Screenwriter and Late Editor at The i Paper.
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Tuesday's front page: Tories pledge to help the Home Secretary get her migration crackdown past angry Labour rebels
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Tuesday's front page: Tories pledge to help the Home Secretary get her migration crackdown past angry Labour rebels
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Very funny - the BFI has acquired the Daily Star's lettuce/Liz Truss video for the national archive, because it is a significant piece of British content that deserves preservation
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...
Daily Star's 60p Lettuce Liz that lasted longer than Truss immortalised by BFI
The lettuce livestream has been acquired by the British Film Institute’s National Archive as part of a digital collection featuring 400 significant pieces of British online video content
www.dailystar.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Very funny - the BFI has acquired the Daily Star's lettuce/Liz Truss video for the national archive, because it is a significant piece of British content that deserves preservation
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-...
Saw this and thought of @kermodemovie.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Saw this and thought of @kermodemovie.bsky.social
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Genuinely outstanding news, even if this news story can apparently only report on it by cramming it full of every objection imaginable. People should be able to drink as late as they please. And by 'people' I mean me.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth
Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Genuinely outstanding news, even if this news story can apparently only report on it by cramming it full of every objection imaginable. People should be able to drink as late as they please. And by 'people' I mean me.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@simonmayo.bsky.social In terms of the most unbelievable true facts (as you were discussing on Wittertainment), I saw this on X back in February and immediately saved it because I knew it was the most beautiful thing I would ever learn. Especially relevant in these current science-doubting times
September 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
@simonmayo.bsky.social In terms of the most unbelievable true facts (as you were discussing on Wittertainment), I saw this on X back in February and immediately saved it because I knew it was the most beautiful thing I would ever learn. Especially relevant in these current science-doubting times
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Frightening. We know *nothing* about the shooter. "They are at war with us", "we are watching what they say", "rats". Just a desperately sad day on many levels.
Jesse Watters goes full bloodlust in response to Charlie Kirk's death: "Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? ... This is a turning point. And we know which direction we are going."
September 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Frightening. We know *nothing* about the shooter. "They are at war with us", "we are watching what they say", "rats". Just a desperately sad day on many levels.
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Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
September 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.
Remembering that one time, not so long ago, that the British voting public got it absolutely, incontestably right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...
Pet Shop Boys' Always On My Mind tops cover version vote
The Pet Shop Boys' 1987 hit Always On My Mind is voted the top cover version of all time in a BBC Music vote.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Remembering that one time, not so long ago, that the British voting public got it absolutely, incontestably right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...
F1 has become the biggest box office hit of Brad Pitt's entire career. Astonishingly, the film it replaced is World War Z. Had no idea that had done so well
August 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
F1 has become the biggest box office hit of Brad Pitt's entire career. Astonishingly, the film it replaced is World War Z. Had no idea that had done so well
Wrote for @theipaper.com about the death of Ozzy Osbourne and how Black Sabbath turned the sound of industrial Birmingham into a new music genre
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Ozzy Osbourne's legacy is heavy metal music and industrial Birmingham
How Black Sabbath’s sound came out of the dark metallic clang and hammer of the UK’s second city
inews.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Wrote for @theipaper.com about the death of Ozzy Osbourne and how Black Sabbath turned the sound of industrial Birmingham into a new music genre
inews.co.uk/news/ozzy-os...
inews.co.uk/news/ozzy-os...
I *knew* there was something iffy about that story as to why the Salt Path couple lost their home. No matter how many stories I searched none of it added up. Well done @chloehadj.bsky.social for getting to the truth observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I *knew* there was something iffy about that story as to why the Salt Path couple lost their home. No matter how many stories I searched none of it added up. Well done @chloehadj.bsky.social for getting to the truth observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
@simonmayo.bsky.social Courtesy tvrdb.com, can confirm Onibaba was indeed first shown in 1970, on ITV on 20 July
July 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
@simonmayo.bsky.social Courtesy tvrdb.com, can confirm Onibaba was indeed first shown in 1970, on ITV on 20 July
Crystal Palace really does have the most beautiful station
June 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Crystal Palace really does have the most beautiful station
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Fifteen years ago today. Never forget 🇺🇸
June 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Fifteen years ago today. Never forget 🇺🇸
@simonmayo.bsky.social Actually took my breath away when you started Take 2 talking about Fearless on the pod, what with today's news.
June 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
@simonmayo.bsky.social Actually took my breath away when you started Take 2 talking about Fearless on the pod, what with today's news.
If I can be genuine for a moment, this week has seen my 4th proper column for @theipaper.com and the joy I’m getting from writing for them is hard to express. I hope that you’re enjoying reading and I hope there will be much more to come
June 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If I can be genuine for a moment, this week has seen my 4th proper column for @theipaper.com and the joy I’m getting from writing for them is hard to express. I hope that you’re enjoying reading and I hope there will be much more to come
Why it’s important to make sure you’ve got food in for your vegan friends - even when the apocalypse happens - by me for @theipaper.com
inews.co.uk/opinion/vega...
inews.co.uk/opinion/vega...
We always owe vegans a choice – it's what makes us human
I’m going to stick up for my more hardcore animal lovers
inews.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Why it’s important to make sure you’ve got food in for your vegan friends - even when the apocalypse happens - by me for @theipaper.com
inews.co.uk/opinion/vega...
inews.co.uk/opinion/vega...
That’s no way to talk about Lance Stroll
May 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
That’s no way to talk about Lance Stroll
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No one has ever LinkedIn this hard.
I am CRINE.
I am CRINE.
May 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
No one has ever LinkedIn this hard.
I am CRINE.
I am CRINE.
In turn, this has made MY day.
May 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
In turn, this has made MY day.
So having posted about the 20th anniversary of the 1st @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social podcast, I tried to put into words for @theipaper.com why it is so special - what @simonmayo.bsky.social and @kermodemovie.bsky.social get so right. I'd love it if you'd give it a read
inews.co.uk/opinion/no-o...
inews.co.uk/opinion/no-o...
No one does podcasts quite like Kermode and Mayo
Twenty years ago, BBC Radio 5live made the film review segment of Simon Mayo's show available as a podcast
inews.co.uk
May 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
So having posted about the 20th anniversary of the 1st @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social podcast, I tried to put into words for @theipaper.com why it is so special - what @simonmayo.bsky.social and @kermodemovie.bsky.social get so right. I'd love it if you'd give it a read
inews.co.uk/opinion/no-o...
inews.co.uk/opinion/no-o...
Exactly 20 years ago today, the very first download (the BBC would not let them use the word "podcast") of @kermodemovie.bsky.social / @simonmayo.bsky.social's format-defining programme - what we now know as Kermode and Mayo's Take - was made available. It's here:
archive.org/download/ker...
archive.org/download/ker...
archive.org
May 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Exactly 20 years ago today, the very first download (the BBC would not let them use the word "podcast") of @kermodemovie.bsky.social / @simonmayo.bsky.social's format-defining programme - what we now know as Kermode and Mayo's Take - was made available. It's here:
archive.org/download/ker...
archive.org/download/ker...
Absolutely thrilled to see that @simonmayo.bsky.social / @kermodemovie.bsky.social in-joke collection site Witterpedia is back online! Courtesy the iWittr app. I made a few contributions to it Back In The Day. Amongst my favourite pages:
Meg Ryan Is A Helicopter Pilot iwittr.com/wiki/page/Me...
Meg Ryan Is A Helicopter Pilot iwittr.com/wiki/page/Me...
iWittr
The home of Kermode & Mayo's Witterverse
iwittr.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Absolutely thrilled to see that @simonmayo.bsky.social / @kermodemovie.bsky.social in-joke collection site Witterpedia is back online! Courtesy the iWittr app. I made a few contributions to it Back In The Day. Amongst my favourite pages:
Meg Ryan Is A Helicopter Pilot iwittr.com/wiki/page/Me...
Meg Ryan Is A Helicopter Pilot iwittr.com/wiki/page/Me...
Just heard on @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social someone point out that the Succession opening credits are rather similar to those from The Game, and oh my god
youtu.be/VRPO8-_fB8g?...
youtu.be/VRPO8-_fB8g?...
The Game (1997) Opening Sequence
YouTube video by Даниил Прокофьев
youtu.be
March 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Just heard on @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social someone point out that the Succession opening credits are rather similar to those from The Game, and oh my god
youtu.be/VRPO8-_fB8g?...
youtu.be/VRPO8-_fB8g?...
I learned an amazing Dutch fact today - Lion Philips, the grandfather of the guy who founded the Philips company, was a tobacco merchant who bankrolled Karl Marx. Without him we would have neither PSV Eindhoven nor Communism
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Ph...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Ph...
Lion Philips - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
March 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I learned an amazing Dutch fact today - Lion Philips, the grandfather of the guy who founded the Philips company, was a tobacco merchant who bankrolled Karl Marx. Without him we would have neither PSV Eindhoven nor Communism
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Ph...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Ph...