Are you talking to me now, or to Jesus Christ? It's hard to tell with your punctuation. You know who's good at punctuation? Jesse Singal.

(I watched Ireland v Wales in the James Joyce, with the Irish ambassador to Athens scarfing down chicken wings at the next table, and thought of you. She didn't order a Guinness, which I thought poor diplomatic form.)

Ah, Jay! Hello, my good fellow! Greetings from an Athens where spring is just starting to bud. Yeh, Anora was fantastic - and the less you know about it, the better for the watch. I hope it's half as good on the small screen as it was with an audience.

Not of White Lies as yet. I'm currently writing the first season of a different crime series, set in a small town on the coast.

It's a terrible poster for Flight Risk, so I'm not going to bother with it.

Identity is weird! (I had English residency with every intention of qualifying, but after a few months I just knew it wasn't for me.)

Me too. And to this day, I still think a test against New Zealand isn't quite real unless I'm waking up at 4.30 to watch it.