The joys of second-hand bookshops. I picked this up in London, and look what fell out…assume Mr Brownjohn is literary critic and poet Alan Brownjohn, who died in 2024.

“Adolescence” is the greatest British drama in years. It’s soul-destroying television. Like all great social drama, it will change and save lives. The final dialogue of the parents, and the interrogation of the child murderer by the psychologist, are acting masterclasses. Must win every award.

Always thought it was wild that this image of the World Trade Centre was selected as the front cover design of Underworld (1997).

At Christmas, remember the loved ones we have lost.

Murnane is bantz.

Robert Crawford’s Young Eliot is excellent. Looking forward to reading the second volume “After The Waste Land” and its focus on the Hale letters.

Let’s make this place full of art and creativity and fair debate and just bloody life and let the frog meme people over in the other place slowly implode.