Good moanng Amazon, this looks like it could be an innovative take on the JB Priestly play.

Three episodes in and it's as charming as ever.

Why are they serving ribena at an embassy dinner?

I feel seen by W. Somerset Maugham

JR "Blood and Treasure" by @duncanweldon.bsky.social. Engaging, well written account of 1000 years of conflict and the changing incentives behind it. Mr Weldon knows his military history and his economics and writes an excellent book.

Just read "John and Paul" by @ianleslie.bsky.social. A fantastic biography of Lennon and McCartney delving into what drove them rather than what just happened. Made me revisit the back catalogue and hear old favourites anew.

Ok @ftweekend.com, while certainly plausible, I'll need more than two data points before I accept this claim. Maybe a log chart too.

How do you begin to recast perfection?

If he'd been in power 10 years ago, I suppose we'd have had a government drive on the importance of washing faces.

To my uneducated ear, John Williams is a god among film composers. TIL of this anecdote that makes me love him more.

Don't think I'd have used the word congratulations.

JR "the war of the worlds" by HG wells. Prior to this I was really only familiar with the Jeff Wayne adaptation, the book however turns out to be worthy of the tag classic. Wells' description of the rout of London is stunning.

If you see this, post a photo taken in the mountains

Of all the names you could have picked, you went with the one whose acronym is CDO.

From one of today's crosswords:"Mystery Play"; also one of the most disappointing school trips ever as a bunch of 9 year olds discover there are to be no detectives in the theatre performance they've been taken to.