Gogglebox tells us more about the cohesiveness, diversity and compassion of modern Britain than anything else in media, politics or sport..

(Not a BBC show, obvs, but features many of them...)

We know the transfer window didn't deliver a striker; and PSR limits our spending (neither really Farke's fault). Any other manager is going to have to deal with what we have. And we have shown flashes of excellent play this season! But do we really want the Javi Gracia situation all over again?

Honestly, mate, you dodged a bullet. The director's cut is faaaaaaar too long and padded. Looking back, it was a dire warning about what he'd do to The Hobbit. And that is unwatchable. (The original theatrical releases are great, IMHO...)

First thing you learn as a school governor is to distinguish between strategic and operational...

I mean, one alternative is to establish that crisis in order to, I dunno, cut winter fuel payments, or maintain the two-child benefit cap, or undermine PIPs. It's a look, I guess... and yet here we are 15 months later breaking the manifesto anyway. Duh.

My general theory of idiocy: people have some deep-seated desire to be a) righteously angry about something; and b) impress their righteousness through acts of performative self-harm. I think many assume "grown-ups" will save them from themselves on point b). (Does she really want to BBC gone?)

Got to be honest: the false information was pretty mundane, too.

If this stuff is going to work, it's going to work off-the-shelf, with fast roll-outs... for companies that are ready. So the question is: what are you investing in your IT estate to clean up your data and codify processes? That's a payback whether or not AI happens.

"Yeah, I get that," he jumped in. "I guess it depends on whether you're up for doing good work for bad people." Visions of Albert Speer span through my mind. "Yeah, I think I'll pass," I said. (And I *really* could have used a long-term gig at that point...)

An account director from <large global PR and marketing agency> phoned me out of the blue. These guys only used me as a last resort to write boring stuff - HR-digitisation white papers for Big Tech, that kind of thing. "Um, how do you fancy writing about Neom?" He asked me. "Errrr..." I replied...

Alan Moore knew what would happen in 1983...

I think she literally says in the review that it's beyond "so bad it's good" and into "unwatchable"

My reaction, too. I wonder if the algo tells them this even in production: "This is going to be a non-watched two-star show. You'll never be able to make it better. Make it worse for more eyeballs."

I dunno. Trump is uniquely awful, obvs, and I suspect Cheney was better company if you could get past the war crimes. But it's a reminder things have been shit for a while.

It was more that the worst that could happen to Trekkies was they'd be able to be Trekkies 24/7/52, rather than a few times a year at a convention. The biggie was alt.conspiracies - people with vague idea something wasn't right, or JFK-curious, now exposed to everything, everywhere, all the time

That says more about 1992 than it does about John Lewis.