What a truly excellent drawing. Spooky artist in the making right there. (I had that book and Robot too - wore the popups down to shreds)

Congrats Paul 😱😱😱

Bond movies aren't my thing at all but I feel for those who love it. Also: Bezos is such a Bond villain name. Bet you 5p Amazon HQ is in a volcano

The usual route into the arts nowadays is wealthy parents. I can genuinely count the new crop of working-class actors on one hand. Where's the new Tim Roth, for example? Where are those voices? Same applies to music, art, etc etc. It's really sad - and criminal tbh

My path into journalism was launching a listings mag with a bunch of friends, all working class. Was on the dole, no savings, no pay, & we somehow made it work. DSS knew, let us claim benefits. No kid could do that now. Makes me seethe those opps have been stolen because it's 'only the arts'.

Unfamiliar with Harry Lawtey but all for his primal screaming into the valleys. Cheers for the tipoff - will be inhaling it too!

Bloody marvellous! No, I wasn't aware of it. Looks like they've based at least some of the script on Burton's interviews about his early life (Dad: "Which one are you then?"). Looks good, no?

Notorious clickbaiters, and increasingly so. High bar for journalism, Opinion pieces a limbo dance to the bottom.

I'm glad it worked for her but it sounds like such an effort. My advice would be read.
Read a lot and read widely. To be a writer, you have to be a reader.

I'm calling my next novel The Boney Bones

☠ (I can't find a bone emoji)

Ha!