No it’s not streaming anywhere – I recently got the DVD off ebay as I was interviewing Hanif Kureishi for the next ep of my Bowie podcast.

Absolutely, Patrick Hamilton. Lesser-known originator of the term ‘gaslighting’. The Slaves of Solitude is one of my favourites – the audiobook is well worth seeking out. The Jeeves stories are unbeatable too.

He won the Booker last year but if you like that particular strain of male melancholy, rendered in absolutely brilliantly textured and controlled prose, David Szalay. ‘Flesh’ was the latest, but my heart is in […]

*Mandelson, ofc.

It’s brilliant, I’ve been twice. Just pure fun.

I think the recent Macca doc would have been much more interesting had Andrew been one of their children.

I had a pint in London the other month, still paying off the interest on the bank loan I had to take out.

I’m sorry Leffe, that must have been a difficult moment. I know – it hit hard seeing present day Paul. I don’t know if that’s because of the immediate contrast with the familiar, youthful Macca in whose company […]

Bang! “You’re nicked son! Er, sorry. Sir.”

It was intriguing how deeply the film was front loaded with the Beatles collapse. It felt like he went in deeper and harder on the others than he’s done in the past. The fluid chronology throughout meant we zoomed […]

And, phun phact, home to podcast funnyman Adam Buxton.

I’ve been to Norfolk but Ive never been to me

If a WPC was in the room this morning, he’d probably assumed she was a birthday strippergram.

I get Mojo popping up on my Kindle app and occasionally read it. I looked across the grid of front covers from the past two years or so. All usual suspects, plus Bowie or Beatles every couple months. But any […]

Have they got around to pedestrianising Norwich city centre yet?

One of my favourite lines – the calm delivery after Woltz has totally lost his shit.

“Why do you hurt me, Michael? I’ve always been loyal to you.”

This makes total sense.

How would rejoining the EU work? Presumably, there’d have to be a rejoin referendum to counter accusations of “ignoring the will of the British people”? But to your wider point yes, I’d love to see him rip his […]