There's a frightening number of people in this world who really seem to believe "We could have avoided Nazism, if only I'd been around to wittily point out the logical fallacies in Hitler's arguments."

Whether it's people with whom I broadly agree (as below) or broadly disagree, I would say that basing any present-day practice on "how things used to work in the 1600s" isn't particularly helpful or useful

Streamers have ushered in a golden age of television, that age being 1990-2005

Oh YES MAAAATE #htafc

I'm aware that going "just one of those things" is am unacceptable reaction but, even though I'm a football fan, I remain unable to convince myself there is a corrupt refereeing conspiracy against my team in particular #htafc

Considered #htafc opinion: May goes to pull back Palmer's shoulder, pulls hair (between his fingers) by mistake. If it were deliberate you'd grab it in a fist. All Palmer feels is a hair pull so his reaction's fair. Bit harsh to send him off but not wrong. Just unfortunate really

Elon Musk is making a joke about putting a bloke called Ryan in charge of Ryanair, an airline which is named after a bloke called Ryan. There is no man duller.

Some people might say this is as stupid a thing as they have ever read, but they're unaware of the latest research which says meat is actually the same as rent

This man does not understand the difference between a forklift truck and a pallet jack

(Most of my football-loving friends favoured one or the other but, after pretending to argue over a pint, every single one would quietly acknowledge that the two of them were acting the maggot. If 5% of the country were genuinely angry, that's 4.9% more than I thought)

It's become a truism that Saipan caused family rifts and broke up friendships, which is probably true because there's a lot of daft pricks in the world, but: even discounting the very few millions of people who don't like soccer, most people would accept both men were at fault.

This is good stuff from Jonathan Wilson about the pointlessness of Saipan, but it misses an oft-neglected point: while it was divisive amongst the sort of people who call Liveline, the vast majority of the country thought the pair of them were eejits. https://t.co/y9dgl7V8n9

On the flip side, Colm Toibín saying "I don't like genre fiction" and half of Ireland reacting like he'd pissed in their porridge shouting 'eat this you pleb' was an undoubted cultural highlight of the year

Cult, not culture. St00pid autocorrect

There's a wholly absurd storyline with a religious culture and a hitman couple but, that aside, it all hangs together pretty well. Family motivations aren't melodramatic. Enjoyed it.

Run Away is a cut above the usual Harlan Coben stuff. It's better made and has a better cast. There's the usual "but why haven't the police checked X?" moments but not as many as usual.

What made Children of Earth work was that the mechanics of the world remained recognisably ours, so the discussion could pivot from "we want 10% of your children" to "okay let's use school league tables." That's unthinkable in this. Do league tables even exist in this world?

Scenes like the oceans raining rubbish down on cities are a grand Doctor Who set-piece. Silly and blackly funny, but also scary. In a normal sci-fi show, it's just fucking stupid.

Meanwhile, the crafting of a divergent reality with UNIT as a major force just means we never feel like we're going anywhere near the "real" world and hobbles the satire.

Putting it simply, the grinding bombast of the "peace talks" is too slow and too boring for children. But the politics and inter-species relationships we see are too infantile for anyone over the age of twelve.

Got to the end of The War Between The Land And The Sea. It's really hard it is to turn a show like Doctor Who into an earth-based fantasy-drama for older viewers, which is why it doesn't work. In any way. At all.