Ewan Pearson

To think something made 55 years ago will probably be the best thing I see in the next 10 days if not all year.

My first London Film Festival screening of 2026 was the new restoration of The Devils - after Mark Kermode intro’ed he introduced a very frail Vanessa Redgrave who got a five minute standing ovation as she took her seat. The film looks incredible - Derek Jarman’s production design is unbelievable.

Universal has a good opportunity to become the last standing dream factory. Lure away talent (like they did with Nolan), snatch up excised visionaries, become the alternative to the Skydance slop machine on the way.

In case you needed another reason to dislike Gavin Newsom, a truly loathsome man, and/or back anybody else in the 2028 Dem primaries.........

This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...

She still deserves multiple apologies.

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

Denis Healey - the scourge of the left! - punched Colin Jordan in the face at a hustings. Starmer and now Burnham would presumably say merely that they understood his supporters’ concerns.

Actual fascists wandering round with impunity whilst the police will arrest any pensioner who uses the words Palestine and action too closely in a sentence. With a Labour govt. FFS.

we’re all agreed the bacon sandwich thing was antisemitic now, right

I hope every person who made the editorial decisions around this story has a long, hard look in the mirror, and then resigns.

Jesus Christ that Jason Arday news is appalling. The gleeful racist hounding going on from some areas of the mainstream press. Whatever that dude’s malpractice or malfeasance, there’s blood on some Fleet Street hands here.

Quite weird to hear BBC News describe Jason Arday as “the black professor accused of plagiarism”. Is every story about a white professor going to include the relevant adjective?

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

Know this actors and creatives: if you work on this show you are complicit in the active persecution of trans people by a woman currently trying to sue AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL and I hope you find the money was worth it because God knows I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing that

IT IS SO EASY TO JUST NOT BE A SHITTY PERSON BY ASSOCIATING YOURSELF WITH A WOMAN WHO HAS DEDICATED HERSELF AND HER HOARD OF WEALTH TO HARMING OTHERS AND YET SO MANY PEOPLE ATE FAILING AT THE FIRST HURDLE

If I had fuck you money and presumably a range of interesting career options open to me, I don't think I'd spend my labour enriching the woman currently threatening Amnesty International and plotting to photograph people in toilets.

Stories of “people finding weird, wild and defiant ways to avoid using AI in their professional lives”. Like: “I keep a to-do list in a paper notebook, but my boss believes I have an AI task-keeping assistant via Claude.” [aftermath.site]

We're cutting an internationally important part of British scientific infrastructure for the sake of £2.8m a year. That's essentially loose change. We are not a serious country www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is an extremely bad sign. Firstly, on principle. Secondly, on economics. Thirdly, (and most importantly) on judgement. Silly headline grabbing initiatives backfilled via taking from anywhere (even structurally important funding) you don’t think people will immediately notice.

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

Bond villains are more subtle than this.

Were I an incredibly rich author I would simply live my life in a way that meant I did not have to send legal threats to Amnesty International.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This nt just on the racist fash weasels Farage, Lowe & Goodwin who've explicitly incited these race riots frm their brownshirts. This is also on Lab for agreeing racists have 'legit concerns' & mainstreaming their racism & the BBC for leading with & megaphoning their racism at every opportunity

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

It's sort of funny it's so bad, but it's also a really serious political problem. If you're unable to describe and explain who's agitating for a pogrom and why that's a bad thing not only are you not up to the job, you're actively degrading the country's political life.

BBC Pol Ed often a disaster but Mason is a real nadir. A way of answering the question: what if political coverage had no politics in it?

A savage, magnificent, virtuosic and unlikely to be surpassed evisceration of "Mummy's Favourite". www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Reminder that you are now legally obligated to refer to him as Failed Politician Matt Goodwin

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

Now that blood is on the street, we still won’t admit you’ve been right all decade long while we scolded and marginalized you. Instead, we’ll declare it’s just now become right to say such things.

Industry already my favourite programme on TV by some margin and then they open S4 with the Shep Pettibone mix of True Faith and then segue to Fine Time within 6 mins of E1.

There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >

ENOUGH www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

So she hurt his ego and he killed her

🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific. They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him. Stop the lies.

There’s nothing so intoxicating as to drown in your own ideology, but unfortunately when you drown you sometimes take the rest of us with you.

There is a grave moral consequence to letting this go on. Shut down the government, have a general strike, grind the country to a halt, hit the streets. But not treating a demented administration lying about its thugs committing cold-blooded murder as an emergency? That is an emergency in itself.