🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham and John Healey order a curry every Sunday night to "chew over politics" in the No 10 flat [@guardian]

I spent a week relying on just the BBC to educate, inform and entertain me and jotted down some thoughts and emotions for @TheCriticMag

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992) Francis Ford Coppola

they should invent sudden world changing events that are good. like what if a plane built 2 buildings

I once made a carrot friccasee from Jane Grigson's Vegetables, let's just say the dogs enjoyed it

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🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham will appear on Channel 4’s Goggle Box tomorrow night with Liverpool Mayor Steve Rotheram

I don’t really enjoy bad restaurant reviews, even in the case of Gordon Ramsey, if only because I feel bad for the staff. But this is so superbly written by Camilla Long in the S Times… thetimes.com/article/5189c90…

OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country. We categorically reject censorship - whether direct or indirect - and urge the government to change course, amending the legislation which has led us to this point of repressive absurdity.

Hellraiser is about a woman blowing up her whole life and family because only a thrill seeking sociopath buries her needle. The cenobites are incidental and their lore outside the text is uninteresting. The daughter is there to bear witness.