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I absolutely support the principle of paying creators for stuff, but it would be useful if people linking to paywalled content would briefly mention the fact, to save me clicking through, rejecting cookies, dismissing popups, getting a couple of paragraphs in and *then* discovering I can't read it.

Alan Black, Lancing College. Great man, great teacher. I owe him a great deal.

News sites that allow you to follow specific journalists should also let you block them.

"You have a leader and your leader should have given you a fucking warrant, and if you decide to show the fuck up here knowing you ain't have a warrant, then you are just as culpable. You fucking understand that?" This man is magnificent.

Lots of people taking the piss here, but this: a) has nothing to do with The Wicker Man and b) looks like it might be rather good.

I couldn't possibly be less entitled to an opinion on this, but am I correct in thinking that this whole row is about the lead actor in the adaptation being the wrong shade of Black?

‘I was hyperventilating and sobbing’: Tomi Adeyemi says Children of Blood and Bone film ‘the worst thing I’ve ever lived through’Author of books behind forthcoming film starring Viola Davis and Idris Elba appears to have had disagreement with cast member Amandla Stenbergwww.theguardian.com

Mechanic of some unspecified kind I never quite understood, optician, or one of two homemakers. Given the period (no dishwashers or washing machines), I'd be terrible at all of those.

Coming soon from Channel 4: Do people really need wheelchairs, or are they faking it for a laugh? Are lesbians real, or have they just not met the right man yet? Do foreigners actually not understand English, or do you just need to speak more loudly?

I mean, I can believe this. It's awful but very much in line with the rest of their approach, both to AI and to the creative industries.

I've no issues with the cross-gender casting in Elementary, but the weird wrongness of the characterisation becomes almost impossible to get over every time there's a reference to Mycroft Holmes shagging Dr Watson.

This Be the Film, with Jennifer Aniston and Johnny Depp as Your Mum and Dad.

I remember establishing this in order to take the piss out of a friend at school.

I'm considering the merits of the viewpoint that: "These days film is just a particularly up-itself genre of TV, and the only thing that makes it seem special is the experience of going to a pretend-theatre and watching it on a great big screen.

Best adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only.

Amusing that Strange New Worlds drops its most unsubtle reference to Doctor Who yet in a story that flatly contradicts at least three Doctor Who stories. It's almost as if they understand how Doctor Who continuity works.

The Rings of Power's selling point is its glorious silliness, and if the Balrog speaks in Simon Pegg's voice it will be gloriously silly. So that works for me.

I find it difficult to believe anyone would call a tech startup "Hugging Face" after the thing on the left rather than the thing on the right. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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