We surprised Rosemary and Martin yesterday.

My intern was born in 2007 I have unread emails older than that

'We've both given up smoking/ 'Cos it's fatal/ So whose matches are those?'

This is Quack Reacher. He joined my family as a bath pillow but I made the mistake of giving him a name and now feel bad using him as a cushion, so he has retired and enjoys life settled on the side of the bath.

One suspects not.

Hang in there fellas. Not long to Christmas.

This is very moving. I’d much rather have this decent, competent and committed public servant with obvious depth of soul and character in charge than the alternative spectrum of options, who range from the crassly venal to the utterly absurd.

This is really lovely 👇🏻

Can’t believe how dark it is again. Thought yesterday was a one-off.

The 1980s gay lives and class envy of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize winner make an accomplished transition to the stage Almeida Theatre: inews.co.uk/culture/arts/t…

A bird’s eye view of the UK.

"I guess this is another one of those mysteries that may never be solved"

Love this.

Prunella Scales, who has died aged 93, was superb as Sybil in Fawlty Towers and in so many other roles. Here’s my musical tribute to a wonderful actress.

Show me your cats in places they aren’t meant to be Roo has claimed the table centerpiece

'For once, the now inevitable standing ovation come the curtain call is entirely justified'. Othello, starring David Harewood and Toby Jones, marks a triumphant West End return for Shakespeare: inews.co.uk/culture/arts/d…

On manoeuvres (Photo Chris 🕷🐦)

Wes Streeting is handling one of the most difficult media rounds possible with deft, humour and confidence. Predictably, so. Which makes the judgement to spotlight him all the more bizarre.

“join us on Question Time where we will be discussing if the BBC is too left wing. On the panel this week: Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Un and Vlad the Impaler”