I'll stick it on my list and get round to actually reading it in... *checks current list status* ...mmm, 5 years? 6? Let's just say, in the future.

I was once in a charity shop and there was a full set of the cuddly meerkat toys. All still tagged in their boxes. You never see a full set of the NatWest pigs, but these were all four and pristine. It made me wonder why they would collect them then promptly get rid of them. Divorce? Death? Russia?

Well, you didn't want to be left high and dry. But you do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts. Then again, no surprises as it would've left you climbing up the walls.

I believe the beard is for Elden Ring as it was filming but has since changed to be back in 'pre-production'. Ben Whishaw is in it too and he was at the dinner as well. Just my own guess but I think maybe the recent bad weather has messed up a location and it's affected the shoot schedule.

Ha, cheers.

After the outcomes of Trump's previous endorsements Orbán is probably thinking, 'No now, mate.'

Always bigger when it's a member of staff at the bar.

It did look like a bad fit. The concept and design is fine but it is something that needs to be adjusted to the wearer and here it clearly wasn't.

Another one was Harry Styles wearing the Dior jacket. Awkward fit. He couldn't naturally place his arms as he walked. It moved separately from him.

I am stupidly optimistic most days.

I never learn.

I did do an Elmo shrug as I wrote it.

Making Johnson put himself in that position during PMQs was such a move. It doesn't seem too much to wonder if he played a similarly long game with Mandelson and the Lords. Kill two birds with one stone.

Or just incompetency on this occasion. Could be either.

And so it begins. Reform don't actually want to be the ones in charge. They want to stay shouting from the sidelines while still picking up the cheque. Put out policies that appeal to their core base but off putting for the more sensible voters so they go elsewhere. Enough votes but not that enough.

Is it too much of a stretch to ponder if Starmer gave Mandelson the US Ambassador job to allow him to bring his own lordship status into disrepute long enough as a means to push reform of the HoL's system as a whole? Like he left Johnson hanging during PMQs about Partygate that did for him later.

Would Peep Show count? Not an anthology as such, as it had ongoing central parallel stories, but Mark and Jeremy went into different situations in different locations either together or separately almost every week. The office and flat being the only main anchoring points, but not every episode.

The irony being is that it was the extra content that enabled the one element of it all - the actual film/TV show itself - to be available on physical media. When VHS was the thing it really was just the film/TV show. Then VHS was phased out in favour of the extra content laden DVDs and here we are.

Even on digital the extra content doesn't go much beyond a packaged collection of bloopers on You Tube or a companion 'making of' doc attached at the end of the episode list. The extra content that used to be on DVDs/Blu-rays is now online, in books, convention events and in-person cinema talks.

Back to the CT. The Blu-ray of The World's End has pretty much the same amount of extra content that was available on the Shaun Of The Dead DVD. So the issue isn't format. The issue is the willingness to provide the extra content and think about whether it goes on that physical format or elsewhere.

Blu-ray discs could hold more content and had better picture and sound quality than the cheaper DVDs. Eventually DVDs were phased out in favour of the slightly pricier Blu-rays. But then the content began to drift away and the discs provided less value for money. No extras = poor investment.

Now look at The Cornetto Trilogy.

Shaun Of The Dead DVD had loads of extras on a single disc. Hot Fuzz put out two discs with a mix of extras of the film but also other bits of Edgar Wright's previous work. The World's End split its extras. Some on DVD, more on Blu-ray to sell more of that format.

I use The Cornetto Trilogy as the marker for the decline in physical media offerings, the original pull to buy it. DVDs offered extras and an expansion on the film/TV show itself. Commentaries, BTS footage, interviews, concept art, etc. The physical media was worth investing in and keeping.