Brett-Butler

Regardless of the argument as to whether scraping juries for sentences of less than three years is good or not (I’m on the “bad thing” side of the spectrum) it’s pretty poor timing to do so in a week where one of your MPs has literally just sentenced to two years in prison following a jury-less trial, and technically speaking is a fugitive from the law. BBC NewsTulip Siddiq MP says Bangladesh jail sentence is 'deeply...The MP, and niece of Bangladesh's ousted former leader, received a two-year sentence in her absence over corruption allegations.

That must by the highest weekend gross for a #2 film in the Box Office for a long time, probably since Barbieheimer? Also surprised that “Pillion” did so well. It sounded so niche that I doubted it would even crack the top 10.

There’s already a Rejoin Party. They’ve… not done too week so far - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejoin_EU

And now the first of the Independent Alliance MPs has walked away from Your Party. If any MPs bar Sultana are still there by the end of the year I will be surprised.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Robbie Williams signs up to do it, on the proviso that his wife Ayda Field takes part as well. Given that they appeared as joint experts on an episode of The Wheel last year, it wouldn’t be beyond the realms of possibility. Of the more left field realistic possibilities, Jarvis Cocker would be great.

Quite a big piece of legislation. It would be a pity therefore if it turns out that a key member of Labour, for example one who is involved in Treasury functions, was to involve oneself in a controversy surrounding renting out a property, for example by doing so illegally. That would be highly embarrassing for the party. On an unrelated note: BBC NewsStarmer rules out investigation after Reeves admits renta...The PM says an investigation is not "necessary" as the chancellor admits "error" when renting out home.

Tom Waits is one of the biggest artists who hasn’t had a top 75 single, although covers of his songs have been top 10 hits.

The Perfect Blue re-release will be interesting. In the USA it has already outgrossed its original run & its 2017 re-release COMBINED in its first weekend (admittedly from a small base), so I wonder if it’s ever-increasing reputation will see it enter the top 10.

The most popular isekai at the moment is about someone who is reincarnated as a vending machine. That uma bolted long ago.

No, YOU’RE crying after watching the latest episode of “Dr Stone”. If you gave up on it a few years ago, the last few episodes have really cranked things up.

“Whatever happened to the Popular People’s Front?” “She‘s over there “.

“Head Music” was Suede’s third #1 album, you’ve missed “Coming Up”!

Blimey Charley, that’s a packed list of big films opening this week, although I would stick a fiver on “Demon Slayer” being the surprise #1 next week.

Could be Suede’s first #1 album since “Head Music” in 1999 (an album that was so hyped at the time, Virgin Megastores literally changed its name to “Head Music” for a day). You love to see it.

Did “The Fountain” not get a UK cinema release?

Taking inflation into account, that would be around £11.2 million at 2025 prices. That may be a tad ambitious for this one, although the studio will likely be happy with how it’s done overall.

It was never going to be as good as the original trilogy (the first film is one of my favourite films ever), but to my surprise it came very close. I laughed the whole way through it, Liam Neeson does the “deadpan cop who doesn’t realise the chaos he creates around him” role very well, and does a good job of getting the tone of the original, whilst not just rehashing all the jokes from it and making it feel modern (or as modern as you can for a film that was made to spoof the type of film that hasn’t really hit cinemas for at least 40 years). If it gets a sequel I would not be disappointed, and if it leads to a revival of similar ridiculous spoof films I wouldn’t mind either (don’t think there’s been a spoof film I’ve liked since Scary Movie 4).

The Labour Party’s Homelessness Minister has resigned after she realised that her role was to prevent homelessness, not to facilitate it - BBC NewsHomelessness Minister Rushanara Ali quits over rent incre...It comes after she increased rent on a house she owns within weeks of the previous tenants' contracts ending.

Given that Trey Parker & Matt Stone made an episode about Mohammad just days after being sent death threats by Islamists, there was no way that the small issue of being sued was going to stop South Park from mercilessly satirising Donald Trump in this episode. The depiction of him a la Saddam Hussein was funny, the live action denouement less so, although the funniest had in the whole episode was Cartman not realising that an electric car doesn’t give off carbon dioxide. It’s proof that they are the most fearless satirists out there, happy to mock everyone and anyone with great aplomb.

Is there a reason why this has blown up so much in the last few weeks? I’ve been tangibly aware of the anime series for years, and by extension the game, but it seems to have infiltrated my socials to quite a large degree recently. Has it only recently been localised?

Would be great for Acquiesce to finally make the top 40, after being cruelly denied in 2006 thanks to OCC’s then-rules.

Whilst I doubt it is her intention, it would be ironic if this ended up giving additional funding to Reform and soon to be Reform-led councils, and away from Labour and Lib Dem ones.

I’ve semi-jokingly called myself a “Catholic Centrist” a few times on here, and probably is still as good a descriptor of where I generally sit on the spectrum, in that I’m largely centre-left on economics (in favour of decent state spending, expansion of social housing, and a supportive welfare state that acts as a trampoline rather than a safety net), and would be considered more conservative on social issues (although I could make left-wing arguments for some of them). It doesn’t slot me easily into the usual left/right political spectrum, but I’m somewhere around the middle.

Yeah, I’m not going to cry many tears about lost tour income. By all rights his career should have ended in 2011 when those photos came out, and it’s a travesty that he became even more of an international star after that. It feels like a “getting Capone on tax evasion” moment (not that I’m dismissing the extent of his alleged crime), but if this is what finally leads to his career ending, I’m not going to complain.

Because she’s going to be swimming in love from Europe after that performance.