Back in 1994, my favourite TV shows were My So-Called Life and Cardiac Arrest. I was in love with Claire Danes and Helen Baxendale, and looking back, they both offered a kind of nervy, disdainful elegance that was particularly alluring to a swotty 16-year-old. Read More…

I’m going to blog about Unforgotten again because I doubt anyone will remember me doing it before, and besides, Unforgotten deserves to be remembered, praised over and over. Read More…

Indulge me in dabbling in film review this week, because there are two I’ve been drawn to recently – I Care a Lot, a Netflix film starring Rosamund Pike, and Promising Young Woman, written and directed by Emerald Fennell, starring Carey Mulligan. Read More…

I’m a big fan of Suits, the legal drama starring Meghan Markle. She’s an actress who’s been in the news recently, I don’t know if you’ve noticed. Read More…

I wrote a lockdown diary for Red Magazine last week – that’s a plug, obviously, but it’s also a confession, because I was partly inspired by Stanley Tucci’s entrancing piece for the Atlantic last year Read More…