Maltaran

I hadn’t realised he was the captain, which makes it doubly confusing. It’s not like they need all that extra time to bowl Zimbabwe out twice.

My reading was that the Holy City is built on the ruins of a Carthaginian colony which is on the site of OTL Rome

“Andrew Jackson had in the White House a big block of cheese”

And of course they lumped in two genuine neo-Nazi groups in the same order to dissuade any reluctant backbenchers from voting against it.

Prodigy is the one that really should have had more

I got Apple TV recently and just binged the first two seasons. I agree with everyone that the Trantor/genetic dynasty/Demerzel storyline is the best part of the show, and I’m interested to see what’s going to happen there now that she has the prime radiant. The actual Foundation stuff - well, season 2 was better than season 1, mainly because I actually cared about Brother Constant, and the guy playing Hober Mallow was an enjoyable rogue. Interested to see what’s they do with the Mule - he was extremely creepy in the flash forwards, can they keep that sense of menace when he’s getting more than two minutes on screen?

I enjoyed the line in this article which refers to Shakira’s “non-deceitful hips” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn056ky4d00o

They both feature excessive violence from the far right, it’s just in your case the far right are the cops

Update from the police is that the barriers got moved to allow an ambulance in and the car driver followed that

Witnesses are saying he deliberately drove around a “road closed” sign

Rathi’s and Mensah’s attempts at human interaction and Murderbot’s clear dislike of it was very enjoyable.

There was never any real explanation as to how she ended up in the chapel - the others are all magical or cursed in some way but she appeared to be just a regular person

I get the feeling that ITV will be urgently checking their budget for World Cup presenter salaries about now.