Wrote about Vegemite’s 100th birthday for the Spectator! www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...

Today I had risotto with pumpkin for dinner and it was tip top. The dog had some too.

Today’s protest in London seemed to me to revive the ancient blood libel against Jews. Here are dead babies, killed by Jews. I don’t know that this will ever end. And how could those protestors do that, knowing what Hamas did to Israeli babies two weeks ago? How could they?

Is there a more perfect play than Uncle Vanya? Andrew Scott’s one-man version as funny and ruinously devastating emotionally as it’s ever been.

I love seeing this. As a boy I was an insane frequenter of second hand bookshops. I cannot imagine a writer who didn’t feel warm towards a buyer of old books, even their own.

First MA workshop of the term at Bath Spa. The nice thing - you never know what idea is going to walk through the door, each October.