Sad to learn of this far too early passing. By all accounts, a great man.

Read “Let Go My Hand” by Edward Docx. It’s a novel about accompanying a parent to Dignitas, so it might interest you for that reason, if no other abarbararich.medium.com/king…

Wrote this about King Lear and the assisted dying debate. Share with interested people. Was the prelude to the last novel, Let Go My Hand. observer.co.uk/style/feature… @kimleadbeater @LordCFalconer

As good a piece of writing as you’ll read for many a day. Bravo @EdwardDocx observer.co.uk/style/feature…

Starmer needs to get out and say we are rejoining the EU. Starting today. Give himself a clear, national, worthwhile, economic and political goal that stills the turbulence and dares his rivals and opponents to take sides. Not a referendum but on the ballot at the next election.

Starmer should announce plan to rejoin the EU. Put it on the ballot. Put it to the country next election. Force Conservatives to commit or not. Reform can make the other side of the argument. See everyone off challenge-wise internally. Galvanise the country.

People don't realize how absurd this view actually is. A camera. On a robot. On Mars. Built by humans on a planet 140 million miles away, launched on a rocket, landed using a sky crane, and now driving across an alien desert taking pictures so detailed you can count the rocks. 100 years ago, your great-grandparents thought airplanes were a miracle. You are scrolling past Mars on your phone.

Bafta win for the writing on the latest series of Slow Horses against some very tough opposition. Here's the great man -- typically generous to thank Sean and me....

The math on this image is insane. New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data. The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space. Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything. The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.

Come to Rodzilla. You're invited to a Ho Down and that's a dance you don't walk away from. Slow Horses S5 Episode 4 drops today. There's lots you'll love & the last scene is, I promise, a classic of the SH WTF-have-we-done-genre. #SlowHorses

Also: am talking with the great Mick Herron at Cheltenham about his new book, adaptation for screen and all things Slow Horses next month: cheltenhamfestivals.org/even…

So glad this is finally coming out. You're going to love that Coe/River sequence and the Shirley/Catherine at the Mayoral rally. Is a pleasure to write for such great actors and work into a such a world-class show runner: radiotimes.com/tv/drama/slow…

Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (Official Audio) - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=hUvcWXTI…

Slow Horses — Season 5 Official Trailer | Apple TV - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=A9BCtrzi…

This is coming very soon. Check it out. You'll love the Mayoral candidates. m.youtube.com/watch?v=A9BCtr…

The countdown begins. #SlowHorses returns September 24.

Worked on this series so biased. Best writers' room I have been in. Immense show. Immense series. World class cast & crew. So many great scenes and treats in store. Making me smile thinking about it. Check it out. #SlowHorses

Mick & I talking about Slow Horses is this evening but here is Time Out in case there might be anything you want to get along to.... timeout.com/london/things-to…