Stories By Jem Bloomfield

Sports
Game of the Week: Texas vs Oklahoma — The View from England
March 9, 2026I mean, they might blush a little when contemplating the way their run defense allowed Williams...

Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 5
March 8, 2026Back at the plot, the death of Tickel is becoming even more of an issue than...

Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 6
March 6, 2026The scenario is a brilliant way of watching each figure respond in almost laboratory conditions, offering...

Sports
Game of the Week: Tennessee vs Alabama — The View from England
March 5, 2026His whole appearance is so overpoweringly wholesome and plucky, he so powerfully exudes the air of...

Movies & TV
Game of the Week: Oklahoma vs. Notre Dame — The View from England
March 3, 2026But seeing the mascot of the “Fighting Irish” always makes me blench slightly, I think because...

Movies & TV
The Thick of It Recap – Series 4, Episode 7
March 2, 2026A high-speed mincing Malcolm and a Malcolm collapsing back onto the cushions of a taxi marked...

Movies & TV
Game of the Week: LSU vs. Mississippi State — The View from England
February 27, 2026After last week’s loss to the Crimson Tide, LSU’s Tigers might have felt they had something...

Sports
Game of the Week: Stanford vs. Oregon — The View from England
February 24, 2026So that was a touch unexpected. The Ducks, used to clocking up around 55 points per...

Theatre
Theatre Review: John Lithgow Stars in The Magistrate, The National Theatre, London
February 10, 2026Except of course Cis isn’t advanced for his age: when his mother married Posket, she eased...

Dance
Dance Review: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
February 9, 2026Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is an astonishing work. Witty, trashy, sexy and unsettling, it rewrites the...














