Honoured and delighted to have my #cartoon chosen as one of this year's @privateeyenews.bsky.social #christmascards #mistletoe #anglerfish #christmasparty2025 #predator

Polls starting to turn in Labour's favour...many young people I've spoken to say the new Renters' Rights legislation has made a real difference to the quality of their accommodation and security.

There’s mileage in this headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How bad is it for Russia on the frontlines? They launched an attack on Dobropillia today, led by men on horseback, followed by motorbikes and quads. Ukraine’s 1st Azov Corps wiped them all out in 2 hours with artillery and drones, as well as a bunch of armoured vehicles. It’s the horses I feel for.

Biscuits spiced with ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper and mace* *Am enrolling in icing classes next year

Something for the spring! Excited to report I'll be speaking about Wildly Different, and the five courageous women in it, at the Highgate Scientific and Literary Institute, London, in March. Their stories will challenge, inspire and amaze you in equal measure! hlsi.org.uk/whats-on/wil...

I wanted to write something jolly but after a year in which journalists have been killed with impunity live on the air this is more important. Thanks to all the brave men and women seeking to tell the truth and the agencies that support them CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Last-min gifts for the readers in your life? How women reclaimed nature, who stained our sugar with slavery, and why Trump is really suing the BBC - history, politics, news, empire, gender and future - we suspect that our staff published just the right book for your friends/family/self this year 👉

Biscuits spiced with ginger, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper and mace* *Am enrolling in icing classes next year

Would watch.

Even in the darkest days, there's life and hope to be found. "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" Shelley.

Fascinating from Tom’s piece

Very impressive micro-palaeontology. 145 million-year-old Diplodocus skin, examined with electron microscope….

To mark the shortest day and the return of the light, here's a gorgeous illustration of the Nordic fairytale East of the Sun and West of the Moon by early C20 Danish artist Kay Nielsen. Here the girl sets off to save her family and a bewitched prince on the back of a polar bear.

My god. It's full of stars. This sparkling #JWST stellar scene is Westerlund 2, a young star cluster only a few million years old and containing some of the hottest, most massive stars known. Westerlund 2 is situated within the Gum 29 stellar nursery, and is around 20,000 lightyears from home.

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Hats off to these Highland cattle who've used their own wool as Christmas decorations for their fence

Merry gentlefolk, it is time. Today is the day. Today is comma-mas. Today is the day where we contemplate the correct placing of the comma in 'God rest you merry, gentlemen'. And if we are lucky, we can have a row about it. >

Very much like this (despite the irritating ads): people who write to-do lists using pen/pencil and paper, are doing more complex brain activity and have better focus than those who create lists on their phones: share.google/s6Gn93pNJrfN...

..I've written a lot about my life blowing up and what that meant, and never quite found a way of turning "yeah, things are actually surprisingly okay these days" into #content. But they are. Life is often good. I feel very lucky, both professionally, and in the people I love who kept me afloat.

Either our media has amnesia or they’re just plain complicit in their elevation of Reform. Have they forgotten what happened with our last two populist right wing prime ministers? The chaos of Johnson. The disaster of Truss (praised by Farage). This lack of reporting is a menace

Good morning to everyone who loves vibrant art deco floor tiles (plus a pair of admiring boots)

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 19 ‘December’ (1955) Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder

Something for the spring! Excited to report I'll be speaking about Wildly Different, and the five courageous women in it, at the Highgate Scientific and Literary Institute, London, in March. Their stories will challenge, inspire and amaze you in equal measure! hlsi.org.uk/whats-on/wil...

Shop selected titles with 40% OFF as part of our Christmas Sale until Dec 23rd. Discover untold histories of #London, or take a globe-trotting tour of nature from a women's perspective. We have books for any literary explorer. #booksky @tricksterprince.bsky.social @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social

🌷 Uncover how global voyages, rare specimens and vital Indigenous knowledge reshaped the making of British natural history. Join Dr Edwin Rose as he discusses his recent book, Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History 1760-1820. 📆 4 Feb 2026 Tickets here: buff.ly/eNIDzHM

All of which demonstrates the sheer ugly cynicism of Farage and co. whipping up people's fear of immigration. We'll end up culturally and economically impoverished, and afraid of our own shadow.

New post just out: "The Overshoot" Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration. What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

When Wangari Maathai began planting trees in Kenya 50 years ago, the country's tree cover was barely 2% and soil erosion was devastating rural lives. Now tree cover is close on 15% and forests are reviving. Read about her life and work in my book, £12 Christmas sale! share.google/X3y1wiiIfwLe...

That state visit really did the trick, huh?

Sandra Victorino, Native American ceramic artist of the Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico #womensart

Welcome to a morning of silly hype about UK trade policy. Part one, "a serious setback in US-UK relations" as "£31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice"? Invented number, good thing if the UK pushes back on US regulatory asks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I was lucky to see much art in 2025. My 2 favourite paintings were both Spanish, separated by 100 years: 'On the Terrace' by Cecile Pla y Gallardo, c.1900, and 'Insomnia at Dawn' by Soledad Sevilla, 2000. I love that calm yet joyous sun-drenched terrace, and, sadly the Sevilla speaks directly to me

It’s a sad indictment of Britain’s ignorance of nature that Sycamore Gap petitions - for a tree that mattered to humans but not nature - received tens of thousands of signatures but a petition to protect entire peatland habitats is stuck at 1,500 actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Highest rate of increase among children of the better-off because they can afford to have private diagnoses, instead of waiting for years to be seen in the NHS. Not because there is any difference between rates of child/adolescent mental health problems/neurodiversity between different social groups

Time for Keir Starmer to act for access @ramblers.org.uk @openspacessociety.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/s...

Sharing this @lrb.co.uk article on the modern interpretation history of the beautiful Fayum portraits from ancient Roman Egypt www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

An update to a classic #ClimateInactionStripes #ShowYourStripes CC: @tadziomueller.bsky.social

Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the first National Park in the UK, the Peak District, and a recognition that the moors should be enjoyed by the many, not a few grouse-shooting dukes. But for one woman, it may never have happened. For a bargain £12 read.. 1/2 share.google/X3y1wiiIfwLe...

You can read more in my latest book Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London. Songs of Seven Dials is currently available for £12 in the MUP Christmas 2025 sale. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181954/

Postcards from 1920s and 1930s Seven Dials 1 Before there was Monmouth Coffee, there was Jim and Emily Kitten’s café in Great White Lion Street. #London #SevenDials #CoventGarden #History #20s30s

Teared up at this bit “an extraordinary, ordinary man whose decency and kindness on January 20 2023 prevented an atrocity in the maternity wing of a major British hospital”

Oslo street, December 1911 by Oskar Sohlberg.

my last (probably final) copywriting client hired me because they weren’t happy with ChatGPT because “it didn’t sound human enough.” then they stopped using me because I “sounded too human”

Even if those men including Branson and Gates were not actually doing criminal acts, the image of powerful men and underage girls or 'on the younger side' women at these parties is nauseating and goes to the heart of patriarchy and misogyny

"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read. as.ft.com/r/199e371f-8...

Read the latest in our Long Overdue project, an In Memoriam for C. L. R. James by Gerald Horne. 🗃️

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Fascinating little volume this, about the BBC during the Cold War, by Hugh Greene, former D-G and brother to the more famous Graham. Like his brother's themes, every decision is nuanced, every motivation questioned and every broadcast across the Iron Curtain a chance to encourage espionage.