WhatsApp drives me nuts but my husband, son and daughter watched the football from hospital, the Galapagos and Suffolk respectively whilst sharing the feels so it has its moments. (I had a great night’s sleep…)

This is hilarious. I can't believe I have no memory of it whatsoever. Transitioning to decimalisation was very easy but this song makes it seem hellishly complicated. It must have baffled a lot of people.

hell yeah britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

Someone should make Thomas Heatherwick sit on one of his buses all day in a heatwave. Who needs windows, eh.

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

Authors querying books: I'm often surprised by the word count of submissions. I just looked at a book for adults which is 23k words long. That's...too short. 200k words is usually too long. You can determine the word count of published books by taking an average of 3 pages then X by number of pages.

There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.

Yes. Also, my daughter taught herself maybe 20% of her physics GCSE curriculum from YouTube (her school is excellent but they ran out of time...).

Is your child up at 9pm arguing about tram networks with the entire staff of the FT and some tedious Americans who are not familiar with the concept of a joke? This report make shock you.

The most disgusting behaviour I’ve ever witnessed in public spaces was directed at Sadiq Khan by ‘anti-Ulez’ protesters, who of course received way more coverage, much of it friendly, than the scheme’s incredible success ever will.

Of course, Dan Jarvis wrote an award-winning memoir about his time in the army... uk.bookshop.org/p/books/long...

This is the key part; make your employer verify in writing that you (or your team) are expected, as part of the duties of your job, to be exposed to child sexual abuse material. They *of course* then have to provide a method of reporting it, and resources for supporting those exposed to it.

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

When you can pay 150mn euros for a player, but not 150 euros for a translator

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Fantastic! So pleased that you enjoyed Blood & Treasure. @duncanweldon.bsky.social

Happy paperback publication day to @duncanweldon.bsky.social In the words of Martin Wolf, Blood & Treasure is ‘a brilliant book’.

This is… unexpected.

Authors! Reminder to register your books for #PLR by 30 June: www.bl.uk/services/plr

Perhaps the Labour Party could take 5 minutes out of its busy infighting schedule and let this be news for a bit

They order ballot papers by drawing lots in Australia. Yet more evidence for: Australia has the best electoral system.

Impressive (observer.co.uk/news/nationa...)

Are you writing an unputdownable #thriller? Then it's time to put it down, book an #agent121 and see what a #litagent thinks! 28 Apr @katebarker.bsky.social 28 Apr @litagentfran.bsky.social 29 Apr Nicky Lovick 30 Apr Clare Coombes Book: www.iaminprint.co.uk #thrillerfiction #amwritingthriller

This week over 100,000 ALCS members will receive their share of £34m. Let's celebrate the value of human creativity, something that isn't going anywhere 💡📖🌳

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Mini thread. I have, for book research purposes, devoted quite a bit time to thinking about this sort of thing over the last few years.

Today at 16.00 on Radio 4. And then available as a podcast afterwards .

‘It’s International Women’s Day. Why aren’t you smiling?’

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Rough rule of thumb: 10% *sustained* oil price rise adds about 0.4/0.5% to inflation and reduces GDP growth by around 0.1/0.2%

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

So WeTransfer, which has been my go-to large file sharing service for over a decade, has decided they now own what you upload & can use it to train AI. Anyone know of any good alternatives?

I hope HarperCollins haven't gone to print with the paperback of Andrew Lownie's book yet.

Donald Trump's birthday is 14 June. Just saying.

ALSO - if you missed out on your childhood measles vaccine and haven't had measles, you can get *free* MMR vaccination from your GP! (whether as an older child, teenager or adult). I got my MMR about 10 years ago! www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

I thought Wuthering Heights was great. Looks incredible, good soundtrack, hot lead actors, sometimes really funny. All the drama. Who cares if it’s not like the book.

Delighted to have a Blood and Treasure extract in Foreign Policy today. foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/06/b...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Someone should do a daily podcast this May on the General Strike one century on. 15 min episodes 4th to 12th May. (I will happily write and present this podcast if some organisation wants to pay me).

Arguably more significant than defections, internal party politics and the Beckhams… In 2024 there were around 3,600 suspected cases of measles. We need to challenge the nonsense spread by anti vaxxers and ensure children are protected. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... news.sky.com/story/uk-los...

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

THE SECOND HOME (May 28th - please pre-order🙏🏻). A second book, a body of work. I’m so grateful I can do this again and really hope people enjoy this one. P.S. it’s set during an August bank holiday heatwave — a reminder that warmer, brighter days are coming!!! ☀️ #psychologicalthriller #novel

Airport book brain! This is very good. Though I'd argue that we are suffering as much from podcast brain.