The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir. youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?...

Repast: The Story of Food - @jennylinford.bsky.social, @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/repast #foodhistory #aghist #envhist

What a pleasure to be interviewed by Dr Miranda Melcher about my book for the British Museum Repast: The Story of Food for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Here's a link to the podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/repast

'We’re gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion.' says We Ain't Buying It. @hcrichardson.bsky.social on consumer power.

November 24, 2025

'But I have to wonder whether, in our desire to never repeat the crimes of the 80s, we have overcorrected – whether we have thrown the starfruit-necklaced piglet out with the bathwater.' Ruby Tandoh on the allure of entertaining Martha Stewart style. www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...

Turner was the first ‘modern’ painter; who directly inspired the impressionism of the 19thC and presaged the abstract expressionism of the 20thC. 'Evening Star,' (1830) is all the proof you need.

A chance to buy original artworks from Axel Scheffler, Rebecca Cobb, Sydney Smith and many others who have featured in #NewIllustrationoftheDay. Bidding starts on 28 November, and bids start at £100. @childrensbkshow.bsky.social www.jumblebee.co.uk/thechildrens... #originalchildrensillustrations

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

'Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body and poses a seismic threat to global health, according to the world’s largest review.' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"They still have big designs on hurting this stewardship institution” warns America's former National Parks Director. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

'What’s at stake, then, isn’t just representation: it’s the resilience and diversity of knowledge itself.' @theguardian.com Long Read www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

'That’s the thing about culture: it persists. Culture is what people pass down. It brings shared meaning into our lives.' Zadie Smith www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A powerful read from @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Take a seat and we will tell all the traditional tales. We tell the stories, not read from a book, not learnt from a script, but told. See you @foodmuseumuk on Sunday 30th November from 10.30 onwards #stories #storytelling #myth #legend #folklore #traditional #christmas #fairy

The last thing I need is another cake book but...

Why is it so hard to run the BBC? Is impartiality possible? Is it even what polarised viewers even want? An essay for the Weekend FT: www.ft.com/content/7124...

Enjoying cooking from Dorie Greenspan's new cookbook, Dorie's Anytime Cakes. Such well written recipes. The Rum- Raisin Visiting Cake went down well!

Covid vaccines may increase the lifespan of cancer patients – this could be a game changer | Devi Sridhar

naomialderman.substack.com/p/flesh-by-d... I wrote this, about Flesh by David Szalay. It is a brilliant book, one of the most worthy Booker-winners in years. It’s also really, really important. This post contains stuff about childhood sexual abuse and how we let down boys and young men.

A key victory in Trump's road to power in America was successfully branding the majority of its established press as "fake news". Now, he is bringing this across the pond to the BBC – where these same tactics are favoured by prominent politicians and media outlets on the right. A dangerous moment.

Congratulations to Ferdia Lennon - first the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, and now the Rooney Prize for Literature, for his excellent novel Glorious Exploits. Here’s my review from Jan 2024:

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes. Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

This systematic dismantling of public data is a deliberate assault on knowledge itself, a cowardly attempt to govern in the dark because their agenda crumbles in the light. It is the act of a regime terrified of being measured by its catastrophic failures.

'I can settle up my affairs. I can turn the heating up full blast, and that will be wonderful," "At last, after 26 years, they've recognised justice . . . pity they took so long." 92-year-old Betty Brown, victim of #PostOfficeScandal, finally has claim settled. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beans are great! An affordable source of protein and fibre- and delicious! Pleased to see this Bang in Some Beans campaign. 👏

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Mamdani: “We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.”

I spoke to ANTHONY HOPKINS about his eventful life - also starring O'Toole, Olivier, Hepburn, Foster and Kardashian. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Edward Burns-Jones, Love Among The Ruins (detail), Watercolor Version, c. 1872. #FlowerReport #Flowers #Art 🥀

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... This week’s episode of #Movers&Shakers celebrates the local heroes who got our #ParkyPetition over the 100000 signatures line which triggers a Parliamentary debate. And..#BREAKING NEWS that debate will take place on November 17th

Master of wine and life Jancis Robinson shares thirty (30) THIRTY! absolute bargains on.ft.com/42VGhI6

'Finally, some good news for chickens: the vast majority (92%) of companies with cage-free commitments of 2024 or earlier have succeeded in hitting their target.' wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/cra...

If you read one thing today, this weekend, or this month, let it be this essay by @edwardluce.bsky.social. It starkly depicts where we are in America, how and why those who have power in America have yet to effectively stand up to Trump and why they must start. Superb job by Ed.

"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr

this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA www.ft.com/content/1377...

'Every child deserves the chance to grow up to be a reader. For that to happen, every child has to have the opportunity to find and choose the book that speaks to them.' @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social #ChildrensBooker #GetKidsReading www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

First the The Rose Garden, then The East Wing... Add Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the list of beautiful things Trump is going to intentionally destroy.

October 23, 2025

At this point, nothing is stopping him from doing this.

Are leaf blowers really necessary? The answer is blowin’ in the wind | Jess Harwood

As an exhibition devoted to the potato opens in the Netherlands @jennylinford.bsky.social considers the earthier side of 19th-century art

Inside the illegal eel trade: is there a way to stop Europe’s biggest wildlife crime before it’s too late?

The story of the humble potato - an ingredient we now take for granted - is a fascinating one. A pleasure to write about the history, art and culture of the potato for @apollo-magazine.com. apollo-magazine.com/potatoes-art...

'Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an administration apparently bent on replacing that democracy with a dictatorship.'

Britain’s Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism. Why? @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/b...