Unearthed book proves Shakespeare ‘cribbed from Dante’ www.thetimes.com/article/6355...

Hereford letter hints at new twist in drama of Shakespeare’s wife www.thetimes.com/article/35ee...

William Boyd: remembering my friend, Mario Vargas Llosa www.thetimes.com/article/e178...

A poem for all time

The day Roald Dahl first revealed his antisemitism to me www.thetimes.com/article/4ef9...

open.spotify.com/track/2Yplrd... Listening to the first record I bought as a child. It's brilliant as ever.

Why would you move your manufacturing to America when next week the tariffs might half, or disappear, or double, or grow wings and fly, or be turned into a goblin, or become an emotion, or

I didn't think she could better the fonts video, but she's bettered the fonts video. (Here's the fonts video: www.instagram.com/p/C2cZBIAr24m/)

This is a thing of brilliance and not to be missed. Director @fionalaird.bsky.social Actor Mark Lockyer. On at Wilton's Music Hall.

Agatha Christie’s letters reveal clashes with her publisher www.thetimes.com/article/8258... In which we learn that there is nothing new under the sun.

Been to see the Edward Munch exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. What a remarkable artist he was. Lovely exhibition, highly recommended.

Bones reveal life was no tea party for PG Tips chimp www.thetimes.com/article/d280... Who remembers Choppers?

40% of Britons have not read one single book in the past year so Happy #WorldBookDay everyone.

The Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist is HERE! Explore the list and support independent bookshops with us 🏆 @womensprize.bsky.social > uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-20...?

My spring bath. Didn't enjoy it. Wet.

Former AI minister criticises Labour’s copyright plans www.thetimes.com/article/f15a...

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Pink sky over north London.

Goodness me but #Yellowstone was fabulous. Watched all five seasons now and it just got better and madder. I now want to go and live on a ranch in Montana. With Kevin Costner. But without his psycho daughter.

'...a lot of great French eating is great shopping'

Mary Whitehouse dream come true, as university put trigger warning on Botticelli's naked Venus.

I post this without comment.

We hope you learnt something new! If you're thinking of submitting to us, maybe you'll want to write about how traditions have evolved since their origins 🌱 #writersofbluesky #callforsubmissions #creativewriting #opencall #writerswanted #poetrywriting #shortstories #history #anthology #valentines

How very un-Hampstead like.

Surveillance and missing children: a rare glimpse inside forgotten Tibet www.thetimes.com/article/5f3e...

Authors spared from praising rivals as book is thrown at blurbs www.thetimes.com/article/2c57...

Just listened with horror and disbelief to Donald Trump say "That war was not a good one for Ukraine to go into." The utter cynicism and immorality is chilling. "Go into"?! Ukraine was attacked and invaded by the forces of a genocidal dictator.

Good morning.

You think what’s happening in the US is bad; this sneaked out earlier this week in the UK www.macrumors.com/2025/02/07/u...

Love Nora Ephron and I *think* I agree with this. Will have to go back and study my literary gods and goddesses, to see how this definition of structure fits their works. #Books #Writing

@bookphace.bsky.social You had me at "general all round failure."

Today's @thetimes.com cartoon.

My 95 year old father is reading this and loving it. Not read it myself but sounds great fun.

Fresh from the tender care of those nice Hamas chappies.

How did I not see that all this time, those oh so innocent looking little plastic bricks, were actually at it like rabbits?

Well hello there.

'Teaching assistant Amanda Hurst used "pester power" and her own cash to create a 4000-book school library.' Wonderful.

Is it only me or did January race past? I know it's a wet and cold and dreary month, but at least it gave you time to settle in to it before it was gone, but this year ...

Holocaust exhibition ‘too political’ to be displayed in parliament www.thetimes.com/article/b880...

'47% of Gen Zs think "the entire way our society is organised should be radically changed by revolution." And yet, they can't even be bothered to put their cereal bowl in the sink.' I just love Giles Coren.

Thinking back to yesterday's #HolocaustMemorialDay It was striking and deeply tragic to hear the survivors, who in previous years have been optimistic about the future, now being fearful, as they witness the virus of antisemitism taking hold yet again.

The Holocaust, the murder of 6 million Jews, did not begin at Auschwitz. It began with hate-speech, conspiracy theories, vilification, lies, vicious tropes, boycotts, exclusion fuelled, not only by hatred, but by ignorance and indifference, and it's happening again. #HolocaustMemorialDay

Raven's January- Read Like Nobody's Watching #TacklingTheTbr and more 📚 @rachelharrison.bsky.social #AntoniaHodgson @jconnollybooks.bsky.social #SunjeevSahota @rid9way.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social #PetronaAward2025 #ConnollyReadathon ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/r... 💙📚

@tifflball.bsky.social You had me at "bit of a hermit".

From 1935 onwards, the Nazis escalated their oppression of Jews. The practical implementation of persecution was a matter for the Gestapo. What did this mean for ordinary Jews living in the Reich? Our latest article on #TheHolocaustExplained explores the Nazi Terror State https://buff.ly/3PMqLra