Morning! This is an exclusive extract from my new book Maybe I'm Amazed, about my autistic son James & how music became our shared language. Wait for the Velvet Underground bit at the end www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Love, fear - and Beatle suits … our extract from John Harris’s new memoir about his son’s autism. Such a moving, thoughtful read. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I travelled to Arizona to meet the first ever human recipient of Musk’s Neuralink brain implant. I watched Noland Arbaugh operate a computer using only the power of his mind. It was wonderful - and terrifying www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

If the only criterion for something’s success is that it’s the most financially profitable use of a space, we’re going to have a pretty shitty world. You can always make more money out of something by squeezing it differently. The question is: is that all there is?

Another must-read from this week’s magazine: Simon Hattenstone talks to Shari Franke - daughter of mommy vlogger Ruby, who was jailed for child abuse www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A really lively conversation with Self Esteem about “going a bit mad” after the success of Prioritise Pleasure, by the ace Rebecca Nicholson www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

The one Stephen pitched as being about “Jools’ Hootananny of lies” …

Spare a thought for Angela Perron and her husband who in 1998 upped sticks to a remote Scottish cottage to await a global hi-tech apocalypse that never happened … #Y2Kbug theguardian.com/technology/2...

ICYMI, this is a very smart piece by Jess Cartner-Morley on how “vibes” came to rule our lives. theguardian.com/culture/2024...

A chilling look at the growing threat from 3D printed guns, by @samirashackle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘It’s all bollocks. BOLLOCKS’ The great Brian Cox talks religion, Keir Starmer and his love of smoking weed with our Simon Hattenstone. www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

Have you heard we’re on strike? bsky.app/profile/gonu...

I wrote about fentanyl, homelessness, mental health care, Portland, Oregon and my friend Evan B Harris, for @theguardian.com amp.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Took the 16 year old to Caterham History Festival - an incredible bargain (£6/free for students), and unlike most literary festivals 50% attended by young people. The rock star historian Richard J Evans was a highlight, on the people working under Hitler and their claim to “make Germany great again”