This is clearly overstating it but I am so frustrated that supposedly impartial news outlets feel the need to follow the Mail’s agenda.

As it would have been Samuel Beckett’s birthday today, I’m sure he would have liked this cartoon.

Sun's out, barbecue's on, someone's playing Padam Padam #SouthLondonSpring

The question of how to restore meaning to children’s lives and how to foster a more optimistic society requires more than scapegoating smartphones. My review of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation. literaryreview.co.uk/the-smartphone…

Are there any campus dramas about a female lecturer or professor foolishly succumbing to the charms of a manipulative male student? Feel I’ve now seen or read half a dozen the other way round.

Six sacks of books! We forgot to empty the sacks yesterday and now the books have started to reproduce ... Times Books

'The most subversive thing we can do is read ' said the author Percival Everitt.
What a pleasure to hear him discuss his new novel James Foyles Bookshop Charing X. He was wry, witty, astute, and thoughtful. Bought a copy of James and am gripped!

I just had to look up how to spell 'calamities', which somehow feels symbolic.

'Long Day’s Journey is not a play entirely without comic relief ... but it ought not to elicit frequent laughter from the stalls.'

George Berridge (@george_berridge) on a new production of Eugene O’Neill’s tragedy of memory and regret
the-tls.co.uk/articles/long-…

In Tooting. Still true.

En el día del Parkinson un recuerdo especial para mi mamá, a quien tomé de modelo para creer el cuerpo de Elena, en Elena sabe. Y mi abrazo a quienes conviven con el Parkinson cada día y a sus familias.

I'm writing about how women can protect their hearts after menopause and how to recognise the symptoms of cv disease. I would very much like to interview a woman who experienced a heart attack in her fifties or sixties. If anyone can help I'd be enormously grateful.

Delighted to feature on the cover of the new The TLS with this Byron chap

Mildly astonished by the news that writing angry letters then ripping them up is only now touted as therapeutic. I've been doing it for YEARS...

“Where have large swathes of the media been? And sadly, I include the BBC in that outside of this programme…” A devastating critique of professional failure to stand up for truth and safeguarding from Hannah Barnes on BBC Newsnight