Much discussion today about Ofsted's one-word judgments, which are also used in children's social care. So here is a reminder about what an 'inadequate' children's home looks like. 🧵

Happy 100th Birthday to Joan Aiken born 4th September 1924. Celebrating her life in stories with two new collections out this week! joanaiken.wordpress.com/2024/09/03/joa…

Grenfell Memorial Quilt, in memory of 72 lives lost - #GrenFell Tower fire, UK. The aim to complete the hanging for the 10th yr Remembrance,2027. GMQ will be the dimensions of Grenfell Tower 220ft x 72ft . Initiated by mother of survivor, Tuesday Greenidge #sewingforjustice 💚

We are looking to recruit two trustees aged 18-30 to help us develop and progress as we enter our second decade as a museum. Deadline 11 October. No trustee experience required. See link for details. Please RT. elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/get-involved/t…

⁦Lissa Evans⁩ It’s magnificent, worth all your hard work AND I had to consult the dictionary THREE times which was an added bonus.

Some people have said my proposal to withdraw public funding from artists who actively try to put other artists out of work is heavy handed. Draconian even. That may well be the case and I'm open to other suggestions about how to deter this behaviour. What I'm not open to is

Brief opportunity to see inside Dickens's writing shed, where he was working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood the day before he died ... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A pair of Stonechats on the coastal path....just being together 🤎

Four years ago, we published our little book The Philosopher Queens. Yesterday, three young women came up to me after my lecture and told me it was the reason they chose to study philosophy. I think that's mission accomplished!

Yet more evidence today - if it were needed - of the crisis in maternity care. Women and babies are being repeatedly exposed to a level of failure which would be unacceptable in any other NHS service, and Wes Streeting MP is right to say that this is "cause for national shame"

Today's big family policy offer is childcare so mums can get to work. But is that all they want? Polling says not, so we asked why. Our report on why Westminster fails to ‘get’ mums and how we should make the UK the best place in the world to be a mum. theotherhalf.uk/what-do-mums-w…

'Aftermath' means 'after the mowing/harvest' - originally it was the second crop planted after the harvest🌿 I love the way this #etymology transforms the word, stressing the potential of the aftermath - what can be grown after the harvest has been gathered in🧡

Apples and Oranges, 1900

"As soon as she started writing it just burst out; she went off like a blender with the lid off.” I'll never stop relishing Wollstonecraft's life - talking here to HistoryExtra The Wollstonecraft Society historyextra.com/period/georgia…

Next Friday I'll be in Brendon Books in Taunton talking about my book Jane Austen the Secret Radical. Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/whats…

This horse waited his whole life for this moment.

Today, our hearts are breaking but our promise to work for a just peace must be unbreakable theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"Harbinger of Autumn". Paul Klee. 1922.

St Luke writing his Gospel with a sharpened pen - and the cutest winged mini ox you'll see today... Medieval Manuscripts Add. 28962, f.34v Psalter and Hours, Dominican use (the 'Prayerbook of Alphonso V of Aragon'); Spain, 1436-43