Gorgeous family house or soulless cage? My piece on the Starmers’ new home. bit.ly/3VYSiYU

Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has been inspired by Charli XCX and her recent album release, Brat. @bbcnuala is joined by Zing Tsjeng who can explain what this trend means and Alice Thomson on her appeal to women. Listen at 10am 🔽

“Dragons represent the wild” - children’s author Cressida Cowell tells Alice Thomson and me how childhood holidays on a remote island inspired her best-selling books. New episode of Times Radio What I Wish I’d Known Speakers for Schools thetimes.com/podcasts/what-….

We’re so excited to welcome Patrick Radden Keefe, the acclaimed investigative journalist behind bestsellers Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, to Cliveden. He’ll tell Alice Thomson about his thrilling career and his upcoming book, The Oligarch's Son. Buy tickets at clivedenliteraryfestival.org

Patrick Radden Keefe discusses his investigative journalism from OxyContin to London gangsters with Alice Thomson #CLF #ClivedenLitFest #EmpireOfRaddenKeefe

Kerchingeroo he’s back, jolly japes. Boris Johnson's memoir is not boring, but our toxic relationship with Boris the narcissist, the fibber, the joker, never ends well. Please, whatever happens, we don’t need the greased piglet back in Downing Street. bit.ly/3BqAWhb

Supermodel, Heidi Klum tells me why ‘le sport en chambre’ is her favourite exercise and how she prefers to sunbathe topless, while her alter ego, Helga, talks about her love for sausages, cleaning and knitting. bit.ly/40pLIPb

New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland. The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.

All I wanted was a piercing. What I got was ableist nonsense I wrote about the Accessorize incident and how it's nothing disabled people haven't seen before for The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.com/article/14d97f…

"'Your life will be immensely enriched if you allow yourself to mix with a few rather awful people. You won’t lose your values.'" Alice Thomson The Times and The Sunday Times #longreads thetimes.com/life-style/sex…

Exactly ⁦⁦Alice Thomson⁩ Once again, no one talks about the girls thetimes.com/article/3653e1…

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Great to sit down and reminisce with @AliceTTimes about my time as Ambassador to the UK. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Fancy a chat with Giles Coren or Charlotte Ivers? Now’s your chance More than 30 of our journalists will take your calls on Wednesday for the last day of The Times and The Sunday Times Christmas Appeal ⬇️

He frequently failed at school, so how did the ‘weirdo’ teenager Bill Gates go on to found Microsoft and become a billionaire by 31? He talks to Alice Thomson about his memoir, Source Code. Read the full interview ⬇️ thetimes.com/life-style/cel…

"Yet rather than a disability, neurodiversity will come to be appreciated as one of our greatest assets in the 21st century," says Alice Thomson bit.ly/4jARgx9

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't want you to read this interview thetimes.com/uk/technology-…

Reeves' tax hikes aim to fund fairness - but the unintended fallout is hitting jobs and growth. Policy goals don't mean much if the outcomes undermine them. My column. #UKEconomy #TaxPolicy bit.ly/43E8L8N

The V&A’s spectacular new outpost is part museum, part IKEA warehouse, part Generation Game. Tristram Hunt takes me round his Aladdin’s cave and tells me about using forklifts to democratise design #VAEast bit.ly/4kJsE5b

Britain let predators abuse thousands of girls—because they were poor, vulnerable, and "trouble." Race was part of it. But class, misogyny, and institutional cowardice were just as deadly. My column. #Rotherham #CaseyReport bit.ly/4e7edpH