If you believe COVID is ‘just flu’ or a ‘liberal conspiracy’ or ‘doesn’t affect people like me’, why not write it on your forehead with a Sharpie. It’ll speed up triage and give someone else a chance

It's been a stressful year but as we're starting to plan the sections for the end of 2020, I've been reflecting on the fact that we wouldn't have made it through without our brilliant freelancers. You've had such a tough year but have been so resilient and so reactive. Thank you.

A quick and unscientific info request: Has anyone else an 80+ y.o. parent who has not yet been contacted about - let alone received - a C19 vaccine of any make?

I basically want to cry. You can’t imagine what we’re seeing inside hospitals today. The scale of the suffering. The horror of it all. No-one who saw it would EVER dismiss the dying for being too old or too unwell. Never. They’d do everything they could to help. This is so wrong.

What’s distinctive about the brains of elderly people who have not experienced cognitive decline? And what can we accurately say about the “benefits” of late learning? Would Montaigne approve of them, or not? Find out, in S2Ep5 of The Neuromantics willeaves.com/podcast

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this, but I love holidaying in Britain. #holiday #supporttheuktravelindustry #cheshire telegraph.co.uk/travel/activit…

I absolutely will not let this go. I refuse to accept the normalization of lying. I believe the overwhelming majority of people of this country are inherently honest. They would never lie to or deliberately deceive another. Why should we accept less from those in high office

In today's Writer's Aloud podcast we hear from Mimi Khalvati, Eleanor Updale, Kate Colquhoun, @dyerheather, Debjani Chatterjee, Ian Duhig FRSL, @AnnCoburn1, Ruth Thomas, Julian Evans, Joanne Limberg, Emma¬_darwin, Hilary Davies on Why I Write buff.ly/3sIN8S1

Ecstatic to finally see this in print, despite the grainy cover image🙃. I updated the #Marrakesh chapter as part of broader research for the Pocket Marrakesh guide, which is now due out early 2022. Well done to all my brilliant co-authors on this one! #Morocco #travel

First time back on Twitter for so many years I can’t remember how to post. However I have just ordered this and, blimey, can’t wait for it to arrive on publication day, 6th July. waterstones.com/book/thundercl…

Nearly 20 yrs ago (🙄) I reviewed this mesmerising book by Melanie McGrath. I've just suggested that a group of fine travel writers add it to their *best* list: when it comes to writing about place, The Long Exile is up there with Chatwin, Macfarlane etc. telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/…

A sea of green. What a cliché. But today that’s what I swam in.

Has anyone else offered to drive kid to clean out house at end of student tenancy and spent hours deep cleaning (while kid faffs… flapping a duster desultorily?). Fool? Moi?

Just arrived. Spare time s. o. r. t. e. d Congratulations on publication Laura Cumming