In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’

I reviewed Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷’s Getting Better for Guardian Books, a book about living and surviving. Rosen talks about many things, including confronting his mortality in 2020 when he contracted Covid, and the death of his son Eddie, aged 18, from meningitis Ebury Publishing

I’ve admired Jennifer Aguilar’s writing for a long time - here she is in Times Magazine on pregnancy after multiple miscarriages: thetimes.co.uk/article/im-pre… and her book Life, Almost: Miscarriage, Misconceptions and a Search for Answers from the Brink of Motherhood is out next month

The news everyone needed in January… even if this isn’t quite the way they expected it to arrive

For the The Guardian, I wrote about the government's stingy response to the care review. Since when did 'love' become a euphemism for cheap? Children deserve so much better than this paltry offering. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"I never did, & never will, meet an undeserving child. But today, the state has proved itself an undeserving parent" One last share in case you missed it. My thoughts on the #carereview in this week's The Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I wrote about parenting after miscarriage, the idea that finally getting a baby makes past losses melt away, and the legacy miscarriage can have, with thanks the viral insights of Jennifer Aguilar theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Jen and I cannot wait to interview Juno Dawson by reading her tarot cards live on stage at @TheBathFestival this May! You can book here: bathfestivals.org.uk/the-bath-festi… Litwitchure

I am extremely pleased to announce the Martha Mills prize: an award for young writers launched by London Review Bookshop. **Please retweet** - as a new prize we are keen to spread the word. theguardian.com/books/2023/mar…

An Irish literary archive treat for #StPatricksDay Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney encounters an ancient and mysterious pagan statue on Boa Island in Lough Erne and imagines what the old gods in Ireland were like, before the arrival of St Patrick.

"Quant dreamt of yet shorter hemlines..." a wonderful, fun obit of Mary Quant, "the high priestess of the Sixties" Times Obituaries thetimes.co.uk/article/dame-m…

So proud of Becky Holmes hates spinach for this fabulous review of Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You in The Washington Post @jounwin washingtonpost.com/books/2024/04/…

Looking forward to the Launch of #FiveLoavesOnFridays on Friday at @foundlingmuseum in Bloomsbury. I will be the MC with the editor! Proud to have my story in this anthology of care experienced authors. 2 years in the making 1 book 1 editor. @rebekahPierre92 100 authors

Happy publication day to Rebekah Pierre and all the writers who have contributed to the brilliant anthology Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It, with contributions from lemn sissay OBE FRSL Sally Bayley Kirsty Capes and many more

Congratulations Rebekah Pierre you absolute star!

🚨 The first episode of 'Your History', a new weekly podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times, is out now 🚨 We look back on the lives of President Ebrahim Raisi and Commander 'Sharkey' Ward. You can listen to/follow the podcast here: podfollow.com/your-history

Fabulous piece on life behind the deaths - confessions of an obituaries editor by Nigel Farndale Times Obituaries thetimes.com/culture/tv-rad…

'In June, when the jewel climbs up highest in the year into the heavens, brightest of stars... At that time the fairest of lights likes to gaze longer upon the earth, to move more slowly across the meadows.' Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/06/se-len…