People who work in Bank are very very lucky to have Brigadiers. standard.co.uk/go/london/rest…

Soulless cement soup (boo) plus an ode to my soon-to-be mother-in-law (yay): my review of Tish standard.co.uk/go/london/rest…

Here’s our announcement

Who do you find cuter: Kim Jong-un or Winston Churchill? George W. Bush or Barack Obama? What about Trump? My review of Simon May’s rather cute book The Power of Cute in Standpoint Magazine standpointmag.co.uk/node/7450

The River Thames is totally brilliant and we definitely don't appreciate it enough. So I spent a day on the river finding out all sorts of wonderful things. Dive in (but actually don't, please, the current is STRONG) standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esma…

After a year of stuffing myself with challah and chicken soup and so, so much matzo, I am Jewish, and I've written about converting through food for Foodism. Pick it up today!! foodism.co.uk/features/jewis…

FOOD LOVERS! I have just seen the new cookbook from Quality Chop House and it is sensational. Everything you have ever eaten at QCH and wanted to cook is there

I've spent weeks going through all the new cookbooks for autumn (both US and UK titles). Here's my list of the top 20. Just in time for National Bookshop Day too. telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink…

Thrilled that Rosamund Urwin has won news journalist of year at Words by Women. Her Operation Yellowhammer scoop for @thesundaytimes with caroline wheeler was one of most important stories of year.

As it's #WorldPenguinDay I'm looking at Penguin Books from 1966. Why? Because that's the year they ditched the Marber Grid and brought in Alan Aldridge as art director to spice up their fiction covers! He was a controversial choice, so let's see how he did... #SaturdayThoughts

I wrote for The New Yorker about the landline telephone in fiction, as an object of uncertainty and instability and possibility newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Worcester College, Oxford has just confirmed that it has confirmed the places of all of their UK offer holders, irrespective of their A-level results. Says their 2020 impact is their "most diverse cohort ever."

Dominic Raab has been downgraded to Dominic Rbbc

My friends son is missing I don't have bare followers on here but yeah pls share if you see this. Thanks

GIVEAWAY! Next month we’ll be announcing the 2021 #YoungWritersAward shortlist. In the meantime, we’re giving away a set of some of the previous winners of the UK’s most influential prize for young writers. To enter, simply Like & RT this post (UK & IE only). Ends 23 Dec.

The renewed focus on dirty money in London is long overdue. It's a security threat, it undermines those pushing for democracy in places like Kazakhstan, but it also has a terrible impact on communities like Kensington where inequality is sky high labourlist.org/2022/02/kensin…

What we really need is a council serious about tackling the dirty money in our borough

Our country, and our Kensington - where I am proud to live - desperately need change. I've spent 20 years fighting poverty and corruption in West London and around the world, delivering real change. Today, I’m standing to win back Kensington for Labour. WinWithJoe.co.uk