Speed dating and the 50-plus lesbian, an excellent, engaging highly informative piece in this week's Perspective newsletter by the intrepid author of Sex Drive, Stephanie Theobald: perspectivemedia.com/lesbian-speed-…

In today's paper - I'm creeped out by the revived trade in human remains. Living with other people's bones and skulls is bad juju. The Telegraph

I had a glorious swim in the river Cam near Grantchester Meadows yesterday (if you know the spot, you know). It's the first time for a while, as last time I fell sick, the water quality can be wildly variable. But yesterday it was heaven on earth.

Good point, well made.

Tongue firmly in cheek with this one, but serious point underlying. There has been black market dealing with other prescription drugs... and don't lets forget the HRT crisis of 2022. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/2…

I often feel exhausted from telling people that as the mother of sons, I've never heard either of them them or any of their male friends say anything positive about Andrew Tate. They despise him. Why do we think young men are all would-be incels?

Excellent piece by Helen Lewis

My feelings entirely. This may eclipse Baz Luhrmann beating The Great Gatsby to death with his lurid razzle-dazzle shovel and I don't mean that in a good way. All the sensuality of a third-hand sex doll.

Confessions of a compulsive hoarder - me in the Daily Mail today. Clutter clutter everywhere and not a space to think! dailymail.co.uk/femail/homes/a…

Last night I arrived at the launch of Dr Paula Byrne Author FRSA's brilliant new Austen-inspired novel Six Weeks by the Sea at the Daunt Books shop in Notting Hill, but couldn't see anyone I knew... only to find it was the wrong shop and launch (for Paul Beaver's book on Mitchell and the

I was so lucky to be part of a lunch celebrating the artistic brilliance of John Pelling RA, clergyman, painter and wondrous human being. You still have a chance at the weekend to see his extraordinary work at Kearsey and Gold on Cork Street in Mayfair.

I bought a battered Edwardian top hat and had it shipped from Germany last year in an attempt to better escape this century. It's actually working rather well. (Yes, I am in a loo.)

I hugely enjoyed writing about Margaret Thatcher's erotic allure for UnHerd based on Tina Gaudoin's magnificently wayward book The Incidental Feminist, which is full of fascinating insights and even the faintest whiff of occasional mild impropriety. Swift Press

I had such fun writing this for UnHerd, based on Tina Gaudoin's excellent new book on Thatcher, The Incidental Feminist Swift Press

To the National Portrait Gallery for the launch of Victoria Bateman's brilliant new book Economica: a Global History of Women, Wealth and Power. As you're an educated lot, I expect you already know that's Ada Lovelace behind us. Dr Victoria Bateman Headline Books

Twitter is hell today. People drawing down wrath on the shoulders of a student because he said something most thoughtful, responsible, working adults feel is deeply wrong on a WhatsApp group after Charlie Kirk's murder. Have none of them done/said anything they regretted aged

Worth reading this whole thread. People really are, as the experts say on this thread, wilfully ignorant about links between paedophile networks and power-broking, Epstein etc - such a dark thing to recognise in all its forms.

The continuing shame of how the West abandoned Afghan women and left them at the mercy of the Taliban.