Alice Allan

Manchester Museum named European museum of the year ‘Gobsmacked’ director says 138-year-old museum aims to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’

Manchester Museum named European museum of the year. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

As the parent of a child with CP, this echoes my feelings entirely (with greater eloquence than I could manage!).

Thank you for writing this. My daughter has CP. You're right in saying that whilst I wish my daughter could have the childhood of her typical peers, I know I wouldn't want to change the person I am now, because of everything we've been through together. It's a confusing feeling you explained v well.

I'd be embarrassed if my team finished the season one place above the relegation zone but decided to have a victory parade.

Good luck to all the marathon runners in Manchester and London today. It's going to be 18 and 20 degrees respectively so stay hydrated!

Driver caused 75-year-old cyclist's death while she was 'distracted' Lucinda Collins was on a hands-free call to her mum when the collision occurred, a court heard.

On the day the government announced plans to jail cyclists for life if they kill pedestrians, yet another “oh sorry, I was distracted” driver who killed a cyclist walks from court with no jail time (2 years suspended).

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Flying home to London after a 3 week trip around California. It's an amazing state and the wilderness is unrivalled but I'll be glad to be home.

Just to weigh in on the US food debate, as I'm currently in California. Their Thai food is way better, the pizza is rubbish and they use too much salt. The tacos are amazing but the bacon is dreadful. There's too much ice in the drinks and the cheese sucks. Great fruit in the supermarkets.

I agree. Reddit has been fantastic for planning recent trips to US National Parks.

Gluten-free Yorkshire Pudding Recipe - BEST EVER! (3-Ingredients) Gluten-free Yorkshire pudding recipe using 3 simple ingredients! Nobody would EVER know that they're Coeliac-friendly and wheat-free.

Which recipe did you use? I tried this one at the weekend but it wasn't perfect. glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk/2017/10/01/g...

You’ll hear “the disability benefits bill is soaring” a lot today but remember. Public spending on pensioner entitlements has risen from 5.3% of GDP to 6% over the last 20 years, whilst the working-age benefits bill has remained static. Consider why one of these is controversial.

That's an amazing picture. Any idea of how I'd get a print? Thank you.

We are once more again seeing the distortion created by who has access to media.

Numerous columns from or about people earning "only" £150k on the horror of private school VAT but barely anything from the hundreds of thousands at risk from genuine deprivation via PIP changes.

The PIP assessment is already rigorous - they're not waving people through, as some people believe. It involves many, many hoops of fire.

maybe - just maybe! - possible that if we actually had, eg, workplaces that catered to all sorts of brains and ways of working, and weren't needlessly rigid, then people wouldn't feel the desperate need to try and fix themselves so they can function in a society that's so unfriendly to them!

Huge relief - upcoming USA holiday will now include Alcatraz and National Parks - but confused why the Democrats would support any Republican proposals right now.

Seriously: Every single person is a taxpayer because everyone pays VAT on goods. And even if they didn’t, they’d still deserve the same services and rights as the rest of the population because that’s what living in a civilised society - and not y’know the Hunger Games - means.

I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards

FFS. 2 trips to San Francisco, 12 years apart, and I still won't get to visit Alcatraz.

Please please please pass. I want to actually visit Alcatraz and the California National Parks on this trip to the US. I only need an approved budget until May.

Me and Mum somewhere cheap - Southend probably - in what looks like 1956.

Mothering Sunday can be hard when your mother's dead. As usual I'll be reading out a list of our #RememberedMums on Sunday March 30th in Lancaster Priory church. If you'd like me to light a candle and say your Mum/Mam/Mom's name in sacred air, send it over just as you'd like it to be read. ❤️

My Mum died in 2000. I don't often cry now but reading your message and the replies about the lovely Mums has set me off. My Mum and I always lit candles in churches we visited on my childhood holidays. She would have loved this. I'd be grateful if you could remember Rosemary Crossley. Thank you

I've no doubt people with disabilities want to work but where are all these disabled people going to be employed? Who's going to give them jobs?

Same wolf, different clothes. Punishing the vulnerable for headlines.

I say that any time anyone ever mentions Oldham. I got blank looks from a Championship football player from Oldham when I quoted it at him. Probably deserved.

Russian collaborators in the UK Parliament.

It's unfortunate that the new Gladiator looks like a muscular Russell Brand.

Horrible ground though.

“Twice in a single generation the catastrophe of world war has fallen upon us. Twice in our lifetime has the long arm of fate reached out across the oceans to bring the United States into the forefront of the battle. If we had kept together after the last war, if we had taken common measures for our safety, this renewal of the curse need never have fallen upon us. Do we not owe it to ourselves, to our children, to tormented mankind, to make sure that these catastrophes do not engulf us for the third time?”

While sitting in the Oval Office next to a bust of Churchill, Trump accused Zelensky of ‘gambling with world war three.’

This is an excerpt from Churchill’s address to a Joint Session of Congress on 26 December 1941, weeks after the entry of the US into the war

The Girl with the Louding Voice also very good.