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Children's books for Christmas gifts Children's books for Christmas - picture books by Ben Manley, Sharon King-Chai, James Carter, Christopher Lloyd, Sandra Dieckmann and more.

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Buy a book this Christmas!

Books can be read, reread, shared, talked about, thought about, borrowed, empathised with and remembered.

Books reflect dreams and change lives.

Here's our list of children's books that make great present

Handwritten quote on a white sheet with an illustrated face at the bottom and pink hearts around the text. The quote reads: "If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting." — Liana Brooks

If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social

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Exactly. It's surely illegal for political parties to accept foreign money (not that that's likely to deter Farridge)

Shame on the BBC

The pitfalls of the Bezos behemoth
A reader contacted me to say how much she had enjoyed Flowers from the Black Sea and wanted to post a review on Amazon, where she bought it, but was informed she couldn’t as she hadn’t met the spending threshold (she doesn’t use Amazon much)

My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late | Timothy Garton Ash From public service broadcasting to an independent judiciary, these are the things that we must fight to keep, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

A guide to protecting democracies from the populists with a checklist of things to keep an eye on:
“For what’s painfully clear is that once you’ve lost any of these essential checks and balances, they are very hard to restore
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Literary fiction set in the ENGLISH FENLANDS - TripFiction Our Numbered Bones by Katya Balen, literary fiction set in the English Fenland. Our Numbered Bones by Katya Belen is a moving examination of the feelings

Coming 12 February 2026
Literary fiction set in the Fenlands UK

Our Numbered Bones by Katya Balen
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"..a moving examination of the feelings of a woman dealing with grief.."
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A pure fluke. Not great with plants generally. However, we do have a cactus grown from a seed we brought back from Colorado years ago, and it’s grown to a point where it looks ready to return to the desert! Another fluke: none of the many other seeds germinated.

I especially loved the audiobook narrated by Siân Thomas - who sounded uncannily like our Ukrainian daughter-in-law at the time

The first Welsh-language American book was published more than half a century before the birth of the US. Its author, Ellis Pugh, was one of a number of Welsh Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1686 in the pursuit of religious freedom✍️Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-19ka

What a bleak future awaits humanity if we give ourselves up to these "stochastic parrots" (I so love that term, sums up genAI perfectly)

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi

YouTube video by Rocksteady Freddie Jimmy Cliff - Miss Jamaica

Everybody is going to share ‘The Harder…’ but I want to share an earlier song with celebrations of Jamaican 🇯🇲 Independence (in 1962).

Here’s ’Miss Jamaica’

Rest in absolute power, King. 👑 You will be so missed, Jimmy.

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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.

It’s Russian.

That's good to know, though I moved away long ago. Back in the day it did have the feel of a cultural backwater. Very few interesting performances ventured further west than Bristol

Something for Christmas: a boxset of Jean Vigo films to be issued in December, including L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite, the inspiration for Lindsay Anderson's If

That was always one of my frustrations growing up in Exeter

Glorious, isn't it? It spent many years in the porch looking a little wretched at times, so a couple of years ago we put it outside in the warmer weather and we bring it in November. It seems to love the regimen, and now blooms both in summer and in winter

12 Ways to Kill Your Family at Christmas Perfect for fans of The White Lotus, Knives Out and an…

This was a fun read with a lot of twists and turns and the dog doesn't die, so I'm happy (that is a spoiler I personally need).

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2014 "The Box" Andy Goldsworthy’s Leaf Sculpture—Sycamore Leaves each one gathered, shaped, and pinned together using only natural thorns. No glue, no string. Just leaves, patience, and a profound connection to nature’s forms.

Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time Hacking the planet with florid verse.

Poets: cybersecurity threats

"The paper begins as all works of computer linguistics & AI research should: with a reference to Book X of Plato's Republic, where he "excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."
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Children's books by Kate Hale Kate Hale is a featured author on the School Reading List and appears in the following recommended reading lists for children.

Just the thing for young readers: Kate Hale : find out more: schoolreadinglist.co.uk/tag/kate-hale/ #MiddleGrade

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

After years of witnessing the inner workings of AI models, Pawloski decided to no longer use generative AI products personally and tells her family to steer clear of them.
Pawloski isn’t alone.

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Message to that p.o.s trump.....

The Christmas cactus always puts on a great show as we approach the festive season

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Dante's revised Divine Comedy: Purgatory - now featuring circles for Las Vegas, Dubai and UK National Rail when the weather cools.