Kerry Harrison Fox

"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

We're waking up to a new US/Russia axis Why Trump clings to Putin.

Reposting something I wrote from a couple of weeks ago about the new US/Russia axis and where it comes from. It isn’t just transactional, it’s ideological. It’s bleak but it’s reality.
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/were-wakin...

Loved this book!

I used to worry I wasn’t professional enough for corporate life…

A few weeks ago my 10 year old son stayed home FOR A WEEK with Flu A. Trying to work at the same time was impossible & had to use annual leave - no different really to if I worked in an office.
I hope OFSTED’s leadership on education is more credible than their authority to opine on wfh.

Appreciated. Thank you.

Well feel free to take this up with said males. Like I intimated, I don’t feel particularly favourably about being schooled/ corrected about this by Tim - or any other male. I’d really appreciate someone male doing the work instead of blaming/correcting women.

Yes. I have a son and a daughter. I’m so over women being blamed from the behaviour of (some/ a lot of) men.

I love Tim Minchin’s work. But I was really annoyed by a recent interview of his.Tim and all the other non toxic men can fix this problem instead of blaming the feminists who call it out and who’ve been on the receiving end of it in perpetuity. Properly cross with him.

Multi-level barrage of US book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes ‘but this has never all happened at once’

JD Vance bangs on about European free speech - maybe check on your own book bans, pal

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Replacing Anxiety with Poetry Why Robin has turned to poetry to fill the cracks in his brain

This week’s post is about the importance of creativity when battling with your mind

thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/replacing-...

ADORE the pod. Have listened from the start but so important now to hear respectful & insightful commentary. I was a v political teen and Harriet was & remains a hero. As is Jess. But huge respect to Ruth: shocked & thrilled to agree so much with a Conservative! Long may you 3 brighten my Fridays!

I’m aware it’s fickle, but the big story in our household today is the release of Sam Fender’s People Watching video (15yo had it on countdown) with Andrew Scott starring.
So moving. In this hard January, much needed ❤️‍🩹, albeit wounded.

My kids loved the book and the film xxx

Loved both Dunes - the first one edges it for me, though.
Def worth the time.

Much love to you, Jess. Feeling so bad for you, so worried for you and your family and actually so worried for all of us and our politics.
You are the best of us, bab. x

“May God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in this world, so that we can do what others claim cannot be done.”

Listen to my Pause for Thought for Tuesday’s Zoe Ball Radio2 Breakfast Show here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., or read the script right here. 👇🏽

Thank you Jess, on behalf of my 15 year old daughter and her future relationship safety.

I am middle class now. But many of us were working class. We know a creep and we know a power imbalance when we see one.
And those of us „of a certain age“ are fed up of it.
Be an upstanding, not a bystander.

Context matters.
Talking about what you’ve done with your wife/ partner that morning to a colleague? No.

Assembling a cabinet from the people in your group chat is certainly a choice.

Hard agree. The misogyny around her leaving bites. She (and all of us) has the right to do whatever she wants and is right for her. X

My daughter sent me a :-( along with the news story of Zoe leaving, yesterday. I’d call that a success.
We will really miss her, and the open-heartedness she brings, but she’s more than earned some lie-ins, some respite from the intrusion and to do whatever the feck she wants to do with her life x

Agreed. But also, as if a woman who’s done a job for 6 years getting up at hideous o’clock isn’t allowed to move on. My own just 15 year old daughter and I have listened to her on the school run as we wait for the bus at 7am and she has brightened that journey considerably. 1/2

I read this at my grandfather’s funeral

Feels like I’ve gone back 18 years to when Twitter was an optimistic, pink-cheeked, wide eyed baby.

I feel like I’ve gone back 17 years to arriving on Twitter and loving it.
Fingers crossed…

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

Ursula K. Le Guin .