Sara Barnard

The BBC live text commentator is not enjoying themselves.

Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnoses The health secretary says the aim is to tackle a rising demand for services and pressure on the NHS.

What a ridiculous waste of time and resources. And why is this write-up talking about ADHD and mental health interchangeably? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“So, what did you do wrong?” | Lyric Essay November 2025 is the first National Care Leavers Month, so here is a piece about the question I get asked most when people find out I grew up in care.

“I grew up in care, not prison. I say it like a fact, like my phone number, recited without thinking. But none of that matters, because they want an answer.

‘So, what did you do wrong?’”

This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social

Also to situate this in context, a bookstore selling more than 20 copies of my last book means they want to host an event with me for my next one. Each book purchase is hugely influential. If you can give the gift of books this season, do it please.

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PSA: if anyone was trying to get #DermotKennedy tickets in the presale this morning but Ticketmaster was bugging out and you gave up, they seem to have fixed it now and it’s working. Tickets left!

This is correct, except For Good makes three.

My "TRUMP DOES NOT WANT TO EXECUTE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

You could do that, sure. Or you could just be more credulous and realistic about the cost vs benefit of AI in the workplace.

You want to redesign entry level jobs and the education system to accommodate the flaws inherent in senior management thinking they can save money for a year by using insufficient AI systems to replace people whose jobs they don't actually understand?

This is such ludicrously short-term thinking. The obvious response to that line is, AI can do THIS job, but it can't do the job three levels up, which requires 3 levels' worth of experience. They're creating their own black holes.

That was even better than I thought it was going to be

YouTube video by JAGGL113 JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years.

youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

With no exaggeration, threads seems like the tenth circle of hell to me.

There is no winning. Read a book in public, you get accused of being performative. Don't read a book in public, Joyce Carol Oates says you are a human shell with no inner life. 😞

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

I wonder if this is the same lamp that knows I want it, and yet can't have it.

Text says: Alan. What a moment. We can't tell you how grateful we are. We've adored watching you over the last three weeks, all the most so with that glimmer of hope that if you did win, it might just means something big for our small charity. And you did it. As our faithful Patron for 9 years, your commitment, compassion and drive to bring hope to children and families gacing this agressive cancer have been nothing short of transformational. As a small charity with a big mission, you know how much this means to us. For many years we've known you to be generous, warm, empathic and unfalteringly kind, and we're so pleased that the nation agrees with us on that. Now we promise to do you proud. Our commitment to you is that through research, we will find better treatments and ultimately a cure for every child facing Neuroblastoma. Alan, thank you.

Lovely message from @neuroblastomauk.bsky.social thanking Alan Carr.

Shared on their X.

#CelebrityTraitors

He trusted you Nick #CelebrityTraitors

Literally the worst. Of all series in all languages. Worse than Australia season 2

FUCK. ME. #CelebrityTraitors

The whole nation screams as one #CelebrityTraitors

My one and only take is that I'm surprised at how brazen a rip-off of Aftersun it is

*screams into the void*

You better!

Amazing!!

I feel this way too – I was surprised by how narrow the window is. And will it lead to a ballooning of middle grade and a shrinking of pre- and post-? I think it's brilliant and I'm so glad it's happening, but I'd be feeling pretty gutted if I'd written a perfect book for 6 and 7 year olds!

@katebevan.com Think you’ll appreciate this vm.tiktok.com/ZNdvv5C3x/ (if I could find a way to say this without making it sound like spam, then I would, but alas here we are.)

The enjoyability factor of a book should matter just as much as how 'literary' the 'literary people' think it is.

Pazuzu idol pendant for sale at Debenhams

Debenhams is selling idols of Pazuzu, in case you were wondering what stage of late capitalism we’re in…