Sophie Duncan

Same in the UK! I’m so sorry. Our food banks can’t give out formula. Which of course makes breastfeeding magically more possible or desirable. Let’s shame bottle feeding parents wherever possible!! (But of course it’s breastfeeding which is culturally stigmatised…)

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I also think the govt should enable milk banks at every hospital and that BFing mums with any oversupply should as a matter of course donate (and that this should be made really, really easy for them).

I think infant formula should be heavily subsidised, very cheap, widely advertised, the subject of supermarket offers and buyable via reward / loyalty points. I think the cost is the real scandal in infant feeding today.

Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man who received non-resistant stem cells is also now HIV-free

A man has become the 7th person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. He’s also the second of the 7 who received stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus, strengthening the case that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for an HIV cure.

I know!! I know!! It is WHIPLASH from “the life- and thus world-changing power of theatre” to “he wouldn’t have been that hard to track down!!”.

I really think Michael Baum COULD HAVE TOLD HIM

Last Christmas Ich gave thee myne hearte
But the verye next daye ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers - quiet as frost -
And the wolf stole myne hearte, fled
To a tower out of tyme biyonde all the stars.
Seek now myne hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste

She might well EAT them

Marlowe would have ROCKED being Lope de Vega. Or would he have got into a series of unnecessary street fights, called Jesus gay, then got stabbed in the eye, but this time in Spanish???

Oh no, I think it’s embarrassing and ignorant and whiffs of snobbery and classism, and that it’s a shame some good people got rolled up in it. As stupid hobbies go, I can’t get angry about it the way I do about blood sports, but the world would be better off without both.

I suppose because I’ve never seen a theory which acknowledges collaboration as a practice?? And I always assume Sexy Not Dead Marlowe must be predicated on either Bimbo Shakespeare or Stolidly Uggo Shakespeare. These people don’t LIKE Shakespeare, after all.

My absolute smooch of a baby remains infuriated by sleeves, but is a great fan of baubles.

The other theories are not merely stupid, classist, ignorant, wilful etc - like the Marlovian one - but they’re also incredibly boring. I GET the appeal of sexy spy boyfriend not being dead. I cannot imagine caring enough about the other candidates. Or any of the counting 46 words stuff.

Marlovians are my favourite denomination of doubter because in the absence of evidence they’ve just been swayed by centuries of accrued historical sexiness and I kind of love that for them? It’s such a stupid theory and I assume they pick it because we collectively think Marlowe was fit.

“But he didn’t ACTUALLY write the plays, did he?”

'You will be haunted,' resumed the ghost, 'by eight spirits. Eight! You're not going to be able to draw any conclusions from it about how to live. It's too much. It's just going to be a right fucking nightmare.'

Am pretty sceptical of this but it would be an epic by-election

Oh my god seriously???? Yeah there’s a post-NICU parents group in Ox, snd a FB group which is the least echo chamber I’ll ever be in. And Alistair Petrie, who I met when pregnant and is an ambassador for Borne and sent me the sweetest voice notes while it was all grim. And then we did Hamlet.

See this is the good stuff! Great people born early!

Also, I have met amazing people - who were premature or who had premature babies! We are a great, eclectic, huge club.

Collecting and noting premature people and their parents has been a huge joy in this. I did think as early as HDU “I’m sure Iona was early…”. An actor I worked with recently was one of TRIPLETS born at 30 weeks and stood my interrogation with great kindness and patience (they’re all fine).

Happy World Prematurity Day! 1 in 10 babies arrives prematurely. Usually we don’t know why. My beautiful daughter was born at 29 weeks and 5 days in March, by category 1 c section. The JR in Oxford saved her life and mine. She’s thriving. Ask me anything and donate to Borne or Bliss to help out.

Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?

It's the Pope in 1982.

The sovereign megazord from Hobbes’ Leviathan

Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept

Well it's not Strictly Come Maths. #Strictly

(The presence of Gorka and Amy)

Ok, how does one get a ticket to the long-ago recording of the pro numbers? Pretending the Sunday night show is live is mad; but this pro number was obviously AGES ago. #Strictly

Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform | Monisha Rajesh I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing

Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...