Amy Fleming

A nice surprise in the office today.

NeoAncients 2-4 May 2025 Music, Talks, Books, Art, Film, Ritual, Lore

Excited to be talking to inspiring and impeccable artistes @iainandjane.com and Sue Webster at the NeoAncients festival this weekend. neoancients.com

An honour to do this interview

‘Kids can bypass anything if they’re clever enough!’ How tech experts keep their children safe online From hacking screen time settings to bypassing website restrictions, young people make responsible parenting in the age of tech feel like a game of whack-a-mole. Here’s how to do it successfully

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Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now HUNTSVILLE, AL—In an effort to comfort the child by telling her the funds had gone to a far better place, local parents Blake and Allison McKee gently explained to their daughter Friday that their mon...

Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now

The truth about cholesterol: 12 things you need to know – from eggs to weight to statins What is good and bad cholesterol? Should you remove fat from your diet? And what about shellfish? Experts explain it all

Wrote about cholesterol - an often quite abstract concept, lingering inside and unseen: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Flame-haired defiance by a Belfast mural: Hannah Starkey’s best photograph ‘She seemed so strong, so forceful, to be going through the streets dressed like this. The hyper-feminised character she projected was like a riposte to the male violence’

Loved interviewing this extraordinary artist: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Writing this helped me. A lot. ‘Kids can bypass anything if they’re clever enough!’ How tech experts keep their children safe online

Cc @ladymissbarton.bsky.social

Andrew Tate’s alliance with Trump has been in the making for a long time Trump’s attempts to intervene in Tate’s rape and human trafficking cases in Romania might seem strange, but their worlds are intimately linked

What a horrific bunch of see you next Tuesdays www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

The Guardian view on the Murdoch family drama: mogul’s death could imitate art Events in a US court reveal a story that rivals HBO’s Succession with a patriarch’s waning control, sibling rivalries and a media empire at stake

Oh my, “Project family harmony” is so tragically Succession… www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Thanks Kate! That’s exactly how I was feeling.

Thank you Rory! Me too, and the constant shame everyone then feels from being on their phones or whatever.

Glad to be of service! Thanks for reading.

All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict

Ok whose brain is too rotten to read my 3000-word piece on alleged brain rot? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

From stiff necks to ‘lazy glutes’: why these unloved muscles could prevent injury – and how to train yours Never heard of your lower trapezius? Don’t know your rotator cuff from your neck flexor? To alleviate common injuries, it’s time to get to know them

Wrote a thing about the lesser known muscles which, if exercised more, could save you from a world of pain:
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‘I knew I was overexercising and not eating enough’: novelist Emma Healey on the dark side of self-control Her bestselling debut Elizabeth Is Missing was inspired by her grandmother’s dementia. Now the novelist has drawn from her own experiences for a thriller about the power dynamic between personal train...

Also interviewed novelist Emma Healey about the dark side of self control. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

‘Jean-Paul Sartre hid at her house!’ The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone She was a painter ‘ahead of her time’, counting Picasso as a fan. But Hélène de Beauvoir was always overshadowed by her famous sister. Now, with a show opening in Britain, the artist is finally receiv...

I interviewed the De Beauvoir sisters' best friend, ahead of feminist painter Hélène's first (posthumous) London show. ♥️

Electric Dreams at Tate Modern lived up to its title ⚡️

I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. I will be back at work on Friday. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver

Thank Tom - always a struggle to get everything in, in just over 2000 words. You are prob too busy but if not, you could write a letter to the letter’s page to further the discussion?

Thanks Tom, will look into

The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia? Long thought to be sterile, our brains are now believed to harbour all sorts of micro-organisms, from bacteria to fungi. How big a part do they play in Alzheimer’s and similar diseases?

Wrote about the brain microbiome: could understanding it help reverse some dementia cases? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

No that covers it… i mean i dont do loads of printing - the price covers a certain amount of pages per month.

I have an oldish HP and it still works great - usually they “go weird” quite quickly. I subscribe for ink cartridges which arrive automatically when ink is low and come with prepaid envelopes to return the old cartridges. It’s like £3 a month so feels like you’re spending nowt.

Storm Bert in full effect. If you know, you know.

A Bornean orangutan on a fearless quest for figs: Tim Laman’s best photograph ‘While it was dark, I climbed up and put remote control cameras in the tree. I’d never have got the shot if I’d been up there. An orangutan always knows you’re there’

You can't hide from orangutans - unlike birds and other primates they always know you're there. I love doing these.

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Oh my, Coming of Age by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social sounds right up my alley. Lovely piece here...

Morning, I made a butterfly out of a ginkgo leaf, as you do…

By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky

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