I came here precisely to suggest Dangermouse.

ADHD women of ‘a certain age’, you really need to know about this.

NOW WE DO, ANYWAY

WE KNOW

the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to stop doing culture wars about which one should go on the banknotes

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite With some people, money and sex are the only truths. It’s the ultimate delinquency to believe that gratification...

Well that rollicking longread about Andrew and Fergie is every bit as good as everyone said it is www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

He badged a little. Not all the time.

Thank you. This has really made so much sense to me. And explained something that annoyed me but I couldn’t fully understand why.

Great to hear it. It sounds like much-needed research.
I was probably being a bit prickly bcos I’m so fed up of gov and institutional assumption that school is the best place for every child.
I think what a lot of parents would love is an easier ‘semi-detached’ relationship with formal schooling.

You’re in illustrious company, at least. But how very galling.

My grandad helped defeat fascism in Europe. Does he get on the £5 note?

Making sense of the widening gender mental health gap: what teenage girls told us Girls said that visual platforms, such as Instagram and TikTok, particularly reiterate gendered expectations for girls on how they should present themselves.

“I think a lot of the insecurities within girls that they just don’t feel like … a person because of how they’ve been treated.”
theconversation.com/making-sense...

Has anyone done research/writing on Wikipedia as citizen science?

He is a Viscount though. And a failed banker.

I’m certain that SO MANY substance use problems begin as sleep problems. And the world is set up for morning chronotype people. It’s hard for evening chronotype people to attend school or work to that schedule. Which leads to a cascade of problems.

I couldn’t agree with you more. I’m certain that SO MANY substance use problems begin as sleep problems, for example. And the world is set up for morning chronotype people. It’s hard for evening chronotype people to attend school or work to that schedule. Which leads to a cascade of problems.

I was loving this article until it said that AI can save the day.

“The UK's official climate adviser said the cost of meeting net zero is less than A SINGLE (my CAPS) fossil fuel price shock. £4 billion of additional spending per year to 2050 is required to stay on track for net zero, according to the Climate Change Committee.

I love Bernard Cribbins so much.

You were right.

Exactly.

It’s not that we haven’t found the magic words yet. It’s that fossil fuel companies don’t care, and they want to carry on making lots of money.

It’s the same dynamic as women posting in relationship groups, “how can I explain to my husband so he will get it.”
It’s not that you haven’t explained it right. It’s that he doesn’t want to do the washing up and the nursery pickups. An unequal division of labour suits him.

I think they could have a hoot:-).

Son and I are working our way through Doctor Who. We’ve just got to The End Of Time, and John Simm looks like he’s having SO MUCH FUN.

Latour and Woolger should do a follow up, “An anthropologist visits the Vice-Chancellor’s office”.

The front cover of a book:- CHESTER PARSONS is NOT a GORILLA By MARTYN FORD The picture is mostly a large shadow silhouette of a gorilla, which appears to be coming from the outline of a boy with messy hair. At the bottom of the page, lots of cameras and microphones are pointing at the boy/gorilla.

Sorry for the late reply, but I just thought of this one.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Has anyone done research/writing on Wikipedia as citizen science?

As of 9 March 2026, Israel has killed 486 people, injured 1,313 and displaced 667,831 people in Lebanon

That's roughly 10% of the entire population displaced already