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It’s like the old days, proper investigative reporting. What a story.

The content of "The Salt Path" may be tarnished now, but the cover art by Angela Harding is still magnificent

This is terrific journalism and I hope it means more people pick up The Observer on a Sunday. It's massively improved since the Guardian offloaded it.

Amazing, and yet not amazing. BBC News (UK) does not seem to think it news that a the head of a charity, which often dealt with children, be sentenced to 30 yrs for child rape. And yet, the inquest on a drag queen in the same court: news. ripx4nutmeg Graham Linehan 🎗️ grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/nutmegs-week…

"There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture, your buildings will not last, since people will never feel at home in them." - Sir Roger Scruton.

The glorious nonagenarian actor Anne Reid, starting in ⁦Daisy Goodwin⁩ By Royal Appointment. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

facebook.com/share/p/1JUEzq… Please could we do this in Britain too?

Forget Agatha Christie, this is the real Queen of Crime. Lovely to see Josephine Tey get her due. telegraph.co.uk/gift/95ce8afb9…

Strangulation during sex is now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40. This practice is clearly spreading due to the proliferation of violent pornography, yet still women are gaslit and told that porn is "just a fantasy."

🧵 Ever wonder why your GP, BBC and local HR suddenly talk of ‘gender identity’? Not chance. It’s a blueprint. This thread digs into how euphemisms were strategically embedded into everyday British language. 👇

4. BBC internal training via Stonewall, 2018 Staff were told: ❌ Don’t say “biological male” ✅ Say “assigned male at birth” Language wasn’t just policed. It was rewritten wholesale - by a lobby group.

🛑 This wasn’t a grassroots change. It was a top-down imposition - planned, enforced and spread through media, schools, the NHS and law enforcement. It used language as camouflage. And now? The court has torn the curtain back to reveal... 🧵/ends

The Salt Path author defends herself against claims she misled readers. Threatening to sue…. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Even on a dull morning, Devon is dreamy.

Excellent series with Fiona Shaw on Virginia Woolf, esp this on her dismaying racism. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li…

Salt Path scandal: the juiciest literary scams, from James Frey to JT LeRoy thetimes.com/article/330ba8… Just a thought: maybe the Books pages of ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ etc should focus on ACTUAL fiction in its pages - down to a record low each week - rather than mendacious non-fiction?

This is what I'd like to see less of in British publishing and the media: American best-sellers. We have plenty of good books of our own, thanks. "True life" memoirs that turn out to be fiction, while real fiction is ignored Celebrity children's books.

The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges Perec: 4-star review telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict… The fab @nicklezard offers advice.

Clothes In Books: Long hot summer and Victoria Gosling clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/long-h… Delighted to see another rave review for Victoria Gosling debut novel Before the Ruins, lost in the pandemic but championed by my daughter Leon Craig when she was Serpent's Tail and extremely good fun.

thejc.com/life/from-berl… Such a lovely piece about Jewish refugees in N London ⁦The Jewish Chronicle⁩