Scotland flu vaccine jagging far faster than NHS England can jab talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/12/12/s...

Just met with some lovely folks who until recently worked at USAID and their implementing partners. Moving, heartbreaking, and enraging to hear the long-term impacts and wasted potential of our sudden, chaotic abandonment of global health aid.

Why doesn’t President Biden use his SC gifted immunity to override Judge Cannon order and release Jack Smith’s report? What’s he saving it for?

Getting a library card has been life changing. I've finished 10 books since October, all for free 📖 go support your local library!!

i hope i die
warmed
by the life that i tried
to live

— Nikki Giovanni

Bashar al-Assad’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

In case you didn't know, librarians are educated professionals with a master's degree and don't just willy nilly buy any old books for their libraries.

Soon I will have to say goodbye to this book that has been my companion and driving force for the last three years. Strange to imagine days without it, but it’s nearly time for it to no longer be mine so that it can become yours.

I sure hope you like it.

Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.

They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.

Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .

Thank you.

So we’re doing introductions! I’m a former children’s books editor at Booklist, the review journal of the Am Library Association. Also a writer: This Boy: The Early Years of John Lennon & Paul McCartney and a picture book, The Golden Rule. (Not sure the prez-elect has heard of it).

The library board “fired the library director for refusing to move or remove 113 books that they feel are ‘inappropriate.’ The rest of the staff did something heroic in solidarity with their colleague: they walked out, locked up the library, and said No to this unethical board action.”