Congratulations to chris riddell for scooping the cartoonist prize at last night’s The Press Awards . An amazing body of work and well deserved.

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Critic of the Year category winner Laura Cumming / Observer Magazine

This is a really good interview with Hilary Cass by ⁦amelia gentleman⁩ inc on adult clinics refusing to cooperate on data to understand long term impacts of medical interventions & her conclusion that this seemed to be ideologically driven. theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

With 2 dramas coming out about @bbcnewsnight this should be moment BBC piles in resources to get people back watching. Instead they're wrecking it. Here's Sam McAlister on the Newsnight cuts 'The powerful will sleep more soundly if programmes... #SCOOP theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Helen Garner: ‘People would give me death stares in the street’ theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

It’s my book launch!

First public Silver Swan performance
following a major programme of conservation work 🦢
#thebowesmuseum #silverswan #automaton

Sounds like this unnamed civil service employee is taking civil service to court to try & force it to unlawfully discriminate against women with gender critical belief. Er, good luck with that one. But what an unpleasant way to target & bully women.

thetimes.co.uk/article/lawyer…

6 MPs standing down at next election - Harriet Harman Mhairi Black MP🏳️‍🌈 Caroline Lucas Charles Walker MP Dehenna Davison MP William Wragg open up to Rachel Cooke

In tomorrow's new OFM, free with The Observer: Richard Corrigan's life on a plate, lunch with Helen Rebanks, Tony Naylor on the secrets of long-lasting restaurants & Danny Wallace's tribute to the magic of frying onions, Rachel Cooke on risotto. Photo: Jean Cazals

This Sunday's cover: MPs on why they’re leaving parliament

Featuring Harriet Harman Caroline Lucas Mhairi Black MP🏳️‍🌈 Charles Walker MP Dehenna Davison MP & William Wragg MP

✍️ Rachel Cooke
📸 Suki Dhanda Antonio Olmos & Sophia Evans

One of the most powerful books I've ever read (and one of the Guardian's Best Books of the 21st Century). It haunted me for weeks afterwards... This House of Grief is out in paperback in the UK today, with a new introduction by Rachel Cooke.

My God this is refreshing. To have a politician, let alone someone likely to be PM within the year, talking unashamedly about Beethoven, Brahms and Shostakovich and the value of music and the arts is staggering after the cultural vandalism of the current cabal. Bring it on!

Oh no. Here's another of my awful, ill-considered book reviews

Last night. Wilton's Music Hall. Gerard Manley Hopkins. It was great. Thank you Dead Poets Live

Tonight, dudes. It will be excellent.

⁦Observer New Review⁩ book of the week reviewed by ⁦Rachel Cooke⁩ theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

New edition of genius Helen Garner’s This House of Grief from ⁦W&N⁩, with an introduction by… me!

There is something grim about pretending that a gratuitously violent, sexually-motivated male murderer is a woman, when women have to bear so much of the brunt of male violence in society. That this is a male crime could not be more relevant here.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the National Gallery dlvr.it/T2vSvB