Susannah Herbert

@EmmaHarding01 @BBCRadio4 @elliotlevey_ @damienmolony Terrific production. Loved everything about it. Bravo @EmmaHarding01

Four days left to listen to The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett @BBCRadio4 starring @elliotlevey_ Emma Fielding, Reece Shearsmith, Matthew Needham & @damienmolony #audiodrama #theatre bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@jk_rowling @shabanahfazal oh ffs

Another Starmerite masterstroke.

@lucymirandaward @shabanahfazal @cambridgeunion Hurrah. Courageous & brilliant like her ma @lucymirandaward

Good to see @cambridgeunion host this debate. Proud of my daughter.

UK publishers! Nominate yr best non-fiction of 2026 for the 71st Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize so our eminent judges - led by @artemis_cooper (below, with latest winner @TimPBouverie ) - can choose what to call in. The form is here: send it in soon 🍾📚🍾duffcooperprize.org/about/how-to-e…

One for discerning book lovers everywhere. Volumes signed by Giorghiu-Dej, Honecker, Brezhnev, etc

Top investigation into the phenomenon that is #DaleVince by @Grepsul

My latest Business Adventure is on Kodak, the powerhouse that invented mass market photography and flourished for a century. Then in 1975, a young engineer created a fatal product, the digital camera. open.substack.com/pub/jonathandr…

@cusackandrew Masterpiece (& winner of @DuffCooperPrize)

I was dining with a French bishop who sat on the board of the Fondation Charles de Gaulle. He said Jackson's is the best biography of de Gaulle. ‘You mean in English?’ I asked. ‘No,’ he replied. ‘It is the best of any language.’ (Takes a lot for a Frenchman to concede this.)

@LissaKEvans I give it as a present, often. Any views on her other books?

Ooh, I enjoyed this - an elegant amuse-bouche, beautifully constructed and a joy to read…

@MForstater @hullfair I howled

Jenni Murray lit a spark that started a wildfire. It was her cancellation that led to the issue moving outside of feminist circles and coming to the attention of normies (like me!) It was an absolute insult for the BBC to have Harriet Harman on the Today Programme where she insinuated that Murray’s principled stand detracted from her feminism rather than forming an integral part of it.

The time capsule of Jenni Murray's December 2017 interview with India Willoughby, who had just joined Loose Women. "I'm a woman not a trans woman" he said Murray asks how it felt to take a place on a women’s panel show “fine…no problem whatever - my gender has always been female”. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…

Graceful, witty & sobering speech at the 70th anniversary @PolRoger @DuffCooperPrize from the historian Tim Bouverie. I wish I had been there, but this little film makes me feel I was...(to be enjoyed with a glass of 🍾)

@RooneyRachel I treasure Hey Girl. It's a book I read & re-read, as does the daughter.

Just need to correct a couple of points re Telegraph article. 1) I wouldn't expect any poetry collection of mine to be automatically shortlisted for CLPE (despite my 1st three having done so) but I would have hoped the CLPE would have at least acknowledged I had a 4th book out.

Congratulations to 'brilliant young historian' @TimBouverie on winning the 70th #DuffCooperPrize for the fast-paced, wide-ranging & resonant Allies At War: The Politics of Defeating Hitler. duffcooperprize.org @PolRogerEpernay @NewCollegeOx

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon. Keith should not be underestimated. Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use. Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service. 8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat. 9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record. 10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment. 11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property. 12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four. 3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith. This system has no inputs. It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago. Keith is not aware he is saving the planet. Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point. It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm. Keith got out again.

Read @MsPollyClark

Wolves, War, Gossip, Young Victorian Poets & the Fab Four. Your non-fic reading sorted. Thanks to @DuffCooperPrize judge @aholgate my former cellmate at @thetimes (Sunday) for illuminating round-up 📚🍾

All five great nonfiction titles shortlisted for @DuffCooperPrize are on sale via @bookshop_org_UK, which supports indy bookstores. 📚📚📚uk.bookshop.org/shop/polrogerd…

Our judges highly recommend A Scandal in Königsberg by @Clarkstopher and congratulate its publisher @AllenLaneBooks on its shortlisting for the 70th @DuffCooperPrize duffcooperprize.org/portfolio-item…

Shout out for @mrianleslie & the shortlisting of his captivating take on the relationship that powered the #Beatles John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs @FaberBooks duffcooperprize.org/portfolio-item…

And three cheers for wilderness, as explored by #AdamWeymouth in his tremendous Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe @HutchHeinemann @CWAgencyUK duffcooperprize.org/portfolio-item…