I agree with your wider point but I don't think Marina Hyde has gone indie. She's just launching a new vertical for an established mainstream media brand. Very different from those doing it with financial backing but without the infrastructure.

This is as damning an excerpt you could even imagine

A critical review called Death of A Salesman a time bomb under capitalism. Miller replied: I hope it is, or at least under the bullshit of capitalism: this pseudo life that seeks to touch the clouds by standing on top of a refrigerator, waving a paid up mortgage at the moon, victorious at last.

It breaks the access course route via which many mature students enter higher education. My mum, for example, got a good degree from Trinity College Dublin in her fifties after leaving school at 15 with no O levels

*Before someone Scottish corrects me, yes it should Caley

Are you a woman (or AFAB) aged over 43 who was a fan of Incubus 25 years ago? My Spotify has just served me Pardon Me for the first time in a long time. Turns out it works well as a soundtrack to your life now, too: “Pardon me while I burst into flames, I’ve had enough of the world” 🔥

Perversely, in framing this he’s actually managed to demonstrate the real value of care

This vision of a peaceful retirement just popped up on my feed. Christ, if I ever get to retire the last thing I want from it is to (*checks ad*) write a news story every day 😫

'This might seem trivial. But it's really not.' Actually maybe it is. Maybe it's some British animals on banknotes that hardly anyone uses now.

I grew up in deep countryside though, and never saw one then either (80s/90s). Saw lots of badgers, red kite, deer in the front garden. But never a humble hedgie.

Ha! We have a teenage fox who watches us having breakfast through the patio window every morning.

Possibly. There’s probably also an expectation of working till 70s for most of us too - due to higher housing costs etc. The cost of care comes after a lot more imminent pressures maybe?

Really? I’m not all that far off that, and married to someone in his mid fifties, and I’ve never heard anyone speak about that

Is this in your garden? In 44 years, I have never seen one roaming in the wild but, considering I had a heron visit in zone 3, recently I have hope.

Just realised that I have been in both Holborn and St Pancras today and walked between the two - you wouldn't know there was a by-election on.

Nobody is pro-flats now. Not even young people. Covid, the post-Grenfell building safety crisis and leasehold did for them.

The Tories need to listen hard to what high end buying agent Henry Pryor told me when I reported on downsizing trends: “If people only leave their family homes with a lift from an undertaker, the housing market shudders to a halt.”

This is true, but odd: the city is a very good place to protect your independence and health when you're older. Services nearby, high quality medical care, good public transport/walkable areas.