1. I think the husband-wife ‘Mankeeping’ debate in The Daily Telegraph that I mentioned on Tuesday has been carefully choreographed in advance! Here’s the kept man’s perspective https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/75c944d1cd63e5c1

2. The Guardian’s ‘Audio Long Read’ series ranges very widely:

From Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

to Outdated and unjust’: can we reform global capitalism?

to The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star

You’ll find all three and another 621 episodes here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-audio-long-read/id587347784

3. The Booker Prize longlist has just been announced. You’ll find bags of stuff on each of the thirteen books longlisted here https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2025

Be sure to enter the competition to win a copy of all thirteen books – and a Fortnum & Mason hamper! https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/win-a-set-of-all-13-books-from-the-booker-prize-2025-longlist

4. The three Cs – chocolate, coffee and cheese – are my favourite foodstuffs. Here’s a TeachingEnglish lesson on the first of those three, chocolate https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary/lesson-plans/pre-intermediate-a2/chocolate

Stacks of learning and teaching resources: a student worksheet, a lesson plan and a presentation – copies of all three below, plus a PowerPoint version of the presentation (which is a much bigger file).

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5. And, finally, it was Nnenna Freelon’s birthday last week. Here she is singing ‘Skylark’ https://youtu.be/m55qF-2WdH4 The YouTube subtitles are a bit approximate, so here’s a more accurate version https://genius.com/Nnenna-freelon-skylark-lyrics Love the concentration on the face of the bass player in the background at the end of the song!