I had a great dream last night. I was in the family room of my childhood home watching TV with my Mom. I was about 17 so she was 36. Election results were coming in. They said #KamalaHarris won. My Mom had a big smile. "FINALLY we have a female president!"

Ahead of World Literacy Day, we're shining a light on our national #ReadingSchools programme. As schools promote reading for pleasure, learners benefit from increased equity and wellbeing, improved attainment and encouraged critical thinking, creativity, empathy and resilience.

Digitization tends to squash things. It’s easy to forget that the objects on your screen have depth and texture. These qualities are hard to interpret from an image. You can read about this #booksquashing in an old blog post that is still relevant today: medium.com/@bodleian/book…

If you want to find out more about the new Euripides papyrus (in @theTLS last week and in the TLS podcast) Johanna Hannink has more, interviewing two editors in her own new podcast tinyurl.com/588sr65x

Here’s a quiz: any guesses as to which manuscript this is from?

Inside the rehearsal room of Mark Rosenblatt's Giant 👀 Starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl, with Elliot Levey, Rachael Stirling, Tessa Bonham Jones, Romola Garai and Richard Hope. Directed by Nicholas Hytner 📸Manuel Harlan

He keeps calling the migrants of Springfield “illegal Haitians”. They are here legally. They have not broken the law. He hates that they are here because they are not white.

Day 934. I am soon to finish my basic military training in the Army. My life is about to change drastically - again. I will share this journey with you. Ukraine will win. Good night, world!

Kamala Harris will be the first woman to serve as President of the United States. 💙 if u believe

The people who need protection are not getting enough. The people they need protection from are getting plenty. It's time to switch that around.

There are only 50 days left until Election Day. And there's too much at stake to sit this one out. So get involved in any way you can. Knock on doors or make phone calls for the Harris-Walz campaign. Talk to your friends, family, and neighbors about why it’s important to vote in

And for a topical subject, I talked to Hillary Clinton about life, books and everything, on BBC4 on Tuesday 17th at 23.00 and here on iPlayer tinyurl.com/5n6b9jau

Fresh haircut and meeting with my cabinet makes for a pretty darn good day.

Chicken for McNuggets.

BREAKING Secret Service is probing Elon Musk's now deleted tweet about Biden/Harris assassination.

I am really sad to tell you that my beautiful son Alan passed away yesterday. He was surrounded by the family and was the most peaceful he had been for a long, long time. His two and a half years of hell is finally over. My heart is broken. My beautiful, irreplaceable boy is