Sophie Heawood
@heawood.bsky.social
Journalist, of sorts. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. Read more on heawood.substack.com
What nobody tells you, during the moral panic of 12-year-old girls obsessing over skincare, is that it only lasts a year or so.
Proud to say I now have a 14-year-old who simply does not wash.
Proud to say I now have a 14-year-old who simply does not wash.
December 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What nobody tells you, during the moral panic of 12-year-old girls obsessing over skincare, is that it only lasts a year or so.
Proud to say I now have a 14-year-old who simply does not wash.
Proud to say I now have a 14-year-old who simply does not wash.
It must be getting a bit TDS
You won't believe how many Americans have replied to this, telling me.
You know who HAS got Trump Derangement Syndrome, etc.
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It must be getting a bit TDS
If you're doing your Christmas shopping online, you really need to get ordering now. So why not look at the online SHOP I've had an absolutely delightful time building. The Jenny Holzer silver bag! Classy socks that actually look like an amazing present! The Viz annual! shopmy.us/shop/heawood
December 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you're doing your Christmas shopping online, you really need to get ordering now. So why not look at the online SHOP I've had an absolutely delightful time building. The Jenny Holzer silver bag! Classy socks that actually look like an amazing present! The Viz annual! shopmy.us/shop/heawood
Just to say, if you know someone parenting a kid alone, especially a small one, see if you can buy a present that the kid can give to their parent. Even take the kid shopping so they can choose. It's not even about the money - the parent might happily pay for someone else to do this kindness.
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just to say, if you know someone parenting a kid alone, especially a small one, see if you can buy a present that the kid can give to their parent. Even take the kid shopping so they can choose. It's not even about the money - the parent might happily pay for someone else to do this kindness.
Manufacturing the Age of Consent
Noam Chomsky’s emails to Jeffrey Epstein display none of the fawning chatter found from, say, Larry Summers. And he does not appear to have been co-opted by whatever access Epstein provided.
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
https://bit.ly/4s3vx5A
What the Noam Chomsky–Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Tell Us
Chomsky has often suffered fools, knaves, and criminals too lightly. Epstein was one of them. But that doesn’t mean Chomsky was part of the “Epstein class.”
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Manufacturing the Age of Consent
I, the person least likely to write a gift guide, have written a bloody gift guide. Fortunately it contains unsuitable gossip about the time I went to Fatboy Slim's house in Brighton and the sex boots designed by Jarvis Cocker's wife for which I am prepared to kill: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Get it get it get it
I've gone mad and done a thing to do with shopping. This is out of character.
substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I, the person least likely to write a gift guide, have written a bloody gift guide. Fortunately it contains unsuitable gossip about the time I went to Fatboy Slim's house in Brighton and the sex boots designed by Jarvis Cocker's wife for which I am prepared to kill: substack.com/home/post/p-...
A ten-year-old girl is among the dead. May her memory be a blessing.
Bondi beach shooting – latest: Police say father and son were gunmen who killed 15 in ‘evil’ antisemitic terror attack
Bondi beach shooting live: British-born rabbi among 11 killed in ‘evil’ terror attack
www.independent.co.uk
December 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A ten-year-old girl is among the dead. May her memory be a blessing.
Reposted by Sophie Heawood
My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
Honestly I think the rot set in with The Black Eyed Peas
December 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Honestly I think the rot set in with The Black Eyed Peas
Not shocked that someone who let in a thousand men in 12 hours now wants the borders closed www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
How Bonnie Blue made her political bed with Nigel Farage
Plus: resignations from Boris Johnson’s cabinet; Starmer’s Christmas parties; a mistaken political identity; and when Rick Astley didn’t let down his audience
www.thetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Not shocked that someone who let in a thousand men in 12 hours now wants the borders closed www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Question for people who watch Stranger Things: when you get dressed up for a party and your daughter says you look like a Demogorgon, is that... good?
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Question for people who watch Stranger Things: when you get dressed up for a party and your daughter says you look like a Demogorgon, is that... good?
Mossbourne have always been very open about this, is the thing. I'm very glad about the reportage and the investigation but you simply have to go to their open days and they'll tell you this is what they do. It's why we moved away from the particular school in this picture. My kid woulda been toast.
This story from yesterday didn't perhaps get the attention it should have. It's utterly shocking. It follows dogged reporting by the Observer (in its pre-sale era), which was repeatedly rejected by the academy federation concerned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
London academy staff instilled ‘climate of fear’ among pupils
Report finds children at Mossbourne Victoria Park traumatised by disciplinary measures ‘designed to humiliate’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Mossbourne have always been very open about this, is the thing. I'm very glad about the reportage and the investigation but you simply have to go to their open days and they'll tell you this is what they do. It's why we moved away from the particular school in this picture. My kid woulda been toast.
Can anyone think of a hotel in London that has character (like Hazlitts) but also a swimming pool? It seems an impossible quest.
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Can anyone think of a hotel in London that has character (like Hazlitts) but also a swimming pool? It seems an impossible quest.
Reposted by Sophie Heawood
Columnists! People who make videos of their own heads! Do you know nothing about autism & its complexity? Never read a word about it, but seen something about SEND reform and what Badenoch/Tice said the other day? Top tip: Just sound off about "overdiagnosis" and get another week's beer money
December 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Columnists! People who make videos of their own heads! Do you know nothing about autism & its complexity? Never read a word about it, but seen something about SEND reform and what Badenoch/Tice said the other day? Top tip: Just sound off about "overdiagnosis" and get another week's beer money
Intrigued by the concept of hostile bids. Next time I see a book that I'd like to have written I'm going to launch a hostile bid to be its author. Authors: get ready to fight me.
Breaking News: Paramount made an offer worth $108 billion for Warner Bros. Discovery days after the company agreed to a deal with Netflix.
Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
The offer to shareholders comes days after Warner Bros. agreed to sell its streaming and studio business to Netflix.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Intrigued by the concept of hostile bids. Next time I see a book that I'd like to have written I'm going to launch a hostile bid to be its author. Authors: get ready to fight me.
I have a child investment ISA that I sometimes pay into for my daughter's future. No great plan, not regularly funded, very spasmodic. Just went through all my payments and it seems I have, over many years, exclusively paid into it in the winter. Not a thought for her future in summer! Fascinating!
December 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I have a child investment ISA that I sometimes pay into for my daughter's future. No great plan, not regularly funded, very spasmodic. Just went through all my payments and it seems I have, over many years, exclusively paid into it in the winter. Not a thought for her future in summer! Fascinating!
Talk to me about sleep tracking. Has anyone had any success with a mat that goes under your mattress, an oura ring, your phone, what have I missed? Not for me but to see if an exhausted loved one is perhaps missing most of their REM sleep or somesuch? Thankyou xxxx
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Talk to me about sleep tracking. Has anyone had any success with a mat that goes under your mattress, an oura ring, your phone, what have I missed? Not for me but to see if an exhausted loved one is perhaps missing most of their REM sleep or somesuch? Thankyou xxxx
The brothers are legal now. Isn't that enough?
25 minutes until voting ends on Your Party’s Constitution ⏰
Vote YES on the Constitution (as amended).
in.yourparty.uk/en/vote/dash...
Vote YES on the Constitution (as amended).
in.yourparty.uk/en/vote/dash...
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The brothers are legal now. Isn't that enough?
Reposted by Sophie Heawood
Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour
Reposted by Sophie Heawood
Women would love a wife of their own to keep everything running, rather than having to chase up their husbands to get them to pull their weight, writes @heawood.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/princ...
I’m with Prince William. Every woman I know wants a wife to run the show
Women would love a wife of their own to keep everything running, rather than having to chase up their husbands to get them to pull their weight, writes Sophie Heawood
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Women would love a wife of their own to keep everything running, rather than having to chase up their husbands to get them to pull their weight, writes @heawood.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/princ...
Sometimes when I start playing Right Down the Line by Gerry Rafferty I simply cannot stop. WOMAN. open.spotify.com/track/5wnIDr...
Right Down the Line
open.spotify.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Sometimes when I start playing Right Down the Line by Gerry Rafferty I simply cannot stop. WOMAN. open.spotify.com/track/5wnIDr...
I've got this wild idea where we encourage children and adults to create art, music, literature, film and fashion, luxuriating in our own disciplined, studied brilliance - our actual culture - and it makes this country rich. Instead of constantly hunting for weak spots to suck the blood from.
BREAKING | Labour announces ‘tourist tax’ to boost England’s cities
Labour announces ‘tourist tax’ to boost England’s cities
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I've got this wild idea where we encourage children and adults to create art, music, literature, film and fashion, luxuriating in our own disciplined, studied brilliance - our actual culture - and it makes this country rich. Instead of constantly hunting for weak spots to suck the blood from.
This Jason Donovan quote is stressing me out
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This Jason Donovan quote is stressing me out
Tell me it's not just me who thought this was Benicio Del Toro.
Like most strategic air campaigns, dropping leaflets is famously known to be successful.
White House considers leaflet drop to pressure Maduro on his birthday
The White House has proposed a leaflet drop over Caracas, reminding citizens about the $50 million U.S. bounty on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Tell me it's not just me who thought this was Benicio Del Toro.
Was just enjoying a nosey on Rightmove at this pleasant house near Hampstead Heath, what a nice study....
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Was just enjoying a nosey on Rightmove at this pleasant house near Hampstead Heath, what a nice study....